Author: Central Jersey

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Suddenly, field grows to five in local race for Township Committee

    HILLSBOROUGH: Suddenly, field grows to five in local race for Township Committee

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor Susan Gulliford didn’t vote Tuesday, but she’s still running for the Township Committee this fall. That’s because Ms. Gulliford, a longtime municipal government watcher, is registered as an unaffiliated voter — one not enrolled in any political party — and Tuesday’s election was for Republicans and Democrats to nominate their…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Lorenzetti will reprise comic-style town map

    HILLSBOROUGH: Lorenzetti will reprise comic-style town map

    By: Gene Robbins, Managing Editor Doreen Lorenzetti wants to put you on Hillsborough’s map. Twenty years ago, longtime township resident Ms. Lorenzetti was hired to design and create and draw a comic-style map that pictured businesses, major roads and landmarks in the township. The result was a multi-colored, laminated poster-size map that was seen framed…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: River cleanup, rescue work hand-in-hand

    HILLSBOROUGH: River cleanup, rescue work hand-in-hand

    People who love, yet respect, rivers joined cause Sunday in a Raritan River awareness program at Duke’s Park in Manville. In the morning, the Central Jersey Stream Team, a volunteer group that removes hundred of tires and a lot of other junk from the river in several cleanups a year, went to work. As that…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Graduate-to-be set to achieve near-perfect school attendance

    HILLSBOROUGH: Graduate-to-be set to achieve near-perfect school attendance

    What started out as a family bet between three cousins turned into 13 years of near-perfect attendance for one Hillsborough High School senior. Brandon White plans to receive his high school diploma on June 18 on the turf of Hillsborough’s Noonan Field having missed only one full day of school during his kindergarten through 12th…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Assisted living facility proposed on Route 206

    An assisted living center is proposed for Route 206 at the site where a drug treatment center was sought in late 2012. Senior Housing Development LLC, of Jericho, N.Y., 516-496-1505… wants to build a 112-bed extended care facility on 8.69 acres at 351 Route 206 and the east side of Old Somerville Road. Harding Corona…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Mom celebrates son who saved lives

    A team honoring the memory of a Hillsborough teenager who died tragically and saved others as an organ and tissue donor will participate in N.J. Sharing Network’s 5th annual 5K Celebration of Life on Sunday, June 7, in New Providence. The team captain is Beth Colon, the mother of Jared Colon, who passed away in…

  • GRADUATIONS: College grads share their news

    GRADUATIONS: College grads share their news

    Russell Spruill graduated May 18 from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine with a doctor of medical dentistry degree. The 2006 Hillsborough High School graduate got a bachelor of arts degree in 2010 from Columbia University. Russell was president of the Student National Dental Association and was a mentor in the Randolph Leadership…

  • CAMPUS CORNER: College students make dean’s list

    Shannon McCarthy has been named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at the University of Vermont, located in Burlington. Shannon, a senior from Hillsborough, is an elementary education K-6 major. Dean’s list students must have a grade-point average of 3.0 or better and rank in the top 20 percent of their class. Hillsborough…

  • PRINCETON: Former shopping center owners seek to acquire vacant land

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer New York real estate firm George Comfort & Sons, the former owner of the Princeton Shopping Center, will acquire about 4.5 acres of vacant land on the shopping center property that is zoned for senior housing. A proposal to subdivide the land was filed with the municipal planning office…