• HILLSBOROUGH: Sunnymead School dedicates all-purpose room to teacher, friend
  • PENNINGTON: Preparing for TASK at hand

    PENNINGTON: Preparing for TASK at hand

    For the ninth year in a row, the members of Girl Scout Troop 71389 baked cornbread to support the TASK Thanksgiving dinner organized at Toll Gate Grammar School. This year the girls will donate 50 loaves. Shown are Amanda Juan, Melissa Mikalsen, Nettie Strunk, Ally Avila and Caroline Levine. Members of the troop not shown…

  • PLUMSTED: Emergency workers aim to help the hungry

    By Amy Batista, Special Writer PLUMSTED —Local emergency services workers have teamed up with area businesses to Camp Out for Hunger during the holiday season. “This is a first for us; we change our activities each year,” said Josh Jamison, who is a firefighter and emergency medical technician with Plumsted Township Fireman’s Mutual Benevolent Association…

  • PRINCETON: PHS season ends with playoff loss

    Football team stopped by Brick By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor    BRICK — Princeton High’s first football playoff appearance since 2009 didn’t end the way the Little Tigers had hoped.    But even a 48-12 loss to Brick Township in the Central Jersey Group IV playoffs on Friday night couldn’t put a damper on an incredible season.…

  • LAMBERTVILLE: School crossing guard, ballet praised by council

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer Sandra Witts, a school crossing guard in Lambertville for 24 years who will retire Dec. 31, was honored at Monday night’s City Council meeting, when a proclamation in her honor was issued. Ms. Witts was hired as a crossing guard in October 1990. She first worked at the intersection of…

  • WEST AMWELL: Two sides cross swords at open house on pipeline

    WEST AMWELL: Two sides cross swords at open house on pipeline

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor Hundreds endured a cold, drizzly rain Thursday, Nov. 13, to seek details and ask questions about the PennEast natural gas pipeline, which is proposed to cut across southern Hunterdon and northern Mercer counties. It was the only open house on the project scheduled to be held in New Jersey by…

  • MANVILLE: Borough holiday tree ceremony is Nov. 28

    Fri., Nov. 28 Tree lighting: Borough’s official tree will be lighted in ceremony starting at 6:30 p.m. at the South Main Street lot (formerly the gazebo lot). Rain date: Saturday, Nov. 29. Sun., Dec. 7 Remembrance: Thomas J. Kavanaugh VFW Post 2290 and its ladies auxiliary will hold their annual Pearl Harbor remembrance service at…

  • MANVILLE: They’re loving literacy at Weston School

    MANVILLE: They’re loving literacy at Weston School

    Weston School teacher Brittany Simonik and student Angelina Calderon doing "retell ropes" as a fun learning activity. (Photos by Mary Ellen Day)

  • LAWRENCE: Police blotter

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer A Whitemarsh Drive resident reported the theft of an Echo chainsaw, valued at $200, from the garage at 11:49 a.m. Nov. 11. The garage door had been left open. A pair of shoplifters walked out of the P.C. Richard and Sons store on Brunswick Pike with a 42-inch flat screen…

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