Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Spend less at pricey markets or in organic food aisles and count on knowing your produce is organic.
Tips on growing your own organic produce will be presented at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday at the Bernardsville Public Library, for those who want to eat and serve organic without constantly relying on other sources for foods free of pesticides and synthetic herbicides. Wanda Knapik, director of the Bernardsville Community Garden and owner of My Local Garden, will discuss how to grow organic vegetables, herbs, fruits, nuts, and berries in your own backyard or in a plot in a community garden. "If trees blew down with the hurricane, you can now plant fruit trees or a vegetable garden in that sunny spot in your yard," Knapik suggested. "At the end of May, you can be planting tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and herbs. Using organic practices will …
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Sunday, May 5, 2013
Bernardsville Library hosting free seminar Monday.
The Bernardsville Public Library is hosting another information session, scheduled for 7 p.m. on Monday, on tips for helping area parents guide their children toward success with homework. There is no charge to attend the program at the library, located at 1 Anderson Hill Road, but advance registration is required. Sign up on the library's website. According to the library, representatives from the Huntington Learning Center will present Homework: A Parent’s Survival Guide. The representatives are planning to discuss the seven most common problems facing parents when dealing with their child’s homework. Those challenges include: their child does not do his best work; refuses to do homework assignments; fails to bring assignments home; …
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Monday, February 18, 2013
Bernardsville Library awarded prizes this weekend during the library's first LEGO Challenge for local children.
Thanks to generous donations of LEGO toy building pieces, the Bernardsville Public Library already has been holding weekend drop-in sessions for local children and their family members in the library's children section. But this weekend, the library tried to step up the childrens' LEGO creative juices with the first ever LEGO Challenge. All the children who participated were awarded prizes, but the official winner of the LEGO contest on Saturday afternoon was Ethan Bell, age 6, of Bernards Township, said Felicia Ballard, librarian at the Bernardsville Public Library. Ethan, a kindergarten student at the Oak Street Elementary School in Basking Ridge, came to the library with his grandmother. "He did a wonderful job, creating rockets that …
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Saturday, January 26, 2013
Concert held Sunday at Bernardsville Library.
Bernardsville resident and singer Priyanka performed with drummer Daniel Mayer in a free concert at Bernardsville Public Library at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 27. The performance is part of the “Sundays at Three” series, and is funded by the Friends of the Bernardsville Public Library. Doors open for the concert at 2:45 pm. No sign-up is needed. Music lovers from neighboring communities also are welcome to attend, said Madelyn English, the library's adult program director. Priyanka Lamichhane, has been playing and writing music since she was 13 and has been in love with it ever since, she told the Bernardsville Library. On Sunday, she said she will be playing mostly jazz and blues classics, as well as some of her own original music. She said…
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Annual information session to be open to all in the area.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Choosing a pre-school for a child can be a daunting experience, and to make that task a little easier, Bernardsville Public Library has planned its fourth preschool fair to allow parents from throughout the area to meet and speak to representatives of preschool and enrichment programs from throughout the Somerset Hills. The information session with multiple preschool representatives is scheduled for 4 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 9 from 4 to 8 p.m., with a snow date of January 16, according to information from the library. The open fair is set up to allow parents with young children to gather information about local preschools in one convenient location. Parents can take this opportunity to speak to the representatives and ask questions …
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Moyers, a longtime media commentator and Bernardsville resident, to hold talk at Dolce in Basking Ridge.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
The ticket sales availability for The Friends of the Bernardsville Public Library's presentation of "An Evening with Bill Moyers" as a fundraiser for special programs and services at the library, has been extended through Friday morning. The event is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday at Dolce in Basking Ridge. Moyers, host of Moyers & Co. on PBS, former White House Press Secretary, and Bernardsville resident, is scheduled to discuss the influence of the media on democracy. Tickets are $100 per person and proceeds will benefit the Friends of the Library's mission of funding special programs and services at the Library, which include children's programs, English-As-As Second-Language classes, and Sundays at Three concerts, along with computers, …
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Friday, August 31, 2012
Previously inaccessible photos at Bernardsville Public Library and Peapack and Gladstone town hall will display local scenes as they were.
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Friday, August 31, 2012
Throughout September, "surprising, beautiful and historic" century-old images of the Somerset Hills will be display during a shared exhibit at the Bernardsville Public Library and in the Peapack-Gladstone Municipal Building. The exhibit, so described by the Bernardsville Library's staff, will include more than 80 photographs taken by Fred Pitney Crater, who lived in Peapack-Gladstone in the early 20th century. Reception at Bernardsville Library, which holds hundreds of Crater negatives An opening reception for the Bernardsville Library exhibition will be held Sunday, September 9, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. in the library’s community room, where the Crater photographs will be view on during regular library hours unless a meeting is in progress…
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