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  • Quinto reaches Meet of Champs

    By: centraljersey.com Although the Hopewell Valley High girls cross country team had its season end at the Group III meet last Saturday at Holmdel Park, sophomore Casey Quinto continued her outstanding season. Quinto finished 11th overall and earned a wild card berth into this Saturday’s Meet of Champions. "She ran with a lot of heart,"…

  • Rich Fisher

    By: centraljersey.com TOMS RIVER – Every so often, teams need to sacrifice one thing to achieve another. In no way did the Hopewell Valley girls’ soccer team want to lose to Steinert in the Mercer County Tournament semifinals. At the time, the Bulldogs did not feel their lone loss of the season to date, was…

  • Briefs

    By: centraljersey.com The Lawrence Township Junior Baseball & Softball Association will hold a walk in registration on Saturday, Dec. 11 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Indoor Training Facility at Central Park on Eggerts Crossing Road. This registration will be for Lawrence Babe Ruth Baseball, Lawrence Little League Baseball and Lawrence Little League Softball.…

  • Friday, Nov. 19

    By: centraljersey.com Tales well told The Moth, the storytelling organization founded in New York City, has proven that storytelling can tie a community together. Now The Moth alights hereabouts with a Princeton MothUp being hosted by Labyrinth Books, located at 122 Nassau St., at 7 p.m. Storytellers will be drawn from the community, and the…

  • AUDUBON NOTES

    By: centraljersey.com Washington Crossing Audubon Society is offering Birds of Shark River, a field trip at 9 a.m. on Nov. 20, led by Mary Doscher. Migratory birds from northern climates more frigid than New Jersey’s head this way to spend the winter in the warmer, open, and fish-filled waters here. Ms. Doscher will help participants…

  • Community bank’s earnings went up

    By: centraljersey.com Hopewell Valley Community Bank (PinkSheets: HWDY) announced that earnings for both the second quarter of 2010 and for the first six months of the year rose sharply over the corresponding 2009 periods. The Bank’s Board of Directors also declared a semi-annual $.04 cash dividend payable on Sept. 10, 2010, to shareholders of record…

  • Calendar

    By: centraljersey.com Tell us about you. If your local nonprofit organization plans a special event and you would like to have the information published in the Hillsborough Beacon, drop a note to Hillsborough Beacon Calendar, P.O. Box 350, Princeton, NJ 08542. All items should be typed and must be mailed, faxed (609-924-3842) or e-mailed to…

  • Amber Cox

    By: centraljersey.com BORDENTOWN CITY – Bordentown is known for, among other things, the John Bull steam engine that had its first movement on rails on the outskirts of town. A new tradition will begin on Saturday with a Holiday Train Display in the Old City Hall, 11 Crosswicks Street, sponsored by City Commissioner Zigmont Targonski…

  • BP renews backing of climate research

    By: centraljersey.com In a continuing research partnership to identify ways to tackle the world’s climate problem, Princeton’s Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI) has received a commitment of $11 million from BP as part of an extension of a partnership first announced in October 2008. Scholars and students will explore further the science, policy and technology dimensions…