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  • HILLSBOROUGH: Best feet forward

    HILLSBOROUGH: Best feet forward

    By John Patten, Managing Editor Sunnymead students highlight Breast Cancer Awareness Month    It’s said it doesn’t always matter if you win or lose, but it does matter how you play the game — and for the members of the Hillsborough Jr. Raiders Division II team Nebraska Huskers, playing the game in memory of a beloved…

  • Amber Cox

    By: centraljersey.com CHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP – Elementary school students will have a fresh start to the new year when they enter a brand new $37 million building on Jan. 5. Furniture for the Chesterfield Elementary School on Saddle Way will be delivered by mid-December and teachers and staff will begin moving in and preparing classrooms over…

  • Eileen Oldfield

    By: centraljersey.com Providing quality food at low price is the business mantra at Maestro 206, a new restaurant on Route 206 South, owners said. "One of the comments at CoccoLa was that the prices were too high," Maestro 206 Co-owner Romin Patel said. "We decided to have competitively priced dinners." "We have an array of…

  • Betty Jane Hunt

    By: centraljersey.com This is an introduction to a series of articles, which will appear in The Beacon, about the diverse use of agricultural land in West Amwell Township. Of the 14,016 acres that make up the land area in West Amwell, 7,650 acres were farmland assessed in 2006. That means there is agricultural activity taking…

  • EAST WINDSOR: Planning Board nixes age-restricted zone proposal

    By Evan Grossman, Staff Writer    EAST WINDSOR — The Planning Board bulldozed development plans this week that could have drastically altered the township’s Master Plan, increased school enrollment and irked many residents if constructed.    The board unanimously denied Red Bank-based developer Robertson Douglas an application that would have allowed them to convert a proposed 55-and…

  • Art auction

    By: centraljersey.com Friday, Oct. 22 – The Robbinsville-Hamilton Rotary Club’s annual Art Auction/Silent Auction will be held at the Nottingham Ballroom, 200 Mercer St., Hamilton Square. The 6:30 p.m. preview and 7:30 p.m. auction will feature art in all media and price ranges. Major credit cards accepted. Ten-dollar admission includes light hors d’oeuvres by food…

  • HAMNETTS REC SOCCER

    By: centraljersey.com Brazil stormed back from a 3-1 deficit to tie China, 3-3, as Brielle Samuels led the way with two goals. Chloe Brensinger scored the other goal while Aditi Agarkhed, Natalie Klek and Grace Raterman added assists. Morgan Slutzky anchored the defense with help from Alexis Rhodes and Sanjana Inamdar. For China, Karolina Zachor…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Ballots offer low-key municipal campaigns

    Contested races in Allentown, Plumsted By Joanne Degnan, Staff Writer    The municipal political campaigns have been so quiet that voters in Allentown, Upper Freehold, Millstone and Plumsted might not even realize there are any local seats on the ballot until they step into the voting booth Nov. 2.    The only contested races in The Messenger-Press…

  • Eileen Oldfield

    By: centraljersey.com Potholes riddle sections of Montgomery Road, particularly a one-and-a-half-mile stretch between Davids Lane and Pschorn Lane where the road isn’t paved. Ditches and more potholes run along the side of the road, which also has several blind curves and dust, and can flood during storms and cause other dangers. At least 137 area…