• New Jersey Outdoor Expo seeks volunteers

    The first New Jersey Wild Outdoor Expo will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 25- 26 at the Assunpink Wildlife Management Area, Upper Freehold Township. Volunteers are needed to offer hands-on instruction (fishing, camping, kayaking, etc.), offer visitor and information services, and to help with logistics (set-up/breakdown, parking). The expo is a…

  • A hot topic, especially in the summer

    By: Michele Byers If New Jersey’s record-setting heat waves this summer had a soundtrack, it would be the sound of millions of humming air conditioners. If you’re like most people, your air conditioner is powered by electricity from a grid of hundreds of power plants spread over many states. Since electricity can’t be stored on…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Hindu-Muslim holidays in school calendar

    By Davy James, Staff Writer    For the second consecutive year, the South Brunswick School District is including Hindu and Muslim holidays as days off from school as part of the school calendar.    Muslim holidays Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan and is celebrated Sept. 10, Eid al-Adha, which marks the Feast of Sacrifice…

  • PRINCETON: Progress reported in storm cleanups, power restorations

    PRINCETON: Progress reported in storm cleanups, power restorations

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer     PRINCETON — Princeton University reported late Tuesday that power had been restored to most campus buildings affected by Monday night’s flash thunderstorms and Faculty Road between Washington Road and Harrison Street re-opened.    Overall,  according to PSE&G, 284 cusomers in the area had lost power after heavy thunderstorms and high…

  • Hopewell 8U baseball team second at Middle Atlantics

    By: centraljersey.com The Hopewell Valley 8U baseball team came home from Troy, N.Y., Aug. 10 as the Middle Atlantic Regional Tournament runner-up. The team went 5-2 at the tournament and ended up as the second best team out of five states. Its two losses were to the same team, Spring-Ford of Pennsylvania. In 2007, the…

  • Chesterfield chatter

    By: centraljersey.com ABC Nursery School & Kindergarten will be having Open Houses for their kindergarten, pre-kindergarten, and 3-year-old tots programs from now until Aug. 20. Call 609-298-0700. *** The next recycle pickup for Mansfield Township is Monday, Aug. 30. *** The next Mansfield Township Committee meeting will be Wednesday, Aug. 25, at 7:30 p.m. The…

  • LAWRENCE: Lawrenceville School grad competes in Cryan tourney

    By Justin Feil, The Packet Group    Emma Levy has made it a point to play in the James E. Cryan Memorial Tournament every summer that she can.    The Princeton Junction resident’s success in the tournament that remembers a Levy family friend, Jim Cryan, started when she was 12. She paired with her father, Len, to…

  • PRINCETON: Progress reported in storm cleanups, power restorations

    PRINCETON: Progress reported in storm cleanups, power restorations

    Traffic is backed up on Washington Road at Faculty Road as cleanup crews work. Traffic lights were out of service. Staff photo by Edith Klein

  • Praising a column on marriage equality

    Russell McTague of Lawrenceville     The Lawrence Ledger and Hank Kalet, author of the recent article entitled “Equal protection will rule” (Aug. 12), are to be praised and thanked for publishing and writing, respectively, regarding equality and justice for all.    I am a 73-ear old man in a 42-year committed relationship with another man, age…

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