• Police blotter

    By: centraljersey.com West Amwell Township police reported: – On Aug. 9 at 11:17 p.m., police investigated a one-vehicle crash with a deer on Brunswick Pike (Route 518) near Mountainview Road. Meghan Callahan, 40, of Robbinsville, was driving east when her car stuck the deer. No injuries were reported. The sustained moderate front-end damage and was…

  • Over-ruled board makes tower pick

    Tower By: Eileen Oldfield – Staff Writer Under orders from a judge, the zoning board chose a 90-foot flagless-flagpole design for a T-Mobile cell tower to be built on Kennedy Boulevard, despite the members finding none of the three options available to be particularly attractive. "If you say no to all of them, then they…

  • Religious notes

    By: centraljersey.com Old School Baptist – Special worship services will be held at the historic Old School Baptist Meetinghouse , West Broad Street, Hopewell, beginning at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 27. Observing centuries of Biblical tradition in the community, the services will consist primarily of a cappella singing and extemporaneous prayer and preaching. A special…

  • PU scientists may have found world’s oldest fossils

    By: centraljersey.com In findings that push back the clock on the scientific world’s thinking about when animal life appeared on Earth, Princeton University scientists may have discovered the oldest fossils of animal bodies, suggesting that primitive sponge-like creatures were living in ocean reefs about 650 million years ago. The shelly fossils, found beneath a 635…

  • MANVILLE: Anglers’ club thanked for 20 years of help

    MANVILLE: Anglers’ club thanked for 20 years of help

    By: centraljersey.com The Somerset County Park Commissioners unanimously passed a resolution recently expressing their appreciation of the efforts of Rogue Bass Anglers Club of Manville, for more that 20 years of support of the Therapeutic Recreation Department initiatives. Rogue Bass has sponsored the Somerset County Park Commission Youth Fishing Derby to benefit the Therapeutic Recreation…

  • In the kitchen

    No ‘End of the Line’ on flavor By: Pat Tanner – Special Writer Recently I reported on the documentary "The End of the Line," shown at the Princeton Public Library, about the dwindling stock of ocean fish worldwide, and on the dinner that followed at Mediterra restaurant in Princeton, which featured sustainable seafood. Mediterra’s executive…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Arts Center plans a fall grand opening

       WEST WINDSOR—Nine years in the making, the West Windsor Arts Center is slated to kick off with a grand opening in the fall.    Back in 2001, 11 people gathered in the great room of the Princeton Junction firehouse with the idea of providing arts to the community. This autumn, their vision will become a reality…

  • Library happenings

    By: centraljersey.com HILLSBOROUGH: – Follow this column concerning special events being planned at Hillsborough Public Library, located in the municipal complex, South Branch Road and Beekman Lane, 369-2200. Library hours are 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday to Thursday, and 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday; 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays. Registration is required…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Girls cap World Series trip with shutout victory

    By Justin Feil, The Packet Group    The Robbinsville 12-year-old all-star softball team closed its Little League World Series the way it had so many other games this summer.    It won.    The Robbinsville girls capped an emotional trip to Portland, Ore., where they played their final Little League game, a 4-0 win over Southwest regional champion…

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