Bordentown Current

Balloon pollution is spoiling the party for wildlife

BY ALISON MITCHELL New Jersey Conservation Foundation There’s something undeniably cheerful about balloons. We buy them for birthday parties, graduations, weddings and other moments we celebrate. They’re colorful, familiar and, for...
Bordentown Current

Got bugs? Got life!

Rutgers Master Gardeners of Mercer County will sponsor the 22nd Annual Insect Festival on Saturday, September 19, at...
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When it comes to state’s grasslands, we reap what we sow  

BY ALISON MITCHELL New Jersey Conservation Foundation When people picture New Jersey’s classic natural landscapes, they often think of the...
Bordentown Current

‘We remember’

Twenty-six years ago, September 11 meant back-to-school spirits; hazy, end-of-summer weather; the beginning of a season with rowdy...
Bordentown Current

Diamondback terrapins: Another New Jersey jewel

BY ALISON MITCHELL New Jersey Conservation Foundation Northern diamondback terrapins are the only turtles in the world that spend their...

State Legislature proclaims April 9 as Paul Robeson Day

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Photo by Lea Kahn/Staff The brightly-colored mural of Paul Robeson at Princeton Middle School was created by Jocelynn Hunter Dow, a student majoring in Visual...

Final respects

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Courtesy of Hillsborough Township PBA 205 Members of the Hillsborough Township Police Department, including two motor units, stood alongside thousands of police officers from across...

Hillsborough school board introduces tentative budget

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Schools Superintendent Mike Volpe delivered a tentative 2025-26 budget that he's "not proud of." "We still have factors working against us from the state formula...

‘Typically, no news is good news’

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The Route 206 project has seemingly stalled. That's how township officials are looking at it, according to Mayor John Ciccarelli in his Ask the Mayor...

Garden State Film Festival returns March 27-30

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The Garden State Film Festival returns for its 23rd year from March 27-30. The Garden State Film Festival was born in 2002 after a chance...

Piano students to recreate silent film experience

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Silent films evoke scenes of a bygone era. In our bustling world of sound and visual effects, we can hardly imagine a time when...
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