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  • HILLSBOROUGH: Last week featured furor over fliers

    Back-and-forth mailers were in mail, on doorsteps By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    Hillsborough residents were bombarded with last-week campaign information, mostly about the local referendum question on use of future open space tax funds to build recreational facilities.    A second Republican Party mailer supporting the referendum followed days after a controversial first one that drew…

  • HAMILTON: Republicans sweep local election

    HAMILTON: Republicans sweep local election

    Incumbent mayoral, council candidates re-elected by James McEvoy, Managing Editor HAMILTON — Republican incumbent Mayor Kelly A. Yaede and a slate of four incumbents Republican members of Township Council were re-elected Nov. 5.    Mayor-elect Yaede was challenged by Democrat Barbara Plumeri and Antonio Gambino, an independent candidate.    Preliminary unofficial results from the county clerk’s office…

  • Patsy Cline’s Lost Christmas Song Surges in Popularity 50 Years After Singer’s Death

    Patsy Cline’s Lost Christmas Song Surges in Popularity 50 Years After Singer’s Death

    By 1888PressRelease 1888PressRelease – Legendary country singer Patsy Cline asked songwriters Lawton Jiles and Buster Beam to write her a Christmas song in 1960. They penned the tune "Christmas Without You" but Patsy never had the opportunity to record it the way it was originally intended. Fifty years after her death, the tune is now…

  • MANVILLE: GOP easily sweeps to victory

    MANVILLE: GOP easily sweeps to victory

    Onderko, Asher lead 6-way field for Borough Council By Gene Robbins and Mary Ellen Day, Packet Media Group    Republicans kept focused, narrowed their campaign issues and ignored end-of-campaign accusations, said Richard Onderko, the leading votegetter in Tuesday’s six-way race for Borough Council.    As a result, Republicans regained a seat on the Borough Council to reknot…

  • Agricola Community Eatery

    Agricola Community Eatery

    Jim Nawn, proprietor, presents a check for $1,363 to Phyllis Stoolmacher, Director of Advancement/Mercer St Friends

  • LAWRENCE: Calendar

    Thurs., Nov. 7    ”Shun Li and the Poet” (2011) screening at 6:30 p.m. at Lawrence Headquarters Branch Library, at 2751 Brunswick Pike, Lawrence. An unlikely friendship forms between a Chinese women, who is working as a bartender in a Venetian pub and a transplanted Yugoslavian known as “The Poet.” Refreshments will be served. Registration is…

  • MANVILLE: Modern media inspires Americans’ irrational fear

    To the editor: There’s a plague going around the nation that is I feel is the cause and root of most of the societal issues that we, as a country, are facing today. Americans seem to have this irrational fear of the future and that everyone is out to get us, which is not found…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Emergency volunteers can train

    Academy to host multi-sessions    People who want to be trained to help in community disasters are encouraged to attend training for the Community Emergency Response Team.    The six-session free training, to be run at the Somerset County Emergency Services Academy on Roycefield Road, starts next Tuesday, Nov. 12, and continues Nov. 14, 20 and 21.…

  • ELECTION: State Legislature 14th District

    ELECTION: State Legislature 14th District

    James McEvoy photo. Sen. Linda Greenstein speaks to supporters Tuesday night.