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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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Lawrence Town Hall remains closed to the public

The Lawrence Township Municipal Building will remain closed to the public at least through October, despite neighboring Hamilton Township officials' decision to open their...

Rider announces measures to reduce tuition ‘sticker shock’ and strengthen educational value

Rider University announced a series of new measures intended to strengthen the overall value of a Rider education, including a 22% reduction of annual...

Opinion: Keep Your Mask On, This Proposal Has ‘Stink’ All Over It

Keep your mask on, this proposal has "stink" all over it. I’m referring to the proposed building of 70 housing units, 69 designated affordable housing,...

The timeless tale of monarch butterfly migration

By Michele S. Byers Do you ever read through old newspapers and notice that sometimes the topic and perspective are still pretty current and fresh?...

New Jersey to provide opioid overdose antidote for free from Sept. 24-26

Gov. Phil Murphy and Human Services Commissioner Carole Johnson have announced New Jersey will offer the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone (commonly called Narcan)...

Common calendar, Packet papers, Sept. 11

Editor's Note: Please call before attending any event. As of press time, certain restrictions were still in place due to the coronavirus outbreak.   Ongoing The Mercer...

Bristol-Myers Squibb tests Mercer County first responders for COVID-19 antibodies

COVID-19 antibody testing provided by Bristol Myers-Squibb for Mercer County’s first responders was held during the past week at the Dempster Fire Training Center...

Central Jersey residents feel shaking from earthquake

Residents of central New Jersey were awakened at about 2 a.m. this morning, Sept. 9, to shaking caused by a 3.1 magnitude earthquake. According to...

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