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  • ROBBINSVILLE: Township to score with big county grant

    Football fields expected done in spring By Vic Monaco, Managing Editor    ROBBINSVILLE — The township soon should have close to a quarter-million dollars to go toward the ongoing project to create three football fields at Meadowbrook Park.    Mercer County Executive Brian Hughes announced late last week that Robbinsville is the latest municipality to benefit from…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Action paves way for hiring of fire director

    By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer    ROBBINSVILLE — The Township Council has approved an ordinance that changes the leadership position with the Fire Division from a chief to a director, paving the way for Mayor Dave Fried to hire his choice to lead the department — retired Hightstown Volunteer Fire Department Chief John Archer, who is…

  • Teaching a Stone to Talk

    Teaching a Stone to Talk

    Rhoda Kassof-Isaac uses painting to enhance her photographs of Italy’s horse race.

  • Teaching a Stone to Talk

    Teaching a Stone to Talk

    Bronze trumpeters herald the pageantry of the palio.

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Students’ project to brighten soldiers’ holidays

    HILLSBOROUGH: Students’ project to brighten soldiers’ holidays

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    Woods Road Elementary School’s second-graders reached for stickers, glue, construction and wrapping paper Dec. 3 — materials needed to make holiday cards — during an activity planned just two days prior.    While holiday music played from the laptop at the front of the room, the students worked on the thank-you…

  • Fusion Fest Holiday Party

    Fusion Fest Holiday Party

    Tom McMillan On Saturday December 19th the local Fusion Band RrAge will be having a bash at the Mercer County Boat House. All are welcome from 7:30-10:30. Music of The Mahavishnu Orchestra and Return to Forever and others will be cooking. $5 at the door. Proceeds to be given to local charity. For more info…

  • MANVILLE: Veterans, Scouts honor victims of Pearl Harbor attack

    MANVILLE: Veterans, Scouts honor victims of Pearl Harbor attack

    Pearl Harbor survivor Nicholas Alimecco (at right) addressed the crowd with the post’s Past-commander Andy Henkel. Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Soldiers From Our Streets

    A legal leader of U.S. forces, Giaquinto proud & optimistic By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer    Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of stories on local veterans of the Afghanistan invasion or the war in Iraq.    Iraq is not the same dangerous chaotic place it was at the height of the war in…

  • BORDENTOWN: Wrestling building on success

    By: Kyle Moylan Sports Editor     Just because the Bordentown High School wrestling team graduated several talented athletes off a squad that went 24-8 last season, Coach Joe Sprague doesn’t see that as a reason to lower expectations.     “Like I told the kids, just because we don’t have as much talent, that doesn’t mean…