• HOPEWELL VALLEY: Bear Tavern shells project to aid ravaged schools

    HOPEWELL VALLEY: Bear Tavern shells project to aid ravaged schools

       Bear Tavern Elementary School students are coloring seashells with a variety of lovely hues.    Their parents and teachers are glazing the shells and applying magnets.    And these works of art are, fittingly, being sold to raise money for flood-ravaged schools on Long Beach Island and in Ventnor shore towns affected by Hurricane Sandy.    ”You’ve heard…

  • PRINCETON: Police blotter

    Princeton Borough    Someone tried to break into a home on Prospect Street around 8 p.m. Tuesday. Authorities said a window was broken and a door was damaged, but they said it did not appear that anyone had entered the residence. Alvaro Monzon, 34, was arrested Nov. 20 and charged with aggravated assault and weapons possession.…

  • LAMBERTVILLE: City honors volunteers for landscaping efforts

    LAMBERTVILLE: City honors volunteers for landscaping efforts

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer    LAMBERTVILLE — On Monday, city officials honored volunteers who have been doing landscaping work on a Veterans Memorial at City Hall.    Located at 18 York St., the city hall building was an Acme supermarket for many years. The city renovated the building after taking it over.    ”Our city is fortunate…

  • STOCKTON: Council plans Wilson Drive work

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer    A $450,000 bond ordinance that would pay for work on Wilson Drive was introduced by the Stockton Borough Council during its Nov. 12 meeting, borough Clerk Michele Hovan said.    Improvements to drainage along Wilson Drive and to the road itself would be paid for if the measure is adopted, as…

  • LAMBERTVILLE: Caprios plan to name building after Morland

    LAMBERTVILLE: Caprios plan to name building after Morland

    The building at 44 N. Main St., Lambertville

  • Hillsborough Rotary joins Operation Shoebox New Jersey at 1st annual Christmas packing Dec. 1

    By Hillsborough Rotary joins Operation Shoebox New Jersey at 1st annual Christmas packing Dec. 3 HILLSBOROUGH – Volunteers are invited to join Operation Shoebox New Jersey staff pack gift boxes and send Christmas greetings to U.S. troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan at Hillsborough Elementary School on Saturday, Dec. 3. The packing is being held…

  • LAMBERTVILLE: St. John the Evangelist gets gets award for restoration

    LAMBERTVILLE: St. John the Evangelist gets gets award for restoration

       LAMBERTVILLE — The Lambertville Historical Society (LHS) has awarded the Narducci Award, its annual honor for the best restoration in the past year, to St. John the Evangelist Parish for the renovation of the rectory and prayer garden at 44 Bridge St.    The ceremony took place in late October at the banquet following the Historical…

  • PENNINGTON: Kunkel Park is closed

       Pennington Borough officials and the Parks and Recreation Commission have officially closed Kunkel Park.    As a result of Hurricane Sandy, “the park is unsafe to enter at this time and we ask the community to abide by the closure signs, which have been posted at the park entrance.    ”The park will be closed indefinitely until…

  • GUEST COLUMN: Valley is blessed with ‘an embarrassment of riches’

    By Lisa Wolff    We have a Thanksgiving tradition in my family where everyone goes around the table and states why they are thankful. I started to think about that from a Board of Education perspective and I realized that we are blessed with what my old boss used to call “an embarrassment of riches.”    In…

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