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  • HAMILTON: Running on electricity

    HAMILTON: Running on electricity

    By Jennifer Kohlhepp, Managing Editor    While electric vehicles are still a very small percentage of cars on the road, gasoline is a finite resource that will run out.    Tesla Motors is already preparing for this, and the Model S provides an all-electric means of transportation that combines style, performance, and sustainability, according to Jamee…

  • TRENTON: Educational partnership reaches 100-year mark

       Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Mercer County is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Smith-Lever Act this year.    The Smith-Lever Act of 1914 established the Cooperative Extension Service, a unique educational partnership between the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the nation’s land-grant universities and local county governments that extends research-based knowledge through a network of extension…

  • CHESTERFIELD CHATTER

    By Nancy Mrzljak    The Chesterfield Township Historical Society Museum Open House will be from 2-4 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 24 at the Chesterfield Township Historical Society Museum on Ward Avenue in Crosswicks. A great way to learn about the history of the community, bring family and friends. The Chesterfield Township Historical Society Museum is open on…

  • MANVILLE: Holt ‘delivers’ the goods to constituents

    MANVILLE: Holt ‘delivers’ the goods to constituents

    Rep. Rush Holt meets Albert “Bob” Porchik Jr., vice commandant of the Marine Corps League 1284 Road Detachment, as the congressman delivers mail with postal carrier Rob´ert Ahr on North 5th Avenue in Manville. 

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Officials to modify bus plan for private school students

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor School district administrators were to meet yesterday, Wednesday, with their private school counterparts and a transportation contractor to try to tweak a plan that will provide busing to about 108 Hillsborough children who attend Catholic schools in the Somerville area. The Hillsborough school district has said it can provide private-school…

  • SPRINGFIELD: Pulling out all the stops

    SPRINGFIELD: Pulling out all the stops

    Timmy Hagar, 10, of New Egypt, shows off the first place ribbons he won at the Central Jersey Tractor Pullers Association’s tractor pull.

  • HAMILTON: Council gets heated over letter’s release

    By Jennifer Kohlhepp, Managing Editor    Councilwoman Ileana Schirmer called Councilman Kevin Meara to the carpet during Tuesday night’s council meeting.    She wanted to know why he released an anonymous letter containing personal contact information and allegations about township officials to the media. The letter, which all council members received, alleged township officials solicited campaign…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Ciattarelli to get head shaved for charity

    Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli will have his head shaved Sept. 28 for the annual St. Baldrick’s Foundation head-shaving fundraiser. The event aims to raise $25,000 for childhood cancer research in honor of Rayanna Marrero. Rayanna, a Sergeantsville girl who developed a cancer called MDS as a result of her treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia and required…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Robbinsville softball wins WS title

    ROBBINSVILLE: Robbinsville softball wins WS title

    By Justin Feil, The Packet Group    The Robbinsville Little League 12-year-old all-star softball team had not faced many tough situations in the World Series.    In the championship, however, their opponents, the Southwest representatives from Louisiana, scored one run and had the bases loaded with the potential tying run with two outs in the top of…