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‘We need both natural lands and playgrounds, sports fields’

In calling for the "preservation" of "half" of New Jersey's land (https://centraljersey.com/2024/05/06/an-urgent-call-to-preserve-half-of-new-jerseys-land/), Jay Watson and the New Jersey Conservation Foundation are misleading your readers. What they're including as "preserved land"...

Common calendar, Packet papers, May 17

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

Hillsborough Township creating a Community Equity and Diversity Profile

Hillsborough Township officials are taking a "deep dive" to create a Community Equity and Diversity Profile. Township Planning director...

An ‘ode’ to New Jersey’s dragonflies and damselflies

by Alison Mitchell, Co-Executive Director, New Jersey Conservation Foundation If you're near a pond, stream, or marsh on a...

Depression and suicide risk can intensify in spring and summer

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Intense symptoms for individuals with depression are commonly associated with the winter...

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HILLSBOROUGH: ‘The Unexpected Guest’ arrives Friday night at theater

Agatha Christie’s mystery “The Unexpected Guest“ will be presented by the Somerset Valley Players on weekends starting tonight, Jan. 15, through Jan. 31 at...

HILLSBOROUGH: Battlefield site destruction outrages an historian-reader

To the editor:  I am perfectly outraged by the destruction of hallowed ground at the Princeton Battlefield. That a part of our national heritage,...

HILLSBOROUGH: Lt. Mozgai elevated to police captaincy 

By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor Hellos, goodbyes and welcomes were all heard at Tuesday’s Township Committee meeting. The township embraced Police Lt. Francis R. Mozgai Jr....

HILLSBOROUGH: Mozgai expected to be named police captain

Hillsborough Police Lt. Francis R. Mozgai Jr. is expected to be named the captain on the township police force tonight, Tuesday, Jan. 12. Lt. Mozgai...

HILLSBOROUGH: Cizin’s entrepreneurship idea cited in Seton Hall competition 

Hillsborough student Nicholas Cizin was named one of the finalists at Seton Hall University’s inaugural high school Pirates Pitch competition. His idea, Elite Hockey Camps,...

HILLSBOROUGH: Resolution Run sells out with 600 participants

Resolution Run & Walk 5K participants had mostly clear and cold weather on Jan. 1 race day. The race primarily benefits Hillsborough High School’s 2016...

HILLSBOROUGH: Flag gridder Bienstock eligible for USA honor 

Junior Raider football player Nathan Bienstock of Hillsborough has been named one of 14 national finalists for the 2015 “Playmaker of the Year” program....

HILLSBOROUGH: School repairs face March 8 vote 

By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor Voters are being asked to go to the polls March 8 to approve a mechanism to finance two major repair...

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