• AT THE LIBRARIES, June 4

    Upcoming events at the Hopewell Public Library include: Help name our Ox! The “Aloha” ox from last autumn’s Stampede has found permanent grazing ground in front of the Hopewell Public Library. Library patron Sylvie Mayer is the artist. During June, stop in the library and put a name suggestion in the collection box. The name…

  • PRINCETON: Town to celebrate opening of its first ‘parklet’

    PRINCETON: Town to celebrate opening of its first ‘parklet’

    Princeton’s first “parklet,” a public seating platform built to transform curbside parking spaces into spaces for the community to enjoy, was installed last week. Also known as “street seats,” parklets provide a means for the community, artists, art organizations, schools, residents and business owners to participate in designing and repurposing a parking space into a…

  • 11th Annual ETS Firecracker 5K Run/Walk set for Tuesday, June 23rd 2015

    11th Annual ETS Firecracker 5K Run/Walk set for Tuesday, June 23rd 2015

    Call for 5K runners, walkers, and sponsors! PRINCETON: Runners and walkers looking for a 5K race need to look no further! Educational Testing Service (ETS) and YWCA Princeton will host the 11th annual Firecracker 5K Run/Walk on Tuesday, June 23rd. Runners, walkers, families, and corporate or organizational teams are invited to enjoy an early summer…

  • South Brunswick High Teens to Attend Boys State

    South Brunswick High Teens to Attend Boys State

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: American Legion Post 401 will be sending Michael Shultz and Seth Weingarten, juniors at South Brunswick High School, as delegates to Jersey Boys State at Rider University, from June 21 to 26. Both students have A averages and are involved in athletics. Schultz also plays the French Horn in the Viking Band. Boys…

  • Hun Seniors Encouraged to Take Advantage of Alumni Network by Tech Entrepreneur John Marbach ’11

    Hun Seniors Encouraged to Take Advantage of Alumni Network by Tech Entrepreneur John Marbach ’11

    PRINCETON: The Class of 2015 celebrated Senior Dinner at The Hun School of Princeton on Wednesday, May 27th. Alumnus Jonathan Marbach ’11 delivered the keynote address, which focused on trust and networking. Mr. Marbach made waves in 2011, when he was one of the youngest students in the nation to earn a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship…

  • CRANBURY: Primary election results

    CRANBURY: Primary election results

    By Jennifer Kohlhepp, Managing Editor CRANBURY — Cranbury residents took to the polls Tuesday to solidify the Democratic and Republican candidates for the November election. Incumbent Democrats James M. Taylor and David W. Cook received 37 and 34 votes respectively to earn their party’s nod to run in the general election. Republicans Fran McGovern and…

  • MANVILLE: Onderko wins four-way Republican race for mayor nomination

    Manville Borough Council President Richard M. Onderko won a hotly contested four-way race for the Republican nomination for mayor on Tuesday. Mr. Onderko received 195 votes. He and Councilman Mark Gregor, who won the Democratic nomination without a contest, will square off in the fall to succeed Angelo Corradino, who will retire after a total…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Raiders’ Senoo qualifies for first MOC

    HILLSBOROUGH: Raiders’ Senoo qualifies for first MOC

    By Justin Feil, The Packet Group Priscilla Senoo isn’t a hurdler, but she cleared a big one last weekend. The Hillsborough High School senior advanced to her first girls track and field Meet of Champions by placing second in the discus with a personal-record throw of 126-feet-2. ”I’d say I’m both excited and nervous,” Senoo…

  • Princeton graduates urged to ‘dream audaciously’                          (with multiple photos)

    Princeton graduates urged to ‘dream audaciously’ (with multiple photos)

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer Princeton University graduates on Tuesday sat through a rainy commencement ceremony on a day when the school awarded honorary degrees to retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and entertainer Harry Belafonte. The school said it had awarded 2,156 degrees to undergraduate and graduate students, as the university kept…

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