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  • Pat Tanner

    By: centraljersey.com I recently asked a select group of Princeton-area chefs to share their most delicious, most furtive secrets, and, boy, did they ever! One was even moved to wax poetic. Contrary to what I’m trying to get you to believe, though, I asked not for their personal peccadilloes but rather for their best, most…

  • Photo by Lydia Loyer

    By: centraljersey.com Hillsborough Senior Citizens Chapter "A" meets the first Thursday of the month in the municipal complex. Doors open at 11:30 a.m., meeting begins at 12:30 p.m. We are open to new members. Our president is Dick Meier, 908-359-6948. Call if you have a question. Jan. 6 – Regular meeting. We’ll have installation of…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: Local son is rhyming and chiming

    HIGHTSTOWN: Local son is rhyming and chiming

    Aspiring rapper on a lyrical Quest By Raunaq Singh, Special Writer    Rappers. Wrappers. What’s the difference?    Most people nowadays seem to think both are the equivalent of trash. Kid Prodigy and his fans beg to differ.    Quest Wattley, a 15-year old sophomore at Hightstown High School, is better known by his rap name: Kid Prodigy.…

  • Mary Brienza

    By: centraljersey.com Township schools are making an effort to acknowledge all of the diverse faith communities, by closing Oct. 26 for the Hindu holiday of Diwali. Diwali, which is also known as Deepavali, will be added to the other religious holidays of Rosh Hoshanah, Christmas, Good Friday, and Easter, for the schools to be closed…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: Murder trial starts Monday

    DiGirolamo faces life if found guilty By Doug Carman, Staff Writer    A pretrial conference for the grisly 2007 murder of Hightstown resident Amy Giordano will begin at 9 a.m. Monday at the Mercer County Courthouse in Trenton, with jury selection scheduled to begin the next morning.    Rosario DiGirolamo, 35, of Millstone, faces a maximum life…

  • Camel goal realized

    Laurel Nestor-Pasicznyk, Stockton and seventh-grader, South Hunterdon Regional High School     I want to thank everyone who contributed to The Camel for Tanzania fund that I started.    Because of your generosity I was able to hit my goal of $850. That will buy a camel for a needy family in Tanzania, Africa.    In fact I…

  • Clerk lowers public records fees

    By: centraljersey.com County Clerk Paula Sollami-Covello is lowering subscription fees to use Mercer County’s Public Records Electronic Search System (McPRESS) beginning Jan. 3. McPRESS, a viewable and printable electronic program available to professional title searchers, law firms, and members of the public, provides online access to information on property related transaction records for all of…

  • Tree recycling offered in New Hope, Solebury

       Hugh Marshall, of Hugh Marshall Landscape Contractors, and Dee Dee Bowman, an agent with Coldwell Banker Hearthside Realtors, have teamed up to recycle Christmas trees this holiday season.    The tree collection, which is scheduled for Jan. 5, is free for New Hope and Solebury residents and will not incur any costs for the borough or…

  • Police seeking armed robbers of Wachovia Bank

    By: centraljersey.com MONROE – Dec. 23 at 10:57 a.m., the Monroe Township Police Department went to Wachovia Bank in the Concordia Shopping Center at 1600 Perrineville Road for a reported holdup and robbery involving a handgun. A male subject wearing a mask entered the bank and approached the teller, police said. He brandished a handgun…