Author: Central Jersey

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Veteran Tubby leads boys XC

    By Justin Feil, Packet Media Group For the second straight season, the Hillsborough High School boys cross country team will be looking to replace significant graduation losses. The Raiders do return their top runner from a year ago, Meet of Champions qualifier Brandon Tubby, who is back for his senior year, and he makes a…

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Watershed, Citizens to advise on pipeline filing

    HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Watershed, Citizens to advise on pipeline filing

    Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association and Hopewell Township Citizens Against the PennEast Pipeline will hold a public meeting to advise residents about how they can participate if PennEast files an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for it’s proposed pipeline that would run through Mercer and Hunter´ don counties. PennEast has said in news reports…

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: House gets its energy from hydrogen and solar

    HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: House gets its energy from hydrogen and solar

    By Frank Mustac, Special Writer HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP — A first-of-its-kind solar-hydrogen house that can go either on or off the electrical grid will be officially unveiled this week. What makes the residence on Woosamonsa Road in the township unique is that it is the “first commercially produced fully permitted and affordable” of its type anywhere,…

  • PENNINGTON: Borough trees causing damage to sidewalks

    PENNINGTON: Borough trees causing damage to sidewalks

    By Frank Mustac, Special Writer PENNINGTON BOROUGH — Two trees whose roots have upended a sidewalk in front of a home on Hale Street in the borough was the topic of a lively discussion at the most-recent Borough Council meeting. Homeowner Regina Phillips told council members on Sept. 8 that she received a letter from…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Ceremonies to salute 9/11 sacrifices 

    HILLSBOROUGH: Ceremonies to salute 9/11 sacrifices 

    Hillsborough will again remember those who gave their lives in rescue attempts at the site of the World Trade Center terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Two township fire companies will hold remembrance services tomorrow (Friday). Both will feature the reading of the names of the fallen police, medical and firefighting emergency responders. Emergency responders…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Somerset Valley Players theater pic

    HILLSBOROUGH: Somerset Valley Players theater pic

    There’s no place like home. The Somerset Valley Players will celebrate 30 years in its Neshanic theater. 

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Theater group to toast 30 years in own home

    HILLSBOROUGH: Theater group to toast 30 years in own home

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor Joe Giordano can remember long hours making a one-room schoolhouse on Amwell Road into a community theater. Stripping the walls down to the studs. Installing electrical wiring and fire-resistant Sheetrock and ceiling panels. Painting and hammering. “The kids started to call me the Playhouse widow because it took him five…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Writer: We need to make our food, air, water, soil free from chemicals 

    To the editor:  Everyone — people and animals — naturally need clean water to drink, clean food to eat and clean air to breathe. However, the use of toxic pesticides to manage pest problems has become a common practice. Pesticides are the only toxic substances released intentionally into our environment to kill living things,…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Suing for access to OTW papers would have been waste, mayor says 

    To the editor:  “Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.“ — Mark Twain. I wish that former Democrat Committeewoman Sonya Martin had heeded Mark Twain’s wise words before writing her falsehood-filled letter to the editor on the topic of the pending application for an OTW facility in Hillsborough. The…