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  • THE STATE WE’RE IN

    By: centraljersey.com Every year around this time, public attention focuses on enormous evergreen trees – the kind that are festooned in twinkling lights at Rockefeller Center, the White House lawn and other public places. In New Jersey, there’s a quieter search going on for gigantic trees, and not just those of the holiday variety. The…

  • School housing status targeted

    By: centraljersey.com Housing 8HOUSING Lea Kahn The Packet Group Public school and municipal representatives have launched separate attacks on the tax-exempt status of housing provided to faculty and staff members of private schools and colleges. The New Jersey School Boards Association’s Delegate Assembly approved a resolution supporting legislation requiring private schools and colleges to reimburse…

  • Volunteers need donations for Christmas food baskets

    By Lea Kahn    When a police officer knocked on the door to his apartment at the Lawrence Plaza apartment building a few days before Christmas last year, Ira Serle didn’t know what to expect.    But the police officer, who was out of uniform and off duty, appeared at Mr. Serle’s doorstep to present him with…

  • Collecting toys for kids in need

    By: centraljersey.com Toys 8TOYS Evan Grossman Staff Writer HIGHTSTOWN – For 10 years, Santa Claus has been covered in tattoos. And instead of a reindeer-drawn sleigh, he’s driven a pickup truck stuffed with toys. One of the borough’s signature events, Mac’s Toys 4 Kids Motorcycle Show has spread holiday cheer and good will for a…

  • ALLENTOWN: Cardio-weight room at AHS gets approval

    By Joanne Degnan, Staff Writer    ALLENTOWN — A controversial plan to spend $101,197 over the next five years to convert a storage area inside Allentown High School into a cardio-weight room was approved 7-2 by the Upper Freehold Regional Board of Education.    The district has received a $67,465 state grant for the project, which is…

  • Sponsor a Wreath – Honor a Veteran’s Sacrifice

    Sponsor a Wreath – Honor a Veteran’s Sacrifice

    Civil Air Patrol (CAP) Cadets Jose Avila (L) and Emily Speziale (R) place memorial wreath on the grave of Major Francis Burke, the only Medal of Honor recipient interred at Brigadier General William C. Doyle National Cemetery in Wrightstown. Photo by Sgt.

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Ravens peak for MOC

    O’Toole is first medalist for cross country program By Justin Feil, The Packet Group    HOLMDEL — The Robbinsville High School cross country teams peaked in time for the Meet of Champions.    The Ravens, both second in their Group I races last week, came up with strong efforts to close their 2010 season in style at…

  • Kirson set for mayoral term

    By: centraljersey.com Mayor 8MAYOR Evan Grossman Staff Writer HIGHTSTOWN – From a previous life on Wall Street, Steve Kirson has begun his indoctrination into borough politics along Main Street. The mayor-elect, who will take office in January, has started attending meetings and getting ready to take over for Mayor Bob Patten, who has held the…

  • MCCC’s Radiography Program Celebrates New Clinical Lab Equipment

    MCCC’s Radiography Program Celebrates New Clinical Lab Equipment

    By Saveria Symons West Windsor, N.J. – Courtesy of a Carl D. Perkins federally-funded grant, Mercer County Community College’s Radiography Program has received state-of-the-art digital radiographic equipment to enhance instruction. Students will now be performing clinical laboratory procedures with equipment that is on par with affiliated hospitals and hospitals nationwide. The new digital x-ray imaging equipment,…