• HILLSBOROUGH: Duke demolition appeal on Dec. 2 zoning board agenda

    HILLSBOROUGH: Duke demolition appeal on Dec. 2 zoning board agenda

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor Objectors who want to save Doris Duke’s main residence have filed an appeal Friday, Nov. 5, with the township Board of Adjustment. The group called DORIS (Demolition Of Residence Is Senseless) has been given a place on the zoning board’s Dec. 2 meeting in the township municipal building. It’s presumed…

  • HOPEWELLS: Sourland Conservancy photos could become notecards

    HOPEWELLS: Sourland Conservancy photos could become notecards

    The Sourland Conservancy is holding a “Sourland Scenes” photography contest, with the art to be featured on the conservancy’s first set of Sourland Mountain notecards. To enter, email pictures (taken only in the Sourland Mountain region), captions (location and/or description of the subject) and photographer’s name and contact information to [email protected] before midnight on Nov.…

  • LOOSE ENDS: The voice of one who serves

    LOOSE ENDS: The voice of one who serves

    By Pam Hersh    Major Michael Kelvington, who is the keynote speaker at the Princeton Veterans Day ceremony, has a secret weapon. It is called perspective. At the age 33, he has been deployed several times in conventional and special operations to Iraq and Afghanistan, and, as a result, Princeton’s traffic congestion and parking meter fees…

  • HOPEWELL: Craft show opens today for 42nd year in train station

    HOPEWELL: Craft show opens today for 42nd year in train station

    Transformations, a three-day craft show, returns Nov. 6-8 to the Hopewell Train Station, 2 Railroad Place, Hopewell, for its 42nd year. Hours are Friday, Nov. 6 (noon–8 p.m.), Saturday (10 a.m.-5 p.m.) and Sunday (10 a.m.–5 p.m). There will be a wine-and-cheese reception on Friday at 6 p.m. Connie Bracci-McIndoe, a well-known clay artist and…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: German students experience fall customs during their visit   

    HILLSBOROUGH: German students experience fall customs during their visit  

    German exchange students experienced football, pumpkin carving, celebrating Halloween and an early Thanksgiving dinner as part of their visit in homes Hopewell Valley Central High School students. In the past two weeks, the high school welcomed 21 students and two teachers from the partner school Friedrich Gymnasium in Freiburg, Germany. The students were hosted by…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Girls’ volleyball finishes 13-10, prepares for states 

    HILLSBOROUGH: Girls’ volleyball finishes 13-10, prepares for states 

    By Justin Feil, Packet Media Group Faith Adams has gone from being in a supportive role to a leading role for the Hillsborough High School girls’ volleyball team. “I feel that I’m definitely more confident because I’m older,” said the Raiders junior. “Coming in as a freshman, you’re going to be timid. Everyone is older.…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Dukes Jr. Pee Wees win title 

    HILLSBOROUGH: Dukes Jr. Pee Wees win title 

    On Sunday, the Hillsborough Dukes Junior Pee Wees won their second Jr. Pee Wee Division III Jersey Valley Conference Championship, 14-12, over St. Cecelia’s. The game was a nail biter from the start to its dramatic end. It was by no means an easy game, and both teams were playing hard to bring home the…

  • Romantic and Emotional: The Arcanto String Quartet will play music by Bach, Schumann, and Smetana in Princeton

    Romantic and Emotional: The Arcanto String Quartet will play music by Bach, Schumann, and Smetana in Princeton

    By Anthony Stoeckert    Daniel Sepec, violinist for the Arcanto String Quartet, says the group’s members had been playing together for more than a decade before they decided to perform a work by Robert Schumann.    ”We all love Schumann, and after playing quartet more than 10 years, we wanted to play Schumann quartet,” Mr. Sepec says.…

  • In the Kitchen: Be thankful for turnips and rutabaga

    In the Kitchen: Be thankful for turnips and rutabaga

    By Faith Bahadurian        Swedes and neeps. These members of the genus brassica seem to figure into every British childhood — but often as dreaded foods, because no child ever craved rutabagas and turnips, right? And it’s true, turnips, especially, can be grayish and bitter when not carefully prepared or seasoned.    Etymologically speaking, it’s not…

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