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  • Board selects Breza Road site

    Move to add $13M to project By: Rebecca Weltmann    UPPER FREEHOLD — After a heated debate and an hour of closed session discussion, the Upper Regional Board of Education voted last week to prepare a $13 million referendum moving the proposed middle school project from Ellisdale Road to Breza Road.    The referendum, which school officials…

  • Saturday’s ballots to set fire budgets

    Voters also will fill two seats on Hillsborough’s Board of Fire Commissioners. By: Purvi Desai    The local fire budget and two seats on Hillsborough’s Board of Fire Commissioners will be up for voter approval Saturday afternoon — and firefighters are hoping more residents will participate in the annual election.    According to a Hillsborough Township Board…

  • New challenges for budget writers

    With deadlines for budgets looming, administrators wait for new law, state aid. By: Donna Lukiw    Like a homework assignment from your worst math teacher, local school administrators are struggling to solve an equation with too many variables — this year’s school budgets.    School administrators are used to waiting to learn how much aid the state…

  • SBHS students make case for state trial title

    Local youngsters guilty of success in competition By: Joseph Harvie    The South Brunswick High School Mock Trial team was given a case of E. coli.    And they won.    Actually, the team won the Middlesex County Mock Trial tournament on Feb. 7 and competed in the regional tournament Tuesday, held at the New Jersey Law Center…

  • Students win bowl with consumer savvy

    By: Stephanie Prokop    FLORENCE — Calculus, world history, AP Physics and consumer fraud?    That list of subjects isn’t all that unusual for five Florence High School seniors who recently won their first Burlington County Consumer Bowl championship on Feb. 5.    The Consumer Bowl is a statewide competition for high schools that tests students’ knowledge of…

  • Photo exhibit to open at Queenstown on Feb. 23

    The work of Barbara K. Suomi will be shown through March 31 By John Tredrea    Images from Europe, Asia, New York City and elsewhere on the globe will be shown at a photography exhibition set to open at Queenstown Gallery on Feb. 23.    The gallery is located at 43 S. Main St., Pennington.    Shown through…

  • Hymns for the homeless

    Wind Ensemble prepares for joint benefit concert By: Joseph Harvie    "Make it gentle," Mark Kraft told the South Brunswick High School Wind Ensemble on Monday morning as it practiced "Circus Bee," by Henry Fillmore.    The band was rehearsing for its upcoming joint concert with the Messiah College Wind Ensemble, of Grantham, Pa., said Mr. Kraft,…

  • Titusville residence is badly damaged by fire

    Tuesday blaze was at 10 Bethany Ave. By John Tredrea    A Titusville house was rendered uninhabitable by an early Tuesday morning fire.    "Investigators confirmed that the fire originated in the bedroom, but the exact cause remains under investigation," Hopewell Township police Chief George Meyer said Wednesday.    The fire, reported at 5:30 a.m., was at the…

  • Alfred Matthews

       HILLSBOROUGH — Alfred Claude Matthews died Feb. 7 at home. He was 80.    Born in Flushing, N.Y., he lived in Fanwood, North Plainfield and Langhorn, Pa., before moving to Hillsborough five years ago.    Mr. Matthews was a store buyer for B. Altman for 35 years and worked as a commercial real estate agent in New…