Category: archives

  • Wed., Nov. 3

    By: centraljersey.com Lidia’s back! Lidia Bastianich, chef extraordinaire and popular TV personality, returns to Princeton Barnes & Noble at MarketFair at 7 p.m. to help promote her latest, a children’s picture cookbook titled "Nonna Tell Me a Story: Lidia’s Christmas Kitchen." Kirkus Review: "(Lidia’s) warmhearted autobiographical story begins in a contemporary Christmas setting with the…

  • Students hitting ‘historic’ highs on AP test exams

    By: centraljersey.com From left, Superintendent Edward Forsthoffer, Jack Dunn, school board member Alice Weisman and Kevin Akey. ‘It was a really good year for our students in terms of their scores on the advanced placement tests, all around.’ Evan Grossman Staff Writer HIGHTSTOWN – History students at the high school recently made a little history…

  • Special Needs open house

    By: centraljersey.com I want to share some local stories to impress upon our community the importance of improved communication. The Hopewell Fire Department, and particularly the Emergency Medical Unit, are members of a statewide organization called the NJ State First Aid Council. We are members of the 9th District that includes all Mercer County, plus…

  • Susan Van Dongen

    By: centraljersey.com With a nod to Halloween and the season of mysteries, we asked veteran astrologer Stephanie J. Clement, Ph.D., to run up astrology charts for Princeton Borough and Princeton Township, to compare and contrast the different personalities of the two entities, and see lies ahead in 2011. We were originally looking for giggles, but…

  • Solar installation regulations due for council decision

    By Amber Cox    SPRINGFIELD – The Township Council was to meet today, Thursday, to discuss an amendment to the Land Use ordinance to cover solar and wind energy installations.    The 153-acre vacant Eastern Organic Resources, known locally as the Woodhue property, on Saylor’s Pond Road is one of the concerns because the owner is trying…

  • Caffrey named associate for Lionheart Assurance

    By: centraljersey.com ROBBINSVILLE – Mary K. Caffrey, the former township administrator of Robbinsville and former assistant commissioner for the N.J. Department of Banking and Insurance, has been appointed an associate for Lionheart Assurance Solutions LP, which provides credit monitoring, identity theft restoration, and legal plans for routine life events as a comprehensive package. Ms. Caffrey…

  • Arts

    By: centraljersey.com – The next South Brunswick Arts Commission meeting will be Nov. 18 at 6:30 p.m. at the first-floor lounge of the Municipal Building. The meetings are held the third Thursdays of the month; the public is welcome. November events include: – The Jazz Cafe, featuring Sandy Sasso, Nov. 5, from 8 to 10…

  • ALLENTOWN: Targeting kids, assisting soldiers

    ALLENTOWN: Targeting kids, assisting soldiers

    Allentown High School senior Madeline Collins, of Millstone, has written a children’s book about the sacrifices of our nation’s veterans. All book sale proceeds benefit the Bob Woodruff Foundation, which helps wounded veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. (Staff photo by Joanne Degnan)

  • Photos by Dave Burd

    By: centraljersey.com – Most Artistic, 507 (iPod Touch); – Most Patriotic, 442 (Night Watchman); – Best Home Made Costume, 501 (Necromancer); – Best Use of Recycled Materials, 513 (Mother Nature and the Recycling Fairies); – Comic, First Place, 224 (Baby Jaws); – Comic, Second Place, 226 (Vegan Vampire); – Comic, Third Place, 217 (Clown); –…