Tag: Lawrenceville
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Notre Dame High School junior initiates food drive collection
Lauren Lencovich, a junior at Notre Dame High School, graduate of St. Gregory the Great Academy, and member of St. Greg’s Bold Youth Ministry, decided to use her extra time over Easter Break to help others. After seeing a report on television that food pantries were low, she asked her father Tom Lencovich, chancellor of…
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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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Mary Darwin Heath Memorial Scholarship Fund seeks applicants
The Woman’s Club of Lawrenceville is continuing the club’s long tradition of supporting young girls in Lawrence Township by awarding a scholarship for one to go to college. The club announced that the scholarship committee is seeking applicants for the Mary Darwin Heath Memorial Scholarship Fund, which began in 1938. Completed applications and official transcripts…
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Annual TrashedArt Contest returns to Mercer County Library
During the month of April, the Lawrence Branch of the Mercer County Library will hold its annual TrashedArt Contest. The contest is a way for the library to celebrate Earth Day with the community. It is a contest that displays art created from 75 percent of recycled material. Library officials have been organizing this event…
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Lawrenceville teacher wins historic STEM Teacher of the Year award
Sarah Sutton of Ben Franklin Elementary in Lawrenceville established a first in Mercer County. That honor in the county was the result of Sutton being named the first Elementary Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Teacher of the Year. The award and distinction is provided by the Mercer County Professional Engineers Society. The award has…
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Notre Dame to offer three merit scholarships
Notre Dame High School will award three incoming freshmen with Merit Scholarships starting for the 2019-20 academic school year, according to a statement provided by the school in Lawrenceville. The first scholarship, “The Fitzpatrick Family Academic Merit Scholarship” includes full tuition offered to one student. While “The Mary Ann Liptak Academic Merit Scholarship” will be…
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Area doctor helps provide supplies for Cuban synagogue
Dr. Seth Derman is a OBGYN who made his first medical mission trip to the country of Cuba. Derman, joined with 22 others and travelled to Havana, in what started as a religious mission trip. He would go on to provide supplies and medications to the Patronato, a Havana synagogue and community center that includes…
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Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages donates winter coats for Central Jersey families
SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Local bottler Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages recently donated more than 400 winter coats to New Jersey nonprofit HomeFront. Hundreds of distribution floor and office associates at Liberty’s South Brunswick facility collected the coats over the last few months and then delivered them to HomeFront’s Lawrenceville office on Nov. 28. “We were thrilled to…
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Middlesex County College, Rider University sign guaranteed transfer agreement
Rider University and Middlesex County College recently signed a guaranteed transfer agreement to reaffirm their original 1999 agreement and expand students’ abilities to earn bachelor’s degrees. Additionally, 32 program-to-program agreements, ranging from education to science to business, were also signed. Symbolically, the transfer agreement for Rider’s new Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a…
