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  • THE STATE WE’RE IN

    By: centraljersey.com The holiday season is usually full of peace, love and joy. The POST-holiday season, however, is always full of trash cans overflowing with torn wrapping paper, cardboard boxes and plastic packaging. If this orgy of post-holiday garbage is one end of a spectrum, Rose Brown of Charlottesville, Virginia, is the other. She has…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: School roof repairs planned

    By Andrew Corselli, Staff Writer    Roof repairs estimated to cost a total of $953,000 are planned at two Hillsborough district schools.    The Board of Education on Monday authorized using $953,000 from the unreserved and undesignated fund balance in the 2010-2011 budget for roof repairs at Hillsborough High School and Triangle Elementary School that are desperately…

  • David Kilby

    By: centraljersey.com CRANBURY – The township and its Environmental Commission have officially preserved the Reinhardt property, 59.55 acres of unique forested wetlands on Plainsboro Road. Cranbury purchased the property from Roy Reinhardt for $892,000 in June. Mayor David Stout recommended the name Reinhardt Forest Preserve for the property at the Township Committee meeting Dec. 6.…

  • IRS has money for you

    By: centraljersey.com MOUNTAINSIDE – The Internal Revenue Service is looking for 3,198 New Jersey taxpayers who can claim their share of undelivered refund checks totaling $6.97 million. These undelivered refund checks were returned to the IRS by the U.S. Postal Service due to mailing address errors. The IRS can reissue the checks, which average $2,181,…

  • HUNTERDON: County investigates school ‘strep’ cases

       The Hunterdon County Department of Health is investigating an unusual number of streptococcal diseases in children and faculty associated with Lester D. Wilson School in Alexandria Township.    Fifty-nine cases of strep throat were reported by the school nurse along with seven cases of scarlet fever. The first cases began occurring in mid-October and have continued…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: From HMS to Carnegie Hall

    HILLSBOROUGH: From HMS to Carnegie Hall

    Jared Silverstein, of Hillsborough, flanked by Steven Reineke (left), the conductor of the New York Pops, and Brian Stokes Mitchell, the Tony-award-winning vocalist, at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

  • Booth sales for apartment group forum available

    By: centraljersey.com MONROE – Booth sales for the New Jersey Apartment Association’s 22nd annual conference and expo are now open. The conference and expo will move to a new location at the Atlantic City Convention Center from May 23 to 25, 2011, to celebrate the association’s 25th anniversary and accommodate the 200 exhibitor companies and…

  • Hightstown High wins award for eating right

    By: centraljersey.com Hightstown High School was named a winner of the Eat Right, Move More contest this week by New York Jets offensive tackle D’Brickashaw Ferguson and state Secretary of Agriculture Douglas H. Fisher. Schools in Netcong, Haledon, Jersey City and Lakewood were also named winners. The Eat Right, Move More program, a partnership between…

  • LAMBERTVILLE POLICE BLOTTER

       Lambertville police reported:    — Jose Guzman, 22, of Lambertville was taken into custody for DUI on Dec. 7. Sgt. Robert Brown stopped Ms. Guzman at 3:50 a.m. after he was observed driving erratically on Route 518. Subsequent to further investigation, Mr. Guzman was determined to be under the influence of alcohol. He was charged with…