NESTLÉ DRUMSTICK BRAND SEEKS DYNAMIC YOUNG HEROES – If you know a selfless child or teenager who has made a difference in the lives of others, here’s a way to reward their dedication and determination. The Nestlé Drumstick brand is celebrating young people who have accomplished amazing things – both large and small. Until September 15, adults can nominate outstanding kids as part of the Nestlé Drumstick Heroes Contest. Fifty winning kids will be awarded the ultimate summer celebration, complete with enough Nestlé Drumstick sundae cones and a fun-filled party package to host an unforgettable event for up to 50 family and friends.Entries will be judged on the child or teenager’s accomplishments, as well as the originality and creativity used to achieve their goals. Contest entry forms are available to download at http://www.drumstick.com. Submit your story (150 to 500 words), along with the completed entry form, describing why the child deserves to be honored as a Drumstick Hero. Adults over the age of 18 may nominate children between 6 and 17 years of age who are residents of the United States. Official contest rules are available online. All entries must be received by September 15. Winning children will be notified by phone and/or mail.
The Hunterdon County Mental Health Board invites interested persons to a Public Hearing regarding the State of New Jersey, Division of Mental Health and Addiction Service’s plan to redirect Hunterdon County Adults under 65 years from Hagedorn Psychiatric Hospital to Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital.
Persons from the state will be available to present their plans and hear public comment on Thursday, September 2, 2010, from 6 to 8 pm at the Hunterdon County Rt. 12 Complex, Building #1 Assembly Room, 314 Rt 12, Raritan Township.
It is the policy of Hunterdon County to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities, with advance notification of need. Persons requiring accommodations must call Kay Strain at (908) 788-1253(Voice/TDD), 5 days prior to the meeting date.
For more information, please call Cathy Zahn, Mental Health Planner, Hunterdon County Department of Human Services, P.O. Box 2900, Flemington, NJ 08822 (908) 788-1372 or e-mail czahn@co.hunterdon.nj.us.
The Rutgers Master Gardener Helpline provides advice to the gardening public as one of the many volunteer efforts of the Rutgers Master Gardeners of Somerset and Hunterdon Counties. This
unique sevrice is provided by new graduates of the Master Gardener program along with experienced, certified Master Gardeners of the Rutgers Cooperative Extension. The Helpline’s trained Master Gardener volunteers answer Hunterdon residents’ garden and landscape questions at 908-788-1735 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Monday and Wednesday. Gardeners with questions may also visit the Rutgers Cooperative Extension office at 4 Gauntt Place off Route 31 just north of Hunterdon Medical Center in Raritan Township during those hours.
Calvary Episcopal Church in Flemington NJ http://www.calvary-episcopal.com/ will resume regular Sunday worship schedule on Sunday, September 12th. The Sunday worship schedule is 7:30AM, 9:00AM and 11:00AM.
Jo Coudert, who lives in Califon, NJ, has her tenth book coming out this month from Harlequin Press.
The Dog Who Healed a Family is a collection of animal stories that previously appeared in major magazines, including the Reader’s Digest, McCall’s, and Woman’s Day. All of the stories are true and share a common theme of the love and caring that can exist between people and animals as varied as a parrot, a goose, and a javelina.
Coudert’s previous books include Seven Cats and the Art of Living and The Ditchdiggers’s Daughters, a New Jersey First book. She is also the author of four plays produced off-Broadway and over one hundred magazine articles.
The NJDEP’s Division of Fish and Wildlife has issued a Special Wildlife Management Permit to control feral hogs in Deer Management Zone 25. Hunters do not need a separate permit to pursue hogs in this zone. They need only have their regular hunting licenses and deer permits necessary to hunt deer during the applicable seasons. Feral hogs may be harvested anywhere in the zone. Free-ranging feral hogs of either gender and any age are legal game while deer hunting during the Fall Bow, Permit Bow, Six-day Firearm, Permit Muzzleloader, Permit Shotgun and Winter Bow seasons, provided the hunter has not reached the bag limit for the deer season which is open and for which the hunter has the required license and deer permits. For more information on the hunting of feral hogs visit http://www.njfishandwildlife.com/news/2010/feralhogs10.htm.
