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  • GUEST COLUMN: Yes, that stuff really is being recycled in Lambertville

    By Amy Wells    So Monday morning you watch your recyclables get tossed into a garbage truck and you begin to wonder: Recycling is picked up in a garbage truck and the materials are all mixed together. Is all that stuff really getting recycled?    The Recycling Committee’s response is Yes! Yes! Yes!    After collecting the recycling…

  • COMMUNITY CALENDAR: From the April 30 edition

    Geranium sale     Friday, May 1 and Saturday, May 2 — The Trinity United Methodist Church, 339 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown is now accepting orders for their annual Geranium sale. Geraniums in a 6-inch pot cost $2.75 each and are available in red, white, pink, and salmon. To order, call 298-3547 or 298-1563. Geraniums can be…

  • LAWRENCE: St. Lawrence teams with Safe Kids to promote helmet safety

    LAWRENCE: St. Lawrence teams with Safe Kids to promote helmet safety

    The Foundation of Morris Hall/St. Lawrence, Inc. held a press conference Tuesday to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its affiliation with Safe Kids Worldwide and to announce a new safety initiative in conjunction with the Brain Injury Association of New Jersey and the Lawrence Township Police Department.     Safe Kids Worldwide was founded 20 years…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Community pitching in to help injured businessman

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    To assist the family of a Montgomery resident, and former Hillsborough business owner, who suffered major head trauma in a March ATV accident, local residents and businesses are donating food, money and time.    John Sala, former owner of Hillsborough Landscape Supply, has been in critical, but stable, condition at Morristown…

  • MILLSTONE: Budget offers spending cut, no tax hike

    by Melissa L. Gaffney, Special Writer    MILLSTONE — Township officials are preparing to introduce a 2009 municipal budget that would reduce spending by about 4 percent and likely maintain the tax rate.    Township Administrator James Pickering said the preliminary $6.7 million budget was accomplished in large part with a minimum 5 percent reduction in operating…

  • The Shad Festival

    The Shad Festival

    Phil McAuliffe Jane Gilday plays American folk fiddle tunes from a storefront at the Shad Festival.

  • BORDENTOWN CITY: Library to patrons: tell us your story

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    BORDENTOWN CITY — A visit to a library can last a minute or an hour, from returning a book to learning tai chi.    But the value of a reading or viewing experience facilitated by the library system can be hard to quantify so the Bordentown branch is asking for help.…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Signs going up; skateboard ordinance eyed

    by Audrey Levine, The Packet Group    ROBBINSVILLE — In response to concerns earlier this month that skateboarders in Martini Park, in Town Center, are damaging property, the Township Council has agreed to have temporary signs posted prohibiting any activity there that could cause such damage.    In addition, the council, in cooperation with the Recreation Advisory…

  • LAWRENCE: St. Lawrence teams with Safe Kids to promote helmet safety

    LAWRENCE: St. Lawrence teams with Safe Kids to promote helmet safety

    Front row: Superintendent Phil Meara, Freeholder Pat Colavita, St. Lawrence president and CEO Chuck Brennan, Mercer County Executive Brian Hughes, St. Lawrence community relations director Jane Millner. Back row: Police Chief Dan Posluszny, Mayor Pam Mount, Safe Kids NJ director Carol Ann Giardelli, Freeholder Dan Benson, and Freeholder John Simone.