• PRINCETON: Gruchacz named new principal at Community Park
  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Extreme weight surgery changes a life

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Extreme weight surgery changes a life

    By Charles W. Kim, Managing Editor    For many years, resident Ellen Birch, 56, fought to keep weight off, but it finally took an operation to change her life.    ”It was something for self esteem and something I needed to do,” Ms. Birch said one year after getting an operation that took her from 340 pounds…

  • SUNSHINE LIST

    Meetings    HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP PLANNING BOARD: July 28, 7:30 p.m., Municipal Building.     PENNINGTON LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES: July 28, 7:30 p.m., Borough Hall.     HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP FIRE COMMISSIONERS: July 28, 7 p.m., Union Fire Company, Titusville.     HOPEWELL BOROUGH COUNCIL: Aug. 1, 7 p.m., Borough Hall.     PENNINGTON BOROUGH COUNCIL: Aug. 1, 7 p.m., Borough…

  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: Two top school district administrators get contract OKs

    By Ruth Luse, Managing Editor    At its July 18 regular meeting, the Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education renewed the contracts of Board Secretary and Business Administrator Robert Colavita and Assistant Superintendent Richard Lang.    Both men got one-year 3.5 percent salary increases. Last year, both accepted salary freezes, according to Lisa Wolff, board president.    ”Even…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Extreme weight surgery changes a life

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Extreme weight surgery changes a life

    Ellen Birch poses with bariatric surgeon Ragui Sadek several months after having an operation that took off more than 100 pounds

  • PRINCETON: Three more security cameras to be installed in the borough

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    Security cameras will be installed at three locations in the borough.    The devices will be watching the top deck of the Spring Street garage, Witherspoon Plaza and the Sewer Operating Committee.    ”The cameras in the plaza and on the roof of the garage are just for additional security. There are…

  • MONTGOMERY: School board allocates uses of new state aid

    By Marisa Iati, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — At Tuesday’s meeting, the Board of Education approved a resolution detailing how additional state aid will be used in the 2011-2012 school year.    According to the resolution, the school district was notified July 14 that it will receive $709,531 of additional state aid for the year. The district…

  • COLUMBUS: Northern Burlington 8U softball team wins state

    COLUMBUS: Northern Burlington 8U softball team wins state

    Pictured is the Northern Burlington 8-and-under all-star softball team that beat Hamilton, 11-1, to win the Southern New Jersey state championship. They will open play in the Mid-Atlantic Regional on Friday.

  • League members support school reuse committee

    Chrystal Schivell, Beverly Kestenis, Nancy Hall, Princeton To the editor: Following is an email that was sent to Judith Wilson and members of the Princeton Regional Board of Education:    We support the efforts of the Valley Road School-Adaptive Reuse Committee to save the older part of Valley Road School and convert it to a community…

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