Readington Rockets fastpitch softball will hold tryouts for their 14U, 12U & 10U teams dates as follows: 14U on 8/31; 12U on 9/1; 10U on 9/2. One tryout will be held for all levels on 9/8. Rain date for all dates is 9/9. The Rockets softball program consists of play in a fall development league, indoor winter training, spring 2011 training and tournament play and summer 2011 league and tournament play. Eligibility is as follows: 14U born in 1996 or later; 12U born in 1998 or later; 10U born in 2000 or later. TAll tryouts will be held at Hillcrest Park on Hillcrest Rd in Readington. Registration begins at 6 pm and tryouts begin promptly at 6:30 pm. Players should bring glove, cleats, bat and batting helmet. Bats and helmets will be available if needed. For more information call Readington Recreation at 908-534-9752.
Marines of Detachment 927 will hold a membership drive and fundraiser on Saturday and Sunday August 21 and 22, 2010 at the Super Wal-Mart in Flemington and Wal-Mart in Whitehouse Station from 9-5. Funds raised for this event will go to assisting Marine Corps League Detachment 927 and assisting local charities in Hunterdon County. For more information, please call Mark Paradis at 908-236-8464 or go to our web site at http://www.hcmcl.org.
PRE-SCHOOL FOR FOUR YEAR OLDS ~ SEPTEMBER 2010 ~ Applications now accepted! A full-time, certified, district teacher and full-time classroom assistant(s) teach our programs. A speech therapist is available in the classroom several days per week to enhance the speech skills of all students. A certified school nurse attends each day.
Preschool programs implement the State recommended Creative Curriculum, which prepares students for a successful transition into Kindergarten. Students must be 4 years old by October 1, 2010 and must be toilet trained. Programs meet 5 days/week and follow the district calendar. Students DO NOT need to reside within the school district. Parents are responsible for providing transportation and paying tuition to the
Board of Education at a rate of $300 per month for 10 months. Copper Hill School – 9:30—11:45 a.m. Barley Sheaf School – 11:45—2:00 p.m. Parents seeking to enroll their child should call: Flemington-Raritan Regional School District, Department of Special Services, (908) 284-7680.
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The Clinton Book Shop is pleased to announce the initiation of the One Book – One Clinton Project. This exciting initiative is designed to bring together individuals and families throughout the town of Clinton and beyond to read together and discuss works of important literature.
Here is how the project works. One Book-One Clinton will [...]
Winners of the Hunterdon County Cultural & Heritage Commission’s tenth biennial juried art exhibition were announced at an opening reception July 15 in the Sawmill Gallery at Prallsville Mills, Stockton. The exhibition continues through Friday, July 30 and is open daily from 1 to 5 p.m. The selection of work and the winning entries were [...]
CLINTON TOWN – The Hunterdon Art Museum is pleased to announce the opening of Pamela Becker: Patterns and Constructs from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 3. The show will run through January 16, 2011.
This exhibition will present a selection of Pamela Becker’s textile wall pieces, baskets, and recent textile constructions as well [...]
Don’t think you can draw or paint, but would like to give it a try? “Everyone has talent, they just don’t know it!” says art instructor and illustrator Lena Shiffman. The Hunterdon County Department of Parks & Recreation is offering a Thursday Evening Art Studio at the Arboretum located at 1020 Route 31 North, in [...]
Dennis Tafoya, author of the highly-praised new crime novel, “The Wolves of Fairmount Park,” is bringing his Crime Writing Workshop for aspiring young writers to the Clinton Book Shop on August, 11th at 7:00pm.
Tafoya, who lives in Bucks County, Pa., is hoping that all would-be thriller writers will be interested in getting a few [...]
The Clinton Book Shop will be hosting a special two-hour writers workshop on Saturday, July 10th from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. featuring A.S. King and Josh Berk. King and Berk are two highly regarded and top-selling young adult authors who have weathered the storm of going from writer to published author.
