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  • MANVILLE: Firefighters spreading holiday joy

    MANVILLE: Firefighters spreading holiday joy

    Fire Company No. 2 helps Santa make calls By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    It was a very busy weeekend for the firefighters of Camplain Road Fire Company No. 2 as they had the pleasure of escorting Santa and Mrs. Claus around Manville. A firetruck and two other fire vehicles helped escort the famous pair…

  • New boat ramp to get tested at Christmas crossing

    By: centraljersey.com WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. – On Friday, representatives of the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission, Washington Crossing Historic Park, and Upper Makefield Township dedicated a new limited-access boat ramp that will be put to the test during the Christmas Day reenactment of George Washington’s crossing of the Delaware River. The $200,000 boat ramp…

  • UPPER FREEHOLD: Freedom Fest to have new date, new location for 2011

    By Joanne Degnan, Staff Writer    UPPER FREEHOLD — The ninth annual Freedom Fest State Fair has a new date and a new more centralized location for 2011 that organizers hope will make the summer’s premier agricultural and family event more convenient for area residents.    Nick De Mauro, the fair’s volunteer president, said Monday night the…

  • Libraries getting online job search help

    By: centraljersey.com LearningExpress, LLC-the leading provider of online resume creation and job search tools – has partnered with the New Jersey State Library, affiliated with Thomas Edison State College, to provide the web resource Job & Career Accelerator to all New Jersey public libraries. Funding for the agreement came from the federal Broadband Technology Opportunity…

  • Plasma lab plans annual science talks

    By: centraljersey.com PLAINSBORO – Take the chill off wintry Saturdays by learning about hot topics such as inertial confinement fusion energy, evolutionary medicine, the neuroscience of magic, and human vs. computer in Jeopardy! competitions. These and other topics will be featured during the 2011 Science-on-Saturday lecture series beginning Jan. 8 at the U.S. Department of…

  • Recycling center sets holiday closings

    By: centraljersey.com BRIDGEWATER – The Somerset County Recycling Center at 40 Polhemus Lane will be closed Friday, Dec. 31, in observance of the New Year’s Day holiday and Monday, Jan. 17, in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. The center will be holding its next Saturday drop-off event from 8 a.m. to 2…

  • Thanks from Trenton

    By: centraljersey.com The 12th District legislators would like to express their enormous gratitude for the generosity shown by the 12 municipalities, as well as the Trump National Golf Club, Colts Neck, and Pistilli and Co., Red Bank, which participated in this year’s Little Soldiers Project. "This is such a worthy undertaking," said Assemblywoman Caroline Casagrande,…

  • PU ROUNDUP

    By: centraljersey.com The Princeton University wrestling team hasn’t had that many wins over the past five years, so it knows a big one when it sees one. The Tigers beat host Bucknell, 18-16, on Friday as Travis Erdman’s 8-6 overtime win at 184 pounds sealed the hard-fought victory. Garrett Frey, Zach Bintliff and Daniel Kolodzik…

  • Victoria Hurley-Schubert

    By: centraljersey.com Mayor Bernie Miller will be stepping down as mayor in January and Chad Goerner, deputy mayor, has offered to step up. "The committee decided several years ago to have a more rotational form of government so everybody could have the opportunity to serve," said Mr. Goerner, who praised Mr. Miller’s service to the…