• Boy’s love of ice hockey nets equipment for charity group

    Boy’s love of ice hockey nets equipment for charity group

    By Lea Kahn, Packet Media Group Ethan Block loves to play ice hockey with the Lawrence Flames youth hockey league, almost more than anything else. "I am obsessed with hockey. I love it so much," said Ethan, who lives in Hopewell Township. He is in the seventh grade at the Timberlane Middle School. So when…

  • MCCC Author Reception Features Zeiger Family’s Moving Holocaust Story

    MCCC Author Reception Features Zeiger Family’s Moving Holocaust Story

    By Wendy Humphrey On Nov. 19, Mercer County Community College (MCCC) and the Mercer County Holocaust-Genocide Resource Center hosted a reception with the family and friends of the late Shelley Zeiger, a longtime champion for business in the city of Trenton. Special guest was Rebecca Upjohn, author of the award-winning children’s book “The Secret of…

  • CRANBURY: Rockwellian charm

    CRANBURY: Rockwellian charm

    Cranbury shopping has small town feel By Nicole M. Wells, Special Writer Standing to the side of Route 130, just past Dey Road, a narrow green sign with white lettering points the way to a slight right that eases off the southbound side of the highway. Making the turn, the NASCAR-fast pace characteristic of New…

  • MANVILLE: Elks selling trees and grave blankets

    MANVILLE: Elks selling trees and grave blankets

    By Mary Ellen Day, Special Writer Christmas trees and grave blankets are being sold to benefit the Special Children’s Committee at the Manville Hillsborough Elks Lodge 2119 on Brook Boulevard. The sale is in its 24th year goes directly to help with expenses for the special children at the Somerset Treatment Center in Bridgewater and…

  • MANVILLE: Elks selling trees and grave blankets

    MANVILLE: Elks selling trees and grave blankets

    Tom Cronin shows an example of the Elks handicrafts for sale.

  • LAMBERTVILLE: When disaster strikes, Thunder may respond

    LAMBERTVILLE: When disaster strikes, Thunder may respond

    Pittore’s special dog qualifies for state team Spring Pittore has been performing this special kind of emergency service for a long time. "My husband Pat and I were on the rubble of the World Trade Center the night of Sept. 11 with our search-and-rescue dogs," Ms. Pittore said last week. She and her dog Thunder…

  • BORDENTOWN CITY: Community celebrates start of holiday season

    BORDENTOWN CITY: Community celebrates start of holiday season

    Amy Batista Santa arrives in Bordentown City. Photo by Amy Batista

  • REGION: Eight charged in DEP crackdown on dumping

        TRENTON — Eight people, including one local man, face charges for illegal dumping as part of a Department of Environmental Protection crackdown, the agency announced Friday.     The DEP initiative to crackdown on illegal dumping in state parks and recreational lands yielded eight more enforcement actions, all for disposing of debris and other materials…

  • BORDENTOWN CITY: Community celebrates start of holiday season

    BORDENTOWN CITY: Community celebrates start of holiday season

    By Amy Batista, Special Writer     BORDENTOWN CITY — The Foundation for Bordentown Traditions hosted its annual tree lighting this past Saturday.     “The tree is gorgeous,” said Deputy Mayor James Lynch.     The tree is located at the intersection of Farnsworth Avenue and Crosswicks Street.     Commissioner Zigmont Targonski said he thinks this the…

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