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  • Summer History Day Camp Celebrating 25 years!

    Summer History Day Camp Celebrating 25 years!

    Old Barracks Museum The Old Barracks Museum in Trenton proudly announces its 25th year of Summer Day Camp recreating camp life on the Old Barracks parade ground. Campers muster into George Washington’s Patriot Army; Learn 18th century living skills –Cooking, Sewing, Dancing and Songs; Practice marching drills according to Baron Von Steubens’ Manual of Arms; and…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Mom takes on new, rough roll

    By Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    Allison Salenetri is tough.    You have to be when you skate in a rough-and-tumble roller derby league like the Jersey Shore Roller Girls.    ”My dad always said that I punched harder than my brothers,” she said. “I have basically always been able to give a hit and take a hit.”…

  • Mental Health Center Staff to Relocate to New Addition

    Somerset County Board of Freeholders The Richard Hall Community Mental Health Center of Somerset County, located at 500 North Bridge St. in Bridgewater will close Friday, May 8, at 2 p.m. and all day Monday, May 11, and Tuesday, May 12, to enable staff to relocate to the Center’s new addition. The mental health center will…

  • Summer History Day Camp Celebrating 25 years!

    Summer History Day Camp Celebrating 25 years!

    "Meet the Past" in the Old Barracks Museum’s Summer Day Camp

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Zoning board to hear Route 1 hotel proposal

    by Davy James, Staff Writer    The Zoning Board of Adjustment will decide in May whether to grant a use variance that would allow a new hotel to be constructed on Route 1.    The application, from DC Hospitality, seeks to build a four-story, 51-foot high, 124-room extended stay lodging facility for the chain Value Place.    A…

  • CRANBURY: Voters approve school plan

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    CRANBURY — Cranbury passed the 2009-10 $17.6 million school budget by a decent margin Tuesday with 277 voting in favor of it and 171 voting against it.    A total of 451 residents cast their vote for the elections, about 16 percent of the 2,754 registered voters in the township.    The…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Viking tennis team is on the move

    by Rich Fisher, Sports Editor    The South Brunswick High School tennis team is off to such a strong start this season, coach Nancy McDonald has already become superstitious.    She has decided not to alter certain things, for fear it could offset her team’s 5-2 getaway, including a 5-0 mark in the Greater Middlesex Conference’s Red…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Roycebrook to host annual HEF Taste of Hillsborough

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    It’s the good life in Hillsborough, and it tastes like Indian cuisine, sushi, Italian dishes, and barbecue, among other dishes.    The Hillsborough Education Foundation’s annual Taste of the Good Life in Hillsborough fundraiser is scheduled from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Monday, at the Roycebrook Golf Club on Hamilton Road.…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Viking softball enjoys strong start

    by Rich Fisher, Sports Editor    Hitting up and down the lineup.    Check.    Not one, but two reliable pitchers.    Check.    Improved defense.    Check.    Indeed, the checklist for the South Brunswick High softball team seems to be complete and the result was a 6-3 record and four-game winning streak that was snapped in a 3-2 loss to…