An institution that has been steering city kids away from trouble for 61 years is about to close because it hasn't been able to raise money like it has in the past.

Mercer County's golf academy is offering instruction, equipment and facility services to local golfers, the county executive's office announced.

When Zachary Miller of Princeton, N.J., went to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum for the first time in March 2007, he was preparing for his upcoming bar mitzvah and looking for a chesed project.