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  • ‘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…

  • Plainsboro defibrillators funded by Bristol-Myers Squibb grant

       PLAINSBORO — In honor of National Safety Month in June, the Plainsboro Fire Company and First Aid and Rescue Squad will benefit from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.’s $123,000 contribution to emergency services in six area townships.    Plainsboro emergency services will receive $10,000 to purchase five defibrillator units.    Among the equipment being purchased through the contributions from…

  • Tapes of suspect in murder case focus of hearing

    Hearings will be held next week on the possible exclusion of videotape evidence in the murder case of an East Windsor woman accused of killing her 21-month-old son. By: Marisa Maldonado    TRENTON — Hearings will be held next week on the possible exclusion of videotape evidence in the murder case of an East Windsor woman…

  • Borough, Nassau HKT welcome third partner

    Morrison brings recapitalization and momentum to downtown redevelopment project By: Marjorie Censer    The Princeton Borough Council on Tuesday approved the addition of Jack Morrison as a partner and a payment guarantee of $2 million as resolutions to its agreement with developer Nassau HKT Associates.    Robert Powell, principal of Nassau HKT, said the recapitalization of the…