• CRANBURY: Students hold Polar Express parade

    CRANBURY: Students hold Polar Express parade

    By Amy Batista, Special Writer CRANBURY — All aboard the "Polar Express." "We wanted to celebrate the Polar Express just to get in the spirit of the holiday season," said the Cranbury School’s Kindergarten and Second Grade Basic Skills Teacher Debbie Rosen, adding not to just learn about Christmas but to learn about all the…

  • PRINCETON: 2014

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer The big stories of 2014 involved familiar names and topics in Princeton, as AvalonBay, the Dinky station and the Princeton Battlefield all captured attention. The community welcomed a new superintendent of schools, dug out from more snow than it cared to shovel, mourned the deaths of philanthropist William H.…

  • HAMILTON: New Hilton hotel opens

    HAMILTON: New Hilton hotel opens

        A 110-suite hotel has opened on Route 130 near Kuser Road in Hamilton.     Homewood Suites by Hilton, Hilton Worldwide’s international brand of all-suite, extended-stay hotels, announced the opening of its newest property, Homewood Suites by Hilton Hamilton.     The four-story hotel, owned by Kuser & 130 Associates LLC, is the 10th Homewood Suites…

  • LAMBERTVILLE: Woman indicted for theft from fire bodies

    Former treasurer used official debit and credit cards, indictment says Cynthia J. Strauss, the former treasurer of the Lambertville Fire Department Board of Engineers, has been indicted for allegedly using debit and credit cards to take money from the city’s fire organizations. Ms. Strauss was indicted on two counts of theft, a third-degree crime, in…

  • MANVILLE: GOP set to control council

    School board reorganizes Tuesday By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor Republicans will take control of the Borough Council when the local government starts anew for 2015 at the annual reorganization meeting at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 3, in the Borough Courtroom. The council operated through 2014 with a 3-3 split among Democrats and Republicans, but the…

  • LAWRENCE: Ken Mason steps down from AD post
  • POLITICS: Frisby drops out of 15th District race

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer Mercer County Democratic Chairwoman Liz Muoio would appear to have clear sailing to replace Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman in the Legislature, now that her main Democratic rival has dropped out of the race. Mercer County Freeholder Samuel T. Frisby said Tuesday he was ending his short-lived bid for the…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: How did it come to be the ‘cops versus people’?

    Letter to the editor To the editor: Following the deaths of Eric Garner, Mike Brown, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu and the response to them from the public, it seems that the relationship between police and the people they serve needs to be re-examined and mended (something that is long overdue, if we’re being honest.)…

  • Preventing Slips and Falls this Winter

    Preventing Slips and Falls this Winter

    By Joseph Tauro, M.D., Director of Ocean County Sports Medicine By Joseph Tauro, M.D., Director of Ocean County Sports Medicine ‘Tis the season for snow and ice. With colder weather, slips and falls become more common. As we head into the winter months, I urge you to exercise caution to avoid hurting yourself and potentially…

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