• MANVILLE: Food, fun at Sacred Heart parish picnic

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer Photo by Mary Ellen ZangaraKids use hula hoops in relay races at Sacred Heart’s parish picnic on Sunday. Food, fun at Sacred Heart parish picnic    More than 300 parishioners and friends gathered Sunday at Polish Falcons Camp in Hillsborough for the Sacred Heart annual parish picnic. The nice weather…

  • LAWRENCE: Memorial marchers

    LAWRENCE: Memorial marchers

    The U.S. Navy color guard leads the Lawrence Township Memorial Day parade, held on May 19. Lea Kahn photo

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Police pick up 5-foot snake

       Hillsborough police plucked a 5-foot snake from the top of a sewer grate on the corner of Williamsburg Drive and Wexford Place on Tuesday at 12:32 p.m.    One officer identified it as a nonvenomous ball python, known for a calm temperament and often kept as a house pet. That led to the theory it may…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Gym sponsors its own ‘Biggest Loser’ contest

    HILLSBOROUGH: Gym sponsors its own ‘Biggest Loser’ contest

    Nicole Goldstein and Fred Norway are ladies’ and men’s winners in the annual “Biggest Loser” contest at Powerhouse Gym.

  • MANVILLE: Top-flight bicyclists to race in, through Manville this weekend

       More than 100 competitive cyclists from around the world will tackle a grueling 75-mile trek through 11 towns during the 19th annual Frank “Nap” Torpey Hills of Somerset bicycle race on Saturday, May 26.    Many of these same riders will then compete in the Ferrero USA 69th Annual Tour of Somerville, America’s oldest, continuously run…

  • MEDICAL CENTER MOVES: First baby at new hospital: It’s a girl!

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    At 6:55 a.m., a man with a woman in labor parked in the front lot of the hospital and slowly made their way across the driveway, pausing for contractions as she arrived at the front door of the new University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro at precisely 7 a.m.,…

  • MANVILLE: Prom is special night

    MANVILLE: Prom is special night

    Below, Rachel Janes matched her dress to her sneakers."It is my style because I didn’t want to wear heels,” she said. (Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara)

  • PRINCETON: Nine taken to hospital after school bus crash

    Eight John Witherspoon Middle Schools baseball players and their school bus driver were slightly injured Tuesday after the bus crashed into a tree and telephone pole on Valley Road.    The accident occurred at 3:23 p.m., according to Princeton Township Police, who said 19 students, all boys, were being bused from the school to the baseball…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Woodfern School students create card for soldiers

    Woodfern School students took to the school parking lot Tuesday to form a human ‘W’ for a photo taken from atop a fire truck ladder to create a card to be sent to soldiers in “care” packages, as another thank you for their sacrifices. (Photo by Milan Rose)

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