• The 7-pound dog with an 8-pound heart

    By: centraljersey.com Two weeks ago, New Hope and Lambertville lost one if its long term icons. "Little Girl," a white Toy Poodle belonging to Jim Martin of New Hope, died at the age of 13. Jim and Little Girl have logged more pedestrian miles in New Hope over the past decade than the meter maid.…

  • A World of Deception, Thrill, and Hope

    By Margaret Mattes, Princeton High School I have participated in the United Nations Security Council and the 2005 Emergency Presidential Task Force and the Ukrainian Cabinet. I have lived through the Iran-Contra Affair and the 1789 Estates-General meeting and the Constitutional Convention. I have resolved the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and human trafficking and instability in Southeast…

  • Student Athlete Profile: Michael Irving

    By Anna Grosshans, PHS Correspondent Michael Irving, a senior at Princeton High School, had been waiting for the summer after his junior year since he was thirteen years old; it’s the season when most college coaches recruit high school lacrosse players for their teams.  He had the talent to play for a Division I team,…

  • MCCC Celebrates King’s Commitment to Service

    MCCC Celebrates King’s Commitment to Service

    By Saveria Symons West Windsor, NJ: The rich legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was celebrated at Mercer County Community College’s James Kerney Campus in Trenton on King’s 82nd birthday, observed this year on Jan. 17.   “Learning is Serving & Serving is Learning” was the theme as members of the Trenton community, students, faculty…

  • Don’t use hate crime to generate more hate

    Nadja Delgado, Hillsborough    In covering the tragic Tucson shooting, the media has taken an irresponsible role in associating Sarah Palin with the fatal event.    The central focus should be on the families that were affected and the recovery that they must now endure.    It’s a shame that politics are being tied into an extremely unfortunate…

  • When the old red-tailed hawk is returned to the wild, let’s be thankful that preserved open spaces provide something wild to return to.

    By: centraljersey.com Many of New Jersey’s senior citizens migrate south in the winter. In contrast to the "snow birds," one venerable red-tailed hawk from New Jersey was recently found to be the oldest living of its species in the world! She’s a happy reminder that many raptors are experiencing a comeback in this state we’re…

  • PRINCETON: Robert Burns: U.S. 1 Poets to celebrate Scotland’s bard

    PRINCETON: Robert Burns: U.S. 1 Poets to celebrate Scotland’s bard

    ‘The Best Laid Schemes’ (2009, Princeton University Press), a new selection of the poetry and prose of Robert Burns by biographer Robert Crawford and text expert Christopher MacLachlan, is ‘a welcome reintroduction to a poet long admired in America,’ indispensable ‘for its line-by-line gloss of Scots words.’

  • COMMUNITY CALENDAR: Week of Jan. 20

    Drug awareness presentation    Thursday, Jan. 20 — Jacqueline Duca, student assistance counselor, and Officer Brant Uricks, school resource officer, will host a parent program on drug awareness at 6:30 p.m. at New Egypt High School, 117 Evergreen Road.    Learn more about:    • social host law;    • underage drinking;    • underage drinking and driving;    • alcohol and other drug effects…

  • BORDENTOWN CITY:Town mourns its fallen soldier

    By Amber Cox    BORDENTOWN CITY – Flags around the city are being flown at half-staff in honor of a 23-year-old former resident killed in Afghanistan.    Army Pfc. Benjamin Moore, 2006 graduate of Bordentown Regional High School and former EMT and lieutenant at Hope Hose Humane Fire Company, was killed in Ghanzi Province on Jan. 12,…

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