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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...

Lawrence Township school board approves 2024-25 budget

Lawrence Township property owners will see a two-cent increase in the school district property tax rate, based on...

Retired Army Colonel to lead Lawrence Memorial Day parade

Retired U.S. Army Colonel Charles J. "Bud" O'Brien will lead the Lawrence Township Memorial Day parade as its...

Annual bike drive nets over 150 bikes

Over 150 bikes were donated from all over the county and surrounding area as Mercer County’s Park Commission and...

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SOLUTIONS 12/24: Our Warming Poles

By Huck Fairman While we worry about new strains of the virus and rising prices, recent environmental reports in the news reveal that we have...

Westminster Choir College students petition Rider University administrators for improved conditions

Citing what they claim are broken promises, a group of Westminster Choir College students and alumni has petitioned Rider University to either fulfill its...

Lawrence Township Nature Center will be renamed after open space advocate

Without Anne Demarais, there likely would not have been a Lawrence Greenways trail network, nor would Drexel Woods, at the southern end of Drexel...

Smartphone-based audio tour helps visitors access Revolutionary War history

Visitors and New Jerseyans alike can now use their smartphone to enjoy narrated travels in George Washington’s footsteps as the Crossroads of the American...

SOLUTIONS 12/17: Emerson and Thoreau speak to our time

By Huck Fairman In happening upon a book review of a new history of the American Transcendentalists, particularly Emerson and Thoreau, I was awakened, as...

Common calendar, Packet papers, December 17

Ongoing The Princeton Farmers Market will operate from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the Franklin Avenue lot bi-weekly beginning Dec. 9. Shoppers can expect local...

Superintendent provides continued updates about handgun incident at high school

Aiming to squash rumors about the Dec. 8 incident in which a Lawrence High School student brought a loaded handgun to school, school district...

School board member ends service with Lawrence Township Board of Education

It was a bittersweet moment for Joyce Scott, whose term on the Lawrence Township Public Schools Board of Education came to a close at...

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