Category: archives
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Bone marrow donor drive to be held
The effort is being made in honor of leukemia patient Amanda Rosso. By: Linda Seida RINGOES A young mother’s ongoing battle against leukemia, after her earlier triumph over another form of cancer, has inspired a second bone marrow donor drive at Kirkpatrick Memorial Presbyterian Church. The donor drive will be held from 4 to…
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Rent
This film captures the anger and sadness, the juice and in-the-moment optimism-for-a-day of downtown New York artists in the late 1980s. By:Bob Brown Giacomo Puccini would have felt right at home with the crowd in Rent, the late Jonathan Larson’s musical updating of La Boheme, where the East Village stands in for Paris. The only…
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Phó Anh Dào
A melange of herbs, spices, sauces and sprouts comes to the table to liven up beef, pork, fish and vegetable soups and rolls. By:Faith Bahadurian Phó Anh Dào Franklin Mall 1483 Route 27 South (at Sinclair Street) Somerset (732) 246-1788 Food: Good to very good Service: Very good Prices: Inexpensive Cuisine: Vietnamese Vegetarian Options: Nine…
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Students help needy for holiday
South students are involved in five different ventures to help families in need, the March of Dimes and soldiers in Iraq. By: Linda Seida WEST AMWELL Students at South Hunterdon Regional High School are working hard with five separate events to make the holidays brighter for local families in need, the March of Dimes…
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Nov. 30, 2006
Agnes Chris Dooney Agnes Chris Dooney Stillwell, 89, died Nov. 27 in the Merwick Nursing Center in Princeton. Born in Camden, she attended Trenton State Teachers College and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education in 1939. She taught at Glassboro State Teachers College, prior to her marriage in 1943. While living…
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One World
New Jersey Gay Men’s Chorus will perform holiday concerts in Bound Brook and Titusville. By: Hilary Parker When the members of the New Jersey Gay Men’s Chorus meet Monday evenings at Nassau Presbyterian Church for weekly rehearsal, they don’t go straight to their sections and whip out their music. It’s not that they are unmotivated…
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Letters-Dec. 1, 2005
Regionalization not realistic here To the editor: The Beacon of Nov. 17 included a letter from a concerned West Amwell taxpayer, suggesting the local school boards consider consolidating into a single regionalized school district. At first glance, such an arrangement would seem to have fiscal and educational advantages over the current multi-district model. However, as…
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Deocrating firehouse nets fire, power loss
While putting up the annual holiday display, Columbia firefighters knocked down a metal pole that fell across three primary electric lines in front of the firehouse. By: Linda Seida LAMBERTVILLE An accidental fire Friday night at the Columbia Fire Company marked the third time one of the city’s four firehouses has suffered a blaze,…
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Editorial-Dec. 1, 2005
Make sure holiday display is put up safely By: Mae Rhine We can all learn a lesson from the mishap at the Columbia firehouse Friday night. Firefighters were putting up the annual holiday display on a metal pole on the roof when the pole fell across the three main power lines in front of the…
