• LAMBERTVILLE: Sewer linking fee hike gets OK

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer    LAMBERTVILLE: The Lambertville Municipal Utilities Authority (LMUA) voted June 18 to increase the fee for connecting into the city’s sewer system by $249. That brings the fee to $4,770.    This brings the fee to only $15 more than it was in 2009, when it was $4,755. From that figure, it…

  • CRANBURY: Businessman accused of bilking relative out of $500K
  • CRANBURY: Plainsboro Road not safe for activities

    By Louise and Bill Palagyi To the editor:     My family moved to Cranbury 15 years ago, we loved the pastoral fields the quaint village and the excellent school system, over time we grew to love the network of people that makes this town special.    We moved to Plainsboro Road a busy, well traveled, scenic…

  • IN THE KITCHEN: Farm market comes to Pennington

    IN THE KITCHEN: Farm market comes to Pennington

    By Pat Tanner, Special Writer    About a decade ago, Cathy and Jim Lyons’ Blue Moon Acres farm in Bucks County, Pa., became the darling of top tier restaurants in the tri-state area for its beautiful and tasty organic micro greens – a novelty back then.    But Blue Moon Acres actually started out 10 years before…

  • Pastor Stephens leaves local church for home in Maine

    Pastor Stephens leaves local church for home in Maine

    By Michael D. Dalzell, Special Writer    Charles Stephens, minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church at Washington Crossing (UUCWC) since 1997, retired at the end June after nearly 40 years in the ministry.    With his retirement, Hopewell Valley has lost an outspoken advocate for interfaith cooperation as a means for eliminating misunderstanding and hatred.    On June…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Witt selected as new Township Council leader

    ROBBINSVILLE: Witt selected as new Township Council leader

    Vince Calcagno chosen as council vice president By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ROBBINSVILLE — Ron Witt Jr. was unanimously chosen by his colleagues to serve as council president for 2012-13 at the Township Council’s annual reorganization meeting Monday evening.    Mr. Witt, 44, a first-term councilman who was elected to the governing body in 2011, succeeds…

  • ‘Taste of Place’ celebration July 15

       Ready for a memorable mid-summer Sunday?    The Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association is teaming with Eno Terra Restaurant for a “Taste of Place” celebration on July 15 from 2-6 p.m., rain or shine.    The outdoor venue on the Kingston-Princeton border is virtually in Eno Terra’s backyard: Kingston Locke, a bucolic setting on New Jersey’s Route 27…

  • MONTGOMERY: Girl, 4, saved from drowning at club pool

    By Charley Falkenburg, Staff writer    MONTGOMERY — A 4-year-old girl was flown to the hospital after she almost drowned at the Nassau Racquet and Tennis Club on Route 206 on July 3.    The girl was on a trip with 30 other children from the Rainbow Academy of North Brunswick, which had rented out the club’s…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Small businesses react to healthcare decision

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Small businesses react to healthcare decision

    By Nicole Cosentino, Special Writer    Affordability seems to be the key issue for local businesses in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last week to uphold “Obamacare.”    ”If it is affordable, yes, it is good,” Anees Sheikh, owner of Dollar Planet on Route 27 in Kendall Park, said Monday. “But I don’t know…

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