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  • Millstone adopts municipal budget

    By: Rebecca Weltmann    With a vote of 4-1, the Millstone Township Committee approved the municipal budget of about $7.3 million at its meeting on May 16. Mayor Nancy Grbelja said she was pleased with the new budget, particularly since it did not raise this year’s taxes.    "I’m very pleased with the budget that the township…

  • Schools take steps to keep students safe

    Woods Road staff takes CERT training. By: Eileen Oldfield    In the wake of the May 9 and May 17 threats at the high school and the extra security measures put in place by the school, parents may ask the ultimate "what-if" question: What if an emergency should happen at a Hillsborough school?    Students and parents…

  • Zenda takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’

    By: Rich Fisher    NORTH BRUNSWICK — Zach Zenda missed out on all the fun of the soccer tournaments after breaking a leg with four games left in the regular season.    But the gutsy junior helped the Viking lacrosse team get a leg up on St. Joe’s Sunday.    As the clock ran down on the first…

  • Honoring the fallen

    South Brunwick VFW to hold Memorial Day service By: Paul Koepp    The town will come together Monday to salute the fallen, as well as current veterans.    Mayor Frank Gambatese will present a key to the township at the VFW’s Memorial Day service to U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman Brian Ticson, who was born and raised in…

  • Pennington Day moment

    Good and sticky Jon Marut, 10, of Hopewell enjoys some cotton candy during Pennington Day on Saturday. Threatening skies did not dampen the spirits of the nearly 10,000 people who visited the annual street festival.

  • Josephine VanDerveer

       Josephine "Joan" VanDerveer, 68, died Wednesday, May 16.    Born in New Brunswick, she lived in Kendall Park before moving to The Villages, Fla., with her late husband and high school sweetheart of 47 years, Bill, in 2003.    She was a Tupperware lady for almost 20 years and then spent another 20 years as an executive…

  • AHS girls lacrosse wins state opener

    By: Kyle Moylan The Allentown High School girls’ lacrosse team not only won its first state playoff game ever this past Monday, it did it in very convincing fashion.    Allentown defeated Manchester, 7-0. That earned Allentown a playoff game yesterday against Camden Catholic.    "We’re all about the defense," Allentown Coach Jeff Hanford noted. "If we…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

    By:    At 3:29 p.m. on May 14, Washington Jamaine, of Queens, N.Y., reported the theft of approximately $4,700 of stereo equipment from his 2001 Ford Expedition while parked at the Adesa Auto Auctions lot on North Main Street. ***    Eric Chernesky, 41, of Boesel Avenue, was charged with driving while intoxicated after he rear-ended a…

  • Letters to the editor:

        Memorial Day will soon be here. It is a special day of seashore and community pool openings, sales at the malls, picnics and travel. How many of us really know the real meaning of this day?    Services are held at Various Veterans Posts and Community Monuments. This is done to honor veterans of all…