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  • EDITORIAL: Candidates should file now

    Despite recent appointments, three open seats remain.    The Lawrence Township Board of Education had the luxury recently of picking new members from a strong pool of potential volunteers. We hope that the township voters have an equally impressive field to choose from this April.    Carole Drury and Brett Smith were both chosen to fill the…

  • HHS track teams sweep Skyland meet

    Dennis, Warrick star By: Nick Vaccaro        For the first time since the winter of 2002, the Skyland Conference Indoor Track meet was scored. The Hillsborough High boys and girls took advantage.    In 2003, the meet had been postponed due to weather only to be pushed to the day before the Meet of Champions, which…

  • Steadfast helpers

    Hillsborough Township Committee recognizes Woman’s Club. By: Roger Alvarado    After 40 years of giving to the community, the Woman’s Club of Hillsborough finally took a night off to bask in a little recognition on Tuesday.    The organization brought together its past presidents, as well as Nancy B. Byers, vice president of the General Federation of…

  • For the Feb. 10 issue

    Henry Rudolph May, Patricia M. Kosul Van Norman, Michael J. Bodnar Jr., Rachel Thompson Tantum. Henry Rudolph May    HEBER SPRINGS, Ark. — Henry Rudolph May, age 79, died Jan. 27 at home.    Born in Perrineville and a former resident of Hightstown, Mr. May lived in Heber Springs for 19 years.    He was a furniture storeowner…

  • City opts for open space preservation

    Bordentown City Planning Board approves plan to preserve approximately 22 percent of the square-mile city over the next several years. By: Scott Morgan    BORDENTOWN CITY — The Planning Board last week approved the open space element of the city’s Master Plan, setting the stage for large-scale open space preservation around the city.    During its Feb.…

  • A Bridge in Brooklyn

    Mark Violi finds the human story in ‘Roebling.’ By: Matt Smith Roebling: The Story of the Brooklyn Bridge, a play by Hamilton Square resident Mark Violi, will get a staged reading at The Villagers Theatre in Somerset Feb. 13.>    One night in 2003, Mark Violi was relaxing on the couch with a History Channel documentary…

  • Tsunami fund-raiser set at Pennington-Ewing club

    Event will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at PEAC’s facility at 1400 Lower Ferry Road in Ewing Township, just south of I-95. By John Tredrea    Appearances by the Phillie Phanatic, Clash of the Trenton Titans hockey team and a benefit basketball game between teams from the Hopewell Township and Ewing Township police…

  • Nunziata Todaro

    By:    HILLSBOROUGH — Nunziata (Ferrigno) Todaro died Feb. 5 at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. She was 82.    Born in Sicily, Italy, she came to the U.S. in 1960 and lived in Irvington and Union before moving to Hillsborough eight years ago.    Mrs. Todaro was a homemaker and worked as a seamstress for a clothing…

  • Join local efforts to help victims of the disastrous tsunami

    EDITORIAL By Ruth Luse    The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea earthquake that occurred on Dec. 26. "The earthquake generated a tsunami that was among the deadliest disasters in modern history. At a magnitude of 9.0, it was the largest earthquake since the 9.2 magnitude Good Friday Earthquake off Alaska in 1964, and tied…