Category: news/hillsborough_beacon
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HILLSBOROUGH: Operation Shoebox needs help
Volunteers are invited to join Operation Shoebox New Jersey staff in packing gift boxes and send Christmas greetings to U.S. troops deployed around the world at its annual Christmas packing 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5, at the Hillsborough Family YMCA, East Mountain Road. OPSHBX NJ will provide crafts material for volunteers to…
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HILLSBOROUGH: School faces health law tax hit
By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor Insurance brokers are giving the school district a heads-up that it’s in line for a potential hefty tax on health benefit plans a couple of years down the road. Jason Della Penna, senior vice president for employee benefits regulatory affairs for Brown and Brown Benefit Advisors, estimated the hit to…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Duke mansion appeal denied; court appeal likely
By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor A judge will likely decide the fate of the Doris Duke main residence. The township Board of Adjustment on Wednesday night rebuffed an appeal of an October decision by the Historic Preservation Commission that cleared the way for the Duke Farms estate to demolish the 65,000-square-foot house in the northern…
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MANVILLE: Manville teachers take to the gridiron to boost scholarship fund
Teachers and staff of the Manville School District recently showcased their on-the-field battle brawn with a Nov. 4 night football game that raised money for the Carol Caliguari Memorial Scholarship Fund for senior Manville High School students. Mrs. Caliguari, who died in 2004, was a teacher in the Manville School District for 15 years.The players…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Boy Scouts toast work of Horner, Simon tonight
Boy Scouts of America, Patriots’ Path Council were to honor Hillsborough Rotarian Joe Horner and Assemblywoman at the “Toast to Scouting” awards dinner scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 2, at the Bridgewater Manor. Other honorees are Freeholder Mark Caliguire, Caesar DePaço and the husband-and-wife team of Arthur Graham and Kathy Ohleth. The six will be recognized…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Fire trucks will bring Santa to kids
Santa is coming to Hillsborough neighborhoods. He’ll make a special pre-holiday visit to neighborhoods, escorted by township fire fighters, on upcoming weekends. The fire fighters will give Rudolph and the other reindeer who pull the sleigh the weekend to rest, and the volunteers will transport Santa on one of their fire trucks. Have your cameras…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Mock ‘birthday party’ Sunday for Doris Duke
By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor Objectors to the demolition of the Doris Duke’s residence on the 2,500-acre estate in northern Hillsborough will hold a symbolic birthday party on Sunday, Dec. 6, rain or shine, at 1 p.m. members for Doris Duke’s 103rd birthday at Duke Island Park, Oak Grove Pavilion, Bridgewater Township. Ms. Duke was…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Library to open late Thursday
All 10 Somerset County Library System branches will open at noon on Thursday, Dec. 3, as they observe a staff appreciation morning. The branches include the Hillsborough branch in the municipal complex 379 South Branch Road and the Manville facility at 100 South 10th Ave.
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HILLSBOROUGH: Recent college graduate dies in Route 287 accident
A 23-year-old Hillsborough man was one of three people killed in an auto accident late Saturday night in the northbound lanes of Interstate 287 in Bernards Township. At least 11 others were injured. State Police detectives said they have determined that Troy Chase, 43, of Pittston, Maine, stopped on the northbound right shoulder in the…