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  • BORDENTOWN CITY: ‘A corridor to the Northeast’ on the Underground Railroad

    BORDENTOWN CITY: ‘A corridor to the Northeast’ on the Underground Railroad

    Phil McAuliffe Crayle Green gives a presentation at the Friends Meeting House in Bordentown City on Wednesday. Her presentation was on the Underground Railroad in the Bordentown area.

  • Riverside kids help food drive

    Do Something Club of Riverside Elementary School     We are members of the Do Something Club at Riverside Elementary School. Our school is collecting food for the Crisis Ministry of Princeton and Trenton through Thursday, Feb. 12. All donations are appreciated.    You can bring food to the school’s main entrance or give it to someone…

  • The Hun School of Princeton Launches 1Card with CardSmith

    By The Hun School of Princeton Launches 1Card with CardSmith   Princeton, NJ – The Hun School of Princeton and CardSmith LLC announced today the launch of a new, multi-function ID Card program – the 1Card for the School’s students, parents, staff and other stakeholders. The enhanced ID card features “Raider Cash”, a pre-paid spending account…

  • NORTHERN BURLINGTON: Towns await aid figures to speculate on budgets

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer Local towns are in varying stages of the budget process this year, but with about a month to go until the state expects municipalities to introduce their budgets, they all are awaiting state aid figures.     “The main thing hanging out there, I suppose, is how much the governor is…

  • ALLENTOWN: School building on target

    by Jessica Ercolino, Staff Writer    ALLENTOWN — Despite challenges from the winter weather, construction of the new middle school on Breza Road is on time and on schedule, Superintendent Richard Fitzpatrick said this week.    The approximately $50 million project is between 17 and 20 percent complete and the building is expected to open by the…

  • Mercer Science and Engineering Fair

    By Jonathan Allen, Ph.D., Sec’y Mercer Science & Engineering Club With science and science education once again national priorities,  the Science Fair has a renewed excitement.  This year the Mercer Science and Engineering Fair will be held from March 14-19 at Rider University.  Last year the Fair had a total of more than 500 projects…

  • Gala to Celebrate Courthouse Centennial

    Gala to Celebrate Courthouse Centennial

    The Somerset County Historic Courthouse in Somerville was dedicated April 3, 1909.

  • EAST WINDSOR: Township police probe vehicle break-ins

       EAST WINDSOR — A rash of vehicle break-ins occurred in the parking lot of the Princeton Arms Apartments over two nights in the last eight days.    Four owners reported that their vehicles were entered and items were stolen in the overnight hours of Jan. 29-30, with another five owners reporting the same thing happened on…

  • MANVILLE: Four volunteers graduate at fire academy

    MANVILLE: Four volunteers graduate at fire academy

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    About 100 emergency personnel and firefighters — including several Manville volunteers — received certificates in firefighting and emergency medical skills from the Somerset County Emergency Services Training Academy in Hillsborough during the academy’s semiannual graduation ceremony Jan. 22.    Graduates from Manville and Hillsborough and as far away as New…