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  • FLORENCE: Muchowski leading young girls basketball

    Flashes still eyeing state berth By Bob Nuse, The Packet group    This has been a different sort of season for Sarah Muchowski.    A year ago she was a junior playing on a senior-laden Florence High girls basketball team that went on to win the Central Jersey Group I championship.    This year, Muchowski is one of…

  • Foundation seeks E-Squared nominees

    By: centraljersey.com Nominations are requested by Feb. 17 for the annual E-Squared Awards, sponsored by the Hopewell Valley Education Foundation (HVEF). The awards recognize an individual and an organization/business for their support and contributions to the Hopewell Valley schools. Established in 1993, the HVEF is a not-for-profit organization serving the needs of the public schools…

  • Physician to discuss the unique signs

    By NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.: Cardiologist Nidhi Kumar, M.D., will discuss ‘‘Women and Heart Health – How Heart Disease in Women Presents Differently Than in Men,’’ at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 15, in the Sister Marie de Pazzi Conference Center, located on the ground floor of Saint Peter’s University Hospital, 254 Easton Ave. The educational evening…

  • Want to use ballpark’s box?

    By: centraljersey.com Requests are being accepted until Feb. 25 to use the 30-seat community box at the TD Bank Ballpark, home of the minor league Somerset Patriots baseball team. Applicants should be nonprofits or community organizations located in Somerset County or have a facility based in the county that serves the citizens of Somerset. Applicants…

  • Ken Weingartner

    By: centraljersey.com When Marcus Lawrence stood atop the podium at the Mercer County Tournament wrestling championships last Saturday, he was most happy for those around him. This was a win for Hightstown. Lawrence captured the title at 189 with a 10-4 win over Nottingham’s Kyle James at Robbinsville High School. Lawrence, a junior who was…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: DiGirolamo gets a breather

    Icy weather delays manslaughter sentence another week By Doug Carman, Staff Writer    TRENTON — The man who admitted to the June 2007 slaying of his mistress in her Hightstown apartment last month will wait one more week before his fate is made official.    Judge Edward Neafsey postponed Rosario DiGirolamo’s sentencing hearing due to the icy…

  • Dresses for success

    By: centraljersey.com HIGHTSTOWN – With an increasing number of women unemployed and looking for work, dressbarn’s annual Send One Suit Weekend program aims to remove a fundamental hurdle for those women in need seeking a job: having the proper outfit to wear for the job interview. The ninth annual clothing donation program will run from…

  • Kings and Queens Bowling program to begin in Monroe

    By: centraljersey.com MONROE – The Monroe Township Recreation Department is introducing the newest division of its Special Sports. The Kings and Queens Bowling program will begin Feb. 5 at Knob Hill Country Lane on Route 33 in Manalapan. "This is one more program for our special needs athletes and their families," said Su Reiser, administrator…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Immigrants to help students

    By Mary Brienza, Staff Writer    The Aging in Place Fellowship is looking for residents who either immigrated to or has family that has immigrated to the United States to participate in a project with South Brunswick High School students.    This year’s Aging in Place Partnership Annual Living Legacy project is about immigration, and how that…