Category: archives
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HILLSBOROUGH: Mixing messages
By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer Library event to launch summer, food drive programs With a combination of music and charity, the library is hoping to bring in donations for the local food bank, while providing an afternoon of bluegrass music. To help build up the local food bank’s supplies, and to kick of the library’s…
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SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Scouts working to help students and veterans
By Chelsea Radler, Staff Writer Less than 5 percent of the country’s 838,000 Boy Scouts will become Eagle Scouts, but that daunting statistic did not deter Tommy Grant or Jake Zamorski of Troop 90 in Kendall Park. This year both boys launched Eagle projects, leadership initiatives that pose the biggest challenge to gaining Scouting’s highest…
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CENTRAL JERSEY: Robbinsville, UF, Allentown getting solar panels
NEWARK Later this month, PSE&G contractors will install about 90 pole-attached solar energy units in Robbinsville, about 40 panels in Upper Freehold and about 15 in Allentown. The units will be placed on utility poles and street lights along main streets near area businesses and in residential neighborhoods. When the project is complete, the…
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MILLSTONE: Young siblings removed from ‘deplorable’ home
By Vic Monaco, Managing Editor MILLSTONE A 6-year-old boy and his 9-year-old sister are in foster care after they were found living in a home with a dead rodent on their bedroom floor, 15 to 20 bags of garbage piled in the kitchen and hundreds of flies, gnats and mosquitoes, according to state police.…
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Taste of Crete in Hillsborough, NJ presents a New Class Offering Healthy Mediterranean Eating Tips
By Brenda Sotolongo The Heart-Healthy Magic of Eating the Mediterranean Way: Taste of Crete in Hillsborough, NJ presents a New Class Offering Healthy Mediterranean Eating Tips How to Lower Cholesterol and Improve Heart Health without Drugs or Drastic Dieting People with high cholesterol or other risk factors for heart disease or those afraid of…
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LAMBERTVILLE: Miller chosen to serve on Passaic floods group
LAMBERTVILLE — An Elm Street man has been appointed to serve on a new commission that will make recommendations to alleviate chronic flooding in the Passaic River basin. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin chose John Miller to serve as one of the seven panel members on the Passaic River Basin Flood…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Volunteer says firefighting is ‘rewarding’
By Brian Roach, Staff Writer For Rollin Rathbun, being part of a volunteer fire company has always been about brotherhood both in the firehouse and in the emergency services community. So, when a group of Hillsborough Township Police Officers were planning a benefit motorcycle ride to honor the memory of Officer David Wilson, Mr.…
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HILLSBOROUGH: HHS’ Liang surveys (and wins) math contest
By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer A perfect score on a trigonometry test and completing the problems in 20 minutes added up to good news for Hillsborough High School senior Bufang Liang. Bufang’s math skills won him the title of school and state champion in a competition hosted by the Society of Professional Surveyors, with the…
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HILLSBOROUGH: HHS’ Liang surveys (and wins) math contest
Alex Rosales, Catalina Mejia and Matthew McLaughlin practice using a surveyor’s transit as part of the math competition sponsored by the Society of Professional Surveyors. Photo by Faith Wight
