Category: archives

  • Time to plan for new high school

    To the editor    As many of you know, Hillsborough is a rapidly growing town. In 1969, when Hillsborough High School was built, it was small and the only high school that was needed.    Since then, three additions have been added to the high school to accommodate the growing number of students. Now HHS is large…

  • Municipalities get grants to pay for capital projects

    Bordentown City, Florence Township, Fieldsboro Borough and Bordentown Township will receive Community Development Block Grants. By: Eve Collins    Four local municipalities can expect some money from the county freeholders to help with capital improvement projects.    The Burlington County Freeholders reviewed an application for more than $2 million in federal Community Development funds for capital improvement…

  • Unnecessary plans defeated budget

    To the editor    Today’s (April 17) issue of the Hillsborough Beacon headlines "voters reject school budget by wide margin." Superintendent of Schools Robert Gulick says that "he didn’t see it coming."    Obviously, his vision is deteriorating. For several years the townspeople of Hillsborough have been declaring that the property taxes here are outrageous and becoming…

  • Lambertville, West Amwell receive grants

    The more than $500,000 in Department of Community Affairs funding will pay for improvements to the Connaught Hill area. By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — State Department of Community Affairs Commissioner Susan Bass Levin recently presented more than $500,000 in joint improvement grants to Lambertville and West Amwell for Connaught Hill projects.    The Connaught Hill area…

  • Pet Rescue has booth at Shad Fest

    Founder Jenny Swingle was 5 when she knew her destiny would be saving animals. By: Linda Seida    HAMILTON — The founder of Pet Rescue of Mercer, which will have a booth at this weekend’s Shad Festival, vividly recalls the day she knew she would dedicate herself to helping animals in need.    Jenny Swingle was just…

  • Preferences make system unjust

    To the editor    Reverse discrimination is a prejudice against a majority. Basically, it is a form of racism.    Our education system is notorious for reverse discrimination in its many programs and systems it’s adopted over the years.    Colleges all over the United States reflects all the aspects of reverse racism in today’s society because they…

  • Students acting out against smoking

    By: Vanessa S. Holt    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — The 35 fifth- and sixth-graders in the Peter Muschal Elementary School auditorium performed for an audience of one, state Sen. Robert Singer, R-30th, acting out a scenario in a restaurant where patrons are fed up with secondhand smoke.    The students were not members of a school theater club,…

  • Man pleads guilty in funeral home robbery

    By: Eve Collins    A Columbus man has been sentenced to five years probation for taking almost $100,000 from a Pennsylvania funeral home business where he was employed, and using the funds for his own business.    John D. Moore, 39, pleaded guilty to theft by failure to make required disposition of funds, said Thomas Ost-Prisco, assistant…

  • SBHS boys win four events at Holmdel Relays

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    For the South Brunswick High School boys’ track squad, gold wasn’t just one half the color of the uniforms this past weekend. The Vikings won four events, and placed in four others, on the way to a fourth-place team finish (58 points) at the annual Holmdel Relays on Saturday.    In the…