Lawrenceville News

CHATHAM/CHATHAM TWP. The Board of Education for the School District of the Chathams is scheduled to meet on April 28 at 7:30 p.m. in the municipal building, 58 Meyersvlle Road.

BRIGANTINE - A Brigantine woman who lost her home in a fire won $1 million in a New Jersey Lottery scratch off game last month, officials said.

This third annual Rising Stars in Civil Engineering and Rising Stars in Structural Engineering recognizes 30 professionals, 40 years old or younger working in the United States, who have shown exceptional technical capability, leadership ability, effective teaching or research, or public service benefiting the civil and structural engineering ... (more)

Princeton Photography Club announces the winners of their annual exhibition of winning high school student photographs, SeasonScapes at D&R Greenway Land Trust.

A FAMILIAR FACE: The Rev. Peter Stimpson, whose weekly column has graced this newspaper since 1996, will retire at the end of June after a quarter century as executive director of the Trinity Counseling Service, 22 Stockton Street.

TRENTON - Gov. Chris Christie got "The Daily Show" treatment Monday night after the governor claimed his lawyers had absolved him of any blame in the controversial closing of access lanes to the George Washington Bridge last September.

New Jersey's ban on cell phone use by drivers goes into full effect July 1, but police still can't pull somebody over simply for chattering away while going down the road.

PLAINSBORO - Students in the West-Windsor-Plainsboro school district will bowl for charity this week to help homeless and at-risk children in Mercer County.

Jenn Rogers, a Mercer County Naturalist, brings out a box containing a bat. Kieran Hocquaux, 3 and a half, of Lawrenceville, looks for the bat.

For a pricey admission, New Jersey taxpayers now have a front-row seat to Gov. Chris Christie's national rehab from scandal.

LAWRENCEVILLE N.J. The Marist women's tennis team claimed its first Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference victory of the year with a 6-0 sweep of Rider.

"TWENTY YEARS IS A GOOD RUN": So says Robert L. Annis, dean and director of Rider University's Westminster College of the Arts, who will leave his post at the campus on Walnut Lane at the end of this year.

There's nothing much to draw music fans to the extreme north end of Calhoun Street in Trenton anymore.

A Red Lobster customer who suffered ceramic shards in his eyes from a plate that a waiter dropped a plate can present evidence on his eye surgeries, a federal judge ruled.

No matter when you visit Leonardo's II in Lawrenceville, chances are Robert Pluta will be there, greeting customers at the door.

Local signs and graphics provider FASTSIGNSA® of Lawrenceville was named one of the top 25 centers out of more than 500 locations at the 2014 FASTSIGNS Convention, which was recently held in Anaheim, Calif.