• HOPEWELL BOROUGH: Reindeer Lane

    HOPEWELL BOROUGH: Reindeer Lane

    Phil McAuliffe Ten-year-old Jayden Kraft of Hopewell (center) gets help from his Reindeer Lane helper, Amanda Demeri, as she shops for gifts at the gift shop at the Hopewell Railroad Station on Friday.

  • MONROE: Lego robotics team builds teamwork

    MONROE: Lego robotics team builds teamwork

    The first-place PDS Lego robotics team: Roshan Benefo, of Kendall Park; coach Gail Hayes; Daniel Ruggiero, of East Windsor; Yahya Ladiwala, of Princeton Junction; Rohit Unnam, of Monroe; and coach James Atkeson.

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Man run over by bulldozer

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    A Milford resident sustained severe but nonlife-threatening injuries Wednesday when he was run over by a bulldozer at Osterman’s Nursery on Wertsville Road, police said.    Dennis Brandt, 61, suffered severe lacerations to his left arm and left leg at about 9:30 a.m. when he was attempting to repair a disabled…

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Officials honor CHS soccer co-champs

    Girls soccer varsity team played Northern Highlands to a scoreless tie By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    Hopewell Valley Central High School’s girls soccer team, which shared the Group III state championship with Northern Highlands this year, was honored by the Hopewell Township Committee on Monday.    Many team members, coaches and parents attended the meeting at…

  • AROUND CRANBURY: Christmas and beyond

    By Lorraine Sedor, Columnist    Santa makes his annual pre-Christmas visit to Cranbury this evening (Friday) at the firehouse on Main Street.    You’ll know the jolly old elf is in town when you hear the siren as the Cranbury Volunteer Fire Company gives him a ride around town on their fire truck. Santa is expected to…

  • EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Joseph B. Hill II: Public servant, businessman, friend

    By Ruth Luse, Managing Editor    Former Hopewell Borough Mayor and Councilman Joseph B. Hill II, 82, died Dec. 3. He was a lifelong resident of Hopewell Borough.    Hopewell Borough Council took time out, and rightly so, at its Dec. 7 meeting to honor Mr. Hill with a resolution in his memory.    The resolution says what…

  • PRINCETON: Reassurances offered on H1N1 vaccine recall

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    Although 11 doses of H1N1 vaccine administered this past Saturday at a Princeton clinic held at the John Witherspoon Middle School are part of a batch the manufacturer is recalling, there is no danger and no need to do anything on the part of those who received the doses, Princeton…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Raider girls hoops have experience

    By Justin Feil, The Packet Group    An experienced core has helped the Hillsborough High School girls basketball team get its preseason off to a faster start than last year.    ”Another year of experience helps and knowing the system,” explained second-year head coach Charlie Davis. “We were able to move quite quickly through practice.”    The Raiders…

  • Thanks for supporting hospice project

    Angela Colonna Calogero, Community Care Hospice, Somerville    Earlier this year the staff and volunteers of Community Care Hospice, Somerville, shared a vision of “wrapping our patients in good thoughts,” by means of delivering to them newly handmade shawls and afghans. We cast our net far and wide for individuals and groups who had both the…

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