Ex-Mayor Named Township Administrator, Olympic Trials Great Experience for Resident Top Hillsborough News

Former Hillsborough Mayor Anthony Ferrera has been named the new township administrator.

He has been swimming since he was a student at Immaculata High School, and now the Hillsborough resident has one more thing to add to his resume—participation in the Olympic trials this year in Omaha, Neb.

Hillsborough Township has decided that now is not the right time to join an effort to consolidate police departments into a single countywide police department.

Six weeks ago, Patricia Flanagan of Hillsborough's Swallow Hill Farm got a very rare treat, the birth of twins on the farm. Shadow and Buttercup are extremely rare as only about a dozen pairs of alpaca have survived of the 150 or so twin births over the last 20 years, Flanagan said.

Steve Kerrigan, the assistant principal of Auten Road Intermediate School, has been named principal at Woodfern Elementary School.

The Board of Education board has postponed until the fall a vote on whether to abolish the school district’s random drug testing policy.

Before a powerful thunderstorm rolled through Thursday night, township officials cut the ribbon on an innovative project that will save Hillsborough taxpayers more than $100,000 a year.