• Keep up good work!

    Joann Held, Jim Davy, Hopewell Valley Green Team     We would like to thank the residents and businesses of Hopewell Valley who participated in the “paper shredding party” July 31 at the Pennington Farmers Market. In two hours we collected and shredded two and a half tons of personal papers and sensitive documents, making them…

  • MANVILLE: Firefighters’ lifesaving mission helps save a furry friend

    MANVILLE: Firefighters’ lifesaving mission helps save a furry friend

    The kitten stuck in a tree behind the Chester House Bar peers out at the crowd of onlookers, and Manville firefighters trying to get her down. Photos by Mary Ellen Zangara

  • HILLSBOROUGH: School rezoning plan approved

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    Though the Township Committee approved an ordinance giving incentive for a developer to purchase the Hillsborough Elementary School site, the top priority for the Board of Education is educating the students who still attend classes there, Interim Superintendent Scott Rocco said during Tuesday’s committee meeting.    ”This issue is uncharted territory…

  • HOPEWELL BOROUGH: Da’s Thai American Café finds new home

    By John Saccenti, The Packet Group    Da’s Thai American Café & Catering has found a new home.    The restaurant, which has called the Princeton YMCA/YWCA on Paul Robeson Place home since it opened in 2007, closed Wednesday and expects to open in a permanent, larger location in Hopewell Borough.    Da’s will open at 21 E.…

  • LAMBERTVILLE: Council to consider contractor registration

    By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    LAMBERTVILLE — Contractors who work in Lambertville must be registered either with the state or the city, a decision that will protect property owners, officials say.    That’s the thrust of a new ordinance under consideration by the City Council.    A public hearing on the proposal will be held Monday during…

  • LAMBERTVILLE: Assault suspect — Police seek residents’ help

    See: www.co.hunterdon.nj.us/prosecutor/pressrelease/July2010-TowpathAssault.pdf By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    LAMBERTVILLE — In law enforcement circles, it’s been known to go either way. Sometimes an artist’s sketch of a suspect is dead on, a perfect match to the face of a suspect who is being sought. Many times, it’s not.    ”They’re helpful,” Police Director Bruce Cocuzza said of…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: HHS bands march on Disney World streets

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    For Hillsborough High School’s marching band and jazz band, certain performances just make members of the ensemble smile — like performing at Disney World, which the students did in June, through the park’s Magic Music Days program.    ”Walking down Main Street in Disney is such an amazing feeling,” Rachel Godwin,…

  • PENNINGTON: Farmers Market features all sorts of things

    PENNINGTON: Farmers Market features all sorts of things

    This otherworldly 1½-pound tomato was grown in Titusville at Gravity Hill Organic Farm. It was picked in the fields on July 30, and sold the next day at the Pennington Farmers Market. Gravity Hill specializes in unusual-looking heirloom tomatoes, described by one market spokesman as “fragile, rare, and delicious.”

  • Watershed has Butterfly Festival Saturday

    Watershed has Butterfly Festival Saturday

    Monarch butterflies, like this one, will be just one of the many kinds of native butterflies on display in the Kate Gorrie Butterfly House at the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association’s Butterfly Festival, slated for Saturday, from 10 a.m.- 4 p.m., at the reserve in Hopewell Township.

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