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  • HIGHTSTOWN: HHS grads urged to be ready for change

    HIGHTSTOWN: HHS grads urged to be ready for change

    Members of the Hightstown High Class of 2009 during the June 19 graduation ceremonies. Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe

  • ‘Sense of Wonder’

    ‘Sense of Wonder’

    Inspired by the words of Rachel Carson, Watershed Education Director Jeff Hoagland leads family nature programs By Ilene Dube OUTSIDE my front door a field cricket chirps, filling the warm evening air with its concerto. A shy performer, he uses the concrete beneath some overhanging coreopsis as a stage. In fact, he sings from the…

  • EAST WINDSOR: Municipal budget approval delayed

    By Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    EAST WINDSOR — The Township Council was unable to formally adopt its $21.3 million municipal budget for 2009 this week because the state Department of Community Affairs had yet to review it.    The East Windsor budget must be reviewed and OK’d by the DCA before it can be adopted this…

  • EAST WINDSOR: Police Beat

       Police said officers responded to a burglary alarm at 2:35 a.m. Monday at Radio Shack and found that the front glass door of the business had been shattered, along with two glass display cases. Police said two classic iPods, an iPod dock, an iPod Touch, an iPod Shuffle, two iPod Nanos and an Acer laptop…

  • Highway 61 Revisited: The World’s Only Bob Dylan Tribute Show

    Highway 61 Revisited: The World’s Only Bob Dylan Tribute Show

    By Kelly Skinner NEWS RELEASE Contact:  Kelly Skinner, director of public relations 732-247-7200, ext. 542 [email protected] Renu Verma, marketing & pr coordinator 732-247-7200, ext. 517 [email protected] State Theatre presents Highway 61 Revisited The World’s Only Bob Dylan Tribute Show Featuring former Dylan band members, Scarlet Rivera, Rob Stoner, and Winston Watson Saturday, July 18, 2009,…

  • HOPEWELL: Hightstown couple injured in fatal crash

    By John Tredrea, The Packet Group    HOPEWELL — A 90-year-old Whiting man was killed in a head-on collision on Pennington-Rocky Hill Road last weekend.    The man’s 86-year-old wife, also from Whiting, was critically injured in the Saturday evening crash and remained Thursday in the intensive care unit at Capital Health Systems at Fuld Campus in…

  • LAWRENCE: Walkers welcome new 1.2-mile trail

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer     The latest leg in the Lawrence Hopewell Trail was opened with a flourish Friday afternoon — a 1.2-mile-long stretch of pavement that runs through a portion of the Princeton Pike Corporate Center.     The new segment begins on Princeton Pike and continues to the recently finished connector behind the…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Statue dedication Sunday to be major Hindu event

    By Natalie Lescroart, Staff Writer    A Hindu priest will summon God into a stone statue of the Indian guru and saint Shirdi Sai Baba as the Radha Krishna Temple concludes its momentous Pranpratishtha event this Sunday in Lawrence.    Fifteen to 20 volunteers helped to carry the idol onto the temple grounds June 7 to mark…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: HHS grads urged to be ready for change

    HIGHTSTOWN: HHS grads urged to be ready for change

    Members of the Hightstown High Class of 2009 during the June 19 graduation ceremonies. Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe