• EAST WINDSOR: Kids help local fire department raise funds

    EAST WINDSOR: Kids help local fire department raise funds

    By Amy Batista, Special Writer EAST WINDSOR — A group of kids raised money for the local fire department this past Memorial Day and decided to donate their earnings. "At this time of the year we always do our fundraiser," said President and Lt. Jay Laughlin Jr. of East Windsor Vol. Fire Co. No. 1.…

  • MANVILLE: Friends of Library group revives

    Manville Public Library has revived its Friends of the Library group. President Ramon Henson of Somerset is excited the group is finally set to go. "Our library is planning some renovations to make it even more inviting to the community, including a redesigned children’s center," he said. "We officers of the Friends of the Library…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Fire destroys mobile home

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Fire destroys mobile home

    Police photo. Fire destroyed a mobile home on Cherry Street in the Monmouth Mobile Home Park on Saturday morning.

  • PRINCETON: Tree-mendous: Visitors flock to Morven exhibit

    PRINCETON: Tree-mendous: Visitors flock to Morven exhibit

    By Charley Falkenburg, Special to the Packet Harriet Black stood in the parlor doorway of the Morven Museum, studying a not-so-typical Christmas tree called the "Snow Fairy." The tree was pure white with a sprinkle of tiny blue lights and big, gauzy silver bows. True to its name, it sported a pair of fairy wings…

  • PRINCETON: Winter’s first blast

    PRINCETON: Winter’s first blast

    Phil McAuliffe A woman walks through Palmer Square in Princeton on Wednesday afternoon despite the slushy conditions. Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: New Hope woman injured in two-car crash

    At 11:27 a.m. today (Dec. 1), the Hopewell Township Police Department responded to a motor vehicle crash on Washington Crossing-Pennington Road (Route 546) near George Washington Drive, according to Lance D. Maloney, chief of police. Terri L. Ledva, 52, of New Hope, was driving a 2011 Lexus sedan east on Route 546 when her vehicle…

  • WEST WINDSOR: ‘Tuba Christmas’ concert on Saturday at MarketFair

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer Most people do not associate "tuba" with "Christmas carols," but the Lawrence Community Concert Band is about to change that notion when it participates in the second annual "Tuba Christmas" Dec. 6 at Princeton MarketFair. The 1 p.m. concert, which is free, will feature traditional Christmas holiday music played by…

  • PRINCETON: Beginning to look like Christmas
  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Unity in Thanksgiving

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Unity in Thanksgiving

    The Islamic Society of Central Jersey hosted the annual South Brunswick Clergy Association Interfaith Thanksgiving service last week. Participants from the town’s religious institutions gathered together for a mufti-denominational celebration.

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