• MANVILLE: Christ the King Vacation Bible School goes full day this year

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer     The Christ the King Vacation Bible School “Panda Mania” was held this past week at the church. The Vacation Bible School sponsored by the church has given children a fun religious experience for many years.     “This is our first year that we went to a full day…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Just give in to summer swelter

       How hot it is it? The question is famous as a vaudevillian setup for the old joke in which you can fill in the punch line as you wish.    With a rimshot of ba-doom-bah.    Whatever humor there has been in the triple-digit, energy-sapping weather of the past week has been worn away. We’re ready to…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

     Upper Freehold An unidentified man broke into a home located on the 600 block of Route 524 around noon on July 20, state police said.    ”He broke in, was seen by the occupant and fled without stealing anything,” state police Sgt. Stephen Jones said.    There are no suspects and state police are investigating. Robbinsville    Thomas…

  • HEALTH MATTERS: Locking the medicine cabinet: A prescription against teen drug abuse

    HEALTH MATTERS: Locking the medicine cabinet: A prescription against teen drug abuse

    By Jonathan Krejci, Princeton HealthCare System    Most parents of teenage children know they need to keep an eye on their liquor cabinets, but increasingly, they need to keep an eye on their medicine cabinets, too.    While prescription drug abuse is a mounting problem among all age groups, teens and young adults are by far the…

  • Debates highlight power of the few

    Jason Blum, Monmouth Junction Will it ever end?    As I write this I can think of four debates that seem intractable and all four deny the many for the very few.    The first concerns West Windsor’s plans to overhaul, for the public good, the Princeton Junction train station, into a town center concept that could…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Pilot’s condition improves

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Pilot’s condition improves

    Helicopter passenger, freelance photographer Julia Armstrong-Robertson, in a photo from her Delaware business web´site, remains in critical condition at Robert Wood Johnson Univer´sity Hospital in New Brunswick following the crash behind the In´dian Fields Elementary School in Dayton last week.

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Senior Corner column for week of July 28

    CHAPTER A    Chapter A meets the first Thursday of the month in the municipal complex. We are open to new members.    Doors open at 11:30 a.m., allowing you time to sign up for the activities we offer. The meeting begins at 12:30 p.m. and concludes with coffee and doughnuts.    Dick Meier is our president; call…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: 8-and-under Gold boys win district title

       The Hillsborough eight-and-under Gold tournament team gained the right to play in state-level competition by defeating the Bridgewater Americans to gain the title of Cal Ripken District 10 champions on July 14.    The Hillsborough team battled back, after being outscored, 12-5, in the 5th inning to tie, 12-12, in the bottom of the 6th to…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: New teen center to open

    By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ROBBINSVILLE — After running the township’s before and after-school program for elementary schoolchildren for 13 years, Marci Rubin is taking on a new business venture focused on an even more challenging clientele: teenagers.    TEENedge, a new teen center for ages 13 to 17, will give kids who are old enough…

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