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  • Hillsborough girls fall short in county finals

    Offensive drought spoils stellar defensive effort By: Rudy Brandl        MARTINSVILLE — Imagine holding the area’s best basketball team under 30 points for an entire game and still losing.    Despite making that superb defensive statement, the Hillsborough High girls still came up three points short of Immaculata in last Thursday night’s Somerset County championship game…

  • Trial team advances to regional finals

    LHS defeats teams from Hunterdon Central and MiddletownThe Lawrence High School Mock Trial Team knocked off two of its competitors this week, setting the stage for it to advance to the central New Jersey regional sectional finals later this month. By: Lea Kahn    Lawrence High School’s would-be lawyers battled past mock trial teams from Hunterdon…

  • Parents knock Dayton-Deans plan

    As part of the school district’s developing redistricting plan, the Dayton-Deans school may be turned into two separate kindergarten schools. By: Amanda Bok    A proposal to turn Dayton-Deans School into two separate kindergarten schools has some parents angry.    The proposal is one of three possible zoning configurations the district is looking at as it works…

  • Board eyes adding full-time ESL teacher

    School district’s propsed budget grows by $52,179 for work at middle school, added teachers By:Laura Toto    The Board of Education increased spending and the tax rate in the proposed school budget Monday after a lengthy discussion on the need for more teachers to staff the English as a Second Language program at the Auten Road…

  • School budget may hike taxes 5.4 percent

    School officials pointed to the growing enrollment as the reason for the proposed 9-cent increase in the property tax rate. The budget will be placed before voters April 17. By: Amanda Bok    Increased enrollment could result in a 5.4 percent hike in the school tax rate for the 2001-2002 school year.    The district unveiled its…

  • Edition of March 1, 2001

    Eleanor Hixson Faherty    Eleanor Hixson Faherty, 85, died Monday at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Charles and Paulette Faherty of Skillman.    A graduate of Pennington High School, she was a resident of Hopewell Borough for most of her life until recently moving to Skillman.    Mrs. Faherty, a homemaker, was a member of the…

  • Millstone may take security steps

    Photo identification tags, education program part of school district’s plans. By: Frank C. D’Amico    MILLSTONE — The school district this spring will look into adding several security measures at its two facilities, Millstone elementary and middle schools.    Officials on Monday said the district might require all school employees to wear photo identification tags. Educational programs…

  • Register-News reporters, photographer, editor win NJPA awards

       Two reporters, a photographer and the managing editor of the Packet Publications-owned Register-News took several honors in the 2000 New Jersey Press Association (NJPA) contest. By:    Vanessa S. Holt and Jeff Mikalaitis took third-place honors in the Breaking News category for weekly newspapers with a circulation over 4,500.    They received the honor for the coverage…

  • HHS swimmers look to do damage at states

    Kay, McIsaac have title hopes By: Rudy Brandl        Kelly McIsaac still remembers the feeling of anchoring her team to the state championship in the 400 freestyle relay at last year’s NJSIAA Meet of Champions. The Hillsborough High senior is hoping to provide a little more magic at this year’s big show.    There’s nothing sweeter…