• MCCC’s 2012 Kelsey Review Touches on Full Range of Emotions in Fiction and Poetry by Local Authors; Free Copies Available at Public Libraries
  • Youth College at MCCC’s Trenton Campus Requests Thanksgiving Food Donations

    By Wendy Humphrey The Youth College Parent Association at Mercer County Community College’s Trenton campus is requesting donations for its “Feed a Family for Thanksgiving” food drive.  According to MCCC staff member Wayne Murray, the goal is to collect non-perishable food items and create baskets for 70 or more families in need, so that Thanksgiving…

  • LAWRENCE: New hearing on detox center set for Nov. 14

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    The Zoning Board of Adjustment has rescheduled a public hearing to reconsider a controversial use variance application to locate a residential drug and alcohol detoxification center in an office park at 100 Federal City Road.    The zoning board will hear the Sunrise Detoxification Center’s application at its Nov. 14 meeting.…

  • SANDY Disaster Relief Information from Your Economic & Tourism Development Partners

    The Somerset County Business Partnership The Somerset County Business Partnership recently sent out a memo for the benefit of the Somerset County community listing a great deal of Sandy Disaster Relief information. To access this communication, please go to http://www.scbp.org/economic-development/resources and click on "SANDY Disaster Relief Information." The information is useful for business owners and…

  • LAWRENCE: Learning what makes ‘Lawrence’

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Neil Breslau and his wife, Sharon, are self-described history buffs — especially local history.    So when the Texas couple, who are visiting their son and his family in Lawrence, learned that the Lawrence Historical Society and the Lawrence Township Community Foundation were offering an afternoon’s worth of speakers on Lawrence…

  • Kudos to McCaffery’s for providing power

    Lisa Carrier, Princeton To the editor:    I would like to give kudos to McCaffery’s in Princeton, for opening during the hurricane offering people a warm place to go when most of the town is out of power and there was no where to get warm, or get necessities, that people needed after 3 or more…

  • PRINCETON: Transportation group holds initial meeting

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer    Princeton officials agree that something needs to be done about all the cars going in and out of the community.    But what’s the answer?    That question could be answered in the next six months, as a pair of consultants set out to prepare transit and traffic studies that officials…

  • PRINCETON AREA: Police blotter

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer Princeton Borough An employee at the Tandori Bite restaurant on Witherspoon Street allegedly used a fork to stab a fellow restaurant employee on Nov. 10, police said. Surjit Singh, 33, of Westampton, allegedly threatened to kill his male victim, who suffered a laceration to his right hand trying to…

  • PRINCETON: Honoring those veterans who have served

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer    Four young Marines in dress uniforms serving as the honor guard stood at attention Monday morning for a Veterans Day service at the All Wars Monument in downtown Princeton.    Yet it was the older men, men with white hair and holding small American flags, who received the applause and…

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