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Submitted by Unity Bank. CLINTON – Unity Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: UNTY), the parent company of Unity Bank, was the top-ranked New Jersey community bank on the recently published American Banker magazine list of the Top 200 Publicly Traded Community Banks. Unity was ranked 13th nationally on the respected industry list, which reviewed 601 institutions throughout the U.S. Unity has a …

The Imperia on Easton Avenue will once again be the venue for state Assemblyman Joe Danielsen’s annual Job Fair on April 17. The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.; the Imperia is located at 1714 Easton Ave. Classes will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and will feature such topics as interview presentation, job …

Twenty/20 Taphouse, the third component of the three-piece “event center” on Cedar Grove Lane, is within a couple weeks of opening. The gastropub will feature craft beers, craft sodas and comfort food. Twenty/20 is the last piece of property owner Ruben Patel’s “event” complex that stretches from Cedar Grove Lane to Easton Avenue and includes the Springhill Suits hotel and …

Township parents will have another option for daycare for their toddlers come this fall, which is when the newest Lightbridge Academy is scheduled to open. The center will be located in the new Shops at Summerfield at Randolph and Schoolhouse roads, and will cater to children aged from 6 weeks to 6 years old. The center is still under construction …

Township-based Budd Van Lines recently acquired Wisconsin-based Merchants Moving & Storage. The partnership will increase the combined companies’ efficiencies through a larger national footprint of service centers, surveyors, move counselors, and drivers, according to a release about the merger. The combined fleet of pack-and-haul driver teams will offer clients greater capacity during the crunch of the peak summer season, the …

A decade of success in a smaller, food-court setting has spurred a local restaurateur to open a second location in the township. Amatul Roohi has taken her recipes of Hyderabad dum biryani from her location at the Desi Food Bazaar just about a mile away on Route 27 to the new location, called R Biryani Adda. The dum biryani “is …

A proposed 362-bedroom student housing project on Hamilton Street could pump as much as $1.7 million a year into the local economy, a consultant said March 11. In 10 years, that same project could generate as much as $6.2 million in direct and indirect economic activity, consultant Todd Poole told a joint meeting of the Hamilton Street Advisory Board and …

PRINCETON JUNCTION – Township resident Kenneth Hitchner has been named to the 2019 Public Relations Society of America NJ Board. Hitchner is Director of Content Strategy for CMA, a full-service communications, marketing and association management firm. Hitchner will serve a one-year term on the Communications Committee. In that role, he will lead PRSA NJ’s public relations and promotion initiatives. For …

All three township Stop & Shop supermarkets will have a new “employee” zipping down the shopping aisles come this Spring. The new addition’s name is Marty; Marty won’t need to take breaks, won’t call in sick and may just need the occasional software upgrade. (But who among us doesn’t?) Marty is a robot being deployed to 41 of the 60 …

SOMERVILLE – New York’s loss may be Somerset County’s gain, if the county Freeholder Director gets his way. Freeholder Director – and former township mayor – Brian Levine on Feb. 22 announced that he is trying to revive the pitch the county made to host the Amazon HQ2 on a site in Somerville, but this time with a twist. Levine’s …