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  • HHS teams poised for state competition

    Baseball, softball, lacrosse, track action on tap By: Rudy Brandl        Hillsborough High has produced more than its share of athletic excitement already this spring season, winning four Somerset County titles and four Skyland Conference crowns. This week marks the beginning of sectional competition in most sports and many HHS teams will be right in…

  • Early deadline for HVN’s June 2 edition

    Please submit news, photos by Friday at 3 p.m.    Because of the Memorial Day holiday Monday (May 30), the deadline for submission of news copy, letters to the editor, etc., for the June 2 edition of the HVN is Friday, May 27, at 3 p.m.    All photos being submitted for that edition should be in…

  • District tax rate to drop 2 cents

    Mansfield school and township officials agree to reduce the elementary school tax rate by 2 cents. By: William Wichert    MANSFIELD — School and township officials recently agreed to reduce the elementary school tax rate by 2 cents without meeting publicly to discuss the defeated school budget.    After voters rejected the $8.7 million financial package by…

  • Police chief urges seat belt use

    To the editor By:    Many people still don’t take one of the simplest and most effective steps to stay safe: Buckling up. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), of the 31.904 passenger vehicle occupants who were killed in crashes in 2003, 56 percent of them weren’t wearing safety belts.    Teenagers and young…

  • The School House in the Triangle, Letter No. 4 of 8

    HISTORICALLY SPEAKING    From the Allentown Messenger dated June 30, 1932, Mrs. James West’s story of the old school house saved, relocated three times, and since restored near the Washington Township Library.     And we go rambling on, sometimes down dim uncertain little lanes of memory, and sometimes by broader-ways, more sure, to the homes and…

  • Apprentices reflect on big win

    Four seniors at Northern Burlington County Regional High School received free prom tickets after winning the "Apprentice"-style project in the school’s Marketing Education classes. By: William Wichert Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part series examining the marketing education class at Northern Burlington County Regional High School.    There’s nothing like going to the…

  • County salutes area Vietnam-era veterans

    Mayor joins list of veterans honored By:Melissa Edmond    Current and past Somerset County residents who served during the Vietnam War were recognized in the Salute to Vietnam War Era Veterans ceremony hosted by the Somerset County Board of Freeholders at the Garden State Exhibit Center on Tuesday.    Mayor Angelo Corradino was one of the veterans…

  • ‘Out of many, one’

    Student’s patriotic essay earns her a place as keynote speaker at a Memorial Day ceremony at the Veterans’ Monument in Bordentown City. By: William Wichert    BORDENTOWN CITY — Jenna Kelly, a seventh-grader at MacFarland Junior School, wrote the essay, but even she said it wasn’t enough.    Her essay, "E Pluribus Unum: Out of Many, One,"…

  • Man wanted in armed robbery

    Police are looking for the man who stole $650 from a BP gas station. By: Joseph Harvie    Police are searching for a man who used a gun to steal $650 from the BP gas station between New Road and Major Road on Route 1 at 10:30 a.m. May 19, police said.    Police said the man…