• CRANBURY: Five vying for three BOE seats

    By Jennifer Kohlhepp, Managing Editor CRANBURY — Five township residents have filed to run for the three open seats on the Cranbury Township Board of Education, according to Middlesex County officials. Up for grabs are the seats currently held by Lynne Schwarz, Karen Callahan and Dominique Jones. Their terms expire January 2016. All three seats…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Hawks win East Brunswick Slugfest tournament

    HILLSBOROUGH: Hawks win East Brunswick Slugfest tournament

    The Hillsborough Hawks 8-and-under travel baseball team won its second tournament of the season this week. Competing in the East Brunswick Summer Slugfest, the Hawks completed the tournament with a 4-0 record. In pool play, the Hawks outscored East Brunswick, RBI and Monroe Gold by a combined 44 runs to 12. The championship game was…

  • PRINCETON: Don’t lament, there are still good gas stations in town

    Mary Bliss, Princeton Responding to your July article lamenting Larini leaving Princeton, take heart. There are other gas stations in town, and I commend Tamasi Shell on Route 206 and Birch Avenue to you. You won’t find a better auto mechanic or a more honest and decent person than its owner, Mark Tamasi. He comes…

  • REGIONAL: Towns to open cooling stations; forecast calls for heat index near 100 degrees

    REGIONAL: Towns to open cooling stations; forecast calls for heat index near 100 degrees

    Due to expected high temperatures over the next several days, local towns have announced that their cooling stations will be open. Princeton will have its cooling stations open Tuesday, July 28, through Thursday, July 30, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.  The cooling station open in Princeton on Tuesday is located in the multipurpose room…

  • PRINCETON: BagSavR program a good start, but more must be done

    Daniel A. Harris, Princeton For their collaboration to achieve voluntary reduction (alas, not elimination!) of single-use plastic bags, I commend the Princeton Merchants Association, McCaffrey’s, Whole Earth, Craft Cleaners, Sustainable Princeton, and Princeton Municipality. Everyone must commit to reducing fossil-fuel consumption. The good news: inclusion of all plastic films for recycling, plus 10 collection bins…

  • PLAINSBORO: Fire damages apartments at Deer Creek complex

    PLAINSBORO: Fire damages apartments at Deer Creek complex

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer A two-alarm fire Sunday afternoon damaged four apartments at the Deer Creek rental apartment complex. The fire was reported at 5 p.m. The first arriving firefighters discovered heavy fire coming from the second floor. One firefighter suffered a leg injury and another firefighter suffered heat exhaustion. The cause of the…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Friends will join Light the Night walk for cancer victim classmate

    HILLSBOROUGH: Friends will join Light the Night walk for cancer victim classmate

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor Friends lovingly remember Tatiana Alissa Ingraham 10 years after her death at age 18 from leukemia on the eve of her Hillsborough High School graduation. They recall the effervescent and smiling girl who lit up the world around her, according to remembrances. To a person, they all hail the glow,…

  • EAST WINDSOR: Car crash injures four; sends 12-year-old girl to hospital with head injury

    By Amy Batista, Special Writer EAST WINDSOR — Two cars collided at the intersection of Old Trenton Road and Princeton-Hightstown Road early Saturday morning, leaving four injured including a 12-year-old girl, according to the East Windsor Police Department. Mehri Vesali, 69, of East Windsor, was driving a beige 2010 Toyota Rav 4 and west on…

  • PRINCETON: Merchants to recycle plastic bags for their customers

    PRINCETON: Merchants to recycle plastic bags for their customers

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer Local businesses in Princeton will voluntarily collect plastic bags from their customers to be recycled, now that they have fended off an effort by environmentalists to charge their customers a fee for paper and plastic shopping bags. The nonprofit Princeton Merchants Association announced Friday a partnership with the town…

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