• Library Readers May Win Disney Live! Show Tickets

    By Gary Cooper The New Jersey State Library, local libraries and school libraries from across the state have partnered with the New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority to encourage readers to “Read Like a Library Champion” by giving them the opportunity to win tickets to IZOD Center events by logging in the books they read…

  • No water in sight

    No water in sight

    Photo and commentary by Tom O’Neill    This picture may just be worth 1,000 words. The drought has been so severe that Stony Brook upstream of the Pennington sewer plant, is almost completely dry. “I took the attached picture on Sept. 11 while my wife, Kate, and I walked our dogs the length of the brook…

  • Campaign Corner: Vella notes professional experience and skills

    By: Maureen Vella As the Democratic candidate for Township Committee, I would like to share why I am running, who I am and some of my thoughts and ideas on how we can make Hillsborough an even better place to live. I am running because I find it inexcusable that my opponent has chosen to…

  • CRANBURY: A day downtown

    CRANBURY: A day downtown

    ANDREA KANE Runners take off at the start of the Helene Cody Cranbury 5K race. The winner of the race Brian Deleon of Princeton is at far left. Andrea Kane photo

  • Sunday events to benefit Screening Room

    Sunday events to benefit Screening Room

       On Sunday (Sept. 19), Chimney Hill Estate, Lambertville, will host a farm-to-table dinner and live auction to benefit ACME Screening Room.    Dinner will be prepared by Chef Chris Georgette using seasonal ingredients donated by local farms and will include entrée (meat and vegetarian option) and dessert provided by The Chocolate Box.    The live auction will…

  • CRANBURY: A day downtown

    CRANBURY: A day downtown

    ANDREA KANE Elizabeth Krull, of Saje Gardens in Monroe, sells a fern to Emily Forman. Andrea Kane photo

  • Borkowska’s 4.0 earns school’s President’s List

    By: centraljersey.com Two Manville students attending Berkeley College campuses were recognized by college President Dario A. Cortes for attaining listing on the school’s Dean’s and President’s Lists for the spring 2010 quarter. Monika Borkowska, attending the school’s Middlesex Campus in Woodbridge, was named to the President’s List for attaining a 4.0 grade point average, while…

  • LAMBERTVILLE: Groff memorial fountain dedication slated Sept. 26

    LAMBERTVILLE: Groff memorial fountain dedication slated Sept. 26

    By Cynthia Williamson, Special Writer    LAMBERTVILLE — Tim Groff’s passion for nature and everything that embodied it was rooted from a very young age when he would toil in the garden alongside his father, Robert Groff of Lambertville.    ”Every soft, rainy day, every flower we smell, will remind of us you,” wrote his mother, Martha…

  • Community calendar for Sept. 16

    By: centraljersey.com    Tell us about you. If your local nonprofit organization plans a special event and you would like to have the information published in the Hillsborough Beacon, drop a note to Hillsborough Beacon Calendar, P.O. Box 350, Princeton, NJ 08542.    All items should be typed and must be mailed, faxed (609-924-3842) or e-mailed to…

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