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  • New high school needed soon

    To the editor    Hillsborough High School is too small for the growing number of kids and adding on to it is just not going to be enough.    Every year with the increasing number of students the township only adds on to the original building. There have been two new additions to the high school in…

  • April 24 edition of the Register News

    Mary C. Dekis, Theresa A. Daily, Dorothy Witkowski, Dixie Vierling, Margaret H. Havas, Albert Hamlin, Carl Moore, James Vaneekhoven, By:    Mary C. Dekis    HAMILTON — Mary C. Dekis, 79, of Whiting, died Sunday, April 20, at her daughter’s home in Hamilton.    She was born in Robbinsville where she lived most of her life before moving…

  • Easter egg hunt

    Combined Charities has its annual egg hunt at the Lambertville American Legion Saturday, April 19. As the horn sounds, Rebecca Godown, 4, of Lambertville charges to find her share of the Easter eggs during the hunt at the Legion Saturday.

  • Theodore Blum

       HILLSBOROUGH — Theodore Blum, 76, died April 13 at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville.    Mr. Blum was born in the Bronx, N.Y., and grew up in New York City before moving to Hillsborough in 1956.    He was a career 4-H agent, serving as Somerset County agent for 29 years. Mr. Blum was also professor emeritus…

  • John Rogers

       DICKSON, Tenn. — John Franklin Rogers, 81, died April 12 in Dickson, Tenn.    Mr. Rogers was born in Brookport, Il., and lived most of his life in Hillsborough, where he owned and operated the Hillsborough Chevron.    Mr. Rogers served with the U.S. Army in World War ll, and was a member of the VFW.    Survivors…

  • EDITORIAL: Life in America finally getting back to normal

    By:    Now that the war in Iraq is winding down (we hope), the weather has turned (we hope), the potholes are getting fixed (we hope), municipalities and school districts are struggling with defeated budgets and President Bush is heading out to Middle America to press his case for tax cuts, life finally appears to be…

  • Explain your vote to schools

    Editorial By: Mae Rhine    You, the voters, have spoken and, in the process, rejected three proposed school budgets — those by West Amwell and Stockton elementary schools and the South Hunterdon Regional High School district.    Your work is not over, however. Now it’s time to let the district know exactly what you think needs to…

  • Lambertville adopts $3 million budget

    By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — With little fanfare and no comment from the handful of residents present, the City Council on Monday passed a municipal budget of $3,011,368 that will result in a lower tax rate for homeowners.    The owner of a house assessed at the citywide average of $211,515 will pay $8 less in…

  • OBITUARIES, April 22, 2003

    Theodore Weiss, Barbara R. Lependorf, Richard T. Servis, Tessie G. Weisberg. Theodore Weiss Professor, poet and literary critic     Theodore Weiss of Princeton, an award-winning poet, editor, literary critic and emeritus professor at Princeton University, died Tuesday after a battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 86.    In addition to serving as a teacher at the…