• HILLSBOROUGH: Woodfern School plants tree for Arbor Day

    HILLSBOROUGH: Woodfern School plants tree for Arbor Day

       Woodfern Elementary School celebrated Arbor Day on April 27 with several activities designed to intertwine learning and the environment.    Judd Mandell, the owner of Landscape Better, led outdoor sessions showing students how to plant trees in Woodfern’s new “Learning Grove.” At the conclusion of the day, the students of Woodfern attended a spirit rally focusing…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Sourlands Planning Council opposes solar panel project at quarry

    To the editor:    Gibraltar Rock, the company that now owns and operates the East Mountain Road quarry formerly owned by 3M, has a proposal before the Hillsborough Township Planning Board to clear-cut 20 acres of Sourland forest and install a large solar array.    The Sourland Planning Council strongly opposes this plan. While we generally support…

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Voters soundly defeat sewer referendum

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer Hopewell Township voters rejected a controversial sewer bond issue by a better than 5 to 1 margin in a special election Tuesday. With 28 percent of the township’s registered voters turning out at the polls, the unofficial final tally was 2,646 No votes and 474 Yes votes. That translates to…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Spirit Night blew me away

    HILLSBOROUGH: Spirit Night blew me away

    Hillsborough High School students left all of their voices and their energy in participating in Spirit Night on Friday. Seniors in red, white and blue T-shirts passed the hula hoop from person to person without letting go of their partners’ hands.

  • MANVILLE: Duke Farms’ ‘new era’ opens May 19

    MANVILLE: Duke Farms’ ‘new era’ opens May 19

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    Duke Farms officials say they will “usher in a new era of the property’s history” when they open a new orientation center and miles of trails Saturday, May 19.    The former estate, once the home to the Duke family of tobacco and energy fame, will expand its educational programs and…

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Sewer bond issue overwhelmingly defeated

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer    Hopewell Township voters rejected a controversial sewer bond issue by a better than 5-1 margin in a special election Tuesday.    With 28 percent of the township’s registered voters turning out at the polls, the unofficial final tally was 2,646 “no” votes and 474 “yes” votes. That translates to just under…

  • LAWRENCE: Man charged with attack on officer

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    A Somerset man has been charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, resisting arrest and obstructing justice after he got into an altercation with Police Officer Richard Laird III around 6:30 p.m. on May 4, according to police Lt. Charles B. Edgar.    Officer Laird was attempting to stop Warren…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Spirit Night blew me away

    HILLSBOROUGH: Spirit Night blew me away

    It’s under the hurdle, and to the jump rope for this senior in the obstacle race.

  • HOPEWELL BOROUGH: New Borough Hall to be dedicated

       Saturday, May 12, there will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of the new Hopewell Borough Hall at 88 E. Broad St.    The ceremony will begin at noon followed by a dessert reception.    Also during the day — from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. — there will be a blood drive in the council…

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