• CRANBURY PRESS: State aid declines

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    State Aid figures came in last week, leaving some local officials troubled over the budget season to come.    In Cranbury, the township took a $25,571 hit with last year’s state aid totaling $635,798 and this year’s proposed allocation set at $610,227.    But township officials said they’ve been bracing themselves for…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: HMS student to perform Haydn concerto Sunday

       Aditya Raguram of Hillsborough will perform the first movement of Haydn’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Major with the Westminster Conservatory Community Orchestra at 3 p.m. Sunday in Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall on the campus of Princeton University.    A winner of the Westminster Conservatory’s annual Concerto Competition, Aditya Raguram is a seventh-grade student…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Board hears pleas to increase spending

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer Residents pack meeting introducing $109 million school budget    After almost five hours Monday — and surprising pleas from more than 100 residents to raise spending as high as the state will allow — the Board of Education approved a tentative $109 million budget for the 2009-2010 school year that comes…

  • Many comments on school budget are not factual

    Steve Paget, Hillsborough    Recently, there have been negative comments posted that are not fact-based but made to misinform our voters. They were made by challengers who have not been to board meetings until their election petitions were filed and whose purpose is political in nature. It’s time our voters are aware of some hard facts.…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Annual Shelter concert grows into a two-day event

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    The draw for this year’s Shelter from the Storm event isn’t just a concert and fun fair — it’s providing communities in Haiti and Honduras with water filtration systems, the students organizing the event said.    ”There’s so much stuff to do,” Gina Blechman, a junior, said. “The concert is three…

  • MANVILLE: Dine out and help students

       Area restaurants will be pitching in to help Manville stduents in the coming weeks, with fundraisers planned that will help Weston School students, as well as a high school track star travel to Australia.    Monday night, Manville Pizzaria and Restaurant is holding a Family Night benefit for the Weston School PTA.    The South Main Street…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Concert helps launch St. Patrick’s Day fun

    HILLSBOROUGH: Concert helps launch St. Patrick’s Day fun

    Linda Hickman and Ed Saultz performing popular Irish songs at the Hillsborough Public Library, March 11. Staff photo by Audrey Levine

  • CRANBURY: Library a three star establishment

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    CRANBURY — Like most places, libraries are joining the ranks of establishments that are receiving ratings.    Cranbury’s Public Library not only received a rating from the Library Journal, but it was one of 256 libraries nationwide and six in the state to receive a three out of six stars from…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Chirico went from walk-on hopeful to pole vault stud for Blue Hens

    By Rich Fisher, Sports Editor    For someone who’s on the Dean’s List at the University of Delaware, Laura Chirico sure had a dumb idea.    When she graduated from South Brunswick High School in 2005, the UD senior figured her track & field career was over.    Boy, was she ever wrong.    Four years later, she finds…

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