• Spice Up Your Summer With Classes At MCCC’s Culinary Center

    By Wendy Humphrey West Windsor, N.J. -There’s always something new to learn and taste at MCCC’s Culinary Center. This summer Chefs Bill Conrad, Wendy Jaeger, Benson Yu, Rita Bohlumbohm, and wine educator Bruce Smith will present hands-on courses featuring fresh ingredients, international cuisine and wines of the world. Presented through the MCCC Center for Continuing…

  • PRINCETON: Green art show open at high school gallery

    By Stephanie Vaccaro, Staff Writer    On Friday, April 29, the Green Show opened at Numina Gallery at Princeton High School. The show is focusing on all things green and is the first of its kind for the gallery.    The exhibit’s mix of recycled art and nature-inspired art includes an art project and plants from the…

  • PRINCETON: University panel addresses bin Laden’s death

    By Alice Su, Special to the Packet    On Tuesday afternoon, conservative intellectual Robert George moderated a panel of Middle East experts as they discussed the effects of Osama bin Laden’s death on America and the world.    Michael Reynolds, a Princeton professor of Near Eastern Studies, said bin Laden’s death brought attention to how America had…

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Ringoes man injured in mishap

    By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    A tractor-trailer overturned on Route 31 at the Pennington Circle early Friday afternoon, spilling its load of mulch onto the roadway, Hopewell Township police Chief George Meyer said.    The driver of the truck was hospitalized for treatment of head lacerations. There were no other injuries. No other vehicles were involved…

  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: State Supreme Court won’t review dismissed suit

    Teacher brought complaint against HVRSD after she was not chosen for promotion By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    The Supreme Court of New Jersey has decided not to review a lower court’s dismissal of a discrimination suit brought against the Hopewell Valley Regional School District.    Suzanne Marasco of the law firm Hill Wallack successfully defended Hopewell…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Lion’s Club Circus coming to town

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Lion’s Club Circus coming to town

    unknown Audience members watch the camels perform as a pony runs around the ring in the Zerbini Family Circus. The circus is coming to South Brunswick May 14-15 and is sponsored by the South Brunswick Lion’s Club.

  • PENNINGTON: New historic district gets nod

    By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    Central Pennington is now a historic district in which owners of structures built before 1945 will have to obtain a certificate of appropriateness from a Historic Preservation Commission before being able to demolish a building or make certain changes to it that would be visible from the street.    Those changes…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Fumes sicken eight battling mobile home blaze

    By Mary Brienza, Staff Writer    Six firefighters and two fire marshals felt sick and were taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick after responding to a mobile home fire in Monmouth Junction, according to police.    Firefighters from Kendall Park and Kingston responded to a fire at 11 Maine St. in the Monmouth…

  • NEW HOPE: Local inkeeper fills Hirschfield vacancy

    By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    NEW HOPE — Richard Hirschfield has tendered his resignation to the Borough Council, and local innkeeper Carl Glassman has been chosen to replace him.    Mr. Glassman will serve the remainder of Mr. Hirschfield’s term, which expires Jan. 2, 2012. Mr. Glassman, a Democrat, also filed to run for a full…

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