Category: archives

  • Jewish teen group seeks new members

    By: centraljersey.com PRINCETON – BBYO, formerly the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization, has started a new chapter for Jewish teens in the Princeton area, including Cranbury. It is a pluralistic Jewish youth movement that provides social and Judaic programming, leadership and community service opportunities and more for Jewish teens in grades eight to 12. At each…

  • Somic doesn’t fit in proposed location

    By: centraljersey.com What will a Sonic at Route 206 at Oxford Place do to the neighborhood, and further our township? Noise? Traffic? Increase risk of accidents? Make residents have to drive a long way around to avoid traffic? Loss of quality of life? Headlights from cars all night long? Sounds of cars, music all night…

  • Pat Tanner

    By: centraljersey.com By now, the Princeton area’s most serious and dedicated restaurant patrons know that Christopher Albrecht, executive chef at Eno Terra in Kingston, is an alumnus of Tom Colicchio’s famed Craft restaurant empire. But what they may not know is that before that, he worked side by side under Mr. Colicchio at Danny Meyer’s…

  • ‘A Night Out in Italy’

    By: centraljersey.com Friday, Feb. 25 – New Egypt Elks will hold their monthly family buffet dinner, "A Night Out in Italy," from 6 to 8 p.m. at Elks Lodge 2457, 105 Lakewood Road (Route 528). Menu includes antipasta, fettuccini alfredo, vodka rigatoni, chicken parmesan; sausage, peppers and onions; garlic bread, vegetables, chicken nuggets (for the…

  • Amber Cox

    By: centraljersey.com BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP – The Bordentown Regional Board of Education has submitted three preliminary questions to the county to be posed as possible separate questions at the school budget elections. Superintendent Constance Bauer said the three questions involve the maintaining of 10 certificated staff, maintaining the current full-day kindergarten program and maintaining the current…

  • Trenton A Team artists show ending

    By: centraljersey.com CRANBURY – The Gourgaud Gallery February exhibit, "Art from the Heart V" by A Team artists of Trenton, is ending. It is being held until Feb. 27 and is 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and the last Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m. The A Team artists return to the gallery with many…

  • Capitol 8CAPITOL

    By: centraljersey.com Unemployment Legislation sponsored by senators Fred Madden, D-Gloucester, Camden, and Jim Beach, D-Camden, that would help extend unemployment benefits for jobless residents was approved by the full Senate. "Changing the trigger for unemployment benefits will help those who have fallen on hard times continue to provide a home, food and other essentials for…

  • 350 for 50 Writing Contest

    Cotsen Children’s Library Polish up those pens! Cotsen’s annual writing competition has returned! Here’s how it works: write a short, 350-word story that includes the sentence "After that, things got even stranger.” (just 344 words left to go!). Winning stories will be published in the May/Summer 2011 Picture Book Press, and the authors will receive…

  • MANVILLE: Volunteers keep Operation Shoebox packages moving

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    Servicemen and women will be getting some much needed items thanks to Operation Shoebox and its recent packing event held at the VFW in Manville.    At the Feb. 5 event, more than 300 volunteers came out to commemorate the sixth anniversary of Operation Shoebox New Jersey, despite the weather…