Category: archives

  • Boards hearings unfair to 3M

    To the editor    The cost of living is rising! That’s not a surprising statement to anyone living in the United States, New Jersey or Hillsborough. What is surprising is the ways in which we contribute to the rise in costs without even realizing it.    Last week, I attended a meeting of the Hillsborough Township Planning…

  • Hopewell Valley Central High hosts ‘Power of the Word’ workshops

    Many kinds of writers, including local residents, offered sessions on a variety of topics March 28. By: John Tredrea    Don Leake didn’t make his point by stating it, but by demonstrating it.    It was: To write good poetry, you have to take risks. You have to give it everything you have, then look hard, for…

  • New field will save money in time

    To the editor    As the head of a Hillsborough youth sports organization, I have spent many hours investigating the costs vs. benefits of the proposed athletic turf field (question No. 2 for vote on April 15, absentee ballets post marked by April 8).    This due diligence culminated in an email letter to our members listing…

  • High school students weigh in on the reasons for war

    SBHS student forum split on their feelings for the Iraqi conflict. By: Rebecca Tokarz    High school students in Mark Babich’s military education class at South Brunswick High School are split over the reasons the government has given regarding why the United States is at war with Iraq.    Mr. Babich’s class of about 20 students were…

  • Marsielle takes over South Brunswick boys track team

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    For the second time in as many years, the South Brunswick High School boys’ track team is heading into a new season with a new head coach. The Vikings welcomed Wagner Marsielle as a business teacher and assistant soccer coach in the fall, and the former two-time all American and Olympic…

  • harry potter contest – thank you

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  • Week of April 3

    Tito R. Salamandra    WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP — Tito R. Salamandra, 87, died March 24 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton.    Born in Trenton, he was a Robbinsville resident for 33 years.    Mr. Salamandra was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II, serving as a tech sergeant.    He retired in 1977 after 30 years…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

       Four Hillsborough teens were charged with underage consumption of alcohol on March 17.    Police responded to a Taurus Drive apartment complex at 2:15 a.m. on a report of a man making loud noises and behaving in a strange manner.    Police discovered a social gathering in progress at which time the following individuals were arrested and…

  • School board Candidates’ Night will be on cable TV

    April 3 candidiates forum begins at 7:30 p.m. in the TV studio of Hopewell Valley Central High School, Pennington-Titusville Road.    Voters who are unable to attend the school board Candidates’ Forum tonight (Thursday) will be able to see it on local cable TV up until the election.    Tonight’s session begins at 7:30 p.m. in the…