• Family vacation: the good the bad and the flat ugly

    Coda • GREG BEAN When I was a kid, family vacations were a special level of hell reserved for the worst miscreants imaginable. And it wasn’t the Hades we learned about in Bible class, the kind of place you go after a long lifetime of misdeeds. Nope, family vacations were a more immediate form of…

  • Mama tried, but he still loves country

    Are We There Yet? • LORI CLINCH Our young Huey has a great love for music. He researches it, sings it and has been known to play it at house-shaking volume, which has me sounding like my own loving mother: “Turn that dang thing down!” But Huey has always had what I thought to be…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Committee OK’s Municipal Alliance programs

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    The Township Committee unanimously approved a resolution April 14 to award contracts for municipal alliance services for programs presented by the Hillsborough-Millstone Municipal Alliance.    The Municipal Alliance provides anti-drug and smoking programs for schools, as well as other programs teaching students to make healthy lifestyle choices. The programs are funded…

  • SCHOOL ELECTION

    South Hunterdon and Lambertville Public School By Linda Seida SOUTH HUNTERDON REGIONAL    South Hunterdon Regional High School’s budget has been defeated, 779-468.    Two candidates ran unopposed to represent Lambertville on the South Hunterdon Board of Education (three-year terms):    Robert Campbell, 376    Laurie Weinstein, 375    One candidate ran unopposed to represent West Amwell on the South…

  • Andrew Bridge to Speak at CASA’s First Mark B. Levin Event

    By Randall Kirkpatrick New York Times Best-selling Author Andrew Bridge Will Speak at First Mark B. Levin Educational Fund Event in Princeton on April 30th Ewing, NJ. April 20, 2009…Andrew Bridge, author of The New York Times bestseller Hope’s Boy and the Director of the Child Welfare Initiative in Los Angeles, will be the featured…

  • EAST WINDSOR: Regional school budget is approved

    East Windsor Regional school budget Hightstown: 133 yes, 187 no East Windsor: 742 yes, 564 no Total: 875 yes, 751 no Three candidates unopposed for three-year seats representing township: Kennedy Paul, 901 votes Paul Connolly, 869 votes Bruce Ettman, 822 votes

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Voters head to polls today

       Voters around the state will choose school board members and decide the fates of their local school budgets.    The following is a list of candidates and budgets in Central Jersey. Check back to centraljersey.com for results later tonight. Burlington County    Bordentown Regional School District: $33.9 million budget; Bordentown City (two, three-year seats) — Ellen Wehrman,…

  • New Jerseyans Unite for Humanity in Face of Ahmadinejad Tirade

    By Jewish Federation of Central New Jersey For Immediate Release   PRESS RELEASE New Jerseyans Unite for Humanity in Face of Ahmadinejad Tirade Citizens Representing All Walks of Life to Commemorate Holocaust at Kean University Tonight Scotch Plains, NJ, April 21, 2009-As the world continues to respond to the anti-Semitic tirades of Iranian President Mahmoud…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Acme supermarket to close May 7

    By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — After nearly 40 years of business in the township, the Acme Markets, in Princeton Junction, will close next month.    The store, which was crowded this weekend as shoppers took advantage of sales to clear out the store’s merchandise, will close at 6 p.m. May 7, Acme spokeswoman…

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