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  • School board, teachers reach tentative contract agreement

    By Eileen Oldfield    A late-night bargaining session between the Hillsborough Education Association (HEA) and the Board of Education produced a tentative teachers’ contract agreement Tuesday evening, representatives from both parties announced.    Details on the tentative contract were not released, since it must go through several more steps before both sides can agree on an official…

  • BOOK NOTES: An author finds the American Dream, starting from scratch

    By Joan Ruddiman    ”Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream” (SB Press, 2008) is Adam Shepard’s upbeat account of being down and out.    Mr. Shepard’s social experiment was triggered by reading Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Nickel and Dimed” (Henry Holt, 2002). In interviews, Mr. Shepard reveals that he first read Ms. Ehrenreich’s book…

  • Girls destroy competition in winning third straight

    By Guy Kipp, Sports Writer    Across different grade levels and spanning every type of event area, the South Brunswick girls’ track team has flaunted its depth and versatility emphatically in the last week.    Last week, the Viking girls breezed to their third consecutive title in the Greater Middlesex Conference Relays on their home track with…

  • EDITORIAL: Budget cuts should not hurt classes

       Township Council members are promising to listen to the voters.    And who can blame them?    Voters rejected a $135.9 million school-district budget 1,233 to 1,174 on April 15, an outcome that places the budget before the council. Critics of the school plan, like former Mayor Debra Johnson and Republican council candidate John O’Sullivan, say there…

  • Fire Company No. 2 marking 60-year anniversary

    By Audrey Levine    One wall is lined with black fire hats, one for each member, that indicate the year the person joined the company. An adjacent wall holds white hats, listing all the fire chiefs dating to the first in 1948.    For the approximately 70 volunteer members of the Hillsborough Fire Company No. 2, on…

  • Custodial staff size cut to keep budget as ‘lean as possible’

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    ROBBINSVILLE — The Board of Education defeated a resolution that would have reduced the number of custodial/maintenance workers to five for the next school year.    While no one voted against the measure at the April 29 meeting, it fell two votes short of the majority required to pass items before…

  • Y unveils plans for expansion, new pools

    by Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    The South Brunswick Family YMCA unveiled plans Friday for a three-phased expansion that calls for the creation of two new indoor pools and a gymnasium.    Phase I of the Y’s expansion — unveiled at the organization’s Casino Night Gala — calls for an addition to the Y’s lobby and the…

  • Anthony Zacharevich

       MANVILLE — Anthony Zacharevich died Saturday at the Haven Hospice at JFK Medical Center, Edison. He was 91.    Born in Manville, he had been a lifelong Manville resident.    Mr. Zacharevich worked for Johns-Manville for many years. He also had worked for the borough of Bridgewater and retired from there a number of years ago.    He…

  • Highway zoning changes could be made by June

    By Jessica Ercolino, Staff Writer    ROBBINSVILLE — The Route 130 zoning ordinance, which has drawn a number of concerned residents to recent public hearings, will be amended to exclude two highly debated parcels of land, township officials said this week.    A public hearing on the ordinance is scheduled to be held tonight (Thursday) at 7:30…