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Honors & Achievements Top Stories

June 12, 2024

HILLSBOROUGH, NJ - Three members of Troop 489 who earned their Eagle Scout badge were presented proclamations by Mayor Robert Britting, Jr. at Tuesday night's Committee meeting recognizing their achievements. Each of the three had to plan and perform a community service project to earn the award ...

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HILLSBOROUGH, NJ - Mayor Robert Britting, Jr. presented Hillsborough High School senior Jamie Cridge with a proclamation for earning the Girl Scout Gold Award at the May 28th Township Committee meeting, Jamie’s Gold Award project - “Hillsborough School District Robotics Implementation Program” - ...

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HILLSBOROUGH, NJ - Kathleen O'Brien, a senior at Hillsborough High School, was presented with a proclamation for achieving the Girl Scouts Gold Award at the May 14 Township Committee meeting. Her Gold Award project focused on emergency preparedness in the community. She had over 120 people stop ...

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BERNARDSVILLE, NJ – New Jersey Rep. Tom Kean, Jr. (R-7th) has launched his Law Enforcement Hometown Hero Initiative, honoring local law enforcement officers across New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District.   Kean took submissions throughout New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District and will be ...

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BRIDGEWATER, NJ – Mark Casique of Bound Brook, a sophomore in the Computer Science program at Somerset County Vocational & Technical High School (SCVTHS), has been selected as Student of the Month for May 2024. Mark is the son of Melina and Panfilo Casique of Bound Brook. Casique's Computer ...

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CHATHAM, NJ - On Saturday, May 11, 2024, Hillsborough resident Shubham Sharma graduated from the Governor’s STEM Scholars, a program of the Research & Development Council of New Jersey.  Sharma is one of 123 New Jersey high school and college students to complete the year-long program, which ...

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MORRISTOWN, NJ - The Seeing Eye, the first guide dog school in North America, has added two new members to its Board of Trustees, including Deb Hughes of Hillsborough, a senior vice president for Automatic Data Processing. Also elected was attorney C. Patterson “Pat” McKenna of Highland ...

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HILLSBOROUGH, NJ - Three Hillsborough High School students have been selected to receive a $2,500 National Merit® Scholarship award. Winners from Hillsborough High School are: Jennifer Dong, probable career field: Computer Science; Anvesh Polamuri probable career field: Quantitative ...

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BRIDGEWATER, NJ – Somerset County Vocational & Technical High School (SCVTHS) students recently competed against other Career and Technical Education (CTE) students from around the State as part of the 2024 New Jersey SkillsUSA Championships.  Of the 158 students from SCVTHS who competed, 83 ...

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BERNARDSVILLE, NJ – Ellie Beaugris of Somerville High School is the winner of New Jersey’s Seventh Congressional District 2024 Art Competition. Her painting, “Fall Sport,” will be displayed in the U.S. Capitol for one year and she will be invited to Washington for a national recognition ...

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BRIDGEWATER, NJ - Minor League Baseball has announced that Somerset Patriots INF Benjamin Cowles and RHP Trystan Vrieling have been named the Eastern League Player and Pitcher of the Month for April. Cowles batted .351/.433/.623 and led the league in average (.351), hits (27), doubles (eight), ...

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