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  • It’s show time!

    Summer band students play before audience of family, friends By:Eric Schwarz    The summer band students had the chance Friday to demonstrate what they learned in the past four weeks to their families at an end-of-summer concert.    The students, entering fourth through 12th grades this fall, performed solos and group numbers at Manville High School’s auditorium…

  • 3M plans to reduce water usage

    Use could drop up to 1.5 million gallons a month By:David Dankwa    3M is planning to install new cooling equipment that would reduce the firm’s water consumption at its Belle Mead Quarry – a longtime concern of local officials and neighbors of the facility.    When it’s installed, the equipment would cut water use by up…

  • South Brunswick baseball piles on the crowns

    The 11-year-old squad won a pair of titles last week, giving the team four championships for the year. The 12s captured the Iselin Tournament, ending their season on a winning note. By: Ken Weingartner    Forget about Green Bay. South Brunswick, at least during the summer, should be honored with the moniker "Title Town."    As the…

  • EDITORIAL: County government unneeded

    Services could be done at state, municipal levels By:Hillsborough Beacon    Why does New Jersey need county government?    This heretical thought has come to us many times, but most recently in our musings on the upcoming race for the Somerset County Board of Chosen Freeholders. As we pondered candidates and county officials both past and present,…

  • Local woman to speak to GOP convention

    Township resident Sally Brenner and her granddaughter Amy Knutsen of Skillman will speak on Social Security By: John Tredrea    The primetime national spotlight will fall on a Hopewell Township resident tonight at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia.    Selected from a field of grandmother-granddaughter teams from around the country, longtime township resident Sally Brenner and…

  • Huzzys give Legion season a happy ending

    By: Kyle Moylan    Bob Huzzy is a smart guy. And come this Saturday, he will also be a very happy one.    For over the past two months, Huzzy has made lineups and plotted strategy for the Hightstown Post 148 American Legion team he manages. Huzzy replayed games over in his mind, thinking about where his…

  • Researchers unveil facts linking park to late resident

    Park dedicated in 1936 to William Flynn By:Vanessa S. Holt        BORDENTOWN CITY – For years, residents have referred to the park between Farnsworth Avenue and Second Street overlooking the Delaware River as the Hilltop Park.    However, as one researcher recently discovered, when the park was dedicated in 1936, it was intended to be a…

  • Wheelchair takes teen to Australia

    Jessica Galli to compete in Paralympics By:Minx McCloud    It’s been a long battle, but Belle Mead resident Jessie Galli, 16, will compete in the World Paralympics to be held in October in Sydney, Australia.    Jessie, injured in a car accident when she was 7, is a paraplegic confined to a wheelchair, but in some ways,…

  • We Will Rebuild helps families find aid

    Local family expects nearly $10,000 any day By:Eric Schwarz    The Hnidj family on South Fourth Avenue, victims of the 1999 Hurricane Floyd flooding, has applied for every form of assistance available.    In March, they applied for help through We Will Rebuild after reading a newspaper account about the agency.    We Will Rebuild, a Bound Brook-based…