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  • HILLSBOROUGH: VoTech students win gold for career skills

    Hillsborough youngsters eligible to compete in Kansas City    Somerset County Vocational & Technical High School students recently competed against other career and technical education students at the New Jersey SkillsUSA Championships.    Out of the 82 SCVTHS students who competed, 46 received medals.    Thirty SVT gold medal winners are eligible to test their skills in Kansas…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: ‘Help wanted’

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: ‘Help wanted’

    Hundreds attend job fair By Charles W. Kim, Managing Editor Some 360 people from around the region came to the Community Center in Woodlot Park Tuesday hoping to find a good job.    ”I’m looking for a job,” Marla Cukor, of East Brunswick said. “I read about this and decided to come check it out.”    Ms.…

  • STOCKTON: 2013 budget is introduced

    Public hearing and adoption vote scheduled for the June 10 Borough Council meeting By John Tredrea, Special Writer    STOCKTON — A proposed 2013 Stockton Borough budget that would bring a municipal tax-rate increase of “just under 2 cents” per $100 of assessed property value was introduced by the Borough Council Monday night, Michele Hovan, borough…

  • Family and Staff Dedicate Mary Hayes Tribute Garden at MCCC May 10

    Family and Staff Dedicate Mary Hayes Tribute Garden at MCCC May 10

    Pictured from left are Mary Hayes’ family members: daughter Sharon, son-in-law Justin, sister Joan Silver, son David, and MCCC President Patricia C. Donohue.

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Message-board sign replaced at high school

    HILLSBOROUGH: Message-board sign replaced at high school

    School hopes to debut it in next week    A new message board has been installed on the Hillsborough High School lawn facing the Amwell and Auten Road intersection. Principal Karen Bingert said she hopes the sign will be in operation in the next week.    The 59-square-foot sign will feature seven lines of text, full color…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Police officers recognized

    Annual awards for exceptional service presented Chief of Police Raymond Hayducka recognized outstanding actions this year by South Brunswick Police Officers at a ceremony Thursday morning, according to a press release from the agency.    The awards ceremony was held at 11 a.m. in the main meeting room at the Municipal Building on Route 522.    The…

  • Peapack-Gladstone Bank Supports Literacy

    Peapack-Gladstone Bank Supports Literacy

    Peapack-Gladstone Bank book drive volunteers (left to right) Christina Corleto, Rosanne Schwab, Adam Skillin, Lisa Galonardo of the United Way of Northern New Jersey, Chris Pocquat and Scott Searle.

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: St. Augutines students visit bishop’s grave

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: St. Augutines students visit bishop’s grave

    Part of school’s 50th anniversary On May 7, members of the Student Council of St. Augustine of Canterbury School in Kendall Park made a pilgrimage to St. Mary Cemetery in Trenton, to pray in gratitude at the grave of Bishop George W. Ahr.    Visiting the grave of the past Bishop of Trenton was part of…

  • ‘This is a disgrace!’

    Joe Shoemaker Lambertville     Mother’s Day came and went and The Sandy Hook Promise lies in limbo.    When the children (and adults) were slaughtered at Sandy Hook Elementary School, our nation became outraged, empathetic and focused; we all had enough.    The clarion calls for some kind of gun control were overwhelming, but a stubborn electorate…