• Make your own New Year’s resolution. It doesn’t have to be zero garbage, but how about 25 or 50 percent less garbage?

    By: centraljersey.com The holiday season is usually full of peace, love and joy. The POST-holiday season, however, is always full of trash cans overflowing with torn wrapping paper, cardboard boxes and plastic packaging. If this orgy of post-holiday garbage is one end of a spectrum, Rose Brown of Charlottesville, Virginia, is the other. She has…

  • MOUNT HOLLY: Castagna sentencing postponed

    By Amber Cox    MOUNT HOLLY – The sentencing hearing for the former Bordentown City police chief has been postponed until Feb. 4 because the attorneys were unable to get their sentencing statements to Judge Jeanne Covert in time.    Philip Castagna was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and contempt of a judicial order on…

  • BORDENTOWN CITY: Duplex fire leaves 5 homeless

    By Amber Cox    BORDENTOWN CITY — A fire destroyed a duplex on West Street leaving five residents homeless early Friday, Dec. 10.    The American Red Cross was notified and responded for the care of the families.    The fire victims were identified as Blanche, 70, Valerie, 53 and Jaymes Coleman, 24, and James Juniors, 53, and…

  • LAWRENCE: Crossing guard, 83, hit by car

    Tossed onto hood of Honda By Lea Kahn    An 83-year-old school crossing guard was hospitalized early Tuesday morning after a car on Lawrence Road hit him.    Anthony Sebasto landed on the hood of the car, struck his head on the windshield and then rolled off into the street, township police said. He came to rest…

  • EAST WINDSOR: Deforestation complaints voiced at turnpike forum

    By Doug Carman, The Packet Group    EAST WINDSOR — The walls of the National Conference Center at the Holiday Inn on Monmouth Street muted noise from the adjacent NJ Turnpike during a public reforestation presentation Monday night.    But Turnpike Authority supervising engineer John Keller heard plenty from local residents fearful of noise and frustrated with…

  • Gingerbread house-makers end 25-year tradition

    By: centraljersey.com The housing market may be down across the country, but there’s at least one place in Hopewell Valley where construction is still booming. Never mind that the walls and roofs are made of gingerbread, the window shutters are likely to be chocolate pieces or peppermint bars, and gumdrops form the shrubbery. For the…

  • Lea Kahn

    By: centraljersey.com Pam Mount attributes her interest in the environment and sustainability to the years she spent as a Girl Scout, growing up in Northampton, Mass., and later – during her high school years – in Princeton. Or maybe it was the three years that she and her husband, Gary Mount, spent on the one-mile-by…

  • MANVILLE: Party brightens special kids’ holidays

    MANVILLE: Party brightens special kids’ holidays

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    Special needs children and their families were invited to the Manville Hillsborough Elks Lodge for a fun filled holiday party on Sunday.    ”The party for the special children sponsored by the lodge has been in effect for 50 years. I have been doing the party organizing for six. Each…

  • Warehouses don’t belong on Meadowbrook Road

    By: centraljersey.com We are a community united to control the warehouses in Robbinsville. We have a designated area already set aside for warehouse development and it is not on Meadowbrook Road. That is why some Robbinsville residents are suing the township and Seven Plus One for this inappropriate, unsafe land use. We believe that the…

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