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‘We need both natural lands and playgrounds, sports fields’

In calling for the "preservation" of "half" of New Jersey's land (https://centraljersey.com/2024/05/06/an-urgent-call-to-preserve-half-of-new-jerseys-land/), Jay Watson and the New Jersey Conservation Foundation are misleading your readers. What they're including as "preserved land"...

Common calendar, Packet papers, May 17

Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, and Somerset counties New Jersey Blood Services (NJBS), a division of New York Blood Center, which...

Hillsborough Township creating a Community Equity and Diversity Profile

Hillsborough Township officials are taking a "deep dive" to create a Community Equity and Diversity Profile. Township Planning director...

An ‘ode’ to New Jersey’s dragonflies and damselflies

by Alison Mitchell, Co-Executive Director, New Jersey Conservation Foundation If you're near a pond, stream, or marsh on a...

Depression and suicide risk can intensify in spring and summer

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Intense symptoms for individuals with depression are commonly associated with the winter...

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Common calendar, Packet papers, May 28

Ongoing   The Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber will return to hosting in-person events. The first in-person event on the calendar is June 24’s Business After Business, which...

Memorial Day parade, cermeony planned for May 29

Hillsborough will host a parade for Memorial Day beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 29, traveling from New Amwell Road to Beekman Lane to...

Versaci dazzles on the mound for Hillsborough in Senior Day loss

Senior Vinny Versaci got the news from Head Coach Tom Augello late last week that he would be getting the start on the hill...

Somerset County Library System announces programs for June

The Somerset County Library System New Jersey will offer the following programs and events during June: Read to a Therapy Dog will be held for...

Common calendar, Packet papers, May 21

Ongoing   Princeton Girlchoir (PGC) and Princeton Boychoir (PBC) are now auditioning new choristers for the 2021-22 season. Any child entering grades 3-12 this fall is welcomed. Both...

SOLUTIONS 5/21: The New Jersey Clean Energy Program

By Huck Fairman New Jersey's Clean Energy Program presented on a Zoom meeting by local Sierra Club member, Kip Cherry and several associates. New Jersey’s Clean...

Hillsborough honors its nurses

Mayor Shawn Lipani joined Bridgeway Senior Care of Hillsborough in honoring its heroes, the nurses and certified nurse’s assistants, during national Skilled Nursing Care...

Postcard art winner will have artwork displayed on billboard in Hillsborough

The Hillsborough Education BORO PRIDE project recently sponsored a Postcards for Kids art contest. The artwork, embodying the theme “We are All in This Together,"...

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