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  • HILLSBOROUGH: Live raptors coming to library Saturday

    Hillsborough library happenings    The Hillsborough Public Library at 379 South Branch Road will host Halloween-related activities this week. In some, chidden are encouraged to wear costumes. See the youth programs listed below.    Learn about New Jersey’s resident and migrant hawks, falcons, and eagles when the Raptor Trust, the wild bird rehabilitation center in Millington, brings…

  • TAKE A HIKE; Oct. 18

    TAKE A HIKE; Oct. 18

    Colonial Lake in Lawrence.

  • HILLSBOROUGH: It was a fun night — with a message

    HILLSBOROUGH: It was a fun night — with a message

    Brooke Fava checks the cart of Ciera Apgar, a Hillsborough 5th grader, who played the shopping cart. Kids had to choose the healthy foods from a variety on a table, and Brooke told them how well they did. It was part of her Girl Scout Silver Award for Troop 61052.

  • MANVILLE: Library joins the county system

    MANVILLE: Library joins the county system

    Sandy Scrape of the borough Library Advisory Board cuts and serves cake. 

  • MANVILLE: Library joins the county system

    MANVILLE: Library joins the county system

       Manville Public Library held a ceremony Tuesday night to commemorate the absorption of the borough library into the Somerset Count

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Ding, dong the building’s dead!

    Foxmoor office building plan abandoned; open space eyed instead By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ROBBINSVILLE — Mayor Dave Fried told a packed room of more than 100 Foxmoor residents last week he’s abandoning a controversial plan to put an office building in their neighborhood. Instead, the 6-acre parcel will be left as open space.    Jayme…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Police blotter for week of Oct. 18

       • Christie Feoli, 27, of Stockton was charged Oct. 6 with driving while under the influence in a Route 206 parking lot, processed and released. The matter is pending blood analysis.    • Jaleeah Lewis, 25, of Hillside was arrested on an East Orange warrant during a Route 206 motor vehicle checkpoint on Oct. 2.    • On Sept. 28,…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: School bus crash injures one child

    Police say SUV driver ran stop sign and hit bus By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ROBBINSVILLE — A 61-year-old Hamilton man ran a stop sign and hit a school bus loaded with 29 Sharon Elementary School students on Monday, leaving one second-grader with a minor head injury, police said.    The school bus was traveling south…

  • UPPER FREEHOLD: Town recognized for farm preservation success

    UPPER FREEHOLD: Town recognized for farm preservation success

    Deputy Mayor Steve Alexander accepted an award from the state that recognized Upper Freehold for having preserved 9,219 acres of farmland, the most of any New Jersey municipality. Shown from left at the Oct. 9 ceremony in Upper Pittsgrove are: state Sen. Stephen Sweeney, state Agriculture Development Committee Executive Director Susan Payne, Mr. Alexander, Agriculture…