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  • A time to remember

    Holocause survivors to share stories during annual Ricklis Memorial. By: Leon Tovey    MONROE — There is a compelling sameness to the stories of most Holocaust survivors. Each is a vivid, harrowing ride through fear, horror, outrage and sorrow into hope and, eventually, a transcendent love of life tempered by lingering memories of those lost and…

  • Generic drugs recalled

    Able Laboratories recalled 46 of its medications. By: Josh Appelbaum    A Cranbury-based manufacturer of generic prescription drugs issued a recall of its entire line Monday.    Able Laboratories, located on Able Drive, adjacent to the N.J. Turnpike and off Prospect Plains Road, suspended its manufacturing peration and voluntarily recalled 46 of its medications.    Representatives from Able…

  • Museum trip caps Holocaust program

    Participants of the Adopt-a-Survivor program visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. By: Marisa Maldonado    HIGHTSTOWN — Esther Clifford signed up for the Adopt-a-Survivor program to help preserve her story of surviving the Holocaust by sharing it with a Hightstown High School student.    But she found herself with more than one listener at the Holocaust…

  • For one, Memorial Day parade is chance to come full circle

    Princeton resident to lead his Valley Forge Military Academy classmates down Nassau Street. By: Marjorie Censer    When Joe Oehlberg left Princeton after seventh grade at John Witherspoon Middle School to attend Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pa., he did not expect to return in full uniform to the annual Princeton Memorial Day Parade.    Joe,…

  • Montgomery board will not appeal school budget

    After Township Committee cuts, taxpayers due to save $2 million. By: Kara Fitzpatrick    MONTGOMERY — The Board of Education on Tuesday unanimously approved the revised school budget that was cut back by the Township Committee following its rejection by voters last month.    The reworked budget will save taxpayers $2 million by paring the $67.9 million…

  • Variant views offered on future of hospital site

    Princeton HealthCare System and Princeton Future present their vision for Witherspoon facility. By: David Campbell    Princeton HealthCare System and Princeton Future presented competing visions Thursday night of how the University Medical Center at Princeton on Witherspoon Street should be redeveloped.    PHCS and the nonprofit citizens’ planning group appeared before the Princeton Regional Planning Board, which…

  • Letters to the Herald

    For the May 27 issue. Music is part of curriculum; not an extracurricular activity To the editor:     I want to thank the mayors, the councils, the board of education and superintendent for all their efforts in regard to the school budget. Clearly, all parties put in much time and thought.    I’m especially thankful that…

  • Princeton Airport’s hangar hearing is hung up again

    Vote delayed because township professionals had not reviewed necessary information from applicants. By: Kara Fitzpatrick    MONTGOMERY — Officials with the Princeton Airport again went before the township Planning Board on Monday seeking to build two hangars — but, as at the last meeting, no vote was taken.    The application was a continuation from the board’s…

  • Musical Iconoclasts

    Summertime, and the concert-going is easy, beginning with the Golandsky International Piano Festival. By: Susan Van Dongen    We assume that professional athletes endure high levels of pain throughout their careers.    It might surprise some to know that a majority of professional musicians live with some kind of playing-related fatigue as well. Some have even had…