• MONROE: Make-A-Wish donors meet $1 million challenge

    By David Kilby, Managing Editor    UNION — New Jersey native and multimillionaire Joe Plumeri issued a challenge that will have extraordinary benefits for children from the Garden State with life-threatening medical conditions.    And it worked!    With supporters raising $1 million for the state’s seriously ill children, Mr. Plumeri increased the largest gift in the history…

  • CRANBURY: Proposed snow removal law won’t be enforced

    By David Kilby, Managing Editor    CRANBURY — The Township Committee plans to introduce an ordinance that will ask residents to be courteous of their neighbors and clear their sidewalks when snow-covered and when feasible.    The ordinance to be introduced July 25 will ask residents to shovel their sidewalks 48 hours after daybreak from the time…

  • PRINCETON: Rally puts 12s baseball in Final Eight

    By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor    TRENTON — This particular group of Princeton Little League baseball players had been in its share of big games over the last few years.    So even though Princeton trailed West Windsor by two runs entering the bottom of the eighth on Wednesday night, there was still hope of a comeback.…

  • Peapack-Gladstone Bank – Helping Schools Help Kids

    Peapack-Gladstone Bank – Helping Schools Help Kids

    By Rosanne Schwab With the school year behind us and summer now in full swing, the United Way of Northern New Jersey, Somerset County has launched their 2011 Stuff the Bus school supply fund drive. Peapack-Gladstone Bank has proudly supported this program in the past by collecting hundreds of school supplies at its Somerset County…

  • CRANBURY: No alcohol allowed in park during fireworks

    By David Kilby, Managing Editor    CRANBURY — As many people plan to watch fireworks this upcoming week, members of the Cranbury Township Committee would like to remind residents alcohol is not allowed in township parks.    The township has an ordinance that prohibits alcohol in any township park at any time, but July 5, the date…

  • New assemblyman opposed to pension, benefits proposal

    Daniel R. Benson, 14th District    As a new Assemblyman, I was especially moved this week by the determination of our public employees in fighting the pending pension and benefits proposal making its way through the legislative process with lighting speed.    Supporters of the proposals have called it a “watershed moment” and “history in the making.”…

  • Peapack-Gladstone Bank – Helping Schools Help Kids

    Peapack-Gladstone Bank – Helping Schools Help Kids

    Employees from Peapack-Gladstone Bank’s Bernardsville Branch insert school supply donations in their Stuff the Bus collection bin.

  • NEW BRUNSWICK: Police to ‘ticket’ kids with helmets

    NEW BRUNSWICK: Police to ‘ticket’ kids with helmets

    Children from the Metuchen area take to the streets on their bikes June 21 to promote the use of helmets during the kickoff of a Think Positive Campaign sponsored by Safe Kids Middlesex County from the Robert Wood Johnson University Medical Center Level One Trauma unit.

  • NEW BRUNSWICK: Police to ‘ticket’ kids with helmets

    NEW BRUNSWICK: Police to ‘ticket’ kids with helmets

    By Marisa Iati, Staff Writer    NEW BRUNSWICK — Children will be rewarded for wearing helmets this summer as part of the sixth annual “Wheels Under Your Feet? Helmet on Your Head!” Think Positive Campaign.    It is sponsored by Safe Kids Middlesex County of the Level One Trauma Center at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in…

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