• PRINCETON AREA: Candidates seeking school board seats

    By Philip Sean Curran and Geena Molinaro, Staff Writers Monday was the filing deadline for board of education candidates around the state, with Princeton area school districts going to see contested races and the departure of some incumbents who declined to run for re-election. PRINCETON: Three seats are up in 2014, with incumbent Afsheen Shamsi…

  • Montgomery’s Teddy Asefa Develops Patent Pending Technology To Produce Clean-Burning Hydrogen Fuel

    Montgomery’s Teddy Asefa Develops Patent Pending Technology To Produce Clean-Burning Hydrogen Fuel

    Rutgers University Chemistry Associate Professor Tewodros (Teddy) Asefa of Montgomery Township

  • LAWRENCE: Five seeking three school board seats

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer Five township residents — including one incumbent school board member — had filed to run for the three available seats on the Lawrence Township Board of Education by the 4 p.m. deadline Monday afternoon. Incumbent school board member Dana Drake filed to run for re-election. The other candidates are Glenn…

  • PRINCETON: Former soccer coach pleads guilty to child porn

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer A former college and youth soccer coach of the year from Princeton pleaded guilty Friday in federal court to possessing child pornography. Jorge A. Roman, 49, had "600 or more images" of child pornography at his Princeton residence, said U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman’s office in announcing the guilty…

  • Christopher L. Fittin Joins Peapack-Gladstone Bank

    Christopher L. Fittin Joins Peapack-Gladstone Bank

    By Rosanne Schwab Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation (NASDAQ Global Select Market: PGC) and Peapack-Gladstone Bank announce the appointment of Christopher L. Fittin as Senior Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at the Bank’s Princeton, NJ Private Banking office located at 300 Carnegie Center. Mr. Fittin most recently held positions with US Trust/Bank of America and served as Senior…

  • Global Amateur Golf Championship Tour Comes to the Carolinas
  • Princeton: Town moves to ban fracking

    By Geena Molinaro, Special Writer Princeton was scheduled to introduce an ordinance at last night’s council meeting prohibiting hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, in the town. At a press conference yesterday morning, Mayor Liz Lempert said, "Apparently there was a U.S. Geological survey that came out that showed there is potentially some gas underneath…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Seven file for three school board seats

    Contest will be on the November general election ballot Seven people filed for three seats on the Hillsborough/Millstone School District Board of Education by today’s deadline. The field includes the three incumbents — Judith C. Haas of Titus Court, Jennifer D. Haley of Mulford Lane, and Christopher P. Pulsifer of Ditmars Circle. Two residents who…

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: HVCBank: Record results for second quarter

    Bank has offices in Ringoes, Flemington and Pittstown in Hunterdon County Patrick L. Ryan, chairman, and James Hyman, president and CEO, of Hopewell Valley Community Bank (PinkSheets: HWDY) jointly announced that the bank’s net income for the June quarter of 2014 was a bank record $643,748, which amounts to a 7.4 percent increase from the…

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