Annandale News

IT'S WRITTEN ON THEIR HEADS, three generations of the Friend family in Annandale are proud to be Americans and are letting everyone know it this Fourth of July with their red-white-and-blue Mohawk haircuts.

The North County Branch of the Hunterdon County Library will celebrate its 30th anniversary of providing information and enrichment to county residents, and its 10th anniversary in its 65 Halstead Street location from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. July 18.

A traditional hometown celebration mixed with a more sobering nod to the document signaling America's birth as Central Jersey joined its counterparts across the land marking the nation's 233rd birthday Saturday.

During the months of July and August, the Hunterdon County YMCA Child Learning Center at the Round Valley Branch in Annandale is providing back-up child care for unexpected, short-term child care needs for children ages 6 weeks to 7 years.

One patient needed an appendectomy. Another had pneumonia. Some had been shot. It was June 6, 1944, what would later be known as D-Day. Manning, then a 21-year-old nurse stationed in Southampton, England, didn't appreciate the significance of what was happening that day.

North Hunterdon High School graduating seniors were awarded honors at a ceremony June 4 at the school.

DURING JULY AND August, the Hunterdon County YMCA Child Learning Center at the Round Valley Branch, 1410 Route 22 West in Annandale, is providing backup child care for unexpected, short-term child-care needs - such as when the babysitter is on vacation, sick or unavailable or there are scheduling conflicts or a job interview - for children 6 ...

The Knights of Columbus, Immaculate Conception Church - Council 6245 conducted its sixth annual awards ceremony on June 2. Major award recipients lauded for their community-service work included The Arc of Hunterdon County and Life Choices of Phillipsburg.

CLINTON Shoplifting From A&P A 19-year-old and two juveniles -- all from Annandale -- were charged Friday with shoplifting from the A&P supermarket on Route 173.

Express-Times Photo JOE GILL This photo is part of the New Jersey high school graduations 2009 gallery

Mechanical engineering major Andrew Yard of Frenchtown is one of a group of Virginia Tech University seniors that has produced more than 200 gallons of biodiesel as part of a senior design project.

A recent commenter to IPBiz included the statement: Dr. Colvin is a chemist at Rice University, the institution that discovered fullerene and that gives her and her colleagues a unique perspective.

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Two years ago, George Waple III returned to Omaha beach in Normandy, France, where he landed in the aftermath of the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944.

COUSINS IN A GLOOMY MANSION are played by Amanda Obiedzinski of Pittstown as Mary Lennox and Hugh Zimmerbaum, also of Pittstown as Colin Craven.

Graduating from Syracuse University -- Justin Lefkus, Annandale, cum laude with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering.

Forty-five women from large Central Jersey and other nearby corporations will be honored tonight at the 30th annual Tribute to Women and Industry Awards Dinner sponsored by the YWCA of Central New Jersey at the Hyatt Regency New Brunswick.

Kaitlyn Vona of Clinton Township, majoring in special education. Beloit College -- Ben Dahl of Lambertville.

Justin Lefkus of Annandale received the following awards at Syracuse University -- Chancellor's scholarship; Kin Nee Tong Memorial scholarship; Jesse R. Rood scholarship; he was recognized as an emerging student leader; accepted into and completed the GE Leadership at Work Series at Syracuse University; was a candidate for the engagement ...

ALEXANDRIA TWP. Goes Off Road At Curve Janise Nelson, 48, of Alexandria lost control of a 2005 Honda Accord on a curve on Route 513 near Bush Farm Lane on Tuesday, May 5, about 11 a.m. The Honda left the roadway and hit a wooden fence, damaging about 30 feet of it.