• UPPER FREEHOLD: ReRun charity horse show returns to Horse Park

    UPPER FREEHOLD — ReRun Inc, a nonprofit Thoroughbred racehorse adoption program, is holding its 9th Annual Fall for Horses All-Thoroughbred Charity Horse Show and Festival at the Horse Park of New Jersey on Oct. 23.    The family fun event, which begins at 8 a.m., offers an eclectic group of more than 25 vendors providing food,…

  • LAWRENCE: Ben Franklin Elementary School celebrates 50th

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    New friends and old friends got together last week to help the Ben Franklin Elementary School — known as “the friendly school” — kick off its 50th anniversary celebration.    In the five decades since the school opened its doors in 1961, 10 principals — including current Principal Christopher Turnbull —…

  • New Brunswick Jazz Project Presents Jazz 9/28-10/4

    New Brunswick Jazz Project Presents Jazz 9/28-10/4

    By Virginia DeBery Wed. 9/28 7.30-10.30pm The Camille Thurman 4TeT Hyatt – 2 Albany St. New Brunswick No cover. Thurs. 9/29 7.30-10.30pm The Sylvia Cuenca Quartet Makeda – 338 George St. New Brunswick No cover Tues. 10/4 8.00-11.00pm Eric Neveloff Quartet JAM session @9.30 Courtside 1 Elm Row, New Brunswick Our Women in Jazz series…

  • LAWRENCE: Taste of Lawrenceville ‘Lasagna Challenge’

       ”Farm To Fork – The Lasagna Challenge” is the theme of the sixth annual Taste of Lawrenceville to be held on Sunday, Oct. 11. The Taste will be hosted by The Lawrenceville School in the Abbott Dining Hall from 4 to 7 p.m.    This year’s event an opportunity for local chefs to face-off in a…

  • GUEST COLUMN: Hurricane doesn’t explain all JCP&L’s problems

    By Robbinsville Mayor Dave Fried    Today, as I send this to The Messenger-Press, the Board of Public Utilities is poised to hold two days of hearing on the performance — or lack of it — by Jersey Central Power & Light during the aftermath of Hurricane Irene last month. It may take a few weeks…

  • LAWRENCE: Residents see red over yellow stripes

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Township Council wanted to calm traffic on Bergen Street and make it safer for bicyclists and pedestrians to use the street, but its efforts at making the road a “complete street” stirred up a hornet’s net of discontent among some residents.    About a dozen residents attended Township Council’s Sept. 20…

  • Healthy For Life Grill is Franchising!

    By Bill Nelson FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Bill Nelson                                                         Phone: 866-931-3566                                                                                                 Fax:     866-931-7568                                                 E-Mail: [email protected] October 4, 2011 Union, NJ – Healthy for Life Grill, a locally owned and operated healthy restaurant company since 2009, is pleased to announce that it is expanding its business operations by offering franchise opportunities.…

  • Energy Shopping and Saving Go Mobile

    Energy Shopping and Saving Go Mobile

    By Spark Energy New Spark Energy mobile website and app put power in consumers’ pockets New Jersey consumers can now shop for their home’s energy needs and discover new ways to reduce their energy usage anytime, anywhere, with a new mobile website and app launched by electricity and natural gas retailer Spark Energy. “One of…

  • ALLENTOWN: BOE takes a shine to solar idea

    UFRSD wants to join county’s pooled power purchase project By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ALLENTOWN — The Upper Freehold Regional School District can save between $53,000 and $175,000 a year on its utility bills by joining with other local governments throughout the county in a pooled solar power purchase agreement, according to representatives of the…

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