Category: archives
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HILLSBOROUGH: Candidates offer ideas on how to spend money
Township budget often reflects the priorities of elected leaders By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor How would the four candidates vying for spots on the local governing body spend municipal tax money next year? The four candidates for the Township Committee responded this week in a question posed by The Beacon. Their full statements will appear…
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UPPER FREEHOLD: Township Committee race is uncontested
ELECTION 2011 By Jane Meggitt, Special Writer UPPER FREEHOLD The only member of the all-Republican Township Committee running for re-election this year faces no opposition on the ballot. Robert Frascella, 47, is seeking his second term on the five-member municipal governing body. Dr. Frascella, a dentist, is married with two children and resides in…
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Elect Kanka to senate
Nancy Aidukas, Hamilton As someone who retired after 50 years of hard work, I have seen the economy go through difficult times. We are facing a really bad economy that has threatened my retirement. My children and grandchildren had to leave the state in order to find a job. This didn’t happen overnight. The Legislature…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Burglary reported at Duke Farms
Police blotter for week of Oct. 20 A burglary to an abandoned building on the Duke Farms property was reported. The representative believed the burglary occurred sometime after Sept. 30, according to police. Perhaps people were trying to steal copper pipes, police said, who couldn’t say if anything was taken. * *…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Statements on how candidates would spend money in township budget
Verbatim statements by four Township Committee candidates This week’s question to the Hillsborough Township Committee candidates from the Beacon is: ”We spend money on what’s important to us. Give me an idea of some items you would include or exclude in the 2012 municipal budget. What roads would you pave? What equipment would you buy?…
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MCCC Students, Television Station Win Telly Award
By Saveria Symons West Windsor, N.J. — Nearly 20 student volunteers from the Mercer County Community College (MCCC) Television Program won a national Telly award for their work on the live cable telecast of the Mercer County High School Basketball Finals. Telly Awards honor the very best local, regional, and cable television, video and film productions.…
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LAWRENCE: Police blotter
An East Run Drive resident reported the theft of a GPS unit from his car, which was parked underneath a carport at the residence, between 11:30 p.m. Oct. 16 and 10:30 a.m. Oct. 17. The doors were locked, but the windows had been left open enough for someone to reach inside. The GPS was valued…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Model UN team wins honors in Tennessee
Hillsborough High School received the Best Small Delegation team award at the Model United Nations’ 8th annual conference Sept. 30-Oct. 2 at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. The 12 participants from Hillsborough were Justin Fanders (Best Position Paper, Disarmament and Security), Sonali Alluri (Verbal Commendation, Social, Humanitarian and Cultural), Aman Thakker (Outstanding Delegate, International…
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NATIONALLY KNOWN POP ARTIST DAVID OKEEFE PAYS TRIBUTE TO PINE VALLEY AND "ALL MY CHILDREN"
ARTIST DAVID O’KEEFE WORKING ON BUSHWOOD "A TRIBUTE TO CADDYSHACK"
