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  • Baldpate closings

    By: centraljersey.com The Mercer County Park Commission will close Baldpate Mountain to all visitors on select days due to the annual deer management project. Those dates are: Dec. 16-18, 22-24, 29-31; Jan. 1, 5-8, 12-15, 19-22, 26-29 and Feb. 2-5, 9-12. Exact project dates also will be posted on the various gates leading into the…

  • Lea Kahn

    By: centraljersey.com Pam Mount attributes her interest in the environment and sustainability to the years she spent as a Girl Scout, growing up in Northampton, Mass., and later – during her high school years – in Princeton. Or maybe it was the three years that she and her husband, Gary Mount, spent on the one-mile-by…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Council won’t release developer’s funds

    Nonaction follows residents’ complaints By Joanne Degnan, Staff Writer    ROBBINSVILLE — The Township Council balked at releasing a developer’s $414,259 performance guarantee last week for the Washington Estates neighborhood after Olivia Road residents once again packed the meeting to complain about their street and plead for help.    Residents of Olivia Road contend CJS Investments of…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Scientists help discover gene causing defects

    By: centraljersey.com A gene that can cause congenital heart defects has been identified by a team of scientists, including a group from Princeton University. The discovery could lead to new treatments for those affected by the conditions brought on by the birth defect. The newly discovered gene, called CCDC40 (for "coiled coil domain containing protein…

  • IRS wants to find local residents to give them refund checks

    By: centraljersey.com 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 after taxpayers…

  • Hoppenot named All-America

    By: centraljersey.com The honors continue for Princeton Day School graduate Antoine Hoppenot. The Princeton University junior forward was named the 2010 NSCAA/Performance Subaru Men’s NCAA Division I All-America Team on Friday. The second-team selection is the only Ivy League player to garner All-America honors this year. Hoppenot is the 13th player in Princeton program history…