Tag: Hillsborough High School

  • Hillsborough girls lacrosse triumphant on Senior Night

    Hillsborough girls lacrosse triumphant on Senior Night

    Monday’s Senior Night contest against Montgomery High School at Dan A. Noonan Field in Hillsborough will be one that all 10 seniors on the Hillsborough High School girls lacrosse team will remember. That’s what senior Mia Boccippio said after Hillsborough rolled to a 12-3 victory over Montgomery on May 3, saying the contest was the…

  • Hansen tosses complete-game shutout to lead Montgomery past Hillsborough on Opening Day

    Hansen tosses complete-game shutout to lead Montgomery past Hillsborough on Opening Day

    The two-year wait for Opening Day finally came to an end for both the Montgomery High School and Hillsborough High School baseball squads. Both Skyland Conference Delaware Division teams saw their players lace up their cleats and take the field on April 20 at Montgomery’s field in Skillman with pure joy, soaking in every moment…

  • Science fair goes virtual again for 2021

    Science fair goes virtual again for 2021

    Every spring for more than 50 years, the Mercer Science and Engineering Fair has exhibited students’ projects in a large hall where the public could visit and the judges would evaluate them for a range of awards. In recent decades, Rider University has hosted the event. This year, as in 2020, however, was a virtual…

  • Hillsborough wrestlers top Montgomery on the mat

    Hillsborough wrestlers top Montgomery on the mat

    Six members of the Hillsborough High School wrestling team recorded a pin in the team’s 54-15 road victory over Skyland Conference rival Montgomery High School on March 23 to improve to 2-2 on the season. Having a shorthanded lineup going into the bout against the Cougars, Hillsborough wrestling Coach Roy Dragon was impressed with how…

  • Hillsborough High grads volunteer with AmeriCorps

    Hillsborough High grads volunteer with AmeriCorps

    AmeriCorps Week 2021 was March 7-13, an opportunity to recognize the service of the 270,000 Americans engaged in AmeriCorps and AmeriCorps Seniors programs annually. Julianna Nienart and Kaitlyn Dundorf of Hillsborough, and Sam Gerber of Bluffton, are currently serving with the National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC), a 10-month, full-time AmeriCorps program. All are graduates of…

  • Girl Scout aids students with English as their second language

    Girl Scout aids students with English as their second language

    Julia Hopson, a senior at Hillsborough High School, is a member of Girl Scout Troop 60304. She earned her Girl Scout Gold Award by creating a series of games for students ages 6-12, with English as their second language, to help them receive outside aid in practicing their English. She met with education specialists, personally…

  • Hillsborough Eagle Scout creates irrigation system for Cambridge School’s learning garden

    Hillsborough Eagle Scout creates irrigation system for Cambridge School’s learning garden

    Joseph Cincotta, a sophomore at The Cambridge School in Pennington, earned the rank of Eagle Scout as a member of Boy Scout Troop 89. His Eagle Scout project consisted of building a self-watering irrigation system for the Cambridge School’s learning garden. The system consists of a gutter system that collects water into a rain barrel,…

  • Augello named new Hillsborough High School varsity baseball coach

    Augello named new Hillsborough High School varsity baseball coach

    HILLSBOROUGH – Thomas Augello was officially approved at the Hillsborough Township Board of Education meeting on March 8 to become the new coach of the Hillsborough High School varsity baseball team. A fifth grade teacher in the Hillsborough Township Public Schools the last three years, Augello brings a lot of experience from coaching baseball at…

  • Hillsborough scouts renovate community locations to earn Eagle rank

    Hillsborough scouts renovate community locations to earn Eagle rank

    Mayor Shawn Lipani presented four Hillsborough Eagle Scouts with proclamations at the Feb. 23 Township Committee meeting. Kyle Crockett, Vincent Guarnieri, Nicholas Murray and Rishit Roy, all sophomores at Hillsborough High School and members of Troop 489, served in various leadership positions and dedicated many hours to completing their Eagle Scout projects in the local…