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  • NEW EGYPT: Eco Warriors receive national recognition

    NEW EGYPT: Eco Warriors receive national recognition

    New Egypt Middle School Eco-Warrior Peyton Samuelson checks the progress of the acorn seedlings.

  • UPPER FREEHOLD: Debaters making points

       UPPER FREEHOLD — The Stone Bridge Middle School debate team of Laur’en Cocozello, Brian Krewson and Taylor Watters won four of five debates and placed fourth overall at the second Garden State Debate League tournament Jan. 26.    The tournament, which was held at Barkalow Middle School in Freehold, had 26 teams from six different middle…

  • FLORENCE: Township police mentor students

    FLORENCE: Township police mentor students

    Batista Riverfront fifth-graders received DARE certificates Jan. 30 after fulfilling a 10-week educational program run by Florence Police Department officers. (Photo by Amy Batista)

  • FLORENCE: Township police mentor students

    FLORENCE: Township police mentor students

    Fifth-graders DARE before community By Amy Batista, Special Writer    FLORENCE — Riverfront fifth-graders joined a longstanding community tradition of earning Drug Abuse Resistance Education certificates last week.    Approximately 125 fifth-graders of the Florence Township Riverfront School graduated from the Florence Police Department’s annual DARE program.    ”We want them to understand that kids that use drugs…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Local girls help Rutgers gym team host Scouts

    HILLSBOROUGH: Local girls help Rutgers gym team host Scouts

       On Jan. 12, the Rutgers University women’s gymnastics team hosted more than 180 Girl Scouts from troops across New Jersey.    ”The response to this event was bigger than we ever expected,” said Karen Briegs, one of the leaders of Hillsborough Cadette Troop 60261, which organized the event.    ”We wanted to help draw attention to the…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: College students make the grades

    Campus Corner column    Jennifer Ellis of Hillsborough graduated from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., with a bachelor of science degree in mathematics during the Dec. 15 commencement exercises.    Marine Corps Maj. Justin Constantine, an Iraq War veteran and advocate for the Wounded Warrior Project, spoke at the ceremony, where 782 degress were conferred.    Dhruv…

  • MANVILLE: Senior center program to recall best romantic movies

       Travel back in time to remember classic Hollywood romances in a program at the Manville Senior Citizen Center in Fire Company No. 1 at 20 South Third Ave.    Walter Choroszewski will look back at the Golden Age of cinema and review some of the best romantic movies and stories about on-screen celebrity couples and their…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Adult day center elects officers

    HILLSBOROUGH: Adult day center elects officers

       The Adult Day Center of Somerset County appointed its volunteer Board of Trustees officer on Jan. 16. From left are treasurer David Mendez of Hillsborough, chair Christine Flanagan of Middlesex, vice chair Anita Ventantonio of Bridgewater and secretary David Tucker of Green Brook.    ”The strength of any non-profit social service agency can be found in…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Truck taken, homes burgled, police say

        Hillsborough police reported the theft of a truck, as well as two homes break-ins with thefts, in the last two weeks of January.     • A Freightliner truck, valued at $20,000, was reported stolen Jan. 25 from a Beekman Lane property sometime in the previous day.     • A Zion Road resident reported a burglary that…