Tag: Hillsborough Township
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Planning board adjourns application due to environmental concerns
The Hillsborough Township Planning Board members unanimously approved a motion to adjourn an application from a developer to a later date due to environmental concerns with the property. The developer, MAAC Development Group, Inc., was seeking preliminary and final major subdivision approval for the meeting, but given issues with proposed property’s drainage that could potentially…
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Hillsborough Township partners with school district for scholarship competition
Mayor Frank DelCore announced Hillsborough Township’s participation in the New Jersey League of Municipalities’ Louis Bay II, Future Municipal Leaders Scholarship Competition, during a recent township committee meeting. “The Township is once again teaming up with the Hillsborough School District so Hillsborough students can participate in this scholarship competition,” DelCore said during the Jan. 29…
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Two Hillsborough women to be honored
Each year, the Somerset County Commission on the Status of Women sponsors a program to highlight women who have made significant contributions in their professional fields, to women’s causes,or in community endeavors. Nominations are accepted for Somerset County women who go above and beyond in the following categories: Arts/Entertainment/Sports; Business/Entrepreneur/Information Technology, Education, Environmental Initiatives, Government/Public/Social Service, Hometown…
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Hillsborough board of ed members honored for years of service
Dana Boguszewski, Deena Centofanti and Brett Cooper each received a plaque in recognition of their years of service by the Hillsborough Board of Education. The three were honored during the Dec. 17 meeting of the board of education. Boguszewski served on the board since 2011, Centofanti since 2012 and Cooper joined in 2015. As elected…
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Hillsborough Township recognized with workplace program award
Hillsborough Township was recently honored at the Annual RideWise recognition breakfast as one of only two municipalities in Somerset County to receive platinum status in the New Jersey Smart Workplace Program. In 2013, the township received the silver award, then became the first Somerset County Municipality to achieve platinum and has since received platinum five…
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Hillsborough parishes tip-off in charity basketball game
In an effort to reach out to those in need this holiday season, two Hillsborough parishes, St. Joseph’s Church and Parish Center and Mary Mother of God Church, competed against each other in their first charity basketball game on Dec. 29. The event was held at Mary Mother of God Church Parish Hall where the…
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Township, school district come to agreement over municipal building costs
Members of the Hillsborough Township Board of Education lamented that their “hands were tied” over a lease agreement with the township in order to keep its offices in the municipal building open. Board members Jean Trujillo and Brett Cooper, along with Board President Judith Haas, outwardly criticized the agreement as an “upsetting” turn of events…
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Teacher arrested for sending illicit photos, messages to student
A 29-year-old Montgomery Township High School teacher and Hillsborough resident was taken into police custody last Friday, after she was found to have been engaged in sexually explicit conversations with a 17-year-old student. Michelina Aichele, of Capricorn Drive, is an English teacher and soccer coach at the high school. According to Somerset County Prosecutor Michael…
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Officials and local residents launch construction of Apex Sports and Events Complex
With shovels in hand and donning hard hats, Hillsborough resident Gregg Wilke stood with his wife and children to officially break ground and launch the construction of the new Apex Sports and Events Complex at a public ceremony last Thursday. Described earlier this year as a “multi-sport athletic facility designed to serve participants in sports leagues,…