Meetings, Discussions and the Arts Highlight the Upcoming Week

What follows is a digest of activities, events and political discussions that will occur during the week of to March 7 through March 12. For more local events, visit the events calendar.

Monday:

East Windsor Board of Education, 7:30 p.m. Hightstown High School, 25 Leshin Lane, Hightstown.

Solar Energy discussion, 7 p.m., Holiday Inn, 399 Monmouth St., East Windsor. Part of a series of seminars hosted by Civitas Energy. Open to the public.

Hightstown Borough Council, 7:30 p.m.,  148 N. Main St., Hightstown. Discussion of housing and enforcement issues.

Tuesday:

South Brunswick Township Council, 7:30 p.m., Municipal Building, Route 522, Monmouth Junction. Budget discussion, traffic signal at Deans Rhode Hall Road and Fresh Ponds Road, turf fields at Rowlands Park.

Assembly Budget Committee, 9:30 a.m., Committee Room 11, 4th Floor, State House Annex, Trenton. Hearing on proposed state budget.

East Windsor Township Council, 8 p.m., 16 Lanning Blvd., East Winsdsor.

Lawrence Township Planning Board, 7:30 p.m., 2207 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville.

Wednesday:

Artists’ reception, 5-7:30 p.m., The Gallery at Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor. Art from 95 Mercer County artists will be on display at the Gallery at Mercer County Community College in the upcoming exhibit, "Mercer County Artists 2011," which runs from March 8 to April 7.

Artists with work on display include Barry Altman, MD, of East Windsor, Meghan Blair of Lawrenceville, Sue S. Chiu of Lawrenceville, Beverly Ardos Fredericks of East Windsor, Linda Gebhard of Hightstown, Frank Haggerty, Jr., of Lawrenceville, René Kammeyer Seeland of East Windsor, Mel Keiner of East Windsor, Dick Kraeuter of Lawrenceville, Susan Kubota of Lawrenceville, Orlando Loaiza of Hightstown, Rachelle Nielsen Picarello of Lawrenceville, Bill Plank of Lawrenceville, Mircea Popescu of Lawrenceville, Harold Popowitz of East Windsor, Teresa Prashad of Lawrence, Janis Purcell of East Windsor, Vijay Sawant of East Windsor, Catharina Schimert of Lawrenceville, Nancy Scott of Lawrenceville, Maxine Shore of East Windsor, Larry Steele of Lawrenceville, Susan Strassberg of Lawrenceville, Alice Warshaw of Lawrenceville, Rena White of Lawrenceville, Gloria Wiernik of Lawrenceville and Susan Winter of Hightstown. Gallery hours: Mondays, 6-8 p.m.; Tuesdays, 11 a.m.- to 5:30 p.m.; Wednesdays, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. and 4-8 p.m.; and Thursdays, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

Thursday:

State Legislative Apportionment Committee, 2 p.m., Committee Room 4, 1st Floor, State House Annex, Trenton. Hearing on redrawing of state Legislative districts.

Cranbury library board, 7 p.m., Cranbury Public Library, 23A N. Main St., Cranbury.