Windsor Hights Herald and Cranbury Press

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 tours are held from 1-4 p.m. at the house, 215 South Middlebush Road, Somerset. For more information, visit themeadowsfoundation.org. The Burlington County Farmers Market enters...

East Windsor and Pennington students were among a number of students awarded scholarships from The New Jersey Food Council. Isabella Benitez, of East Windsor and a freshman at Keystone College, was awarded $5,000 with the New Jersey Food Infusino Scholarship, which awards an employee in a retail member business. Kyle...

A young man’s quest to learn more about his family’s military service has spurred on a small museum featuring military items from World War I to the Afghanistan War. Cranbury resident Adam MacMillan’s interest in the military grew at a young age as he started collecting military items and souvenirs from veterans, family members and family members of veterans.

When outside exploring nature, many people are drawn to the animal kingdom. Animals have observable behaviors, not to mention a pair of eyes staring at you – the owl in a tree, the fawn in a clearing, the frog on a lily pad or the squirrel in the grass.

Gov. Phil Murphy, state Senate President Nicholas Scutari and state Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin announced they have reached an agreement on a back-to-school sales tax holiday as a part of New Jersey’s Fiscal Year 2023 budget. According to a press release from Murphy’s office, the sales tax holiday will...

As many recognize, humans are changing the natural world, and by doing so. are threatening its very survival. A recent report, again on the PBS Newshour, warned that globally 1 in 5 reptile species. is facing extinction. This was the conclusion of a study published in the scientific journal Nature.

Princeton High School Class of 2022 closed one chapter together as they received their high school diplomas. The 451 high school graduates – dressed in blue caps and gowns – walked from the school to their seats on the front lawn of the high school on June 20 under a sunny evening sky.

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 shootings and gun violence. Earlier this month on June 11, the people at the rally, which occurred at Hinds Plaza, joined thousands across America in demanding...

Seniors came together on the baseball diamond at Trenton Thunder Ballpark to mark Hightstown High School’s 107th annual graduation ceremony. Friends and family members took their seats in the stands surrounding the baseball field, holding up umbrellas for shade – not rain – and fanning themselves with the high school graduation ceremony program booklets on June 17.

Municipal property taxes will remain flat for the 10th consecutive year in East Windsor. The East Windsor Township Council adopted a $24.1 million budget at its June 7 meeting. Officials said the property tax rate will remain at 43 cents per $100 of assessed value. The owner of a house...

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 and fees, according to a June 21 press release from the state university. “We remain committed to providing excellence in academic experience and opportunity at an...

After months of searching, members of the Cranbury Township Board of Education have selected a new chief school administrator to lead the Cranbury School. Dr. Jennifer K. Diszler, assistant superintendent of curriculum, instruction and administration for the South Brunswick School District, was named new chief school administrator (CSA) and principal of the pre-k to grade 8 Cranbury School with a unanimous vote of the school board at its meeting on June 15.

As a recent Sierra Club magazine article reminded us, CO2 is an essential ingredient in our atmosphere and biosphere. It flows into plants and the oceans, into rocks and the soil through decomposition. Most of the planet’s CO2 is stored in rocks. But lately we have been changing the...

From High Point State Park at the “top” of the state to Cape May Point State Park at the southern tip, New Jersey has an incredible variety of public lands. Mountains, lakes, ocean beaches, bays, deciduous forests, pine barrens, beautiful rivers and streams, historic sites – we’ve got it all!

Gov. Phil Murphy, state Senate President Nicholas Scutari and state Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin have announced the expansion of the ANCHOR tax relief program, making the relief program one of the largest in state history. ANCHOR, which stands for Affordable New Jersey Communities for Homeowners and Renters, was announced by...

The Hun School community in Princeton celebrated the accomplishments and achievements of 154 members of the Class of 2022 during the School’s 108th commencement. This year’s commencement also celebrates 50 years of girls and women at Hun. “All of us who appreciate the benefits of living today in...

The Pennington School held its middle school graduation ceremony. Some 50 students completed their studies. After an invocation from Chaplain David Hallgren, Head of School William S. Hawkey presented opening remarks on June 9, according to a press release from the school. Dean of Faculty Debbie Fermo presented The United...

East Windsor officials recognized the importance of the two public libraries in the township – Hickory Corner Branch and Twin Rivers Branch. Mayor Janice S. Mironov and Council Members Marc Lippman, Alan Rosenberg and John Zoller presented a proclamation celebrating National Library Week, with the theme “Connect with Your Library,” according to a press release on June 13.

For more than 30 years, Central Jersey families in need of housing and help have found some hope with HomeFront in Mercer County. Through HomeFront’s Family Campus in Lawrence and programs from after-school tutoring for children to job training and providing immediate emergency housing, HomeFront continues to aid those families in need or who have become homeless in their return to independence.

The dangers that we all face from the global climate crisis have been widely, and in detail,. documented. Those dangers take many forms as our environments react to the heat and pollution we are pouring into our atmosphere, oceans and continents. A recent report documented by a PBS Newshour program...