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  • HILLSBOROUGH: Community calendar, week of Sept. 20

    Try Y’s classes at fall festival    Saturday, Sept. 22 — Hillsborough Family YMCA will host its free Fall Festival at the facility on East Mountain Road, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. ––Zumba fitness classes, youth sports, arts and humanities classes, demonstrations. Open house for Y’s children day care, pre-school, kindergarten and after-school for K-8. For info, contact…

  • MANVILLE: Somerset Patriots welcome their 5,000,000 fani in their history

    MANVILLE: Somerset Patriots welcome their 5,000,000 fani in their history

       The Somerset Patriots welcomed their 5 millionth fan in team history on Wednesday, Sept. 12, when Ivan Candelaria entered the main gate with his wife Marcela and son Landon, 3, right before game time.    The Candelaria family of Piscataway was attending its first-ever Patriots game.    ”I love baseball and we hadn’t been to a game…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Airport will receive two state grants

        Central Jersey Airport on the Manville-Hillsborough border will receive two state grants totaling more than $212,000.     One grant, for $147,250, will go to build a general aviation jet fuel tank and self-service system, while the other grant for $65,246 is for security fencing.     Both grants are administered by the state Department of…

  • ALLENTOWN: Police Beat

    Police blotter items from the Allentown Police Department Allentown    Joseph Contey, 25, of Flemington, was charged with driving while suspended after a motor vehicle stop on South Main Street at 1:21 p.m., Sept. 14, police said.    Patrolman Tim Purpuri stopped Mr. Contey’s vehicle because it was traveling 42 mph in a 25-mph zone, police said.…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Museum accepts guitar made of pie tins, ice bucket

    HILLSBOROUGH: Museum accepts guitar made of pie tins, ice bucket

    Doug Watson of Flagtown loves guitars, and loves to make them out of unusual items.

  • MANVILLE: Library Happenings column, week of Sept. 20

    MANVILLE: Library Happenings column, week of Sept. 20

        The library has reopened as a branch of the county library system and has new hours. The library is open at 10 a.m. every day except Sunday. It closes at 8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, and at 5:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.     Manville residents who have a library card should not discard it. It…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Non-profit groups can apply for town grant

    Money comes from township’s credit card program     Applications will be taken until Oct. 4 from senior citizen, youth, sports and non-profit organizations who seek a grant from the township’s credit card fund.     Applications can be found online at www.hillsborough-nj.org or at the municipal clerk’s or clerk’s office in the Peter J. Biondi Building…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Competition tomatoes go to homeless shelter

       Two Hillsborough residents were among the Somerset County employees who put their green thumbs to good use and donated their first Tomato Grow Off harvest to a local nonprofit organization.    Pittstown’s Scott Gordon of the county’s Engineering Division was named the winner of the employee competition with a garden tomato weighing 2.325 pounds.    County employees…

  • UPPER FREEHOLD: ‘Stone Bridge Nation’ rallies

    UPPER FREEHOLD: ‘Stone Bridge Nation’ rallies

    Students learn about the Electoral College at convention By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    UPPER FREEHOLD — Who knew that learning about the role of the Electoral College in a presidential election could be so electrifying?    As Miley Cyrus’ hit song “Party in the USA” rocked the auditorium, 543 fired-up students — many wearing patriotic face…