Tag: Hillsborough High School
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Resolution 5K set for Jan. 1
On your mark, get ready, go On New Year’s Day, you can “Resolution Run/Walk” a 5K for two great local causes – Hillsborough High School’s Class of 2024 Project Graduation and Rock Steady Boxing. The Resolution 5K begins at 11 a.m. Jan. 1 at the Hillsborough Municipal building, 379 South Branch Road. Project Graduation provides…
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‘Embrace times of change’
Hillsborough High School Class of 2023 mark their next chapter The 584 seniors of the Hillsborough High School Class of 2023 turned their red tassels marking their next chapter during the 52nd annual graduation ceremony at the Rutgers Athletic Center, now the Jersey Mike’s Arena in Piscataway, June 22. “It’s a bittersweet day,” Senior Class…
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Part of the team
Tommy Marcketta did not let his autism spectrum disorder deter him from his goal of joining the Hillsborough High School swim team Meet Tommy Marcketta, a freshman at Hillsborough High School, and his mom Elizabeth. When he approached his mom about joining the school’s swim team, she initially had some hesitation. While Marcketta is an…
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Unlocking student potential
Hillsborough teacher awarded 2022 NSHSS Educator of the Year award Not many things make Hillsborough High School teacher Robert Fenster prouder than seeing his students thrive. And thrive they have. Some even have followed in his footsteps into the classroom. This is his 30th year in the classroom as a U.S. government and politics and…
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Longtime Hillsborough Township committeeman, former mayor will not seek re-election in November
Hillsborough Township Committeeman and former Mayor Doug Tomson has announced he is not seeking re-election in November. “After careful consideration, I am making the difficult decision to not seek re-election to the Township Committee,” he said in a statement on Feb. 1. “Increased demands in my professional and personal life makes it difficult for me…
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Hillsborough honors township’s very first police officer, former police chief with portrait
Hillsborough Police Chief Donald Dowches’ portrait now hangs in the Hillsborough Township Committee and municipal court chambers. Mayor Shawn Lipani joined Police Chief Mike McMahon, Committee members, Dowches’ granddaughter Allison and Saranya Shiva-Shanker, a junior at Hillsborough High School, to unveil the portrait at a Committee meeting on Jan. 10. Saranya was commissioned to paint…
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Raiders soar to Skyland Conference championship in girls winter track
The year 2023 has begun with bang for the Hillsborough High School girls winter track team. Fresh off placing first at the Somerset County Championships for the second year in a row last week, the Raiders added more gold to their ledger at the Skyland Conference Championships that were held on Jan. 8 at the…
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Hillsborough grapplers take home second straight Somerset County Tournament championship
In his first year as head coach of his alma mater during the 2021-22 season, Rhys Weinberger led the Hillsborough High School wrestling team to its first Somerset County Tournament team championship since 2010. Winning a second straight county championship was a prime target of Weinberger and his Raiders coming into the 2022-23 season, especially…
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Hillsborough’s girls winter track squad wins second consecutive Somerset County championship
For the second year in a row, the Hillsborough High School girls winter track team was victorious at the Somerset County Championships that were held on Jan. 2 at the Ocean Breeze Track and Field Facility in Staten Island, N.Y. Hillsborough scored 72 points to place first out of the 11 schools competing in the…