• HILLSBOROUGH: Vietnam vets to be feted at Memorial Day

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    The township will recognize veterans of the Vietnam War during the Memorial Day ceremonies May 23, after recognizing those in the Korean War last year.    ”Beginning in 2007, we determined that it would be fitting to give special recognition from all veterans to our war veterans, so our World War…

  • SUNSHINE LIST

    Municipal, school board and other meetings    HOPEWELL BOROUGH COUNCIL: May 7, 7 p.m. (changed from May 4), Borough Hall.     PENNINGTON BOROUGH COUNCIL: May 11, 7 p.m., special meeting (community forum for the purpose of discussing the issuance of a liquor license within Pennington Borough. Inquiries may be directed to the Borough Office at 737-0276),…

  • PRINCETON: Future group ponders parking issue

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    PRINCETON— Parking in downtown Princeton again was uppermost on the minds of policymakers, business owners and citizens during an informal discussion Tuesday morning at the Princeton Public Library, facilitated by the nonprofit organization Princeton Future.    In a presentation, Borough Councilman Kevin Wilkes said future economic growth in the downtown area…

  • EAST WINDSOR: Mayor lauds veto of housing conversion bill

    By Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    EAST WINDSOR — Mayor Janice Mironov expressed support this week for Gov. Jon Corzine’s conditional veto of a housing bill she and other area officials had strongly opposed.    The Age Restricted Housing Conversion Bill (S-2577 and A-3772) would have allowed developers — under certain conditions — to bypass the normal…

  • CRANBURY: Green thumbs

    CRANBURY: Green thumbs

    Staff photo by John Keating. Gabe Nydick reads a poem about trees to the rest of this second grade classmates.

  • The real top priority

    Michael Dawson, Hopewell Township    On Monday, May 4, I came away from the educational forum in Trenton for the now nearly defunct Garden State Preservation Trust (Green Acres money) with one fact (among many well-presented facts, courtesy of the NJ Conservation Foundation and the Keep it Green Coalition) glaring in my mind: the Highlands Council…

  • MONROE: Council trims school plan

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    MONROE — The Township Council approved an amended version of the school budget Tuesday, cutting $601,000 from the general fund tax levy after the public overwhelmingly voted down the proposed $100.427 million budget April 21.    ”We did not want to impact the student programs or the quality of education,” said…

  • CRANBURY RETROSPECTIVE

       10 Years Ago – 1999     • Michael Stehn was selected by a team of judges to represent Cranbury School in a regional “Student Inventors Through Education” competition. The 10-year-old’s winner is a “Stand Club,” a device that holds a musician’s sheet music in place on the music stand.    • Cranbury’s dentist Dennis White is the proud…

  • CRANBURY: A night of jazz

    CRANBURY: A night of jazz

    Staff photo by John Keating.Kristen Meija of the Cranbury School Jazz Orchestra plays saxophone during a concert at the school May 1.

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