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New, Improved Playgrounds Coming to Two Hamilton Neighborhoods
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EPA Awards Hamilton $500K for Nearpara Site Clean-Up
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Former Ocean Spray Plant Could Grow into Cannabis Business
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Robbinsville’s Budding Filmmaker Javier Cortez Recognized in Festival
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Rep. Smith Pushing for More Federal Research on Alzheimer's Disease Treatments, ...
By ELIZABETH A MEYERS
May 18, 2022ROBBINSVILLE, NJ -- Robbinsville Township is launching its first Buy One, Give One (BOGO) Fresh Market as a "fresh new idea to give back to the community"
The program encourages area residents to buy extra essential items when they are grocery shopping and donate them to the market. Those items will be distributed on the same day through the Fresh ...
HAMILTON, NJ -- The Hamilton Township Patriotic Committee (HTPC) invites the public to join them at the annual Armed Forces Day ceremony to pay tribute to the members of the U.S. Armed Forces.
The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held on Saturday, May 21 at 11:00a.m. (with a rain date of Sunday, May 22 at 1:00p.m) at Hamilton's Veterans Park ...
HAMILTON, NJ -- Hamilton's Fadi Farag is one of only 95 New Jersey high school and college students set to graduate on May 21 from the prestigious Governor’s STEM Scholars, a program of the Research & Development Council of New Jersey.
Fadi, who is a junior at Steinert High School, completed the year-long program, which provides a 360° view of ...
HAMILTON, NJ -- Robbinsville Township High School senior Raaha Kumaresan has been named one of only 2,500 Merit Scholar designees across the country.
Raaha is likely to attend college to study medicine. Her $2,500 scholarship is being funded directly by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Robbinsville Township School Superintendent Brian Betze told TAPinto ...
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By ELIZABETH A MEYERS
May 20, 2022HAMILTON, NJ -- As families all across the country are facing an nfant formula shortage, the Hamilton Township Health Department offered some suggested resources and guidance.
The Health Department suggested that families should call their personal OB/GYN or pediatrician to see if they have in-office samples or can suggest a similar formula that may be more readily available in ...
HAMILTON, NJ -- To help area residents find healthy ways to reduce and manage stress, the John O. Wilson Hamilton Neighborhood Center, Inc., in partnership with Professional Counseling and Development Center of Hamilton, is hosting a free educational workshop.
The “Surviving Stress: Tips, Tricks and Techniques to Reduce Stress” workshop will be held ...
By ELIZABETH A MEYERS
May 22, 2022BORDENTOWN, NJ -- For the second time in five months, a correctional police officer is recovering from head and facial injuries after being attacked by an inmate at the Bordentown Juvenile Medium Security Facility on Thursday morning.
According to the State Police Benevolent Association's (PBA) Local #105, at approximately 8:40a.m, an officer attempted to distance himself from ...
CEDAR GROVE, NJ – Governor Phil Murphy, Acting Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and lawmakers, including State Senator Linda Greenstein (D-Mercer/Middlesex), want to create a statewide police licensing program that would require all law enforcement officers to have valid, active licenses to be employed.
More than 40 states across the country use a form of ...
By ELIZABETH A MEYERS
May 23, 2022HAMILTON, NJ -- Hamilton families will soon have new and improved neighborhood playgrounds to enjoy after the Hamilton Township Council recently approved the plans.
The improvements will be made to the Cornell Heights and the Connecticut Avenue playgrounds.
“I want to thank Hamilton Council for authorizing new playground equipment at Cornell Heights and ...
HAMILTON, NJ -- Hamilton Township has been selected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to receive a Brownfields Grant that will be used to further the rehabilitation and clean-up of the former Nearpara Rubber Factory plant, Mayor Jeff Martin announced last week.
Martin said the community is "thrilled to be only one of two towns in New Jersey to receive ...
By TAPINTO MOUNT LAUREL STAFF
May 6, 2022TRENTON – Acting Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced on Wednesday a $141 million settlement with the financial software company Intuit Inc. that resolves a multi-state investigation into claims Intuit misled consumers into paying for online tax preparation services instead of using the company’s free service offerings.
As part of the settlement, more than 70,000 New ...
TRENTON, NJ --Through a partnership with Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care (RUBHC), the New Jersey State Parole Board has earned a $3.238 million federal grant to provide support for peer recovery support services offered under the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program that assists offenders with substance use disorder.
The program will comprise a team of ...
By ELIZABETH A MEYERS
May 22, 2022ROBBINSVILLE, NJ -- The Robbinsville Hamilton Rotary Club is holding its annual bike collection drive to give new life to well-loved bikes in order to fund programs operated by the Boys & Girls Club of Mercer County (BGC.)
The Rotary Club Bike Collection Drive will be held on Saturday, June 4 from 11:00 a.m. and 2:00p.m pm at Friendly’s restaurant in the ...
ROBBINSVILLE, NJ -- Thanks to the efforts of the Sharon School Parent Teacher Association (PTA) and school administration that recently hosted their fourth annual Sharon Shines event 15 local non-profit organizations will benefit greatly.
The Sharon Smiles program is a day of service-learning where students across the 50 PreK - 4 classrooms participate in the excitement and ...
By ELIZABETH A MEYERS
May 20, 2022HAMILTON, NJ – One of Hamilton Township's local game stores -- Family Fun Hobbies -- has relocated to a larger space to expand their space for games, classes and tournaments as well as merchandise making it one of the largest hobby and game stores in New Jersey.
Hamilton Township Councilman Anthony Carabelli, Jr. was on hand at the May 4 grand opening of the new 5,000 ...
WAWA, PA — Wawa gas stations are offering Mobile App Fuel Discount for Wawa Rewards members a discount of $0.15 per gallon to help ease the cost of filling their tank.
Originally intended to run through May 8, the deal will now continue through June 12.
Rewards members who use the Wawa app on their phone to activate a fuel pump and pay at any Wawa fuel store ...
By KRISTIN ANTONELLO
May 18, 2022BORDENTOWN CITY, NJ — After a historic turnout in 2021, the Bordentown Historical Society will once again be presenting its annual History in Bloom Garden Tour next month.
The 2022 event will be taking place on Saturday, June 25 from 11AM to 5PM, with a rain date of Sunday, June 26.
This year's event features tried-and-true favorites as well as new gardens for patrons to ...
ROBBINSVILLE, NJ -- Robbinsville Township will celebrate National Trails Day on May 21 with the annual community clean-up of the Thomas J. May Nature Trail.
Dedicated in 1993, the trail is part of the 36-acre Tatum Park along Meadowbrook Road in Robbinsville and named after the late- Tomm May. May was a local community environmentalist and soil scientist/senior geologist ...