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  • HILLSBOROUGH: Event helps launch push for same-sex marriages

    HILLSBOROUGH: Event helps launch push for same-sex marriages

    Geoffrey Buchman (at right), of Flemington, and Mike Goldberg, of Hillsborough, draft letters while Karen Gaffney (in background), of Somerville, leaves a voicemail expressing her support of same-sex marriage. Staff photo by Eileen Oldfield

  • ALLENTOWN: Wrestling coach has novel approach

    ALLENTOWN: Wrestling coach has novel approach

    By Kyle Moylan, Sports Editor     ALLENTOWN — Believe it or not, the love-story writing wrestling coach isn’t a character created by Vince McMahon.     Larry Kimport, a special education teacher at Allentown High School, is the wrestling coach whose best moves are foreshadowing and flashbacks.     “There’s no connection between wrestling and writing,” said…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Check the mail: Revaluation details on the way

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    Residents should begin looking for a letter to be sent from Appraisal Systems Inc. within the next week or so, detailing upcoming dates and information concerning the Somerset County Board of Taxation-required townshipwide revaluation.    Committeewoman Gloria McCauley announced Tuesday that the first letters will be sent soon to again inform…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Time to discard old medicines

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    They are touting it as an opportunity to keep the environment clean through a very simple process as Hillsborough becomes one of many towns across the nation to host the first Operation Medicine Cabinet Saturday.    The program — which is being held by the Drug Enforcement Administration — is asking…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: A night of taste

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: A night of taste

    While sampling the wines, Mary Hutnick, Jim Okamura and Suzanne O’Rourke check out the auction items.

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Former Mayor John Guerrera dies

    HILLSBOROUGH: Former Mayor John Guerrera dies

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    One day, when she was 22 years old, Midge Guerrera received a phone call from her father, John, asking what she would be doing the following Wednesday, and, according to Ms. Guerrera, she made the mistake of saying she was available.    ”He said to me, ‘you’re going to Washington,’” she…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: A night of taste

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: A night of taste

    Cooper and Andrea Ford help themselves to the chicken made by Rolle’s American Bistro.

  • CRANBURY: Tow truck procession honors George Nobile

    CRANBURY: Tow truck procession honors George Nobile

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    CRANBURY — It was a funeral unlike any other the township had ever seen — a flatbed truck carrying George Nobile to his final resting place as hundreds of mourners filed behind in a procession of cars, tow trucks and police escorts.    Mr. Nobile, 64, a South Brunswick native and…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Salute to veterans

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Salute to veterans

    PHIL MCAULIFFE Mayor Frank Gambatese speaks during the ceremony.