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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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Grant funds help purchase STEM carts for Lawrence school district

Recent grant funds will bring Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, or STEM carts to more elementary schools in Lawrence. The Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. in New...

‘We choose life:’ Princeton protest demands action against mass shootings, gun violence

Following mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y., Uvalde, Texas and Tulsa, Okla. more than 350 people gathered together in Princeton for a rally against mass...

West Windsor Planning Board to decide on proposed warehouse on Quakerbridge Road

The West Windsor Township Planning Board expects to make a decision on Bridge Point West Windsor LLC's proposed warehouse distribution center on Quakerbridge Road...

Rutgers Board of Governors approves tuition and fee increase

The Rutgers University Board of Governors has approved a $5.1 billion budget for the 2022-23 academic year that includes a 2.9% increase in tuition...

Lawrence High School student competes on American Ninja Warrior

James David Sannella may only be a high school student, but he is already a seasoned obstacle course racer, or "ninja." He won the 2021...

SOLUTIONS: Coming together on CO2

By Huck Fairman As a recent Sierra Club magazine article reminded us, CO2 is an essential ingredient in our atmosphere and biosphere. It flows into...

The State We’re In: Underfunded, understaffed state parks need a ‘friend’

By Alison Mitchell, Co-Executive Director, New Jersey Conservation Foundation From High Point State Park at the "top" of the state to Cape May Point State...

Common calendar, Packet papers, June 17

Ongoing   Free tours of the Wyckoff-Garretson House & Museum, which dates back to 1730, will be held the second Sunday of every month, through October. Docent-led...

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