• Businesses will benefit by hiring people with disabilities

    Ellen Moscowitz, New Brunswick We are writing this letter to celebrate October as Disability Employment Awareness Month. We are the Advisory Board of the New Jersey Statewide Self Advocacy Network. We are self advocates, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, who support all individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and those who can’t advocate for…

  • State needs leaders who are solutions-oriented

    Jack M. Ciattarelli, Hillsborough Every New Jersey state legislator needs to be keenly focused not on what gridlocks government, but on making New Jersey a better place to live, work and retire. We can achieve that goal by providing high-quality education for our children; ensuring fair state funding of public schools; reforming public pension systems;…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Council looking at different uses for municipal complex space

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Council looking at different uses for municipal complex space

    By Deb Dawson, Special Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Most of Tuesday’s Township Council work session was spent preparing for the council’s regular session scheduled for Oct. 13, when it will hear from its consultant on a cost estimate for better using space in the municipal complex. In an item that came up during the public…

  • EAST WINDSOR: Forum focused on economic growth and development opportunity in East Windsor

    By Amy Batista, Special Writer The East Windsor Economic Development Committee and Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce co-hosted an economic development forum and networking breakfast last Tuesday morning. The forum was held in the Americana Diner at 359 Route 130 on Sept. 29. Registration and networking began at 7:30 a.m., followed by a full breakfast.…

  • POLICE BLOTTER: EAST WINDSOR

    A motorist reported a possible intoxicated driver operating a gray Jeep SUV in the area of Route 33. Police located the vehicle in the parking lot of the Twin Rivers Apartments. The officer observed the driver sleeping in the driver’s seat. There was vomit on the driver and the door of the vehicle. While speaking…

  • STATE WE’RE IN: Monarch butterflies, fall’s ultra-marathoners

    By Michele Byers As they alight on seaside goldenrod flowers or roost in Eastern red cedars, monarch butterflies are unmistakable with their brilliant orange and black patterned wings. Although their flight may seem meandering and subject to the vagaries of wind, monarchs are on an instinct-driven mission right now. These “ultra-marathoners” migrate more than 2,000…

  • WHAT’S GOING ON: Oct. 9, 2015

    Sat., Oct. 10   Dunk a Ram at the Hightstown Harvest Fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Hightstown High School football players are suiting up to raise funds for the Rise Food Pantry, which provides provisions to over 500 local families each week. Throws cost one can of nonperishable food or $1…

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Barn damaged in Tuesday night fire

    HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Barn damaged in Tuesday night fire

     HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP — A three-story barn suffered extensive damage in a Tuesday night fire, police reported. The Police Department, along with the Pennington Fire Company, responded to a Pennington Titusville Road address on report of a barn fire at 11:09 p.m. Chief James DeForte of the Pennington Fire Company arrived on location and observed…

  • HOPEWELL BOROUGH: Officials may mull ways to cut truck traffic noise

    By Frank Mustac, Special Writer HOPEWELL BOROUGH — Noise from quarry dump trucks rolling down roads like Princeton Avenue and Broad Street are making at least one borough resident wake up weekday mornings much earlier than he’d like. Mark Peters, who lives on Princeton Avenue, spoke before the Hopewell Borough Council on Monday, asking whether…

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