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  • Lambertville celebrates cinema with film festival

    By: centraljersey.com From July 22-25, the Artist Visions Film Festival will celebrate the creative visions of filmmakers from Hunterdon-Bucks counties and beyond. The festival will feature outdoor film screenings and live music on the river in the Lambertville Station parking lot (rain location, ACME Screening Room), a video installation in the center of town on…

  • Death notices

    Fred Cocozzelli By: centraljersey.com Manville resident Fred Cocozzelli, 81, died July 7 died in Bridgewater. Funeral services were held July 10 at Fucillo and Warren Funeral Home in Manville, followed by a funeral liturgy at Christ the King Roman Catholic Church. Committal words and interment followed at Sacred Heart Cemetery in Hillsborough. Memorial contributions may…

  • Between the lines

    By: centraljersey.com The Burlington County Library Bordentown Branch Youth Services Department offers a variety of programs. Registration is necessary for all programs. A Burlington County library card is required. For children’s programs, registration begins two weeks in advance at the library or by calling 298-0622. For children Wii For Teens and Tweens – Monday, July…

  • Community 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…

  • Letters to the editor

    Officer discusses local police service By: centraljersey.com This letter is addressed to the approximately 18,000 residents of Hopewell Valley, the thousands more that commute here every day for their jobs, the countless numbers of people who drive through here each day to get to and from their jobs and in response to William S. Clarke’s…

  • Editorial

    Privatization plan needs more study By: centraljersey.com Gov. Chris Christie is considering a plan that has the potential to save taxpayers money – or result in a breakdown of government services. The governor last week released a report put together by the New Jersey Privatization Task Force, a panel he appointed in March to review…

  • Robbinsville

    By: centraljersey.com Township Council: 7:30 p.m. second and fourth Thursday, court building, 1117 Route 130. Planning Board: 7 p.m. third and fourth Wednesdays, Senior Center, 1117 Route 130. Zoning Board: first Thursday, Senior Center. Board of Education: Generally 7 p.m. fourth Tuesday, Robbinsville High School student activities center, 155 Robbinsville-Edinburgh Road. . Township: 609-918-0002; Schools:…

  • Summer readers pack library

    By: Mary Ellen Zangara – Special Writer The Manville Public Library annual summer reading program is off to a strong start, with a the most participants the library has seen for many years, according to Children’s Librarian Ruth Bielanski. "We have 51 signed up and we are taking more," she said. "Not everyone is there…

  • PBA to host fundraising game to benefit Joey Mathewson, 8

    By: centraljersey.com Kasey LaStella and Joseph Mathewson’s 8-year-old son Joey was a healthy child, active in the Hillsborough Little League, Hillsborough Dukes and attends Sunnymead Elementary School, until he suddenly began having violent seizures in April. He was rushed to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick April 19, and since that day, has…