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  • You can’t do much better than this!

    GREENHOUSE EFFECT By Jim Green    National champion.    It’s funny how two words can carry such power. Those two words now describe the Hopewell Valley Central High School indoor track team’s sprint medley relay squad, and this entire community should be proud.    "It’s not quite settling in yet," Hopewell senior Natalie Mapp said. "We’re all just…

  • HHS girls improved in pool

    Team won first-round state meet By: John E. Powers        Through the injuries, illness and the lack of depth, the Hillsborough High School girls’ swimming team grinded on. And, in the end, the result was pretty good.    The Raiders finished the season with a 6-5 record, winning a Central Public A first round meet against…

  • Agency to set its goals for Plumsted

    Township Committee establishes Plumsted Township Redevelopment Agency, which will implement grants, work with developers and implement the township’s redevelopment plan. By: Marisa Maldonado    PLUMSTED — Calling it a "historic" night for the community, the Township Committee approved an ordinance Monday establishing the Plumsted Township Redevelopment Agency, which will implement grants, work with developers and implement…

  • Bordentown Township seeks to stop pipeline

    Governing body asks Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to re-evaluate the proposed Williams/Transco gas pipeline project. By: William Wichert    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — Township officials are calling for a do-over.    About a month after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the proposed Williams/Transco gas pipeline project, the Township Committee requested on Monday that the federal agency reconsider…

  • Borough Council meetings to start earlier

    Members hope to get home earlier By:Roger Alvarado    A few years ago borough officials instituted a stringent five-minute rule upon all members of the public who turn up to comment during council meetings.    At the time, the move was made to try and prevent meetings from getting out of control and turn into long drawn…

  • Raiders should have wrestler in A.C. next year

    McLaughlin, Kull, Guaimano are contenders By: Rudy Brandl        Hillsborough High wasn’t represented at last weekend’s NJSIAA Wrestling Championships in Atlantic City for the first time in a decade, but don’t expect the drought to last very long.    Three of the four HHS wrestlers who finished in the top six in Region 5 Tournament action…

  • School board approves hiring school principals

    Students petition for Mary McLoughlin at MHS By:Emily Craighead    Manville High School students began the school day Wednesday with a new principal.    The Board of Education on Tuesday appointed as principal Mary McLoughlin, who had been acting principal at the high school since Feb. 8.    "We did a search and she meets all of our…

  • Having a Purim party

    Music, costumes turn holiday into carnival. By: Joseph Harvie    As Purim approaches, local Jewish congregations are preparing for days filled with music, laughter and costumes.    Purim commemorates the story of Queen Esther of Persia, who saved her fellow Jews from a planned genocidal massacre in the Jewish year 3405 by revealing her carefully hidden Jewish…

  • Districts work to keep taxes at stable rates

    EDITORIAL    You may have noticed that it’s budget season. The numbers and formulas do the same dance every year — many go up, a few go down, some stay the same. But what’s we’re all really looking for is: What do all of these numbers mean to me?    The budgets put forth so far by…