Hillsborough Beacon

Hillsborough school board approves ‘doomsday’ budget ahead of state senate hearing

To be clear, with everything the Hillsborough Township School District has been through, there are no "good cuts to make. Everything hurts." That is what Schools Superintendent Michael Volpe emphasized...

An urgent call to preserve half of New Jersey’s land

by Jay Watson, Co-Executive Director, New Jersey Conservation Foundation New Jersey is not only the nation's most densely populated...

Hillsborough Township Police blotter

May 4 - At approximately 2:11 p.m., the Hillsborough Township Police Department responded to 6 Barbara Drive for...

Ballots by mail available through May 28

Somerset County Clerk Steve Peter began mailing the initial 29,860 primary 2024 ballots to eligible voters who requested them on...

Common calendar, Packet papers, May 3

Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, and Somerset counties New Jersey Blood Services (NJBS), a division of New York Blood Center, which...

Hillsborough Beacon

Opinion: Cigarette tax would lessen suffering from cancer

More than 53,000 New Jerseyans are expected to be diagnosed with cancer this year and almost 16,000 will lose their lives from the disease....

Our Revolution Hillsborough endorses Johnson-Brook campaign for Hillsborough Township Committee

Our Revolution Hillsborough (ORH) endorses Donetta Johnson and David Brook for Hillsborough Township Committee in the 2020 election because they are equally committed to...

Montgomery’s Desi Physician Moms donates masks to Hillsborough

Desi Physician Moms (DPM) of U.S./Canada, a non-profit philanthropic organization and network of nearly 7,000 licensed, physician women of Indian subcontinent heritage, donated 100...

Hillsborough Township Public Schools re-entry plan still on amid push back from teachers

HILLSBOROUGH - The road back to in-person instruction for students in the Hillsborough Township Public Schools is on track to begin Sept. 29. Superintendent of...

The timeless tale of monarch butterfly migration

By Michele S. Byers Do you ever read through old newspapers and notice that sometimes the topic and perspective are still pretty current and fresh?...

Hillsborough ‘Turns the Town Teal’ for ovarian cancer awareness

September is National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month and Hillsborough is doing its part to raise awareness for this deadly disease. According to the National Ovarian...

New Jersey to provide opioid overdose antidote for free from Sept. 24-26

Gov. Phil Murphy and Human Services Commissioner Carole Johnson have announced New Jersey will offer the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone (commonly called Narcan)...

Common calendar, Packet papers, Sept. 11

Editor's Note: Please call before attending any event. As of press time, certain restrictions were still in place due to the coronavirus outbreak.   Ongoing The Mercer...

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