• PLUMSTED: Residents can pick new playground design

    Vote at Playground Committee’s table at New Egypt Day    PLUMSTED — The Playground Committee is asking the public to stop by its table at New Egypt Day on May 12 and help it pick the new playground for the recreation fields at Brindletown and Brynmore roads.    The committee will be displaying the drawings from two…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: District honors best teachers of 2012
  • Next NJ State Librarian Announced

    Next NJ State Librarian Announced

    By Gary Cooper Mary L. Chute, deputy director for Libraries at the Institute of Museum and Library Services, has been selected as the next New Jersey State Librarian and will begin a new chapter as leader of the New Jersey State Library in July 2012. Chute, a former state librarian of Delaware, was selected after…

  • GUEST OPINION: Biking in and out of Pennington

    By Eileen Heinzel and Tom Ogren    Here in Pennington, bike riding around town has always been an enjoyable activity, but a fairly limited one — the town is just 1 square mile, and bike riding beyond Pennington’s borders has been more of a challenge.    That may be changing.    The 20-mile Lawrence-Hopewell Trail, which is scheduled…

  • Borough block party to he held

       Reserve tickets in advance and gather friends to celebrate “Under the Stars” at the fifth Hopewell block party to be held Friday, May 18, from 7 to 10 p.m. outside the Dana Communications property at 2 E. Broad St. in Hopewell.    ”Under the Stars” will feature The Lifters, a dance band, as well as light…

  • PENNINGTON: Water and sewer rate increases OK’d by council

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer    An ordinance increasing Pennington’s water and sewer rates was adopted by the Borough Council on Monday night.    Councilman Glen Griffiths, who chairs the council’s Finance Committee, said the ordinance will result in a rate increase of just under 1 percent for commercial and industrial users and one-half of 1 percent…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Malecki twins make impact for HHS lacrosse team

    By Justin Feil, Packet Media Group    Before Alex Malecki was a brilliant goalie for the Hillsborough High School boys lacrosse team and Elyse Malecki was a top scorer for the Raider girls lacrosse team, the twins played on the same team for four years.    ”We played together from second grade until fifth,” Elyse said. “At…

  • POLICE BLOTTER: May 10

       May 1 at 3:27 a.m., Sgt. Robert Brown charged Courtney E. Utman, 35, of Lambertville, with drunken driving.    She was stopped on North Union Street for having a license plate out, police said. She also was charged with failure to maintain lamps and careless driving and released without bail.    April 30 at 5:18 p.m., Benjamin…

  • LAWRENCE: Donations still needed for fireworks show

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    The Fourth of July is less than eight weeks away, but only $8,300 has been raised toward the goal of $20,000 to pay for the township’s annual Fourth of July fireworks show, according to Steven Groeger, the township’s superintendent of recreation.    But there is still time for township residents to…

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