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  • Meadowbrook signal gets nod

    By: Mark Moffa    WASHINGTON – The state Department of Transportation recently granted temporary approval to the township’s plan to install a traffic signal at the intersection of Meadowbrook Road with Route 130 and Gordon Road.    The township’s consulting engineer, Jack West, said DOT has given a temporary green light to the township’s request that an…

  • Former soccer coach pleads guilty to sexual assault

       A Hillsborough resident is facing a five- to seven-year sentence for sexually assaulting one member of the Piscataway youth soccer team between 1992 and 1996. By:Laura Toto    Charles F. Hoffman, 42, of Mill Road pleaded guilty Friday to two counts of second-degree sexual assault and one count of child endangerment. The incidents happened over a…

  • Members needed for landfill panel

           FLORENCE – The Township Council is seeking individuals to volunteer for the Citizen’s Advisory Committee on Landfill Matters, who would represent residents’ concerns on a panel that also would include representatives from the township and two local landfills. By:Jeff Mikalaitis        FLORENCE – The Township Council is seeking individuals to volunteer for the Citizen’s…

  • Millstone school administrator in familiar role

    By: Frank C. D’Amico    MILLSTONE – By day, Steve Baglivio is a school administrator. By night, he takes the stage in community playhouses.    Earlier this month, Mr. Baglivio took the stage for the 100th time in "Scrooge," the musical version of Charles Dickens’ "A Christmas Carol," with the Spring Lake Theater Company.    Mr. Baglivio, who…

  • SUBCOMMITTEES TACKLE HIGH SCHOOL ISSUES

    Setting groundwork for Washington schoolA group of residents working on what they would like to see in the township’s first high school has created subcommittees to tackle specific areas of high school life. By: Frank C. D’Amico    WASHINGTON – A group of residents working on what they would like to see in the township’s first…

  • Hillsborough needs new government form

    LETTER TO THE EDITOR To the editor:    Oles! Kudos! Bravos! Encores! Standing ovations! Twenty-one-gun salutes!    George Ostergren has hit the bulls-eye on Hillsborough’s governmental problems (Letters, "Change Hillsborough’s form of government," Dec. 14).    We need executive authority and even more so, accountability.    When our mayor was in the minority on the committee, he was a…

  • Have a heart after holidays are all over

    BEACON EDITORIAL By:Hillsborough Beacon    The winter holidays are especially rich in traditions this year, as Ramadan joins Christmas, Hannukah and Kwanzaa in the hearts of Central Jerseyans.    But as you celebrate your holiday of choice this year, we urge you to stop and think about the meaning at the heart of the holiday, encrusted as…

  • OBITUARIES, Dec. 22, 2000

    Richard A. Tindall, Barry A. Omilinsky, Evelyn Lilienthal, Harold E. Wertz, Aaron J. Soroker. Richard A. Tindall West Windsor farmer    WEST WINDSOR – Richard A. Tindall died Tuesday at home. He was 56.    Born in Princeton, he was a West Windsor resident his entire life.    Mr. Tindall was a partner with his brother Doug in…

  • A loving look at Christmases past in the Register-News

       Christmastime always makes me think of Victorian England. I expect to hear horse hooves ringing on cobblestones, and sometimes I think I see men in tall hats walking briskly down the street, twirling a cane. Women in bonnets and capes should be out caroling, moving from one candlelit window to the next, trailed by a…