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Middlesex County dancer, trained at American Repertory Ballet, now is a dance instructor with ARB’s ballet school Princeton Ballet School. The 22-year-.old dancer is focusing on a dance program for those suffering from Parkinson’s disease. READ MORE
Free concerts featuring early rock and jazz offer a great way to explore the sounds that helped create today’s popular music,East Jersey Old Town Village in Johnson Park on Sundays Aug. 26 and Sept. 9. READ MORE
Highland Park senior citizens lived up to Highland Park’s reputation as a vibrant arts community in New Jersey by winning several prizes in Middlesex County’s Annual Senior Art Contest. Continue the HP arts celebration at Arts in the Park on Sunday, Sept. 16 READ MORE
Toy Soldiers Comedy Show debuts in Highland Park on Aug 10th and hopes to be a monthly event, featuring raw, personal, political, and cultural humor. READ MORE
Dr. Matthew Hale on July 18, 2018 was sworn in as a borough council member by Mayor Gayle Brill Mittler to fill the unexpired term of Councilman Matthew Hersh. Replacing one Matthew H with another Matthew H was necessitated by Matt Hersh’s resignation from council in order to join Governor Phil Murphy’s administration as director of Communications for the NJ Board of Public Utilities. “Matt Hale is a tenured political science professor at Seton Hall University and is widely respected for his political commentary. Matt has chaired our Digital Data Task-force, and it is an asset to have him join Highland Park Borough Council,” said Mayor Brill Mittler, who added that Matt Hersh’s new appointment demonstrates that Highland Park talent is treasured in Trenton. “As for the council, many residents may not realize how much of a formidable commitment it is to join borough council. READ MORE
Matthew Hersh’s new job as director of communications for the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities within Matthew’s new job within the Murphy Administration precludes him serving as an elected official in state or local government. He intends to remain a volunteer giving back to the community that has given him so much. READ MORE
Water – a life-sustaining commodity that many take for granted – has gained a much higher profile in Highland Park in the past few days. Residents learned that a typical family of four can expect to pay an increase of $350 this year for the tap water they drink, showers they take, the dishes they wash and the toilets they flush. This increase comprises an annual hike in water/sewer rates and a one-time surcharge. The town is establishing a new rate schedule to address the water and sewer cost increases that were never passed on to Highland Park residents and businesses for the last seven years. This action is due to an administrative failure to increase residential and business sewer and water rates to correspond to the significant escalation of the water and sewer costs being billed to the municipality. READ MORE
The apocalypse in New Jersey never looked so good, thanks to local theater talent who created a musical comedy ‘The Eleventh Hour’ about the end of the world. It is on stage in NYC May 11-June 27. READ MORE
An Edison woman, driving while intoxicated, has pleaded guilty in causing the Feb. 16, 2018 death by auto of a 21-year old Edison woman and injuring two others, both residents of Highland Park, READ MORE
