• HILLSBOROUGH: Things you could have learned at RoboRaiders’ science fair

    HILLSBOROUGH: Things you could have learned at RoboRaiders’ science fair

    Students take on energy, DNA, sound By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    Some of the things you could have learned at Saturday’s science fair at Hillsborough High School:    • Thick strings on acoustic guitars produce lower sounds, and thin strings give high tones.    • Refrigerating popcorn at home produces the best taste. Room temperature is second best, but…

  • Don’t invest in dirtiest fossil fuel

    Marsha Jane Shainwald, Princeton I am writing in regard to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The rejection of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is a crucial step that President Obama can take to address the climate crisis.    The pipeline would carry tar sands, not, crude oil. NASA’S leading climate scientist, Dr. James Hansen…

  • MONTGOMERY: ‘Scrappers’ take copper from site

    By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — More than 8,000 pounds of copper wire worth about $68,000 was stolen from a construction site in the Princeton area sometime between 3:30 p.m. on March 9 and 6:30 a.m. on March 11, according to police.    The alleged theft took place on the property behind the Ford dealership…

  • Destroying the Sourlands

    Catherine Sharyn Magee Hopewell Township     The proposed Marshall’s Corner-Pennytown Redevelopment Area threatens the integrity of the region’s most important natural area, the Sourland Mountain, which contains the only intact large forested area in central New Jersey. It supports a flora and fauna that would be lost if the ecological integrity of the Sourlands was…

  • Local Businesswoman Leads Middlesex County Race in Raising Funds for Premature Birth

    Local Businesswoman Leads Middlesex County Race in Raising Funds for Premature Birth

    By Elena Bagarozza WOODBRIDGE, NJ – Valerie Montecalvo, President and Owner of Bayshore Recycling in Woodbridge, Twp., NJ, is serving as chairwoman for the 2013 Middlesex County March of Dimes March for Babies in the hopes of raising significant funds toward premature birth prevention and research. Each week in New Jersey, 2,122 babies are born…

  • PRINCETON: Library asks for higher funding from Princeton

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer    The Princeton Public Library board of trustees has asked the council for an increase in taxpayer funding to support a library that had more than 840,000 visitors last year.    Library officials proposed to spend $5.6 million in 2013, an amount that includes capital requests for technology, a new phone…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Things you could have learned at RoboRaiders’ science fair

    HILLSBOROUGH: Things you could have learned at RoboRaiders’ science fair

    Alex Duncan was one of three Hillsborough high schoolers who combined to explain the science behind an acoustic guitar.

  • Pennington Connection

    Tom Ogren Pennington Borough     Access from Pennington Borough to the Lawrence-Hopewell Trail moved a big step closer this month with the borough’s bid award for construction of what is called the Pennington Connection.    The “connection” was proposed by the borough to link King George Road on Pennington’s border with the nearby Lawrence-Hopewell Trail (LHT)…

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Officials eye tax hike

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer    A proposed Hopewell Township budget for 2013 that would bring a municipal tax-rate increase of 1 and seven-tenths cents per $100 of assessed property value was introduced by Township Committee Monday night.    A public hearing on the budget is scheduled for the committee’s April 8 meeting.    The proposed spending plan…

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