Category: archives
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Joan Ruddiman
By: centraljersey.com With so many books and so little space, Book Notes is choosing this gift-giving season to focus on young adult readers. They are tough to please but if we get it right, they will love us forever. It may seem surprising that in a culture saturated by screens, tweens and teens still love…
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Gingerbread house-makers end 25-year tradition
By: centraljersey.com The housing market may be down across the country, but there’s at least one place in Hopewell Valley where construction is still booming. Never mind that the walls and roofs are made of gingerbread, the window shutters are likely to be chocolate pieces or peppermint bars, and gumdrops form the shrubbery. For the…
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Bob Nuse
By: centraljersey.com Larry Kimport has been looking forward to this season for his Allentown High School wrestling team. "I’m excited because we have a group of kids who have come through the ranks and now they are seniors," Kimport said. "This is the biggest group we’ve had since I have been here. We have 40…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Farmers had weather-related damages in growing season
By: centraljersey.com TRENTON – United States Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack has designated 16 New Jersey counties as natural disaster areas to assist farmers who suffered losses due to excessive heat and drought during the 2010 growing season. Farmers in Hunterdon and Mercer, as well as Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, , Middlesex,…
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LAWRENCE: Crossing guard, 83, hit by car
Tossed onto hood of Honda By Lea Kahn An 83-year-old school crossing guard was hospitalized early Tuesday morning after a car on Lawrence Road hit him. Anthony Sebasto landed on the hood of the car, struck his head on the windshield and then rolled off into the street, township police said. He came to rest…
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Linda Seida
By: centraljersey.com SOLEBURY TOWNSHIP – Solebury police are seeking the public’s help in identifying the man who assaulted a woman as she left work at a local restaurant. The woman, whom police did not identify, had finished her shift as a waitress at The Restaurant at the Black Bass Hotel, on River Road in Lumberville,…
