Tag: Hillsborough township committee
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HILLSBOROUGH: Committee selects Shawn Lipani to fill vacant seat
More than a month after Greg Burchette resigned from the Hillsborough Township Committee, officials announced the appointment of Shawn Lipani to fill the vacant seat on the governing body. During the Aug. 14 meeting, former state Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli swore Lipani in as the newest Republican member of the committee. “I’m honored and it’s always…
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HILLSBOROUGH: GOP announces potential names to fill empty committee seat
Days after Greg Burchette announced his resignation from the Hillsborough Township Committee, members of the local Republican organization announced they had submitted three individuals who could fill the vacated seat next month. At the August 14 committee meeting, officials will choose from Shawn Lipani, Ron Skobo and Helen “Chickie” Haines to serve out the rest…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Burchette steps down from Township Committee
Greg Burchette had until the end of the year to serve out the rest of his term on the Hillsborough Township Committee, but during the governing body’s most recent public meeting, he announced that his time as an elected official would come to an end five months ahead of schedule. Speaking to the public via…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Voters to select their party’s candidates next week
When the polls open for primary elections on June 5, voters in Hillsborough will split themselves down party lines to choose who will represent their particular set of beliefs this November in the race for two committee seats. Four residents will vie for the open spots on the governing body – two Democrats and two…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Committee votes to remove school board from a portion of the municipal building
Shortly after township officials publicly put the Hillsborough Township Board of Education on notice for allegedly not proceeding with negotiations surrounding financial talks that could potentially cause the district to pay rent for its offices in the municipal building, the township committee voted to remove the board from an adjacent conference room. During a township…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Committee honors the career of Judge John Richardson
A staple of law and order over the last decade in Hillsborough Township was recently honored by the township committee for his service and career as a municipal judge. Judge John Richardson, a long-time justice whose career spans not only Hillsborough Township’s dais, but also Watchung, North Plainfield, Green Brook, South Bound Brook and the…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Democrats, Republicans announce primary candidates for committee race
The race for a pair of three-year terms on the Hillsborough Township Committee has officially begun, as candidates from both major political parties formally filed their petitions to run in the June 5 primary election. The deadline for potential candidates to file petitions to run was Monday, April 2 and according to local party heads,…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Committee approves sports facility plan
The potential construction of a 210,000 square-foot sports complex adjacent to Mountain View Park will go before the Hillsborough Township Planning Board next month, after the township committee unanimously approved the plan Tuesday. Described as a “multi-sport athletic facility designed to serve participants in sports leagues, skill-building clinics/camps, and competition as well as sports performance training, pay-to-play…
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HILLSBOROUGH: McCauley named mayor as township committee reorganizes for new year
The new year started with more of the same as far as Hillsborough Township’s governing body was concerned, as Republicans Doug Tomson and Gloria McCauley were formally sworn-in as returning members to the township committee following their electoral wins. During the township committee’s Jan. 2 reorganization meeting, friends, family and other state- and county-elected officials…
