• FLORENCE: Residents seek to preserve farmland

    FLORENCE: Residents seek to preserve farmland

    Burlington Township resident David Van Camp provides expert testimony on behalf of attorney Jeffrey Baron during a special Zoning Board meeting in Florence Township on Aug. 27. Local residents, who oppose a 138-acre solar farm being built on Bustleton Road, retained Mr. Baron’s services in May. (Photo by Amy Batista)

  • BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP: Phase 2 of redevelopment project advances to Planning Board

    By David Kilby, Special Writer    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP— Phase 2 of the town center redevelopment project has been passed by the Township Committee and forwarded to the Planning Board, but not without reservation from the committee.    Known as the Southern Gateway Project, Phase 2 of the redevelopment project includes commercial development in the southern part of…

  • Donate Food This Week on ‘BOBO Friday’

    By Somerset County Board of Freeholders The next “Buy One, Bring One” food drop-off sponsored by the Somerset County Board of Freeholders will be Friday, Sept. 21.  “Local food banks and food pantries are still struggling,” Freeholder Director Patricia Walsh said. “In many cases, supplies are the lowest they have ever been, while demand has…

  • TRENTON: Funeral home owner indicted

    By Charles W. Kim, Packet Media Group    TRENTON — A Mercer County grand jury has indicted a Hightstown funeral home owner accused of bilking a 96-year-old relative of almost $500,000.    Joseph Barlow, 68, of Cranbury, and co-owner of Barlow & Zimmer Funeral Home, was indicted by the grand jury on July 13 on one count…

  • Officials reflect on 9/ 11

    Officials reflect on 9/ 11

    Batista Hightstown resident and Board of Education member Suzann Fallon (center), of the East Windsor School District, attends a Community Candlelight Memorial Service at the Mon´roe Township Tree Park on Sept. 11. She stands with family members before a tribute honoring her late brother-in-law, William Fallon, a Port Authority employee who died in the North…

  • MCCC’s Study Abroad Program Offers Tours to Costa Rica, Poland and Amsterdam

    MCCC’s Study Abroad Program Offers Tours to Costa Rica, Poland and Amsterdam

    MCCC’s Study Abroad Program recently hosted a kick off information session for the Holocaust trip to Poland. Pictured third from left is Dr. Vera Goodkin, MCCC professor emeritus and Holocaust survivor.

  • PRINCETON: Dance flash mob descends on Hinds Plaza

    By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer    Princeton got Zouk’d on Sunday afternoon, when about 40 dancers “spontaneously” assembled in Hinds Plaza and started performing..    Little did the audience know, but they were part of a global flash mob.    The dancers swaying before them were only a handful of the 3,000 dispersed throughout more than 30 countries…

  • Golf Classic raises nearly $40,000 for the Center for Educational Advancement

    Golf Classic raises nearly $40,000 for the Center for Educational Advancement

    A team from Hunterdon Healthcare was the first place winner at the 21 Annual CEA Golf Classic. The event raised over $39,000 to benefit the Center for Educational Advancement’s (CEA) employment and job placement programs for people with various disabiliti

  • With a song in their hearts

    With a song in their hearts

    Princeton Girlchoir Artistic Director Lynnel Joy Jenkins with the choir’s new associate director, Tom T. Shelton, who will conduct PGC’s Cantores.

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