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  • Christmas at Rockingham

    Holiday candlelight tours to shed a new light on George Washington By: Pat Summers    Signaling longer light each day, the winter solstice will still be 10 days away on Dec. 11, the date for holiday candlelight tours of Rockingham — where George Washington really did sleep in 1783.    Visitors to the 18th century mansion-turned-military headquarters…

  • Dec. 2, 3:55 p.m.: Bob Dylan, the death penalty and poetry Friday

    The long life of a protest song. By: Hank Kalet    Greil Marcus remains for me the most important music critic going. In this essay — originally delivered as the commencement address to the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California Berkley — he explains why Bob Dylan’s "Masters of War," perhaps his most over-the-top…

  • Falcons lost a lot but still talented

    By: James McKeever    No doubt about it, the Monroe boys bowling team has some pretty big shoes to fill.    Among the four seniors that coach George Packard saw graduate were heavy hitters Eric Wysokowski and T.J. Van Gorden, a couple of Greater Middlesex Conference upper-echelon players. They helped the Falcons to a school-record 24 victories…

  • Uplifting Blues

    Crossroad Theatre’s ‘Cookin’ at the Cookery’ explores the life of singer Alberta Hunter, who staged a comeback at age 82. By:Jillian Kalonick    Playing nine characters in the musical Cookin’ at the Cookery is now second nature to actress Janice Lorraine, but the first time she tried it she lost her voice.    "It was like going…

  • OBITUARIES, Dec. 2, 2005

    Samuel Hamill, Damien Dixon, Emilio Castaneda, Michael D. Carolus, Mary L. Torre, Sylvia G. DePiano, The Rev. Stanley M. Taylor Samuel Hamill Princeton, Maine resident     Samuel Hamill of Tremont, Maine, and Princeton died Nov. 16 at a friend’s home in Ellsworth, Maine. He was 29. He had struggled for many years with an addiction…

  • A free parking site? It’s ‘like a miracle’

    Starbucks holds "Red Cup" promotion, taking over 18 Nassau Street meters By: Marjorie Censer    George Gati, a broker associate at Prudential New Jersey Properties on Nassau Street, drove into town Thursday morning hoping to get a good parking spot in front of his building. He had a lot of heavy camera equipment in his car…

  • Artists to share visions of gardens

    Scenes of Cranbury to fill Gourgaud. By: Jessica Beym    Connie Bauder hadn’t picked a paintbrush up since high school.    But, after taking a painting course last year offered by a member of her congregation at the First Presbyterian Church of Cranbury, the Cranbury resident got back into the groove.    Today (Friday), her painting of the…

  • Standardized test prep program offered in Montgomery

    By: Jake Uitti    MONTGOMERY — Students identified by their teachers as needing extra help for three standardized tests will be nominated for after-school test preparation under a soon-to-be implemented plan called Project Achieve.    The tests are the New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge exam, given to third- and fourth-graders; the Grade Eight Proficiency Assessment;…

  • Princeton First Aid & Rescue Squad receives challenge grant

       In recognition of the lifesaving partnership between Princeton First Aid & Rescue Squad (PFARS) and Princeton HealthCare System, the PHCS Foundation is offering PFARS a challenge grant to "Ensure Success" in its 2005 fundraising drive.    To reach this year’s $200,000 fundraising target, PFARS needs to raise an additional $36,000 over the $164,000 it raised last…