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  • Man pleads not guilty to charge of murdering common law wife

    Ishmael Serrano charged with killing Refugia Ruiz Olmedo By: Sharlee Joy DiMenichi    Ishmael Serrano, who was charged with murdering the woman whose body police found in the woods off Miller Road Sept. 8, pleaded not guilty at an arraignment Sept. 10, Assistant County Prosecutor Thomas Kapsak said.    Mr. Serrano ,33, of French Street in New…

  • Skyland slate won’t provide any gimmies

    Hunterdon Central, Franklin next on schedule By: Rudy Brandl        ELIZABETH — Rick Mantz isn’t pushing the panic button just yet.    While Mantz realizes his Hillsborough High football team must make improvements after last Friday night’s 21-8 loss at Elizabeth, the veteran head coach saw some things he liked in the opening game. Josh Williams…

  • Teach your children well

    Class will help parents learn how to communicate with their teenage kids By:Alec Moore    Parents of pre-teens who feel they could use a little help from parents who have "been there and done that," may want to look into Hillsborough’s Parent Leadership Corps.    The five week parent-to-parent peer mentoring program is aimed at enhancing communications…

  • Bradley Beauregard

       Bradley Howard Beauregard, 42, of Kendall Park, died Tuesday, Sept. 10, at home in Jamestown, N.C.    Born in New Brunswick, Mr. Beauregard lived in North Brunswick, Kendall Park and Boca Raton, Fla., before moving to Jamestown two months ago.    He was employed by KIMCO Distributing since 1984, most recently working out of the Jamestown satellite…

  • South boys soccer team falls to hungrier St. Joe’s

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    The South Brunswick High School boys’ soccer team got off to a disappointing start to the 2002 season with a 4-1 loss at St. Joseph’s High School in Metuchen last Friday. The Falcons came out fired up, netting three goals in the first half.    "It came down to St. Joe’s wanting…

  • For the week of Sept. 19

    Vivian L. Grove, Right Rev. Monsignor James S. Foley, Leo A. Mocarsky, Maria Tuccillo Russo. By: Vivian L. Grove    Vivian L. Grove died Saturday at Pennswood Healthcare in Newtown, PA. She has resided at Pennswood Village for three years and had previously lived in Cranbury.    Born in Trenton, she was a 1941 graduate of Hamilton…

  • Firefighters revisit Ground Zero site

    Firefighters Sean Taylor, James Kemp, Joseph Mazzone and Greg Villano travel to site last seen Sept. 13, 2001 By:Alec Moore    For a number of Hillsborough firefighters, the anniversary of Sept. 11 last week was especially meaningful.    "It was painful and there were some tears," said 36-year-old Sean Taylor, deputy chief of the Hillsborough’s Flagtown Fire…

  • Rae Scrape

       MANVILLE — Rae Raffaela (Bonaduce) Scrape died Saturday, Sept. 14, in St. Peter’s Hospital in New Brunswick.    Born in Brooklyn, New York, she lived in Bound Brook before moving to Manville in 1958.    Mrs. Scrape was employed as a clerk for the Borough of Bound Brook for the past 15 years.    She was a communicant…

  • Raiders can’t finish Elizabeth in football opener

    Minutemen dominate late stages of comeback win By: Rudy Brandl        ELIZABETH — It takes experience to deliver the knockout punch and the Hillsborough High football team just doesn’t have quite enough maturity to finish off a worthy opponent.    The Raiders learned they must work on their killer instinct in last Friday night’s season opener…