• CRANBURY: Student proficiency increases in Cranbury

    David Kilby, Managing Editor    CRANBURY — The Cranbury School administration recently gave its report analyzing students’ test score achievements and comparing the scores to last year’s and to other similar school districts in the state.    The purpose of the report, given to the Cranbury Board of Education on Nov. 1, was to view Cranbury School’s…

  • Thank you all!

    Allen J. Cannon Titusville     There is an increased sense of responsibility one should have when serving in public office. That responsibility is the position of representation. Being a candidate is something that one cannot do alone. Just as serving the public requires one to be selfless and qualified to do the work at hand.…

  • COLUMBUS: NBC football earns top seed

    Greyhounds will host Middletown South on Friday By Justin Feil, The Packet Group    John Reising’s players were in elementary school the last time Northern Burlington County High School sent a football team to the playoffs.    The Greyhounds posted their seventh straight win to return to the playoffs in style as they garnered the top seed…

  • Democrats win 14th District
  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: School board talks with HVEA on horizon

    By Ruth Luse, Managing Editor    The school board’s negotiating team — Leigh Peterson (chairwoman), Lisa Wolff (board president), Daniel O’Connor and Gordon Lewis — plans to meet with the Hopewell Valley Education Association (teachers’ union) and a mediator in early December, according to Ms. Wolff.    Contract negotiations between the HVEA and the Hopewell Valley Regional…

  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: Distinguished Graduates inducted into Hall of Fame

       A journalist, a singer-songwriter, a U.S. Department of State security specialist, and a retired New Jersey State Trooper were inducted into the Hopewell Valley Central High School Distinguished Graduates Hall of Fame Thursday. All four had unique advice to share with students as they accepted their awards. HoVal gives the awards each year to honor…

  • "Twas the Night Before Christmas" Will Warm Hearts at MCCC’s Kelsey Theatre Dec. 9-11

    "Twas the Night Before Christmas" Will Warm Hearts at MCCC’s Kelsey Theatre Dec. 9-11

    By Brenda Whiteman West Windsor, N.J – Holiday merriment is in store as The Kelsey Players bring Clement Clarke Moore’s beloved poem, "’Twas the Night Before Christmas," to life in an original heartwarming musical. Jolly Old St. Nick and other characters will bring tidings of joy to the stage of Mercer County Community College’s Kelsey…

  • PRINCETON: Moore looks ahead to two transitions

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    Mayor-elect Yina Moore is looking forward to the future, guiding Princeton Borough through a historic consolidation transition with Princeton Township.    But for the present time, she is focusing on the “little t” transition, as she calls it, or the transition into her freshman term as mayor.    What makes her tenure…

  • Mercer Council Receives Prevention Coalition Grant from the New Jersey Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS)

    Chip Meara, Mercer Council The Mercer Council on Alcoholism and Drug Addiction, a substance abuse prevention agency in Trenton, has been awarded a grant from the New Jersey Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) to support a regionally-based prevention coalition in Mercer County to utilize environmental strategies to achieve population-level change. Mercer Council…

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