• Somerset County to Honor 17 Outstanding Women

    By Somerset County Board of Freeholders FRANKLIN – Seventeen Outstanding Women in Somerset County will be honored by the county Commission on the Status of Women at the group’s 19th annual awards dinner Friday, March 25, at The Imperia on Easton Avenue. “On a daily basis, thousands of women who live and work in Somerset County…

  • Special places worth saving

    William Klimowicz, of South Brunswick     Longtime South Brunswick residents can recall the Old Davidson Mill on Riva Avenue in South Brunswick.    It was a tragedy for residents of present-day New Jersey when it burned down in the early 1950s — a tragedy because we are not able to visit a remarkable relic from our…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Language programs outlined

    By Mary Brienza, Staff Writer    Tom Decker, who supervises the world language program, presented a Power Point presentation on the English language learners and world language program at the March 14 Board of Education meeting.    Mr. Decker said the school teaches students — whose first language is not English — in groups and individually in…

  • Public Works premiere department in state

    Deborah Johnson, of South Brunswick     Though I was not able to attend, I was able to watch the March 8, 2011, budget meeting.    The department being discussed was Public Works. The Public Works Department shared a handout with the council that apparently they did not have much time to review.    I requested a copy…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Food pantry halfwa to donations goal

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Food pantry halfwa to donations goal

    By Mary Brienza, Staff Writer    Two weeks into the Feinstein Foundation Challenge, the township is already almost halfway to its goal of $50,000, said Director of Social Services LouAnne Wolf on Monday.    ”I am speechless and so very happy to not only work in our wonderful township, but to live here as well amongst so…

  • PRINCETON: Littlebrook School garden is a source for lessons

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    In addition to the luck of the Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, it’s also lucky to plant your peas on March 17.    Kindergartners at Littlebrook School learned this lesson, adding to many others, yesterday as part of the school’s garden program.    ”We can grow most vegetables and fruits,” said kindergartner…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Nature takes front seat in teacher’s class

    By Allison Musante, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — In a time when gadgets, video games and virtual reality are becoming the staples of playtime, one elementary school teacher is reminding her students of a forgotten daytime activity.    ”Look out your window, look what’s around you,” says first grade Maurice Hawk School teacher Lisa Rizziello, who…

  • LAWRENCE: Neighbors protest trail route

    By Lea Kahn    Unhappy at the prospect of strangers passing through their neighborhood on the planned Lawrence Hopewell Trail, more than a dozen residents of the Rosedale Acres development expressed their displeasure before Township Council on Tuesday night.    The Lawrence Hopewell Trail, which has been in the works since 2002, is a 20-mile bicycle and…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Council trying to trim more from $37.4 million budget

    By Allison Musante, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — The Township Council is seeking to “squeeze blood out of a turnip,” as Vice President Diane Ciccone said, to further trim spending in the $37.4 million budget, which proposes raising the tax levy by 5.3 percent.    As it stands, the taxpayers would foot about $22 million, up…

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