• WEST AMWELL: South repairing drainage on football field

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer    WEST AMWELL — South Hunterdon school district officials say they are working as fast as they can to rectify drainage problems at the high school football field.    ”We are looking into this as quickly and as fiscally responsibly as we can,” said Superintendent Nancy Gartenberg on Friday. “We acknowledge there…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Groups say Turnpike expansion causing sedimentation

    By Jen Samuel, Managing Editor    The Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association is raising concerns that local streams in Hightstown and East Windsor are filling up with sediment near the New Jersey Turnpike Authority’s expansion at Exit 8.    ”This water didn’t use to be this color,” said Jennifer Coffey, policy director of the Watershed. “It starting turning…

  • PRINCETON: Candidates’ takes on consolidation shared at forum

    PRINCETON: Candidates’ takes on consolidation shared at forum

    Princeton Borough mayoral candidates Yina Moore, left, and Jill Jachera, right, at the Princeton Jewish Center on Tuesday night. Anna Savoia photo

  • WEST WINDSOR: Arts Center to celebrate

    By Heather Niccoli, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — The West Windsor Arts Center will be celebrating its one-year anniversary with the public.    The event will be free from 2 to 4 p.m. on Saturday at 952 Alexander Road in the former Princeton Junction Firehouse, now the Arts Center.    ”The birthday celebration will be a day…

  • JAMESBURG: New mural, floor plan revive Jamesburg library

    JAMESBURG: New mural, floor plan revive Jamesburg library

    David Kilby, Managing Editor    JAMESBURG — The library in Jamesburg has made some little changes and big changes over the summer, the biggest change being the new mural in the children’s section downstairs that is bound to change the way children think of reading.    The new murals were painted by Monroe Township High School Class…

  • MONROE: Lecture on ‘Sunflower Project’ to be offered

       MONROE — “The Sunflower Project,” a lecture presented by Larry Herstik, will be held Friday, Oct. 28, at the Monroe Township Public Library at 4 Municipal Plaza.    This presentation is based on the memoir, “The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness,” by Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. This book highlights the time a dying…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: Vanderbeck misses deadline to run as independent

    By Jen Samuel, Managing Editor    HIGHTSTOWN — The Mercer County Clerk halted council member Mike Vanderbeck’s bid to run as an Independent candidate for Borough Council this fall.    ”His filing was Sept. 15,” said Mercer County Clerk Paula Sollami-Covello on Tuesday. “It is out of time.”    A new law amended the New Jersey statue, NJSA…

  • CORRECTION

       In the Sept. 16 article, “Company has way to solve problems with feral cats,” Alley Cat Allies is not a company, but a national nonprofit organization that helps cities and citizens find humane approaches to feral cat management.    It doesn’t offer spaying or neutering services itself, but through its national network, connects local governments and…

  • FACES IN THE CROWD: EW student excels at computer science

    FACES IN THE CROWD: EW student excels at computer science

    By Raunaq Singh    Senior Aditya Dalal, 17, of East Windsor, already has shown a great aptitude in computer science.    Over the summer, Aditya not only qualified for the Future Business Leaders of America national tournament, but placed second in the nation.    At Hightstown High School, where Aditya is a student, and elsewhere around the country,…

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