• Hopewell Valley Children’s Theatre offers programs for summer

    June 25 is start date    Hopewell Valley Children’s Theatre (HVCT) has announced plans for its 11th summer season. HVCT is a five-week, half-day, summer performing arts program. Students will act, sing, dance and perform in a full production. Two age groups and experiences are offered. Juniors (grades one-five) perform a “junior” production, modified and geared…

  • LAWRENCE: Boys track plans balanced attack

    by Rudy Brandl, The Packet Group    This year’s Lawrence High boys track and field team may lack the star power and big-time scoring ability of the graduated Chandell Fuqua, but head coach Jonathan Chichilitti expects a much deeper, more balanced attack.    Fuqua, who scored all 22 of his team’s points to single-handedly defeat nine teams…

  • Community calendar

       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 (609-924-3244) or e-mailed to [email protected] before…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: YMCA project to get families exercising

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    The Hillsborough Family YMCA, on East Mountain Road, will participate in the 18th annual Healthy Kids Day April 18, with the goal of promoting healthy lifestyles.    And that means there will be plenty of fun and free activities for the whole family at the event created by the YMCA of…

  • Don’t jump off a cliff — vote yes on budget

    Rachel Selig, Longfield Drive    Perhaps your mother is similar to mine. My mother, a proud educator for more than twenty years, was fond of remarking, “And if everyone jumped off a cliff, would you jump, too?”    Let’s be honest about the taxes. As we all know, school funding relies on taxes. I would be delighted…

  • MANVILLE: Getting a jump on Easter decorations

    MANVILLE: Getting a jump on Easter decorations

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    Although they had a model to follow while decorating door hangars at the Manville Senior Center on Monday, the tiny parts made for a few challenges.    ”You used the wrong ears — those are the feet,” center worker Brenda Omilian told Joseph Tomko, of Hillsborough, as he glued rabbit’s feet…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: School board hopefuls outline visions, goals

       Each year, the Hillsborough Beacon offers candidates for the Board of Education the opportunity to share their backgrounds and ideas for the school district directly with voters, to help voters become better informed. (Incumbent candidates are indicated by an asterisk).    Last week, we printed the candidates’ biographies. This week, we focus on what the candidates…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: New role for police lieutenant

    HILLSBOROUGH: New role for police lieutenant

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    Like any beginning actor, he is working his way into show business slowly, having had his first job in 2008 in an Adidas commercial and moving into playing bit roles in such shows as “Watching the Detectives” on the Biography Channel and “Ugly Betty” on ABC.    Unfortunately, it will be…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Council hopes towns will unite in effort to save Sourlands area

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    As the Sourland Planning Council continues to work to preserve the Sourland Mountains, the biggest goal currently is to create a municipal alliance among the seven towns – in three counties – that can claim some piece of the preserve.    Besides Hillsborough, these municipalities include East Amwell, Hopewell, Montgomery and…

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