• ALLENTOWN: AHS football keeps on rolling

    ALLENTOWN: AHS football keeps on rolling

    Pritchard, offensive line lead the way By Justin Feil, The Packet Group    Someone in Pop Warner knew what they were doing when they made Joe Pritchard an offensive lineman in first grade.    Pritchard has blossomed into one of the steady veterans for a young, but talented line that helped the Allentown High School football carve…

  • WEST AMWELL: South students are designing robots

    WEST AMWELL: South students are designing robots

    The Technologic team from South Hunterdon Regional High School celebrates at a competition in Horsham, Pa., in 2013. From left are Spencer Agabetti, Jacob Pietres, Cody Burd (arms crossed), Christopher Nanneman, Javier Rosario-Heredia, Bridget Weinstein, Alex Tucker and Mitchell Haug.

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Shop Hillsborough program off to flying start

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor More than 1,845 families and 22 renters have signed up a little more than a week for the Shop Hillsborough property tax credit program. Residents received their Shop Hillsborough Cards around the first of the month and about 15 percent registered as users of the program in the opening days.…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Ceremony marks ‘Veterans Way’

    Hillsborough will dedicate the main roadway into the municipal complex as "Veterans Way" in a ceremony Friday, Oct. 10, at 9 a.m. The road comes off Beekman Lane and passes by the township’s Garden of Honor to those who served, and died, in the military. Hillsborough Township veterans are invited to the dedication. The event…

  • MANVILLE: Popeyes opens at Marketplace mall

    MANVILLE: Popeyes opens at Marketplace mall

    Popeyes owner Sam Durrani and John Zalewski, president of the Manville Business and Professional Association at the opening ceremonies for the restaurant Sept. 25. Photo by Mary Ellen Day

  • MANVILLE: Resident says she finds Democrats on council disrespectful

    Letter to the editor To the editor: I would like to take the time to urge my fellow residents to join me and support Steve Szabo and Dayna Camacho this Nov. 4 for Manville Borough Council. I have been following issues very closely in our town, and noticed something that raises concerns. It’s the lack…

  • COMMUNITY CALENDAR: Oct. 9

    The complete calendar of events is online at www.messengerpress.com. Scroll down the webpage to the Lifestyles tab on the left. Wednesdays Free Acoustic Open Mic Night and Poetry at Star Subs and Café in the Buckley Plaza 621 Route 130, Hamilton, will be hosted Wednesdays at 7 p.m. by American Idol contestant Bri Lobue. Audience…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: GOP candidates vote to ‘do more with less,’ writer says

    Letter to the editor To the editor: We hear that the economy is improving, but in many ways it is hard to see how things are getting any better. Times are still tough, and it’s sometimes a struggle to make ends meet. As a taxpayer in Hillsborough, I want to know that my tax dollars…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Resident doesn’t want more signs for township

    To the editor: A few weeks ago I read an article in this newspaper from the Democrat candidates for Township Committee about their so-called plans to fill vacant businesses. In their article, they claim there are no plans to get stores into the Kmart shopping center, but on the front page of the same edition…

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