• Local Piano Prodigy Unites International Young Virtuosos for Chilean and Haitian Relief Efforts
  • CRANBURY: Latest museum exhibition focuses on society’s own

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    CRANBURY — While Cranbury Museum’s exhibits are typically centered around a time period, memorabilia or event, its latest addition is framed around the people who make it all possible.    This month’s exhibit will pay homage members of the Cranbury Historical and Preservation Society, the organization that funds and assists in…

  • MCCC History Faculty Member Padhraig Higgins to Speak about New Book at UPenn March 15

    MCCC History Faculty Member Padhraig Higgins to Speak about New Book at UPenn March 15

    By Saveria Symons West Windsor, N.J. — Growing up Catholic in Dublin and London during the 1970s and 1980s, Mercer County Community College Assistant Professor Padhraig Higgins, of Philadelphia, was well aware of the bombings, hunger strikes and armed militants in Northern Ireland as a result of Protestant vs. Catholic sectarian strife. He vividly recalls…

  • MONROE: Township moves to address water complaints

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    MONROE — The township will spend $8 million to build two water filtration plants in an effort to address complaints about water quality in the Renaissance at Cranbury Crossings development.    Residents there have been complaining about green water and rust-colored stains in their kitchens and bathrooms, a problem township officials…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Zio’s opens in Triangle Center

    HILLSBOROUGH: Zio’s opens in Triangle Center

    Above, Zio’s owners Nestor Gonzalez and Miguel Bravo cut the ribbon held by Mayor Frank DelCore at the March 6 grand opening.

  • WEST AMWELL: State aid cuts could affect aides, textbooks

    A budget meeting will be held March 19 at 7 p.m. at the school By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    WEST AMWELL — West Amwell Elementary School may have to let go two teaching aides to make up for a possible 15 percent cut to state aid in the 2010-11 budget, Superintendent Todd Fay said.    ”It’s…

  • Cornerstone Music Studios to begin Musikgarten Spring Session

    By Holly Deitz  Cornerstone Music Studios at Millstone will begin its Spring Session of Musikgarten, group music and movement classes for children ages birth to age five. Classes will begin the week April 5, 2010 and will run for 10 classes ending the week of June 12, 2010.  Our popular "Daddy & Me: Music For Toddlers"…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Township plans for greener days

    By Davy James, Staff Writer    Township buildings in South Brunswick soon will be going green.    The township recently conducted an energy audit of the Municipal Building and public library in what will be the first step in reducing the township’s energy costs.    ”A company called Concord Energy came in and went through the buildings and…

  • Extraordinary opportunities

    Nancy Barich, Chris Butrym, Beartanical Garden co-chairs, Hopewell Township     The Bear Tavern PTO garden project, The Beartanical Garden, is entering its third growing season. Our volunteers are delighted by the support and encouragement shown by the Bear Tavern community. Our core teachers have embraced the chance to teach outside in the garden and our…

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