• Buzzing along

    Buzzing along

    A display at last year’s Insect Festival teaches participants about honey bees. Photo by Joe Scarlata

  • PACKET PICKS: Sept. 6

    Sun., Sept. 6 Men in Retirement meeting The Men in Retirement group will hold its monthly meeting, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Suzanne Patterson Building, 45 Stockton St., Princeton.    Come and meet other men who are making or have made the transition into retirement, and find out what else they are doing. Mon., Sept.…

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    Chairman

    The Delaware River, Lambertville NJ

  • There she is

    There she is

    Princeton University student will represent New Jersey in the Miss America competition By Sally Friedman, Special Writer    It was almost mystical.    When Cara McCollum was searching for the college where she felt she belonged, she and her family traveled from Arkansas, her home state, to the East Coast. They stopped along the way and ultimately…

  • PRINCETON: Jeb Bush addresses Hun School students

    PRINCETON: Jeb Bush addresses Hun School students

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer    Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told Hun School of Princeton students on Monday that a “quality education” was the best way for people to increase their chances of “breaking the shackles of poverty” at a time when schools nationwide need to improve.    Mr. Bush, the guest speaker at the…

  • IN THE KITCHEN: Italian Game Night isn’t child’s play

    IN THE KITCHEN: Italian Game Night isn’t child’s play

    I enjoy browsing through the cooking classes in the non-credit Continuing Studies catalogue from Mercer County Community College, and in the latest issue the words “Italian Game Night” caught my ey By Faith Bahadurian,Special Writer    I enjoy browsing through the cooking classes in the non-credit Continuing Studies catalogue from Mercer County Community College, and in…

  • Buzzing along

    Buzzing along

    Master Gardeners as human puppets in the show, ‘Two Bees or Not Two Bees.’ Photo by Joe Scarlata

  • Blood supplies fall to critical level

    Less than one day’s supply of “universal donor” blood to treat trauma    Multiple calendar hurdles, lower than normal donor turnout, plus high demand from area hospitals, have reduced our community blood supply to critical levels – notably less than a one-day supply of O-negative “universal donor” blood, which can be transfused into anyone in trauma…

  • MERCER: Emergencies: ‘Go In, stay in, tune in’

    GUEST COLUMN Mercer County Executive Brian M. Hughes    Oct. 26, 2013, will mark the one-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy striking our region. While Mercer County did not experience the unprecedented damage and loss that overwhelmed parts of the Jersey Shore, we did experience hazardous and threatening conditions that jeopardized the safety of our citizens. The…

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