• Want to use ballpark’s box?

    By: centraljersey.com Requests are being accepted until Feb. 25 to use the 30-seat community box at the TD Bank Ballpark, home of the minor league Somerset Patriots baseball team. Applicants should be nonprofits or community organizations located in Somerset County or have a facility based in the county that serves the citizens of Somerset. Applicants…

  • Ken Weingartner

    By: centraljersey.com Gordon Wolf did not need to look far to find motivation for the rest of the wrestling season. The Lawrence High freshman found it in classmate Michael Jennings. Wolf finished second at 112 pounds in last weekend’s Mercer County Tournament at Robbinsville High School. Jennings, meanwhile, won the title at 130. Wolf, who…

  • Submitted photo

    By: centraljersey.com The Vikings 8th grade girls’ teams won the Sid Lee Viking Classic tournament, winning games over Edison and West Windsor en route to a championship win over North Brunswick. Briana Davis’s 7 first half points led a balanced team scoring effort in the win over Edison. Janae Mayfield, 15, Erin Carroll, 12, Mya…

  • Faith Bahadurian

    By: centraljersey.com The rabbit, or hare, is the fourth of the 12 signs of the Chinese Zodiac calendar, so the Year of the Rabbit, which starts on Feb. 3, was last celebrated in 1999. A rabbit year is associated with home and family, peace and diplomacy, so cross your fingers. Those born during a Rabbit…

  • DARE sets graduations

    By: centraljersey.com Since November 1990 the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program has been part of all fifth-grade classes, both public and parochial, in Manville. The final phase of the program is a culmination of the students’ work, which takes place in a school assembly. Graduations are to be held at the Roosevelt School at 1…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Recognize suffering of Coptic Christians

    By Eriny Mobarak, South Brunswick To the editor: While this might not be on the hearts of most people in the South Brunswick/Princeton area, on New Year’s Eve over 20 Coptic Christians were killed when a car bomb exploded outside of their church in Egypt. Nearly 100 others were injured. The horror isn’t only that…

  • Recycling center to hold drop-off

    By: centraljersey.com BRIDGEWATER – The Somerset County Recycling Center at 40 Polhemus Lane will hold its next first-Saturday-of-the-month drop-off event from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 5. Residents can drop off textiles, tires, scrap metal, antifreeze and usual curbside materials, including chipboard items and plastic bottles and containers, marked 1 through 7. Chipboard includes…

  • Thurs., Feb. 3

    By: centraljersey.com Engaged Retirement: Encore Careers: Looking to combine passion, purpose and a paycheck in a second career or retirement job? Carol King, director of the Engaged Retirement and Encore Careers at the Princeton Senior Resource Center will teach you how to use your skills, knowledge and experience in an encore career in growth industries…

  • Mary Ellen Zangara

    By: centraljersey.com Manville Dental Group will once again participate in its annual Give Kids A Smile program Friday to kick off National Dental Month. The nationwide event is observed the first Friday of February and focuses on providing oral health education to all children despite their economic status. Give Kids A Smile was designed to…

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