• Sheriff Offers Halloween Safety Tips

    By Somerset County Sheriff Frank J. Provenzano Halloween is a great time of the year for you and your children. The kids get to dress up in almost any type of costume to go trick-or-treating, make believe they are someone else and get tons and tons of candy. But Halloween also could be a time of the…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Statements on how candidates would spend money in township budget

    Verbatim statements by four Township Committee candidates This week’s question to the Hillsborough Township Committee candidates from the Beacon is:    ”We spend money on what’s important to us. Give me an idea of some items you would include or exclude in the 2012 municipal budget. What roads would you pave? What equipment would you buy?…

  • POLICE BEAT: Week of Oct. 20

    Robbinsville    A Philadelphia man was charged with possession of marijuana and motor vehicle violations after his car was stopped at 10:45 p.m. Sunday on Interstate 195. Police said the vehicle driven by Marc Urbanski, 41, was seen making several unsafe lane changes. Patrolman William Swanhart stopped the vehicle near westbound Exit 6. During the stop…

  • Boehm Porcelain Creates Butterfly for YWCA Princeton’s Breast Cancer Research Center

    Boehm Porcelain Creates Butterfly for YWCA Princeton’s Breast Cancer Research Center

    Boehm Porcelain’s Butterfly for YWCA’s Cancer Research Center Available for $100

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Hillsborough nurse cited for wound care research

       Connie Johnson of Hillsborough has been awarded the 2011 Wound Care Conference Achievement Award for outstanding research in wound care by the National Alliance of Wound Care. Ms. Johnson is a certified wound care specialist with Robert Wood Johnson Visiting Nurses, a member of VNA Health Group.    Ms. Johnson, RN, BSN, WCC, was presented the…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: We’re all for transparency in government

    "Campaign Corner" material from the Republicans    This material was submitted by Republican candidates for Township Committee, Mayor Gloria McCauley and Doug Tomson. So far, we have highlighted some of the accomplishments the Republican-led Township Committee has achieved over the last few years. But this week, instead of highlighting accomplishments,    We would like to share with…

  • Unity Bank Free Seminars with Author of ‘Carrots and Sticks Don’t Work’
  • MANVILLE: Community learns about fire safety

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer   Thursday night, fireman from all three companies participated at Firehouse No. 2 on North 13th Avenue for their annual open house.    Children and their parents came to see all three companies’ trucks, the boats and make their way through the smokehouse, a small simulated fire scene that teaches…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Expand ‘quiet zones,’ says Triangle area resident

    To the editor: The train whistles are all but silent now and for that I’m grateful. The latest assault to residents’ ears is the drag strip called Triangle Road. Although the speed limit is 40 mph, it is routinely exceeded by cars, trucks and motorcycles. This, coupled with today’s trend toward loud, modified exhausts makes…

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