• Performers of the Week

    Performers of the Week

    The New Year has struck and here ate some of our local athletes who have christened the new year with sparkling performances. Lloyd Daniels scored 20 points helping Colts Neck High School’s boys’ basketball team edge Rumson-Fair Haven in double overtime, 60-57, to win the Bulldawg Classic held at RFH. Daniels’ effort helped the Cougars’…

  • Our Archives

    You have found the archives of Newspaper Media Group – Manalapan office. This is a repository containing articles, images and stories published in our local newspapers. They are here for your perusing, research and knowledge. Our current articles, images, videos and more can be found at www.centraljersey.com. Head on over there for your local news, local…

  • HOPEWELL TWP.: Stop results in marijuana charge 

    At midnight Dec. 21 Hopewell Township Police Officer George Peterson stopped a 2010 Volkswagen on Pennington-Lawrencville Road for having tinted front windows. While speaking with the driver, who was identified as Alexander S. Frazier, 24, of Pennington-Harbourton Road, Pennington, a small amount of marijuana was allegedly located on him. Mr. Frazier was placed under arrest…

  • THE TOP STORIES OF 2015: Fight continues over battlefield

    THE TOP STORIES OF 2015: Fight continues over battlefield

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer The Battle of Princeton was waged 238 years ago, but the fight to save the ground where the conflict happened raged on in 2015. State lawmakers, citizen activists and a nonprofit that preserves battlefields helped lead the charge to prevent a section of the battlefield from being turned into…

  • PRINCETON: Top 10 of 2015

    PRINCETON: Top 10 of 2015

    By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor The 2015 calendar year was filled with athletic success from teams and individuals in the Packet area. As is the case every year, there was individual success as well as team success for the athletes and teams in the area. Here, in reverse order, is a look at the top…

  • Princeton University theater director dies in accident at his home in Brooklyn

    Princeton University theater director dies in accident at his home in Brooklyn

    The theater director at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts died Monday in an accident at his home in Brooklyn, N.Y., the Lewis Center said on its website. A memorial for Timothy K. Vasen, 51, is scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 3, in the James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street…

  • PRINCETON: Platform tennis celebrating faithful duo

    PRINCETON: Platform tennis celebrating faithful duo

    The Platform Tennis in Princeton began 40 years ago with two courts. As the demand grew the program added two more courts. In the early days there were Men’s, Women’s and Mixed Doubles Leagues. Now Platform Tennis is on the move again with the Men’s Leagues, A and B Divisions and the Women’s Round Robin…

  • THE TOP STORIES OF 2015: Nobel winner John Nash and wife die in turnpike car crash

    THE TOP STORIES OF 2015: Nobel winner John Nash and wife die in turnpike car crash

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer In 2015, the Princeton University community mourned the deaths of Nobel Prize winning mathematician John F. Nash Jr. and his wife, Alicia, who were killed May 23 in a car crash on the New Jersey Turnpike on their way home from Newark Liberty International Airport. The couple had been…

  • DATEBOOK

     Solomon Schechter Day School, 22 School Road East, Marlboro, will host a Pop-Up Garage Sale on Jan. 10 from 8 a.m. to noon (no early birds). Estate items, small furniture, children’s clothes, toys, bicycles, adult clothes, outerwear, shoes, housewares, collectibles, jewelry, art, and more. Limited number of tables available at $18 each (bring your…

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