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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 April 20. Eligible voters for the June 4 Democratic and Republican...

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...

Somerset County to hold online auction

The Somerset County Board of County Commissioners encourages residents to take advantage of an online auction of surplus...

‘This is a big day’

For his 101st birthday, Donald Stern flew around the Verrazzano Bridge towards the Freedom Towers and circled the...

Grand Marshal welcome

Courtesy of Hillsborough Township Hillsborough Township Mayor Robert Britting stands with U.S. Army veteran and resident Meghann Valeo, who...

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Hillsborough parent creates video tribute for Class of 2020

Scott Laifer of Hillsborough began to develop a tribute to the Class of 2020 of Hillsborough High School since one of his sons graduated....

SOLUTIONS 6/26: Plastics everywhere in the warming air

By Huck Fairman A new report published in the journal, SCIENCE, warned that microplastics are everywhere, not only in the planet’s waterbodies but in the...

Common calendar, Packet papers, June 26

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

Local restaurants take advantage of outdoor dining

Restaurants across the State of New Jersey were able to start offering outdoor dining services to patrons last week. Hillsborough Township Business Advocate David Kois...

LOOSE ENDS 6/26: Raising awareness for lung cancer

By Pam Hersh Two weeks ago, I received an email from my friend Isabella de la Houssaye asking me to join her friends and family...

Greenwood House Home names president of Board of Directors

Douglas J. Zeltt has been appointed Board of Directors president and chair of Greenwood House Home for the Jewish Aged, a nonprofit community organization...

Looking back: 60 years of conservation in New Jersey

By Michele S. Byers It’s hard to imagine New Jersey without its strong environmental bent and legacy. Over the past few decades, New Jersey has...

SOLUTIONS 6/19: Environmental Unraveling

By Huck Fairman     While many Americans are observing social distancing, working from home and not traveling, with the result that a majority of, if not...

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