• LAWRENCE:School board members resigns

    BY Lea Kahn    The Lawrence Township Board of Education is seeking a replacement for board member Robert Brackett, who resigned from the school board this week.    Citing work commitments, Mr. Brackett resigned from the school board in a letter to school board President Laura Waters. His three-year term expires in April 2012.    The school board…

  • Shocking picture — take action April 9

    Shocking picture — take action April 9

    Leslie Brecknell, Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association The Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association would like to thank Montgomery resident Xiping Long and The Princeton Packet for Tuesday’s (March 15) Town Forum photo, which graphically illustrated the impact “people pollution” is having on just one of our local waterways — Lake Carnegie.    Throughout our region “people pollution” —…

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: School board forum slated for March 29

    By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    School board elections are held every year, but there are not always races for whatever seats on the board are open.    The race is on in Hopewell Valley this year, however.    There are five candidates, including two incumbents, for three of Hopewell Township’s seven seats on the nine-member Hopewell Valley…

  • Synchronoss Technologies Academic & Recruiting Training Program Targets Local Talent

    Shannon Cortina Synchronoss Launches the START Program Synchronoss Technologies Academic & Recruiting Training Program Targets Local Talent BRIDGEWATER, N.J.—Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNCR), the leading provider of activation and enablement of cloud services, today announced the rollout of its Synchronoss Technologies Academic & Recruiting Training (START) program. Through this program Synchronoss is looking to recruit…

  • Salvation Army helped 73,000

    Major Donald E. Berry, New Jersey state commander    Our holiday fundraising season officially ended Jan. 31.    Though we didn’t quite reach our goal, I’m happy to report that about 73,000 individuals were blessed with help by the Salvation Army in New Jersey last Christmas.    And how were we able to nearly fill our kettles and…

  • PRINCETON: 1,000 area students attend science expo at univerity

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    One thousand area middle school students took part in a science expo at Princeton University yesterday.    ”Lots of wonderful exciting demonstrations of scientific principals,” said Steve Carson, a seventh grade teacher at John Witherspoon Middle School in Princeton. “Everything here they’ll touch upon in middle school and get a preview…

  • Every one is at risk

    William H. Reuter Pennington     We came to Pennington on Feb. 14, 1959 and experienced our first Memorial Day Parade that spring. At that time there was a lovely, large house on the southwest corner of Delaware and Main. By the time we moved into our new house, at the end of that year, it…

  • LAWRENCE:Exhibit illustrates ‘useful’ can be ‘artistic’

    By LEa Kahn    ”Useful” and “art” are not mutually exclusive — and this month’s exhibit at the Lawrenceville Main Street Artists Network makes it abundantly clear.    Plates, bowls and drink coasters are among the objects on display at the Lawrenceville Main Street Artists’ Network Gallery at 2683 Main St. in the village of Lawrenceville.    ”Useful…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Man with gun at gas station charged

       A man was arrested Friday evening for having a gun after leaving the Shell gas station on Route 1, according to police.    Police said they were called to the gas station on the corner of Route 1 and Finnegans Lane at 9:15 p.m. Friday after a witness reported he saw a man with a gun.…

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