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  • Craig Gronczewski, M.D.

    By: centraljersey.com With Old Man Winter set to move in this month, it is time to dig out the hats and gloves and make sure the shovel – and the sled – is at the ready. It is also a good time to recognize the health risks that cold and snow can bring and make…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Town’s first CCRC holds information session

    ROBBINSVILLE: Town’s first CCRC holds information session

    By Joanne Degnan, Staff Writer    ROBBINSVILLE — The professionals building the town’s first continuing care retirement community set to open on Gordon Road in 2013 fielded questions from senior citizens during a recent information session about the planned development.    Bill Janson, president and CEO of The Pines at Robbinsville, told the gathering held at The…

  • NJ Blood Services needs volunteers for drives

    By: centraljersey.com NJ Blood Services, which supplies blood products and services to 60 hospitals throughout the state, is in need of volunteers to work blood drives. The blood service volunteer is an integral member of the collection team whose task it is assist donors with registration, escorting and canteen duties and to watch for post-donation…

  • 8CALENDAR

    By: centraljersey.com Tell us about you. If your local nonprofit organization plans a special event and you would like to have the information published in The Manville News, send a note to Manville News Calendar, P.O. Box 350, Princeton, NJ 08542. All items should be typed and must be mailed, faxed (609-924-3842) or e-mailed to:…

  • 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…

  • Magazine editor receives New Jersey outstanding community media award

    Magazine editor receives New Jersey outstanding community media award

    By Ivy Lee recognized for two decades of service to Chinese communities EDISON n Meilun “Ivy” Lee, a pioneer of Chinese news media in New Jersey, was honored by the Organization of Chinese Americans New Jersey Chapter with its Outstanding Community Media Award. Lee, editor and founder of Sino Monthly New Jersey magazine (Sino-Monthly.com), was…

  • EAST WINDSOR: Deforestation complaints voiced at turnpike forum

    By Doug Carman, The Packet Group    EAST WINDSOR — The walls of the National Conference Center at the Holiday Inn on Monmouth Street muted noise from the adjacent NJ Turnpike during a public reforestation presentation Monday night.    But Turnpike Authority supervising engineer John Keller heard plenty from local residents fearful of noise and frustrated with…

  • Shade Tree group awarded $7K

    By: centraljersey.com BORDENTOWN CITY – The Bordentown City Shade Tree Committee has received a $7,000 state grant which it used to remove six dead street trees in residential area. Al Barker, committee chairman, said the contract to remove the trees was bid out earlier this year and the trees were removed this summer. The grant…