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  • MCCC Theatre Students to Present “Beautiful Thing” Dec. 9-11

    MCCC Theatre Students to Present “Beautiful Thing” Dec. 9-11

    By Wendy Humphrey West Windsor, N.J. – Journey to working class London with Mercer County Community College Theatre students for the coming-of-age drama “Beautiful Thing.” Dates and show times for this bittersweet Jonathan Harvey play are Friday, Dec. 9 at 8 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 10 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 11 at…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Filling vacancies becomes challenge of timing for GOP

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor     Somerset County Freeholder Jack Ciattarelli, of Hillsborough, is likely to be chosen in the next couple of weeks to fill the remaining six weeks of the Assembly term of Peter Biondi.     In January, some other Republican will be selected to fill the seat to which Mr. Biondi seat…

  • Music Director

    Music Director

    Jack Rosenberg FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A NEW YOUTH ORCHESTRA RECREATES BEETHOVEN Montclair, NJ November 15, 2011 On November 20 at 2PM the Academie Philharmonic, an honors youth orchestra project at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair, NJ will launch its inaugural season with an open reading. “Beethoven’s Akademie” will recreate the historic concert from Dec.…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Fourth vice principal hired for high school

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor     An English teacher at a Basking Ridge middle school has been hired as the fourth vice principal at Hillsborough High School.     Colin Simpson is projected to begin work Jan. 2 at an annual salary of $93,000.The benefits package will bring total compensation above $110,000.     After debate, the…

  • PLUMSTED: No-show township committeeman’s seat declared vacant

    By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    PLUMSTED — An elected official who has not attended a Township Committee meeting since June has had his seat declared vacant by the municipal governing body, which under state law must appoint a successor by Dec. 9.    Mayor Ron Dancer said Wednesday that Steve Reed, a Republican who had two…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Void felt at Veterans Day ceremony

    Pete Biondi was to have been a speaker By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    About 150 to 200 people came out to Friday night’s township Veterans Day ceremony, but there was one person missing.    The township learned the night before that Peter J. Biondi, an Assemblyman and former mayor of the township, had died of complications…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Vikings pummel Hillsborough 63-14

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Vikings pummel Hillsborough 63-14

    By Ed Birch, Special Writer The South Brunswick Vikings erupted in its first playoff game last Friday night with a resounding 63-14 victory over the Hillsborough Raiders.¶ The Vikings were able to score touchdowns on 9/12 possessions, mostly in the second half of the contest.¶ "The guys were making the big plays and maturing into…

  • MOVIE REVIEW: ‘J Edgar’

    MOVIE REVIEW: ‘J Edgar’

    Clint Eastwood’s film about the FBI founder searches for meaning in a claustrophobic setting By Elise Nakhnikian Clint Eastwood is smart and savvy, a polished professional whose long career probably owes a lot to the talent he’s proven, both as an actor and as a director, for whittling things down to a fine polish. In…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Pete Biondi — Mr. Hillsborugh — dies at 69

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    Assemblyman Peter Biondi, hailed as the “patriarch” of modern Hillsborough Township, died Thursday night (Nov. 10), two days after his re-election to an eighth term in the General Assembly. He was 69.    Mr. Biondi, a Republican, served on the local governing body, as a Somerset County freeholder and as an…