• LAMBERTVILLE: School hires new principal

    Linda Seida, Staff Writer    LAMBERTVILLE — The Lambertville Public School Board of Education has hired a new principal.    Geoff Hewitt will replace Gail Tress, who retired Friday after more than 40 years with the district, beginning as a student teacher in 1969.    The board agreed unanimously last week to offer Mr. Hewitt a one-year contract…

  • PRINCETON: Residents file lawsuit over Ridge U parking lot

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    A group of 11 Linden Lane residents in Princeton Borough and Princeton Township have filed suit against Rider University and the Regional Planning Board of Princeton stemming from the RPBP’s approval of increased parking at Rider’s Westminster Choir College campus in Princeton.    The 13-page suit alleges Rider/Westminster Choir College representatives…

  • MANVILLE: District won’t offer after-school supervision at Weston next year

    By Brian Roach, Staff Writer    A plan to accommodate Weston Elementary School students not picked up in a timely manner has been overused and will not be offered again next year, Superintendent Johanna Ruberto said.    ”We recognize the fact that, at times, there are good reasons for parents to be delayed in the picking up…

  • Nomad Pizza ‘good steward’

    Tom Grim and Stalin Bedon of Nomad    Wood-fired brick oven baking has been around for thousands of years.    Brick oven baking was part of every day life in ancient Pompeii. In Italy, where our magnificent oven was constructed, there are over one million brick ovens. There, firewood is very expensive. By economic necessity, the ovens…

  • PRINCETON: Borough Council approves $24.7 million budget

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    The Princeton Borough Council adopted a $24,716,959 municipal operating budget for 2010 at its meeting Tuesday night, formalizing a budget with the same spending levels as in 2009 and no increase in municipal taxes from the year earlier.    The 2010 budget is $50,000 above 2009’s due to a state-mandated payment…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Police blotter

       Michael Aulson, 49, of Bridgewater, was charged with driving while intoxicated, refusal to submit a breath sample, consumption of alcohol in a motor vehicle, possessing an open container of alcohol in a vehicle and careless driving after he was pulled over on Capricorn Drive at 1:19 p.m. May 16.    Mr. Aulson was processed and released…

  • PRINCETON: Boro’s 1996 consolidation foes vow open-minded study in 2010

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    Both of Princeton Borough’s elected representatives on the Joint Consolidation Study Commission — Mayor Mildred Trotman and Councilman David Goldfarb — voted against consolidation in the last referendum on the subject in 1996, but said they would keep an open mind as they look into joining the borough and Princeton…

  • Senior corner for June 24

    Chapter A Hillsborough Senior Citizens Chapter A meets the first Thursday of each month at 12:30 p.m. in the municipal building. We are open to new members. At our last meeting, we welcomed eight new members, six of whom are guys and our president cheered since most of our members are ladies. Doors open at…

  • PENNINGTON: Man faces drug, burglary charges

    John Tredrea, Staff Writer    A 24-year-old Pennington man has been charged with possession of heroin, burglary, theft and other offenses by police, who responded to his Sked Street home Friday afternoon when a family member called to say the 24-year old had overdosed on heroin, Pennington Sgt. Steve Friedman said.    Stephen Bratsko is being held…

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