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  • Michele Byers

    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…

  • LAWRENCE: Hearing on detox center to continue in January

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer The Zoning Board of Adjustment spent more than three hours listening to testimony from the chief nursing officer and an administrator at the Sunrise Center drug and alcohol detoxification center Wednesday night, but ran out of time to complete its application to open a facility here.     The zoning board…

  • PBSN Singles Dance & Social, Yardley Country Club, Yardley, Bucks County, PA, Friday, January 7, 2011
  • Trees are thriving

    By: centraljersey.com What a win-win-win! Five living trees donated last year, one for each of the Better Beginnings classes, are planted and thriving; with thanks to Gary Grubb for his thoughtfulness in making sure they are carefully tended and watered. This is a three-way-win, according to the anonymous donor of the trees: The community gains…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Building with optimism

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Building with optimism

    Phil McAuliffe Staff photo by Phil McAuliffeThe new Hershey Plaza office building on Route 27 opened officially this week.

  • MANVILLE: Man charged with drug sales

       SOMERVILLE — A Manville man has been charged with selling cocaine less than 500 feet from the Manville Public Library.    The Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office announced on Dec. 2 that Mark Daughtry, 34, of North Second Avenue was arrested Dec. 1 after an investigation involving county prosecutor’s detectives, with assistance from the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s…

  • Monday, Dec. 20

    By: centraljersey.com Monroe Township Library board of trustees meeting, 6:30 p.m., 4 Municipal Plaza. Monroe Township Recreation Advisory Board, 7 p.m., 1 Municipal Plaza. Cranbury Township Committee, municipal building, 23A N. Main St. Jamesburg Library board of trustees, Madeline Herche Memorial Room in the library, 229 Gatzmer Ave. Tuesday, Dec. 21 Cranbury Township Historical Preservation…

  • WEST AMWELL: South tells others about their tobacco-free policy

    By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    WEST AMWELL — The first school in Hunterdon County to adopt a comprehensive tobacco-free policy is advising other schools and educational groups on how to implement the same policy.    South Hunterdon Regional High School, serving grades seven to 12, sent representatives last week to the Dolce Hotel in Basking Ridge…

  • Gymnasts earn honors at New York Invitational

       Brooke Hoodja and Emma Thompson, who are Roosevelt School fourth graders and gymnasts with Paramount Gymnastics of Hillsborough, competed in The Greater New York Invitational in Rockland County, New York on Dec. 5.    Brooke started on the balance beam and put together a very nice routine, earning her a score of 9.15 and a fifth-place…