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  • Woman’s Club set to celebratefour decades of local service

    Tuesday event marks anniversary By:    When the 20-member Woman’s Club of Hillsborough celebrates its 40th anniversary at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, in the Hillsborough Municipal Community Room, the club members will have a lot to reflect on.    While their accomplishments range from founding the Hillsborough Public Library to an ongoing scholarship program for Hillsborough High School…

  • ‘Semester at Sea’ scare ends safely

    A Bordentown City college student was among those on board when a massive wave hit her ship in the Pacific Ocean last week. By: Scott Morgan    BORDENTOWN CITY — The weather was bad. It had been bad since the 18th when they left Vancouver. It stayed bad into the morning of the 26th. Then it…

  • Rosemary Drummer

    By:    HILLSBOROUGH — Rosemary Helen Drummer died Jan. 28 in Greenbrook Manor Nursing Home in Green Brook. She was 67.    Born in Shenandoah, Pa., she lived in Mahanoy, Pa.. and Manville before moving to Hillsborough in 1971.    Mrs. Drummer was a homemaker and a part-time secretary for National Starch in Bridgewater.    She was a member…

  • Library offers computer courses

    March computer courses to help novices master the art of using Google. By: Joseph Harvie    The South Brunswick Public Library is taking reservations for its March computer classes, but classes are filling up quickly.    The library is offering three different free computer classes in March — one on basic computer skills and two that focus…

  • Temple adds school program

    Solomon Schechter to offer classes By:Emily Craighead    A Jewish day school set to open at Temple Beth El in September will mesh the four major traditions of Judaism, as area temples join together to form the Somerset County campus of the Solomon Schechter Day School of Essex and Union.    "In our vision for how to…

  • For the Feb. 3 issue

    Joan Theresa Dovgala, Olga Komyati, Nancy M. Kuzianik, Jean P. Roundtree, Lauraine Schruby, Lilian Hercus, Dona C. Rhodes, Vivian E. Volk. Joan Theresa Dovgala    WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP— Joan Theresa Dovgala died Jan. 22 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton.    Born in Mauston, Wis., and formerly of Morrisville, Pa., Mrs. Dovgala lived in the Robbinsville…

  • New administrator hired

    Mansfield Township fills newly-recreated position. By: William Wichert    MANSFIELD — When Joseph Broski retired from the New Jersey State Police six months ago, he reviewed all his options.    He considered working for a board of education, and he flirted with the idea of becoming a professor at a community college. Gradually, however, he landed a…

  • Township hopes to raise $300,000 in sale of last liquor license

    By:Roger Alvarado    Hillsborough officials say they’re hopeful of selling the final liquor license that the township will have to offer during the next five years to the highest bidder in the next few months.    The township is asking for a minimum bid of $300,000 for its one remaining liquor license.    "We’ve looked at what liquor…

  • Noemi Tuschak

       Noemi "Mimi" Tuschak, 88, died Jan. 23 at Hunterdon Care Center, Flemington.    Born in Vienna, Austria, and raised in Budapest, Hungary, she was a resident of Plainfield and Hillsborough before settling in Pennington.    In her early years, she was a social worker for the Middlesex County Welfare Board, a special education teacher and later a…