A sign that heralds the township as a community that honors Purple Heart veterans has been placed in the traffic island on Auten Road near New Amwell Road.
A ceremony was held Thursday, Aug. 7, at the township’s Garden of Honor to note Hillsborough being the first community in Somerset County, and the second in the state, to be named a "purple Heart Community."
“This is a way to further honor the service and sacrifice of our nation’s brave men and women in un´iform who have been wounded or killed by the enemy while serving to protect the freedom of America,” Mayor Doug Tomson said.
