Category: archives
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Grant to fund study on sharing costs of health services
By:Roger Alvarado A study designed to determine whether or not it would be in the borough’s best interests to share its public health services with two neighboring municipalities and the Somerset County Business Partnership will begin soon. On Monday, Department of Community Affairs Commissioner Susan Bass Levin awarded $110,000 in SHARE Grants to the Somerset…
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Special, historic season for HHS boys’ swim team
Raiders won county, conference, sectional, state titles By: John E. Powers It was a dream season. The Hillsborough High School boys’ swimming team couldn’t have done much more than what they accomplished this past winter. Hillsborough won the State Public A championship in a rout over arch-rival Bridgewater-Raritan. The team won championships at the…
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Police nab burglary suspect
Bordentown Township man held on $500,000 bail after arrest in connection with string of break-ins. By: Lea Kahn Lawrence Township police said they are preparing to charge a 39-year-old Bordentown Township man in connection with six middle-of-the-night residential burglaries that occurred as recently as March 6. Police also are trying to determine whether William Woodard,…
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Township launching electronic newsletter
By:Roger Alvarado An electronic newsletter designed to keep interested Hillsborough residents abreast of township developments via e-mail has been created and will soon begin being distributed. Mayor Bob Wagner says the township has devised the new "e-newsletter" to ensure that residents are "more informed." "The Internet and e-mail system gives the township an opportunity to…
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On the Trail
Author and psychologist Katherine Ramsland discusses forensics for writers. By: Susan Van Dongen Katherine Ramsland, who has coauthored ‘A Voice for the Dead,’ will give a workshop at Barnes & Noble in West Windsor. Joe "Just the Facts Ma’am" Friday is more authentic than Horatio "H." Caine, and probably solves more crimes even though…
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Town’s growth prompts stronger fire plan
A second fire station in Washington included as a long-range goal. By: Lauren Burgoon WASHINGTON With no end in sight to the enormous development and population growth in the township in recent years, the fire district is now preparing to enhance its own services and abilities to better accommodate the town’s growing needs. The…
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Muslim theologian in seminary talk
The Princeton Theological Seminary history department will host a lecture Monday by Professor Rifaat Ebied on "Muslim-Christian Polemic from the Crusades: A Muslim Theologian’s Response to Christianity." The lecture, which will feature a Muslim-Christian interchange from the 14th century, will be held in the main lounge of the seminary’s Mackay Campus Center at 7 p.m.…
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‘Robots’
A perfect marriage of retro, toy-like vision and animated storytelling, this tale is for the most part delightful for kids and at least bearable for parents. By: Bob Brown Rodney (center) enlists the help of Piper (left) and Fender in Robots. Kids of a certain age who’ve played with an Erector set or Legos know…
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EDITORIAL: Cut spending to help repair budget woes
EDITORIAL Council should make as many spending cuts as possible. We hate to say we told you so, but we told you so. Last year, we criticized Township Manager Matt Watkins and the Township Council for crafting a budget that we believed did little more than delay an inevitable tax hit until after the bi-annual…