LAMBERTVILLE – Riverrun Gallery will present the work of two notable Philadelphia artists Karen Fogarty and Georganna Lenssen from July 8 through July 31. The public is invited to meet both artists and view their work at an opening reception from 6:30 to 9:00 a.m. on Saturday July 10 and from 2 to 5 p.m. on [...]
CLINTON, June 24, 2010—An exhibit of photographs taken by local students and residents will be on exhibit from July 15 to October 1 in Gallery One of the Red Mill Museum Village at 56 Main St. in Clinton. The photos, all of which hew to the Red Mill’s 200th anniversary themes, the Beauty of History and [...]
There’s a treat in store for you at the North County Branch Library throughout June. The “Storybook Quilt Project” showcases over a dozen handmade quilts with the storybooks that inspired their patterns. Several book motivated vests and related items are also on display, for example “Bemis the Feedsack Cat” from the Bemis Packaging Plant in [...]
Local author Lisa Eichlin will sign her latest book “The Bravest Boy I Ever Knew” at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 30 at Clinton Book Shop, 12 East Main Street, Clinton Town.
“What makes someone brave?”
Michael wants to introduce you to someone very important. This boy is just like you. He loves [...]
The North County Branch of the Hunterdon Public Library will display the results of a couple’s passions now through the end of June at 65 Halstead Street in Clinton Town.
As a public library customer, Lynne Overk developed a unique philosophy about the relationship between libraries and citizens.
Flemington, NJ –The Hunterdon County Cultural & Heritage Commission invites artists to submit work for its Tenth Biennial Juried Art Exhibition July 15-30 in the Sawmill Gallery at Prallsville Mills on Route 29 North in Stockton.
In response to continuing public demand for “Beneath These Waters, a history of Round Valley,” author and Hunterdon County Historian Stephanie Stevens will sign copies from 12 to 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 22 at the Readington Public Library, 255 Main Street in Whitehouse Station.
The book, published by the County Cultural & Heritage Commission, which [...]
Johnson & Johnson’s World Headquarters Gallery presents a new exhibition featuring the work of Lebanon-based artist Maureen Chatfield. The exhibition is part of the company’s ongoing New Jersey Artists Series and runs from April 30 to June 7.
The exhibition presents a retrospective of Chatfield’s work, focusing mainly on her representational landscape paintings. The subject [...]
Saturday, April 10, the Clinton Book Shop will welcome local author, Stephanie P. Ledgin. Stephanie will be signing copies of her latest book, “Discovering Folk Music” from 1 until 3 p.m.
Stephanie P. Ledgin is a journalist and photographer whose work has focused on bluegrass and traditional folk music since 1975, when she was hired [...]
Voting for singing sisters in a national coffee jingle contest could mean cash prizes for the singers and voters.
Identical twins Helena and Maria Mehalis of Flemington, professionally known as musical group HelenaMaria, have been selected as top 10 semi-finalists in the Folgers coffee “The Best Part of Wakin’ Up” jingle contest. [...]
The Flemington Jewish Community Center, 5 Sergeantsville Road, Flemington, will hold an art auction, Saturday, Oct. 24, with a preview at 7 p.m., and live auction to begin at 8 p.m., presented by AJ Ross Auctions.
More than 150 custom framed and matted works of art will be offered for sale: lithographs, etchings, serigraphs, animation [...]
In support of its new Scholarship Program, the New Jersey School of Music is proud to announce its first annual Faculty Concert and Dinner to be held on Sunday October 18th, from 5:30 until 8:00 PM, at the Firehouse Café in Mount Holly, NJ (http://www.thefirehousecafe.net).
The school, with campuses in Medford and Cherry [...]
HUNTERDON COUNTY — The Trustees of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation have announced their approval more than 200 grants totaling $10,009,500 to non-profit organizations throughout the state of New Jersey and others serving New Jersey, including $90,000 to three organizations in Hunterdon County.
“These grants represent 95% of our total grantmaking for 2009,” stated David Grant, [...]
