• Central Jersey: Packet Media Group for sale

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, The Packet Group    Packet Media Group, which includes The Messenger-Press, The Princeton Packet, and Packet Publications, is for sale as owner James B. Kilgore prepares for retirement.    The 63-year-old Princetonian has been in publishing for 37 years and at The Packet for 35 years, 31 as publisher. He did not announce a…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Assemblyman Biondi, 69, dies

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Assemblyman Biondi, 69, dies

    By Gene Robbins, Packet Group Assemblyman Peter Biondi, hailed as the patriarch of modern Hillsborough Township, died Thursday night (Nov. 10), two days after his re-election to an eighth term in the General Assembly. He was 69.¶ Mr. Biondi, a Republican, served on the local governing body, as a Somerset County freeholder and as an…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Vikings pummel Hillsborough 63-14

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Vikings pummel Hillsborough 63-14

    Bill Gaze Bill Gaze photos Viking running back Dion Hooper takes off with the ball. Raider linebacker Owen Thomson pursues quar´terback T.J. Perkowski during the first round of the playoffs last Friday night.

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Auction set for two farms, former Cattail Tavern

    ROBBINSVILLE: Auction set for two farms, former Cattail Tavern

    Aerial view showing the township-owned Herman-Updike property in Robbinsville, which is being auctioned this month.

  • There goes the Foxmoor neighborhood

    From Carine Race, Robbinsville To the editor:  “There goes the neighborhood.” That’s what a handful of Foxmoor residents in Robbinsville thought when they heard the township Planning Board’s July 20 decision granting preliminary approval for construction of a three-story office building with 192 parking spaces on deed restricted public and quasi-public land in residential Foxmoor.…

  • MCCC Theatre Students to Present “Beautiful Thing” Dec. 9-11

    MCCC Theatre Students to Present “Beautiful Thing” Dec. 9-11

    The bookish Jamie (Dan Johnson of Ewing), left, and the athlete Steve (Christian Di Tullio of Lawrenceville) find common ground and more in “Beautiful Thing,” to be presented by MCCC Theatre students at the college’s Studio Theatre Dec. 9-11.

  • MOVIE REVIEW: ‘J Edgar’

    MOVIE REVIEW: ‘J Edgar’

    Clint Eastwood’s film about the FBI founder searches for meaning in a claustrophobic setting By Elise Nakhnikian Clint Eastwood is smart and savvy, a polished professional whose long career probably owes a lot to the talent he’s proven, both as an actor and as a director, for whittling things down to a fine polish. In…

  • Music Director

    Music Director

    Jack Rosenberg FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A NEW YOUTH ORCHESTRA RECREATES BEETHOVEN Montclair, NJ November 15, 2011 On November 20 at 2PM the Academie Philharmonic, an honors youth orchestra project at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair, NJ will launch its inaugural season with an open reading. “Beethoven’s Akademie” will recreate the historic concert from Dec.…

  • MANVILLE: Community calendar: Week of Nov. 17

    Sat., Nov. 19     Tricky tray basket raffle: Manville-Hillsborough BPOE 2119 hosts at 1500 Brooks Blvd. $10 in advance, $15 at door (includes one free sheet of tickets). A person will pay cash for gold on site. No one under 18 admitted. Doors open 5:30 p.m.; raffle at 6:30. 908-725-1717.     Free throw shooting: Local…

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