• CRANBURY: A day to celebrate Cranbury

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    CRANBURY — One day a year Cranbury’s merchants and volunteer groups get together to regale residents and visitors with the best of what the township has to offer.    Saturday — better known to local residents as Cranbury Day — is that day.    The event, which will take place on North…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Township OKs land-use pledge

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer Committee notes steps taken on key concepts    With the unanimous approval Tuesday of a Sustainable Land Use Pledge, the township is now prepared to submit an application for certification as an official sustainable community.    ”Sustainability stresses green issues and environmental protection, but also recognizes that for a community to thrive…

  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: Jury still out on YMCA center design choice

    HOPEWELL VALLEY: Jury still out on YMCA center design choice

    Four designs are being considered By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    Designs for a future Hopewell Valley YMCA community center in Pennington have been submitted to a volunteer jury of local leaders and design experts by four local architectural firms.    The jury is expected to recommend an architectural firm to the YMCA shortly.    The jury, which…

  • AROUND CRANBURY: Time to party on Main Street

    By Lorraine Sedor, Columnist    Calling all Cranbury sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders! The Municipal Alliance invites you to a “Back to School” picnic tonight (Friday), in Village Park. The fun begins at 4 p.m. and goes until 7 p.m. There will be food, a DJ, volleyball, basketball and more! * * *    This is it! Cranbury…

  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: Clergy dissect religion, philosophy with CHS students

    Panel of seven Jewish and Christian leaders fielded questions about their faiths, their attitudes on worship and their lives as men and women of faith Hopewell Valley Regional School District    Is there an afterlife?    Is it wrong to break secular law out of religious conviction?    How threatening to organized religions are interfaith marriages?    What is…

  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: Boosting milk consumption is goal for cafeterias

    HOPEWELL VALLEY: Boosting milk consumption is goal for cafeterias

    Shown from left are Steve Wilfing, principal of Stony Brook Elementary School; Kelty Stanton, third-grader at Bear Tavern Elementary School, and Joe Tesauro, senior at Central High School.

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Schooled in change

    CENTRAL JERSEY: Schooled in change

    Twenty-five-year East Windsor Regional teacher Kevin Akey looks over historical mementos on a wall at Hightstown High. Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Greenbrook reads for a good cause

    By Davy James, Staff Writer    With hopes of instilling the love of reading at an early age, the staff and administration of Greenbrook School is challenging its students to Reach for the Stars.    As part of the Stars program, students in grades kindergarten through five are participating in a pledge-based program that involves reading or…

  • NOVEMBER ELECTION UPDATE

    Important dates    — About a month remains until the registration deadline for the Nov. 3 general election.    The League reminds area residents that Oct. 13 is the last day to register to vote or change address.    To register to vote in the general election, you must be a US citizen, at least 18 years old…

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