Category: archives
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South Brunswick tennis team off to solid start
By: Rich Fisher With an experienced lineup back, the South Brunswick High tennis team has looked good in the early going this season. The Vikings got off to a 2-1 start by sandwiching wins over North Brunswick (4-1) and Piscataway (5-0) around a loss to J.P. Stevens. According to coach Barbara Whitman, the win over…
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Allentown, N.J., its rise and progress, Part 28
HISTORICALLY SPEAKING From the New Jersey Historical Society’s C. R. Hutchinson papers, the story of the Anthony Woodward, an early owner of property south of Doctors Creek to Arneytown. The street now known as Church Street, is mentioned as a "drift road" at a very early date. Then it began to be called "the…
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Tennis squad rebounds against Steinert
Hopewell Valley girls tennis By: John E. Powers The Hopewell Valley Central High School girls tennis team had quite an interesting opening to its season last week. And both results a win and a loss bode well for the young team. The Lady Bulldogs dropped their opener Aug. 31 to West Windsor-Plainsboro North…
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Oct. 21-27
STAGE Passage Theatre, Mill Hill Playhouse, 205 E. Front St., Trenton, Move It and It’s Yours, Oct. 27-Nov. 20, Thu.-Fri. 8 p.m., Sat. 2, 8 p.m., Sun. 5 p.m., $25; www.passagetheatre.org
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N.J. national guards send water bottles to Gulf Coast
The New Jersey Army and Air National Guard members have flown move than 67,000 cases of donated water to New Orleans. Since the first mission left McGuire Air Force Base for Naval Air Station New Orleans on Sept. 2, New Jersey Army and Air National Guard members have consolidated and flown 44 flights of approximately…
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Washington adopts Gulf Coast town
Trucks travel down to Ocean City, Miss., Washington’s newly adopted town, to bring supplies and donations to the Gulf Coast region. By: Lauren Burgoon WASHINGTON Few, if any, township residents have ever set foot in Ocean Springs, Miss. In fact, few had probably heard of the small Gulf Coast town until recently. But that…
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LETTERS: Community suffered loss
To the editor: The South Brunswick community suffered a great loss in the passing of a wonderful man, Sid Lee. While he was only on this earth for 37 years, Sid was able to accomplish more than most do in two lifetimes. Sid was a quiet and simple man whose passion was to coach…
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Sept. 23-29
By: STAGE The Actors Company, Williamson Hall, Westminster Choir College, Hamilton and Walnut lanes, Princeton, Falsettos, Sept. 23-25, Fri.-Sat. 8 p.m., sun. 3 p.m., $15, $10 students/seniors; (609) 921-2663. Peddie School, Longstreet Hall, South Main Street, Hightstown, Dramatist Workshop staged readings: The Annals of Eelin-Ok by Jeffrey Ford and South Beach by Gary Brav, Sept.…
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Crisis of Faith
Damian McNicholl’s first novel uses black humor to chronicle a gay childhood in Northern Ireland.http://www.zwire.com/site/myzwire.cfm?newsid=15210330&BRD=1091&PAG=461&dept_id=343157&rfi=6 By: Susan Van Dongen Tension between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland; poverty and prejudice; mortal sin and the infallibility of the church; sexual identity and shame these are the elements of Damian McNicholl’s first novel, A Son Called…
