• Rec soccer team battles Bridgewater to a tie

    By: centraljersey.com After being down 2-0 during the first half, Manville Recreation’s middle school soccer team came back to end last Saturday’s game against the Bridgewater Titans in a 2-2 tie. Bridgewater scored its two goals early in the first half. Their first goal came on a dribble from the midfield line. It wasn’t until…

  • MANVILLE: Homecoming royalty tapped from larger court this year

    MANVILLE: Homecoming royalty tapped from larger court this year

    The expanded Homecoming court with (not in order) Cara Alpaugh, Emily Sellar, Alyssa Silcox, Christine Pohl, Claire Kondash, Jessica Lubas, Keegan Forke, Nick Kita, Charles Phuangthong, Richie Kloskowski, Brandon Togneri and Ernest Yakobchuk. Photos by Mary Ellen Zangara

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Clinics offering adult immunizations

       The Greater Somerset Public Health Partnership (GPHP), which consists of more than 13 local public health organizations serving the greater Somerset county area, will be providing the Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) vaccine to adults ages of 19 – 64 years of age at four locations throughout Somerset County, at no charge.    ”Adults often forget…

  • Thursday, Oct. 21

    By: centraljersey.com Parent workshop: 7-8:30 p.m., Crossroads North Middle School, Georges Road. Topic is a "Return to Logical Consequences." Child care provided. Contact: www.sbschools.org

  • Regional hospice program seeks volunteers

    By: centraljersey.com Samaritan Hospice, a not-for-profit regional program for hospice and palliative care, is seeking volunteers in Mercer County. In addition to visiting patients and caregivers at various locations throughout Mercer County, Samaritan provides a range of volunteer opportunities that include making phone calls to newly bereaved people, serving as ambassadors at community events or…

  • DISPATCHES: Long and winding road

    By Hank Kalet There are places I’ll remember all my life, though some have changed. Some forever, not for better; some have gone and some remain — The Beatles, In My Life    It is difficult to believe it was 20 years ago, almost to the day, that I started as a full-time reporter at what…

  • Global movement fights climate change

    By: centraljersey.com Bill McKibben, author of 1989’s "The End of Nature," the first book about global warming written for a general audience, says 350 is the world’s most important number. What’s the significance? Three hundred fifty parts per million is what many scientists and climate experts believe is the highest safe concentration for carbon dioxide…

  • Rich Fisher

    By: centraljersey.com It’s pretty easy to figure out who the field hockey team to beat is in the Mercer County Tournament. If you’re going by won-loss record, at least. Hopewell Valley enters today’s (Thursday’s) regular-season finale at Lawrence as the county’s only undefeated team at 12-0. But that’s something the Bulldogs don’t even want to…

  • Capitol

    By: centraljersey.com The following items are taken from reports issued by legislators and other items of political concern. Children’s illnesses A bill sponsored by Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle and Assemblyman Angel Fuentes to increase financial relief to families with multiple children suffering from catastrophic illnesses has been given the green light by the full Assembly…

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