Author: Central Jersey

  • Gym offers services without membership

    Powerhouse Gym Hillsborough announces a new feature to its services that will allow a more economically efficient lifestyle for the community. While most gyms offer personal training, nutrition or other services, a membership is mandatory. Ken Turash, owner of Powerhouse Gym Hillsborough understands the busy needs of the community where people often are working 40…

  • MANVILLE: Auxiliary to have basket bingo

    By Mary Ellen Day, Special Writer The Ladies Auxiliary members of North End Fire Company No. 3 are busy planning their annual upcoming basket bingo. The event will help raise money the ladies will donate to the firemen of No. 3 to get whatever is needed. Members have been gathering at the firehouse to make…

  • Equestrian Club helps troubled kids, vets

    Equestrian Club helps troubled kids, vets

    Immaculata Equestrian Club members, from left, are Alexandrea Myslinski, Sydney Yuhas, Josephine Taranto and Milena LaBarbiera.

  • HILLSBOROUGH: He’s a shark!

    HILLSBOROUGH: He’s a shark!

    Teenager to play pool tourney in China By Chuck O’Donnell, Special Writer The game inside the game being played out at almost every moment of a billiards match fuels Sam Hoffman’s fire for it. Take the Junior National 9-ball Championships in June in Louisville, Kentucky, where he was trailing, 4-2 in what was essentially the…

  • MANVILLE: Veterans remember soldiers still missing or imprisoned

    MANVILLE: Veterans remember soldiers still missing or imprisoned

    Veterans kept an empty seat at the table Thursday night for military comrades who are still imprisoned, missing in action or unaccounted for from wars and conflicts over the years. (Photo by Mary Ellen Day)

  • Equestrian Club helps troubled kids, vets

    Equestrian Club helps troubled kids, vets

    Immaculata Equestrian Club members recently picked up the reins and volunteered to help Spring Reins of Life, a Hillsborough-based nonprofit Equine Therapy program. They helped demonstrate how the sessions work for a broadcast on WPIX Channel 11 Pix News Show. The Immaculata Spartan horsewomen reenacted a group therapy session in which they created a "space"…

  • WRITE TO US

    Letters to the editor should not exceed 500 words and must include the writer’s address and daytime telephone number. It is the policy of the Hillsborough Beacon to print the name and address of the letter writer. The telephone number is for confirmation purposes only and will not be published. The Hillsborough Beacon reserves the…

  • Program works to trap, neuter and return cats

    St. Hubert’s Animal Welfare Center and Hillsborough Township are promoting the spaying/neutering of community cats through no-cost vouchers available for a limited time. St. Hubert’s is bringing grant funds from Petsmart Charities to the community to help reduce the number of homeless kittens born. Hillsborough Township residents can call 908-526-3330 to obtain a voucher or…

  • MANVILLE: Friday night dinners on again at VFW

    MANVILLE: Friday night dinners on again at VFW

    Mark Gregor with chef Renny Dilts, who prepare Friday night dinners at the VFW Post 2290 in Manville along with sous chef John Gregor.  Photo by Mary Ellen Day