• NEW HOPE: Chamber prepares for holiday kickoff

    Tree Lighting Ceremony Nov. 29    NEW HOPE — The Greater New Hope Chamber of Commerce has announced its annual Holiday Kick-Off and Tree Lighting Ceremony, which officially starts the shopping season in New Hope, Pa., on Nov. 29 at 5:30 p.m. in front of the Logan Inn, Main and Ferry streets.    Enjoy refreshments – all…

  • Special Needs Families Event at Har Sinai Dec. 16

    By Har Sinai Event Underlines Har Sinai’s Commitment to Special Needs Families  HOPEWELL TWP. – In an effort to include all families in temple life, Har Sinai Temple is presenting a film and panel discussion dealing with special needs children.       "Praying With Lior,’’ the celebrated documentary about a young man with Down Syndrome preparing…

  • BURLINGTON COUNTY: Fire districts compile 2008 stats

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    The state Division of Fire Safety has released the numbers for fire incidents in 2008.    Overall, local fire departments reported 387 fires last year and 721 emergency medical service calls. One firefighter was injured, in Bordentown Township Fire District No. 2, but no local firefighters were killed in the line…

  • Princeton Junior School

    Princeton Junior School

    Princeton Junior School is an independent, co-educational, nondenominational day school for children ages 2 through fifth grade. The school’s philosophy of education, “spiral learning,” teaches children to build on core knowledge,increasing the depth and breadth of that knowledge as they mature. The central tenets of the educational program lie in its challenging curriculum,developed to challenge…

  • BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP: ‘Twentieth Century’ hits BRHS stage

    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP: ‘Twentieth Century’ hits BRHS stage

    Phil McAuliffe Jonathan Trumbino as Owen, Megan Sirak as Anita Highland and Karson Knudson as Myrtle Clark in Bordentown Regional High School’s production of "Twentieth Century." Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe.

  • MANVILLE: Resident sought in roundup of robbery suspects

    MANVILLE: Resident sought in roundup of robbery suspects

    Manville resident Franklin Allen has been charged with attempted robbery, according to Somerset County Prosecutor Wayne Forrest.

  • LAMBERTVILLE: New ambulance expected to arrive in January

    ‘It (Kiwanis donation)puts us over the top,’ said squad President Pat Pittore“ By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    LAMBERTVILLE — The Lambertville Kiwanis has made a large donation to the Lambertville-New Hope Ambulance and Rescue Squad that will bring the squad’s fund drive for a new ambulance over the $100,000 goal.    The Kiwanis presented the squad…

  • LAWRENCE: Students present vision for park improvements

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer     Creating landscaped islands in the middle of Route 206/Lawrence Road, redeveloping the former Pit Stop property into a commercial building and constructing a series of walking paths were among the suggestions offered by a group of Rutgers University graduate students last week.     The students have spent the last…

  • LAWRENCE: Couple’s gift creates a poetry pathway

    By Kristine Snodgrass, Packet Group     Countless works of poetry have been composed that foster in readers an appreciation of the wonder of nature and the great outdoors.     The thought of bringing a careful selection of those poems to a beautiful public park was the inspiration behind a gift to D&R Greenway Land Trust…

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