• Japanese Culture & Business Etiquette

    Japanese Culture & Business Etiquette

    By Diane Hasili A new offering, Japanese Culture and Business Etiquette, is being introduced by the YWCA Princeton and promises to be fun, tasty, and educational! Participants will learn about Japanese culture, practice Japanese customs and etiquette, practice survival Japanese phrases, and experience authentic Japanese cuisine. The program will be held Friday evenings, March 25th…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Used clothing to be collected

    Effort benefits Project Graduation    Unwanted clothing will be collected Saturday, April 9, to benefit the Hillsborough High School’s Project Graduation.    The drive will take place in the municipal building parking lot near the Board of Education entrance off Beekman Lane.    The group will collect gently used wearable and usable men’s, women’s and children’s clothing, including…

  • UPPER FREEHOLD: Community mourns equine vet ‘Doc’ Dey

    UPPER FREEHOLD: Community mourns equine vet ‘Doc’ Dey

    “Doc” Dey’s tractor is parked at the Peppler Funeral Home on South Main Street in Allentown before his casket was taken to the Allentown Presbyterian Church on High Street for Saturday’s funeral. (Photo courtesy of Peppler Funeral Home)

  • SENIOR CORNER: Week of March 10

       The Manville Senior Citizens meet at 12:30 p.m. the second Thursday of each month at the VFW located on Washington Avenue. The club is open to new members who are residents of Manville, age 60 or older, and age 55 if disabled.    Canned goods or non-perishable food items will continue to be collected before each…

  • Joan Ruddiman

    By: centraljersey.com I’ve waited a long time for this one. Seven years ago, Daniel Biddle and Murray Dubin – long associated with the Philadelphia Inquirer as reporters and Mr. Biddle as an editor – came to Allentown seeking local lore about a young black man who had been a student at the community’s Presbyterian Academy…

  • MANVILLE: Students receive honors for their patriotic essays

    MANVILLE: Students receive honors for their patriotic essays

    Winners of the VFW’s Patriot’s Pen essay competition included, from left, Andrew Cola´bella, Allison Charneski and Matthew Dowling with Christ the King School Principal Christine Benson. In back are VFW chairman Fred Gorbatuk and Commander Charles Goodyear. Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara

  • 50 years of Green Acres open space

    By: centraljersey.com New Jersey’s Green Acres Program celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. This highly successful program is the longest continuously running, state-supported open space program in the nation – a testament to the foresight of those who established it and to countless New Jersey voters who voted yes for open space preservation in the…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: School’s’Phantom of Opera’ opens this week

    Ambitious production of 100 props, 200 costumes By Andrew Corselli, Staff Reporter    When the “Phantom of the Opera” opens on Friday at Hillsborough High School, the theater program will be well prepared.    James Romick, a Broadway veteran of 21 years who has played all but one male role in “Phantom,” came to a practice in…

  • Linda Seida

    By: centraljersey.com WEST AMWELL – Should three local elementary school districts join with South Hunterdon Regional High School to create one K-12 district? That question has been floating among the districts for many years. The state, certainly, has been nudging schools around the state in that direction, hoping to cut costs. But whether the districts…

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