• HILLSBOROUGH: Learn ‘green’ landscaping tips at library on Saturday

    Upcoming events and programs are listed    Learn easy care and environmentally friendly landscaping techniques on Saturday, starting at noon, at the library.    There will be three presenters: Clare Liptak on “Native Plants for More Vibrant Landscapes;” Jeremiah Bergstrom on “Rain Gardens to Solve Flooding Issues,” and Judd Mandell on sustainable landscaping.    • To mark National Physical…

  • ALLENTOWN: BOE seeks to expand "school choice" course offerings

    By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ALLENTOWN — The Upper Freehold Regional School District is seeking state approval to offer four new “school choice” programs that could gradually accept 200 out-of-district students whose tuition is paid almost entirely by the state.    The application, if approved, would enable UFRSD to bring in tuition-paid students in sufficient numbers…

  • MANVILLE: Former owner buys back downtown floral shop

    MANVILLE: Former owner buys back downtown floral shop

    Owner Cheryl Forbes is back for the second for the time in a flower shop on South Main Street. (Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara)

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Legion puts town over food goal

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Legion puts town over food goal

       As time wound down in the South Brunswick Food Pantry’s participation in the Feinstein Foundation’s annual Challenge to Fight Hunger, American Legion Post 401 dropped off more than 500 items to help surpass last year’s total.    The pantry finished the challenge with $43,534.77 in monetary donations and 26,925 food items, for a total challenge credit…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Legion puts town over food goal

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Legion puts town over food goal

    American Legion Post 401 members drop off items for the South Brunswick Food Pantry Challenge to Fight Hunger. Pictured from left to right, Richard Allen, Caroline Mazzarellla, Lou Scurato and Dennis Collingwood.

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Seat belt crackdown starts May 21

       Hillsborough police officers will be cracking down on unbuckled motorists and their passengers as part of the annual state “Click It or Ticket” campaign.    Beginning May 21 and running through June 3, the initiative includes high-visibility law enforcement seat belt checkpoints and saturation patrols, as well as local and national publicity designed to ensure that…

  • NEW HOPE: New Hope Celebrates to have Pride festival

       NEW HOPE — Thousands of a very diverse population are expected at the ninth annual New Hope Celebrates Pride festival.    The festival, once a small daylong affair, has expanded though the years to a week of events and adventures. A rainbow flag on loan from sister city Key West, Florida, will unfurl at noon May…

  • The Sweet Sourland Farm is Awarded River-Friendly Farm Certification

    The Sweet Sourland Farm is Awarded River-Friendly Farm Certification

    By Patrick Natale for North Jersey resource Conservation and Development Hopewell Twp: The Katzenbach’s Sweet Sourland Farm earned a River-Friendly Farm Certification from the program administered by the non-profit North Jersey Resource Conservation and Development Council (NJRC&D). The voluntary River-Friendly Farm Certification Program recognizes farmers who take leadership roles as environmental stewards, protecting natural resource…

  • MILLSTONE: Leaner budget eyed

    By Amy Batista, Special Writer    MILLSTONE — The Township Committee discussed, but did not formally introduce, a preliminary $5.9 million municipal budget for 2012 that spends 3 percent less than last year and calls for “no significant change” in tax bills.    Township Business Administrator Thomas Antus told the municipal governing body at a May 2…

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