Tag: Lawrence
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Opinion: My mother’s recovery from COVID-19
In early April, my 74-year-old mother, a high-risk patient, contracted COVID-19 while in an assisted living facility in Pennsylvania. She was successfully treated in a hospital outside of Philadelphia with a blend of treatments including oxygen, chloroquine (treatment for malaria), antibiotics and Tylenol. Because of the attentive healthcare workers and their responsiveness, she was not…
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Rider University chemistry professors make hand sanitizer for hospitals
Hospitals are having trouble finding enough personal protective equipment, but they won’t have as much trouble finding hand sanitizer, thanks to the efforts of two Rider University chemistry professors. Dr. Jamie Ludwig and Dr. Danielle Jacobs, who teamed up to make hand sanitizer in Rider University’s general chemistry lab, delivered their first batch of hand…
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Thirty area nonprofits receive grant funding from Princeton Area Community Foundation
The Princeton Area Community Foundation has announced its initial round of COVID-19 Relief & Recovery Fund grants, totaling nearly $700,000 to more than 30 nonprofits. “This crisis is having a devastating impact on our most vulnerable communities,” said Jeffrey M. Vega, president and CEO, in a prepared statement. “As a philanthropic leader in this region, we knew we had to…
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Lawrence schools locked down due to bomb threat
The Benjamin Franklin Elementary School was evacuated and the rest of the schools in the Lawrence Township Public School District were locked down after a threatening phone call was made to the Main Office at the elementary school on Princeton Pike on Dec. 7. The caller said there were six pipe bombs in the school,…
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Education foundation continues its support of Lawrence Township schools
A new storage unit for the Lawrence Intermediate School’s instrumental music department and a second 3-D printer for the Lawrence Middle School. Four iPads for each kindergarten class at the Ben Franklin Elementary School, and a visit from “George Washington” to Lawrence Middle School seventh-graders. Those are among the special projects funded by grants approved…
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Class of 1968 commemorates five decades as Lawrence High School’s first graduates
It was the year of mini-skirts, psychedelic music, the debut of the first Big Mac and the Class of 1968, the first graduating class of the newly opened Lawrence High School. Five decades later, 11 members of the Lawrence High School Class of 1968 marched onto the center court at the Cure Insurance Arena Wednesday…
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Local Sikh community the focus of presentation
Ask someone about the Sikh religion and its adherents, and the chances are the response will be a blank stare or maybe a comment about terrorists because the men and boys wear turbans. That is exactly why Amman Seehra spoke to the township council last week, in an attempt to dispel myths and misperceptions about…
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Town’s Diversity Day will be celebrated at Lawrence High School on May 6
Lawrence Township will celebrate its diversity at the annual Diversity and Cultural Festival at Lawrence High School, 2525 Princeton Pike, from noon to 4 p.m. May 6. The event is sponsored by the township’s Human Relations Committee. “There are a lot of people in Lawrence who come from a lot of different nations, and people…
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Route 1 resurfacing planned for South Brunswick
SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Contractors are already preparing sections of Route 1 for resurfacing and widening projects although they will not begin until the summer. New Jersey Department of Transportation officials announced the start of two separate projects on Route 1 in Mercer and Middlesex counties. The first will resurface Route 1 in Lawrence, West Windsor, Plainsboro…
