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  • ‘Born with a pencil in her hand’: Art natural to Nielsen

    A CHAT WITH MARY By:Mary Kaempfen    Your car rolls back and forth and up and down on the unpaved Montgomery Road until you come to paved road again, and both roads are smeared with snow and ice. Then you shift into a somewhat narrow lane and then a driveway that leads you to the house…

  • Federal grant would fund Main Street improvements

    Money would be used to improve Main Street, Gordon and Philips avenues and Craven Lane.    Aiming to improve the look of the streetscape and to give residents an alternative to driving to the shops on Main Street, Township Council has endorsed Lawrenceville Main Street’s application for a $228,000 federal beautification grant. By: Lea Kahn    Each…

  • Join your neighbors at Jan. 17’s football forum at high school

    EDITORIAL By:Ruth Luse    Central High School, according to Athletic Director Steve Timko, is the only Group II high school in the state not to have a football program.    Do you care? Do you want to see an interscholastic football program at Central High?    If so — and, of course, if not — you should join…

  • Advertise with us!

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  • Most buyouts readied for March

       The borough expects by the beginning of March to buy half to three-fourths of the 42 houses in Lost Valley on a Hurricane Floyd buyout list. By:Eric Schwarz    The borough on Wednesday received about $910,000 from the federal government to pay for buyouts of five houses in Lost Valley flooded after Hurricane Floyd, after pushing…

  • Borough may give municipal welfare program to county

       The Borough Council is expected today to name a temporary welfare director, but the job’s long-term future remains in doubt as officials consider transferring the welfare program’s administration to the county. By:Eric Schwarz    Mirella Gazo, who retired as Manville’s director of social services at the end of the year, earned $24,000 overseeing welfare. Transferring responsibility…

  • Hillsborough Presbyterian raises $2,500 for Somerset County home

       On Sunday, Dec. 17, Hillsborough Presbyterian Church presented a check for $2,500 to Jeff Fetzko of the Somerset Home for Displaced Children.    The money was raised the day of the church’s October Craft Festival and Silent Auction. Since 1973, the Somerset Home for Temporarily Displaced Children has been an agency committed to providing high quality…

  • SBHS junior is a prodigy on the piano

    Local student a veteran of Carnegie Hall By: Amanda Bok    You may have heard her perform in high school concerts or shows such as "Oliver." Her playing may have accompanied the high school chorus tunes you went to hear, or the hymns you went to sing in church.    And even if you’ve never seen Yvonne…

  • Council to decide EMT contract at Tuesday meeting

    The contract was originally pulled because the Emergency Medical Technicians had not ratified it.    Township Council expects to hold a public hearing on a $1.9 million bond ordinance to pay for construction of the planned Police Department and municipal court building next week. By: Lea Kahn    The council also is expected to take action on…