• BORDENTOWN CITY: Chocolate walk approaches

       BORDENTOWN CITY — Ready to taste some chocolate?    The annual Chocolate Walk and Carriage Rides event is scheduled from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Friday, Feb. 15, on Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown City.    The annual event had been scheduled for Feb. 8 but was canceled due to wintry weather conditions.    Participating businesses will be opening…

  • Registration Is Underway for Variety of Camp Programs at MCCC this Summer

    Registration Is Underway for Variety of Camp Programs at MCCC this Summer

    By Wendy Humphrey Mercer County Community College (MCCC) continues to be a destination of choice for thousands of young people ages 6 to 18 in the summer months, offering a wide variety of programs including Camp College, Sports Camps and Tomato Patch Visual and Performing Arts workshops. The camp schedule is equally varied, with options…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: St. Augustine celebrates Catholic Schools Week

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: St. Augustine celebrates Catholic Schools Week

    A Vocation’s Circle at St. Augustine during Catholic Schools Week.

  • HILLSBOROUGH: With no vote, budget dates need fixing

       Hillsborough Board of Education members decided two weeks ago to drop the April vote on school budgets and candidates.    But the board still faces the same ridiculously compressed schedule to adopt its 2013-14 school year budget by the end of March — a timeline so abbreviated it will mean only a hurried public explanation and…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Stephanie Zannella’s state record on floor exercise propels gymnasts

    HILLSBOROUGH: Stephanie Zannella’s state record on floor exercise propels gymnasts

       Arena Gymnastics from Gymland in Hamilton Township won the all-around state championship Jan.27 in Bayville with a top team of girls.    Newcomer Stephanie Zannella, age 10 and a 5th grader from Hillsborough, shattered a floor exercise state record set 11 years ago with a 9.725 score for her Level 6 routine.    The team placed first…

  • MANVILLE: Kids take rare chance to go snow sledding

    MANVILLE: Kids take rare chance to go snow sledding

    On Saturday afternoon, families took to sledding at the hill on Raritan Avenue near Weston School.

  • Lawrence Scholarship Offered

    By Dawn Monsport Dawn Buxton Monsport The Woman’s Club of Lawrenceville has announced that applications are available for the Mary Darwin Heath Memorial Scholarship. In existence for more than 70 years, it was initiated by Ms. Heath, a faculty wife at The Lawrenceville School. The scholarship of $2000 per year is awarded to a young…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: 2,000 gallons of gas leaked, company says

       More gasoline than earlier thought leaked in December through a pinhole in a Buckeye Pipeline Company gasoline line under Route 206 near New Amwell Road.    Company spokesman David Boone told the Hillsborough Township Committee on Tuesday night that more than 2,200 gallons of gasoline was lost in the accident.    Mr. Boone said the company had…

  • MANVILLE: Spring sports registrations now open

       Manville Recreation Department is taking registrations for spring programs.    Instructional soccer, a kindergarten Saturday program, costs $20. A traveling soccer team for first through eighth grades is $35.    Instructional baseball, a coed endeavor for kindergartners and first-graders, has a fee of $20. Instructional softball for kindergarten and first grade is $20.    Traveling softball team play…

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