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  • Turnovers lead to another trouncing

    Mustangs fall to 1-7 By: Shawn Tyrrell        EDISON — This past Saturday the Manville High School football team took on Metuchen, another school somewhat similar in size and overall numbers.    What appeared to be a decent match-up on paper turned into a lopsided rout. The Mustangs couldn’t contain Bulldog running back Luke Edwards, who…

  • CHANNEL SURFING: A weblog

    CHANNEL SURFING by Hank Kalet: A weblog, or online journal, by the paper’s managing editor.Updated Jan. 22: War crimes; privacy; humane peace; anti-war protests; human rights; George Ryan; press freedom War crimes double standard Jan. 22    A friend of mine offers this on-the-money assessment of President George W. Bush’s announcement that he plans to charge…

  • Committee hears two farm downzoning plans

    Ordinances introduced for changing to 20-acre and 10-acre zoning By:Alec Moore    Demonstrating the division on the Township Committee over plans to change the development allowed in areas zoned for agriculture, the committee approved the introduction of two conflicting ordinances, Tuesday.    One ordinance would change Hillsborough’s agriculture zones to allow one house per 20 acres, as…

  • George Stickel

       HILLSBOROUGH — George W. Stickel died Sunday, Nov. 10, in the McCarrick Care Center in Somerset. He was 76.    Born in New York City, he lived in West Orange for 28 years before moving to Hillsborough in 1992.    Mr. Stickel retired in 1991 from the Charles R. Connolly Distributing Company in North Arlington, where he…

  • Committee not planning to move Community Day

    Some residents request ‘South Lawrence’ location By: Lea Kahn    Should Community Day — the township’s annual celebration of itself — be moved from Village Park to another park in southern Lawrence Township?    The Recreation Advisory Committee has not made up its mind yet, but it is leaning toward keeping the event at Village Park, off…

  • Religion should lead towards peace

    To the editor    In response to Ms. Burshnic’s letter: If there is one topic that social studies curricula in this country do emphasize, it is our founding documents. In the Hillsborough public schools, this is what they taught us: while the Founding Fathers were mostly Christians, the Constitution mandates a separation of church and state.…

  • SCHOOLS: Monmouth Junction

    Comparing deer skin and clay pots to modern comforts By: Melissa Morgan    Monmouth Junction fourth-graders said they never realized things like running water, heated homes and grocery stores were luxuries until they were introduced to the Lenape.    As part of their social studies unit at Monmouth Junction School, the students completed a project comparing the…

  • 11/14 OBITUARIES Pt. 2

    From the Nov. 14 issue of the Register-News By: Michael Puca    HAMILTON — Michael R. "Mike" Puca, 77, died Nov. 6 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton.    Born in Trenton, he was a lifelong Hamilton resident.    Mr. Puca was raised in the Chambersburg section of Trenton and attended Cathedral High School before joining…

  • Administrator taken to hospital after collapsing at meeting

    By:Alec Moore    Township Administrator Judith Haas was transported to the emergency room at Somerset Medical Center Tuesday night, not long after a heated Township Committee discussion took place in which Committeeman Tony Gwiazdowski called for her dismissal.    Ms. Haas did not show any signs of illness or distress during the heated discussion, but shortly afterward…