Category: archives

  • JAMESBURG: Library to become a gallery

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    JAMESBURG — The Jamesburg Public Library is calling on artists to help transform the building into a gallery in April.    In its third year, the Jamesburg Art and Exhibition Sale is looking to draw in local artists with original work.    The juried art show will be held at the library…

  • Joe Sergi’s New Novel Features Central New Jersey’s First Superheroine—Sky Girl is a Superheroic Jersey Girl
  • MANVILLE: Driver of car striking undercover officer sentenced

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    A former Flemington resident who pleaded guilty to aggravated assault on an undercover police officer during a drug arrest on South Main Street on Feb. 25, 2009, was sentenced today (Thursday) to eight years in prison, with 85 percent to be served without parole.    Jesse Paulino, 26, also pleaded guilty…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: EWRSD school board focused on one finalist for superintendent post

    By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer    The East Windsor Regional School District appears very close to finding a permanent superintendent.    Board of Education President Alice Weisman said this week that the board has whittled down about a half dozen interviewed candidates to one finalist, who will soon be asked to come in for a third job…

  • Registration is Open for Summer Classes at MCCC

    By Saveria Symons Summer is learning time at Mercer County Community College, and this year the college is offering greater flexibility than ever in its course scheduling. Students can choose credit course sessions of six weeks, eight weeks, 10 weeks or 11 weeks, with starting dates of May 24, June 4, June 21, and July 7. …

  • LAMBERTVILLE: City residents will see new police car shortly

    Crown Victoria will take the place of a police car in “horrible condition” By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    LAMBERTVILLE — The city’s newest police car was delivered Friday and should hit the streets in about a week.    Lambertville bought the car, a Ford Crown Victoria with a special police package, for slightly less than $30,000,…

  • Voters are frustrated

    Irene Rudolph, Lambertville     At the budget meetings of the South Hunterdon Regional High School (SHRHS) Board of Education on March 11 and 18, there was passionate lobbying by students, parents, and coaches to protect their particular piece of the extracurricular budget. Indeed, a disproportionate amount of time at the March 11 meeting was spent…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Bye, bye to the electric bill

    HILLSBOROUGH: Bye, bye to the electric bill

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer Vliet Drive resident hopes panels will meet all of home’s power needs    Vliet Drive resident Steve Mekler remembers oil embargoes in the 1970s when drivers could only get gas in their cars on odd or even days, and lines at the gas stations were miles long.    He said he remembers…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Two local boys die in Pakistan

    Carbon monoxide poisoning suspected By Joanne Degnan, Staff Writer    ROBBINSVILLE – A township family’s vacation turned to tragedy in Pakistan earlier this week when brothers Qasim and Ahad Muzaffar died of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning in an accident involving a gas generator at their uncle’s home.    Qasim, 15, a popular Robbinsville High School freshman known…