• Parties, trail and parade mean Halloween fun at NEPS

    By: centraljersey.com PLUMSTED – Keeping up with its annual tradition, the New Egypt Primary School celebrated Halloween on Friday with classroom parties, a Halloween trail and parade. Every year, thanks to Caitlyn Tilley, the high school National Honor Society facilitator; school Principal Toni Ferry and the members of the high school Honor Society, the nature…

  • Barnegat Bay in trouble

    By: centraljersey.com The Jersey Shore wouldn’t be the Jersey Shore without Barnegat Bay. But with problems plaguing this environmental wonder and economic engine, the state Legislature is taking action toward addressing threats to the bay. For years, Barnegat Bay’s ecosystems have been declining. The culprits aren’t hard to identify. Overdevelopment in the Barnegat Bay watershed…

  • Hazardous Waste Drop-Off Day set

    By: centraljersey.com EDISON – The Middlesex County Division of Solid Waste Management will have its Household Hazardous Waste Drop-Off Day on Sunday, Nov. 21, at the Middlesex County College at 2600 Woodbridge Ave. Use the Mill Road entrance. The event will take place in parking lot 2. The hours are 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.…

  • Photos by Dave Burd

    By: centraljersey.com – Most Artistic, 507 (iPod Touch); – Most Patriotic, 442 (Night Watchman); – Best Home Made Costume, 501 (Necromancer); – Best Use of Recycled Materials, 513 (Mother Nature and the Recycling Fairies); – Comic, First Place, 224 (Baby Jaws); – Comic, Second Place, 226 (Vegan Vampire); – Comic, Third Place, 217 (Clown); –…

  • Solar installation regulations due for council decision

    By Amber Cox    SPRINGFIELD – The Township Council was to meet today, Thursday, to discuss an amendment to the Land Use ordinance to cover solar and wind energy installations.    The 153-acre vacant Eastern Organic Resources, known locally as the Woodhue property, on Saylor’s Pond Road is one of the concerns because the owner is trying…

  • Wed., Nov. 3

    By: centraljersey.com Lidia’s back! Lidia Bastianich, chef extraordinaire and popular TV personality, returns to Princeton Barnes & Noble at MarketFair at 7 p.m. to help promote her latest, a children’s picture cookbook titled "Nonna Tell Me a Story: Lidia’s Christmas Kitchen." Kirkus Review: "(Lidia’s) warmhearted autobiographical story begins in a contemporary Christmas setting with the…

  • Historic District eyes Halloween fun

    By: centraljersey.com On Oct. 31, beginning at sunset, Hightstown’s Historic District will come alive to welcome visitors. The First United Methodist Church will host a haunted yard, where stations are situated throughout a maze of frights and fun. Halloween revelers can visit the Holy Ghost through seven time warps. Along Stockton Street, residents are busy…

  • NGA holds Ingathering

    By: centraljersey.com The New Hope-Solebury Branch of NGA (formerly Needlework Guild of America) met at the home of Betty Chardon to plan for the annual Ingathering today (Nov. 4), which will be held at the Edgar H. Denson American Legion, New Street, New Hope. An open house will take place at noon. The articles will…

  • Dillon basketball registration is online

    By: centraljersey.com Registration is underway for the Princeton Recreation Dillon Youth Basketball League. The Dillon League is for kids in grades 4-9. Games are played on Saturday mornings at Princeton University’s Dillon Gym. Each team practice one night per week. The registration process is being handled online through our online registration system, register.communitypass.net/princeton. If you…

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