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  • Free Tax Prep Help Available Through April 15

    By Somerset County Board of Freeholders Volunteer tax counselors have been trained to assist Somerset County residents in preparing their federal and New Jersey income tax returns. After passing the IRS and AARP tests, these volunteers are ready to help low- and middle-income residents prepare their tax returns. Special emphasis is placed on helping senior…

  • LAWRENCE: Day-care center hearing continued to Feb. 15

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    The fate of a day-care center, proposed for the former headquarters of the New Jersey Conference of Seventh Day Adventists at 2160 Brunswick Pike, might be decided at the Zoning Board of Adjustment’s Feb. 15 meeting.    The zoning board, which began its public hearing on Agape International Children’s Academy’s conditional…

  • MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Grey’: These wolves are too weird be taken seriously

    By Elise Nakhnikian    The Grey is one of those macho-adventure-gone-terribly- wrong movies that aims to give you a vicarious scare. It wants to shake you out of your over-civilized stupor, awakening you to the need to live life to the fullest and then die like a man, unafraid and unburdened by regret.    It opens…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Fiduk, Osmond celebrate their Eagle Scout honor

    HILLSBOROUGH: Fiduk, Osmond celebrate their Eagle Scout honor

    Scoutmaster Jim Kelly, left, poses with his three Eagles — Matthew Trond, Jason Fiduk and John Osmond — and Assistant Scoutmaster Bruce Hixson. (Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara)

  • MCCC Alum Maggie Anderson Reflects on Fulfilling Career in the Wild

    MCCC Alum Maggie Anderson Reflects on Fulfilling Career in the Wild

    MCCC alumna Maggie Anderson is pictured here with a boar black bear (brown phase) in hibernation at Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge. The bears are tranquilized while being tagged for radio collaring, as seen here.

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Housing ‘error’ made in redevelopment plan

    Council: Town Center South Redevelopment Plan will be changed By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ROBBINSVILLE — The Township Council said last week that the 164-page redevelopment plan for Town Center South needs a “substantive change” — the removal of detached single-family homes as permitted uses in the southern tract.    The redevelopment plan crafted by planners…

  • LAWRENCE: Filing deadline for school board candidates Feb. 27

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    The deadline for filing to seek one of five open seats on the Lawrence Township Board of Education has been set for Feb. 27 at 4 p.m., according to school district officials.    Normally, three school seats would be available but because of a series of resignations, there are five seats…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: School elections changed from April to November

    Upper Freehold, Millstone, Plumsted may soon follow suit By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ROBBINSVILLE — The Board of Education has voted to move the April school election to November in a switch that will save taxpayers about $20,000 a year in election-related costs, but change the usual way school budgets are adopted.    Under a new…

  • MANVILLE: Library will lend audiobooks

       Hillsborough’s library, a branch of the Somerset County Library System, has begun lending Playaway, a digital audio book unit loaded with selected popular titles.    Half the size of a deck of cards, Playaway is a digital audio player pre-loaded with content. The entire unit plus the content is loaned out to patrons. Each unit can…