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  • Thirty years later, his tale can still make jaws drop

    On blockbuster film’s anniversary, author Peter Benchley reflects on "Jaws" phenomenon By: David Campbell    Thirty years ago in June, Gerald Ford was president, the most watched show on TV was "All in the Family," and the Hollywood summer blockbuster had just been invented.    The blockbuster was "Jaws," director Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the best-selling novel…

  • O’Brien sparks C-P in District 12 opener

    By: Rich Fisher    WASHINGTON TWP. – Carly O’Brien is being looked at as the natural leader of the Cranbury-Plainsboro 12-year-old All-Star softball team, if only because she is the lone returning girl from last year’s District 12 runner-up.    She is also one of just two 12-year-olds on the roster, along with Jenna Panconi.    But when…

  • Chinese land-use planners look to Princeton area for tips

    Rapidly-growing nation learns from American experience in suburban planning By: David Campbell    WEST WINDSOR — A delegation of senior planning officials from China — a country experiencing tremendous economic growth and, with it, rapid urbanization — visited with planners Thursday at the offices of Hillier Architecture on Alexander Road to glean lessons from Smart Growth…

  • ‘Howl’s Moving Castle’

    All the best qualities of director Hayao Miyazaki’s visual imagination shine through in this animated fantasy. By: Bob Brown Heen the palace dog, Markl the apprentice and Prince Turnip the scarecrow help young Sophie reverse her spell in Howl’s Moving Castle.    The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993) describes her as "probably the premier UK writer…

  • Mary F. Nothelfer

       Mary F. Nothelfer, 93, of Sewell, died at Greenbriar Health Care Center, Deptford, today (Friday).    Born in Trenton, she was a longtime resident of Hopewell Township. In 1996, she moved to Washington Township, Gloucester County.    Wife of the late John J. Nothelfer and sister of the late Anne Dale, she is survived by a daughter…

  • Water is fine for Princeton shark institute

    Research center seeks to educate the public, protect shark species By: David Campbell    If you’ve been reading the media reports on the recent shark attacks off the Florida coast, you may have read Erich Ritter of the Shark Research Institute quoted as saying that a 6-foot bull shark may have been responsible for killing one…

  • Offering high-tech way to treat cancer

    New high-tech machinery is developed to fight cancer. By: Leon Tovey    MONROE — "We like to say we’re high-tech and high-touch," says Robert Cardinale of Radiation Oncology Consultants of New Jersey, the central New Jersey oncology group he has been practicing with for the past four years.    ROCNJ, which has one of its four offices…

  • Health board veteran takes long look back

    Thirty-year Princetonian reflects on indoor smoking ban, hospital relocation, bioterrorist threat By: Marjorie Censer    When Norman Sissman moves at the end of August to a retirement community in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., in Westchester County, he won’t leave Princeton as it was when he arrived in 1975.    The town is certainly a different place — different…

  • Post 401 rebounds from loss

    By: Rich Fisher    The bad news is, South Brunswick Post 401 won’t be going undefeated this season.    The good news is, rather than start to slide as they have done in year’s past, the locals followed their first loss of the season with three impressive victories to run their record to 12-1.    After dropping an…