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  • Sports and Safety

    Sports and Safety

    There are ways to help prevent ACL tears and other sports injuries that might require surgery, and a set of guidelines to follow when dealing with concussions By John Saccenti With just seconds left in the game, your daughter is on the soccer field trying to get open. She gets the ball and makes her…

  • Recall unity of 9/11, 2001

    By: centraljersey.com There was a moment nine years ago when it appeared that partisan bickering and divisiveness had gone out of style. That moment came in the days and weeks following the worst terrorist attacks to strike American soil in the nation’s history. On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers flew two planes into…

  • Barrie and Bradley Foley

    By: centraljersey.com Barrie Katherine Quick, daughter of Barrett and Sarah Quick of Hillsborough, married Bradley Foley, son of Norman and Nelia Foley of Hamburg, July 2 at Neshanic Reformed Church. The Rev. David Hill officiated. The bride is a graduate of Hillsborough High School and holds a bachelor’s degree in exercise and movement from William…

  • Kristina Bacon joins marketer Tastefully Simple

    By: centraljersey.com Kristina Bacon, of Manville, has become an independent consultant with Tastefully Simple Inc., a national direct sales company featuring more than 60 easy-to-prepare foods. Ms. Bacon will offer the company’s food products, along with easy ideas for everyday meals, recipes, serving suggestions, at home taste-testing parties. For more information about Tastefully Simple products,…

  • Freeing Their Minds

    Freeing Their Minds

    Photo by Michele Alperin • The College of New Jersey students Jillian Polak and Antonia Alfeo stand in front of the Albert C. Wagner Youth Correctional Facility with professor Celia Chazelle, who teaches joint student-inmate classes.

  • Joanne Degnan

    By: centraljersey.com ROBBINSVILLE – The Board of Education has given a Trenton architecture firm the go-ahead to write the bid specifications for a 1.4-megawatt solar energy power purchase agreement that would essentially lease out the district’s rooftops at the elementary, middle and high schools to a green energy investor. The Aug. 31 vote was 7-0…

  • Exhibition of sculptures

    By: centraljersey.com Friday, Sept. 10 – The Mariboe Gallery at Peddie School will hold an opening reception for an exhibition of sculptures by Boston-based artist Sachiko Akiyama from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., with an artist talk at approximately 7:15. The exhibition will run through Oct. 4. For more information about this show and other…

  • Rams Junior Midgets move to 2-0 in Pop Warner football play

    By: centraljersey.com The Hightstown Rams Junior Midget football team ran its Pop Warner record to 2-0 with a 14-2 victory at Franklin Township. After Craig Monahan punted the Rams out of a poor field position, Hightstown got pinned inside its 20 a second time and this time ended up allowing a safety when the snap…

  • John Saccenti

    By: centraljersey.com WEST WINDSOR – NJ Transit wants to give riders access to more than public transportation. Last week, NJ Transit announced that it is seeking a company to provide wireless broadband internet service at rail stations such as the Princeton Junction Train Station and aboard trains. "This is basically a way of offering another…