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  • Artists will have their day in Lawrence

    Festival set for 10 a.m. Saturday at Armory. By: Lea Kahn    Poets, dancers and artists will share their creative works Saturday when they converge on Lawrence for the second annual Lawrence Arts & Music Festival.    The daylong event kicks off at 10 a.m. and wraps up at 5 p.m. It will be held at the…

  • Painful reminder

    Holocaust class challenges studentswith powerful lessons By:Sally Goldenberg    Toby Kansagor tells it like it is.    Hillsborough High School students enrolled in her Holocaust and Genocide course are exposed to firsthand accounts from survivors, as well as stories of prejudices that exist in their community today. And while they may not leave class smiling, students said…

  • POST FORUM: YMCA

    Should the township buy land from the YMCA and lease the land back for construction of a pool? Should the township buy land from the YMCA and lease the land back for construction of a pool?

  • Ceremony to mark groundbreaking for new high school

    Date set for June 7 at site on Ward Avenue By: Vanessa S. Holt    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — A groundbreaking ceremony for the new high school on Ward Avenue is scheduled for 10 a.m. on June 7, said Bordentown Regional School District Superintendent John Polomano this week.    Last year voters approved a $47 million bond referendum…

  • Hopewell Township officials did find time to pay bills on May 1

    Vote on bills came immediately after stormy, prolonged debate on whether committee would entertain resolution, written by Arlene Kemp, stating that the township should not pay any legal expenses Jon Edwards may incur as a result of a controversial e-mail he wrote nearly five months ago. By John Tredrea    By a 2-0 vote at the…

  • Margaretta Buss

       HILLSBOROUGH — Margaretta V. Buss died Tuesday, April 29, in the New Jersey Eastern Star Home in Bridgewater. She was 92.    She was born in Camden and grew up living in the Masonic Home in Elizabethtown, Pa., and she also lived in Huffville, before moving to Hillsborough in 1949.    Mrs. Buss worked for Sun Gas…

  • Pennington is down to one garbage truck

    Council asked to work as quickly as possible to get a new garbage truck. By John Tredrea    Gone to that junkyard in the sky is one of Pennington Borough’s two garbage trucks.    The truck’s "packer," which tightly compresses garbage in order to make room for more of the same, is broken. "It can’t be salvaged,"…

  • Raiders burning up baseball diamond

    Red-hot HHS moves into SCT quartefinals By: John E. Powers        The inning started innocently enough – a groundball to Somerville third baseman Tyler Holderbaum, which Hillsborough sophomore center fielder Brandon Shamy just beat out. Shamy’s hustle led to a seven-run first inning last Saturday that spurred the Raiders to a 9-6 win in the…

  • Chesterfield decides not to trim school spending

    Budget rejected by voters includes 11.5-cent tax increase By: Eve Collins    CHESTERFIELD — The Township Committee voted unanimously Tuesday to ratify the school budget without making cuts or changes. The budget, which includes an 11.5-cent tax increase, was defeated by a vote of 178-232 in the April 15 election.    Under the budget, a homeowner with…