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  • South students teaching children about alcohol abuse

    The high school was one of only 11 winners in the country of a $1,000 Good Decisions Grant. By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    WEST AMWELL — South Hunterdon Regional High School is one of only 11 winners from across the country to receive a $1,000 Good Decisions Grant from State Farm Insurance and Mothers Against…

  • West Amwell to negotiate with Comcast

    The negotiations will not be open to the public. By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    WEST AMWELL — The township will begin negotiations with Comcast this week for the renewal of a cable franchise.    The negotiations will not be open to the public although township officials initially had hoped to conduct them that way.    ”I believe…

  • Life insurance: It’s no longer just for rich people

    Aaron Skloff’s January IT’S YOUR BUSINESS column    Q: Growing up in the 1970’s, I remember my father saying life insurance was for rich people. Now that I have my own family I am evaluating life insurance for my wife and I. What are the unique considerations for New Jersey residents?     The problem: the…

  • ‘There Will Be Blood’

    Inspired by Upton Sinclair’s ‘Oil!,’ the acting by Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano in this film is riveting. By Bob Brown    At over two and half hours, this is a long movie, but a great one. The R rating perhaps understates the case. The title is a quote from Exodus 7:19, “There will be blood…

  • New design firm opens in Lambertville

       James McAuliffe and Richard Carroll have joined their respective practices to create a new Lambertville-based architectural design firm, McAuliffe+Carroll Architects. Prior to joining the firms, Mr. McAuliffe was a project manager with Hayden Architecture and Urban Design, and also maintained his own practice, James McAuliffe Architect, for the last 16 years. Mr Carroll has…

  • Two Montgomery youths honored for volunteer work

    Rep. Mike Ferguson (R-NJ) has presented Amoha and Shreshth Bajaj of Montgomery with congressional youth service awards in recognition of their extensive volunteer activities. To earn the award, Amoha and Shreshth accumulated more than 500 hours of community service. Amoha volunteered at the Kimball Medical Center in Lakewood and at the Princeton Medical Center. Shreshth…

  • $3.5 M contract for Cranbury firm

       Princeton Lightwave, Inc., a Cranbury-based manufacturer of optical semiconductor components and sub-systems, has been awarded a two-year $3.5 million contract for the development of focal plane arrays with single photon sensitivity for use in three-dimensional imaging systems. The program is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Princeton Lightwave provides semiconductor detectors and…

  • ‘Manufactured Landscapes’

    Raw materials are shipped overseas and turned into commodities that are shipped back out again, used, and then returned to China By Elise Nakhnikian THE first scene of Manufactured Landscapes is nearly wordless, but it tells us everything we need to know about this brilliant and unsettling documentary. A minutes-long tracking shot through a seemingly…

  • Bank of Princeton sets branch opening celebration

       The Bank of Princeton will be holding a grand opening celebration for its new Pennington branch on Saturday, Jan. 12 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Refreshments and entertainment will be provided throughout the day, with drawings for gift cards to local stores being held at 10 a.m., 12 noon, 2 p.m. and 4…