• NEW HOPE: Woodworker’s business is recognized

    NEW HOPE: Woodworker’s business is recognized

    Shown at Friday’s dedication of an official Pennsylvania Historical Marker commemorating George Nakashima, woodworker, are (from left): Jonathan Yarnall, Mira Nakashima-Yarnall, Kevin Nakashima, Scott Doyle of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and Nicholas Antonini, legislative staff member for Pennsylvania state Rep. Bernie O’Neill.

  • Teachers, students who tested websites get honored … and ‘no homework’ awards

    Summer helpers thanked By: Mary Ellen Zangara – Special Writer MANVILLE – The Board of Education saluted the teachers and students who helped launch a program testing new technology in the classrooms at its meeting Tuesday. The recognition for participants in the first Teachers-Student Academy 21st Century workshop followed the academy’s first phase, held in…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Midship-’woman’ takes Naval academy in stride

    HILLSBOROUGH: Midship-’woman’ takes Naval academy in stride

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    Margaret Gilroy’s typical day now begins at 5:30 a.m., with running, strength training exercises, interval training and other exercises.    By breakfast, she’ll have already been through formation drills, and quizzed on policies and customs. By lunch, she’s been through fire fighting drills, drills on making her bed, and other courses…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Next referendum for school district: December 2012?

    Lease proposed with Millstone By Joanne Degnan, Staff Writer    ROBBINSVILLE — The school district will likely wait until at least 2012 to ask voters again for funding for a new school. In the meantime it is considering asking for help from the Millstone district.    Faced with growing class sizes and the voters’ recent rejection of…

  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: School board president’s appointment is denounced

    By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education President Jim Wulf was strongly criticized by board members Roy Dollard and Lisa Wolff Monday night about his appointment of board member Stephen Keen to the group’s Personnel Committee.    That committee participates in negotiations with the Hopewell Valley Education Association (teachers’ union). Mr. Keen,…

  • POLICE BLOTTER: Princeton, W. Windsor, Plainsboro

    Princeton Borough     Geovanni Lopez, 50, of Trenton, was charged with driving while intoxicated after he was stopped on Witherspoon Street at 1:03 a.m. Wednesday for driving an unregistered vehicle. He was released on his own recognizance.    Michael Femia, 43, of Monroe, was arrested in front of 180 Nassau Street at 2:33 p.m. Tuesday for an…

  • PRINCETON: ‘Just a thunderstorm" but it left a mess

    PRINCETON: ‘Just a thunderstorm" but it left a mess

    Officials survey damage to Princeton University graduate housing in the Butler Tract. Staff photo by Victoria Hurley-Schubert

  • DEATH NOTICES

    Mildred Drysten By: centraljersey.com Mildred Drysten, 91, a former resident of the Griggstown section of Franklin Township, died July 13 in Denver, Colo. A funeral service were held Aug. 14 at the Griggstown Reform Church, 1065 Canal Road, Princeton. Interment of her ashes will take place following the service at the Griggstown Cemetery. Arrangements were…

  • Palmer Square Kiosk a busy beacon Kiosk

    Business By: John Saccenti – The Packet Group LAWRENCE – Preeya Dsouza knows most of her customers by name, a happy circumstance of working at the same downtown Princeton business for eight years. "It increases efficiency. You can multi-task better. Otherwise, you are lost," said Ms. Dsouza, who manages The Kiosk in Palmer Square. Since…

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