• HAMILTON: County probing police shooting

    Man dies from self-inflicted stabbing By James McEvoy, Managing Editor    HAMILTON — The Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office is investigating a Nov. 15 incident where use of force was used by police in an a domestic violence incident that ended in a township man’s suicide.    According to an email from Angelo Onofri, first assistant prosecutor, just…

  • Central New Jersey Dance Studio Receives International Award and Recognition for Top Performance: Amateur Students, Professional Competitors, and Studios Win Highest Honors

    Central New Jersey Dance Studio Receives International Award and Recognition for Top Performance: Amateur Students, Professional Competitors, and Studios Win Highest Honors

    By Arthur Murray Dance Centers Central New Jersey Green Brook, NJ – November 19, 2013 – Arthur Murray Dance Centers Central New Jersey (Green Brook and Highland Park) was recently honored with a Top Studio Award at the 15th Annual Caribbean Dancesport Classic in Carolina, Puerto Rico, given for the combined rankings of the studios’…

  • LAMBERTVILLE: Teens earn honors for rescue abilities

    LAMBERTVILLE: Teens earn honors for rescue abilities

    Members of the Lambertville-New Hope Ambulance and Rescue Squad are judged as they react to a simulated medical emergency in a competition Oct. 12. Patient lying on ground is Brittney Kerr. Holding her head is Captain Richard Roy III. Dylan Trovato checks for injuries, with Mitchell Haug kneeling next to him. Ryan Minschwaner stands next…

  • SPRINGFIELD HAPPENINGS: Nov. 21

       Springfield Township is seeking volunteers for several emergency medical services and Fire Department openings.    Those interested in joining the township’s team of emergency volunteers should contact Patricia Clayton, township clerk, at 609-723-4848.    There is a program to help those caring for feral cats in the community.    The feral cat program has been established to increase…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: To Ravens, ‘play’s the thing’

    ROBBINSVILLE: To Ravens, ‘play’s the thing’

    A wrestling match between Orlando de Boys, played by Jimmy Kenna, (on top), and Charles the Wrestler, played by Andrew Gart. Below, Touchstone, played by Michael Kowalski.  Amy Batista photo

  • MANVILLE: Don’t just gloss over senator’s policy remarks

    To the editor:    Now that the Booker-Lonegan contest is over, it is an opportune time to revisit the Founding Fathers’ ideas regarding the United States Senate.    It is a generally forgotten fact that U.S. Senators have not always been popularly elected. Direct election of U.S. Senators only began with the adoption of the 17th Amendment…

  • BORDENTOWN JOTTINGS: Nov. 21

    Fri., Nov. 22 Sat., Nov. 23    The Christmas bazaar at Trinity United Methodist Church, 339 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown, will be Friday from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m.    A soup and sandwich luncheon will be Friday from 11:30 to 1:30 p.m.; and a…

  • KENNEDY ASSASSINATION 50TH ANNIVERSARY: Where were you when the world changed?

    Packet Media Group is looking for your personal reflections on that fateful day in Dallas in 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was gunned down. Please share what you remember about the day President Kennedy was killed. We may use some of these items in a news story next week in our papers, so please…

  • MCCC Music Students to Perform Winter Concerts Dec. 10 and 11

    MCCC Music Students to Perform Winter Concerts Dec. 10 and 11

    MCCC jazz students in rehearsal for their winter concert on Dec. 11. The MCCC Chorus performs Dec. 10.

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