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  • Newspapers in Education participates in Take your Kids to Work Day!

    Students come to the Packet to find out what journalism is all about. NiE Relatives of Packet Publications employees stopped by the com pany’s Princeton headquarters paper business in observance of national Take Our Children to Work Day. Among their stops on the tour,the 27 participants visited the ad vertising department, popped in on a…

  • Firms hired to raze ‘Floyd’ houses

    Borough Council passes on low bidder for work By:Eric Schwarz    Two firms will work to demolish about 37 houses the borough is buying, the Borough Council decided Monday.    The council will spend $407,897 between the two companies: PLM Inc. of Pompton Lakes, for $279,260; and Atlantic Demolition and Disposal of Manville, for $128,637.    The low…

  • Agency sets mercury meeting

    Feds set meeting to discuss environmental impact of mercury plans By:Laura Toto    The Township Committee last night announced a public meeting to be held with the Defense Logistics Agency to receive input for the long range planning of the mercury currently stored in Hillsborough.    The topic for the evening is specifically about the Environmental Impact…

  • Pleas limitpublic’s knowledge

    To the editor     Are you an American?    As an American, if you are charged with a crime, you have the right to the judicial system. You have the right to a trial where you are judged to be innocent until proven guilty beyond the shadow of a doubt.    If you belonged to a class…

  • Former Hopewell pastor retires after 40 years of service

    EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK By: Ruth Luse    Tomorrow night, a dinner honoring the Rev. Robert A. Beringer, former pastor of Hopewell Presbyterian Church, will be held at The Pines, a restaurant in Edison.    Officially — after 40 years in the ministry — he will leave his post as senior pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Metuchen…

  • Board of Education reorganizes

    Harry Delgado, a police lieutenant, was again named school board president and Bryan Laurita was named vice president Monday. By: Amanda Bok    The Board of Education has renewed last year’s leadership for the upcoming school year.    Harry Delgado, a police lieutenant, was again named school board president and Bryan Laurita was named vice president at…

  • Forming a successful charity to further fight on autism

    Former corporate lawyer employs skills to raise millions of dollars. By: Christian Kirkpatrick            The National Alliance for Autism Research is an organization on the move.    Begun in the basement of Eric and Karen Margulis London, NAAR has outgrown not just its founders’ house but its offices in Research Park in Montgomery. It recently…

  • Kyle Gladden, 6

       HILLSBOROUGH — Kyle A. Gladden died Wednesday, April 18, in Somerset Medical Center, Somerville. He was 6.    He was born in Elizabeth and moved to Hillsborough in 1997.    Kyle was in kindergarten at the Woods Road School in Hillsborough.He was a member of Beth El, The House of Yahweh in New York.    Surviving are his…

  • Bulldogs pick up steam

    BaseballThe Hopewell Valley Central High School baseball team may have finally turned the corner this past week, as the Bulldogs won two of three games. By: Matt Nalbone    Their second win of the season came against winless West Windsor-Plainsboro North.    Mike Ryan pitched six strong innings to get his second win of the year, allowing…