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  • PLUMSTED: Litter-packin’ llamas help clean up watershed

    PLUMSTED: Litter-packin’ llamas help clean up watershed

    From left, Josephine Craver, Nicole Griscom (leading the llama, Carbon Footprint), Plumsted Environmental Commissioner Bev Vienckowski (leading the llama Jim-E); and Environmental Commission Chairman Bill Lewis on litter patrol in the Colliers Mill Wildlife Management Area. Photo by Tom Shanahan

  • LAWRENCE: Krawczun outlines cuts in municipal jobs

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Township Council is expected to introduce a revised 2012 municipal budget today, Thursday, that calls for a combination of eliminating 14 positions and other cost reductions in an effort to plug a $2.2 million hole in the proposed budget.    Council will meet at 6:30 p.m. tonight to introduce the revised…

  • Guest Column: Housebreaking your new puppy
  • HILLSBOROUGH: Quarry invites neighbors, officials to tour site

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    Owners of the Gibraltar Rock Quarry have invited Hillsborough and Montgomery municipal leaders and nearby property owners to visit their enterprise on Route 601 on Monday, June 4, at 3 p.m.    Although the quarry has an application to cut down 20 acres of trees in order to install a solar…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Mayor to lead 6th grade band

    And so Township Committee meeting will start late    Mayor Carl Suraci will put down his gavel temporarily and pick up a conductor’s baton on Tuesday night.    The mayor will conduct his daughter Amy and the 6th grade spring band at a concert at Auten Road Intermediate School at 7 p.m. He will conduct “The Minuteman…

  • ‘Dark Shadows’

    This spoofy remake feels more like ‘The Addams Family’ than the original gothic drama By Elise Nakhnikian AN awkwardly stitched-together collection of mismatched parts, Dark Shadows is a Frankenstein’s monster of a movie, a vampire love story/family reunion played out as a half-funny spoof.    Portraying another in a long line of chivalrous freaks for director…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: College students share news of accomplishments

    HILLSBOROUGH: College students share news of accomplishments

       Marine biology major Sarah Merolla of Hillsborough was one of six sophomores at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston to be awarded the Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the most of any public university in the nation in 2012.    She was one of 117 winners nationwide. The award…

  • LAWRENCE: Officers sue; claim union harassment

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Seven Lawrence Township police officers — all active members of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 209 or the Policemen’s Benevolent Association Local 119 — have filed a federal lawsuit against top Police Department administrators and the municipal manager for violating the officers’ civil rights under the U.S. Constitution.    The…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Kayla Hvozdovic named ‘Outstanding Safety Patroller’

    HILLSBOROUGH: Kayla Hvozdovic named ‘Outstanding Safety Patroller’

    Honored by AAA Kayla Hvozdovic of the Hillsborough Elementary School has been named “Outstanding School Safety Patroller of the Year” by AAA Mid-Atlantic’s Foundation for Safety and Education.    Students from throughout New Jersey were chosen for their leadership, dependability, academic strength, promptness and industriousness. The awards ceremony was held on April 24 at Mastoris Restaurant…