Walking into the Curlis Lake Woods across the street from her home in Pennington, Andrea Fereshteh never expected to write a book about her beloved forest walks. But as she…
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The Lawrence Hopewell Trail announces the release of a new online feature, a weekly blog designed and written by local resident and Lawrence High School student Cassie Ankener. Ankener has…
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A bipartisan group of elected officials joined conservation leaders and citizen landowners whose land will be seized by PennEast pipeline after a recent court ruling in opposition to the proposed…
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The Hopewell Township Planning Board did not plan on facing scrutiny from the Environmental Commission at its December 13 meeting. At its November meeting, the Board conducted extensive edits on…
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A tiny Northern Saw-whet Owl sprung off of Naturalist Tyler Christensen’s hand and vanished into the darkness, silently slicing through the night air. Their stealthy flight allows these nocturnal owls to…
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Events & Features
Juried Exhibition Calls Attention to the Life-Giving Properties of Trees on Lands Preserved by D&R Greenway
D&R Greenway Land Trust’s juried exhibition, Lovely as a Tree, includes the work of more than 80 artists responding to the words of poet Joyce Kilmer: “I think that I…
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The Hopewell Borough Council adopted a plastic bag ordinance at the November 1 meeting, banning the distribution of plastic bags by commercial businesses in the Borough. The Council also heard…
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Join the Mercer County Park Commission’s team of trained owl banders at the Historic Hunt Barn on select evenings this fall to learn more about one of nature’s most elusive…
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More than three years after the Mount Rose Preserve was created at the site of the former Western Electric/AT&T property on Carter Road, an additional parcel of land for the…
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D&R Greenway Land Trust announces a new milestone: preservation of the 300th property permanently protected since the organization’s founding in 1989. Woosamonsa Ridge Preserve, in Pennington, comprises more than 146…