Category: archives
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Jones looking to catch eye of NFL scouts
Former HHS star wants to play on Sundays By: Rudy Brandl Jared Jones didn’t like the way his college football career ended at Syracuse University, but that’s only part of his motivation for wanting to play in the National Football League. The 2000 Hillsborough High grad, who came back to play for the Orange as…
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LIFESTYLE: Fun days
Nursery school helps teach kids social and motor skills. By: Joseph Harvie "It’s sunny. The sky’s blue with a couple white clouds. It’s a little windy, and there is still some snow on the ground," 4-year-old Madison Bara said as she looked through the magic weather glasses (aka Fisher Price binoculars) while giving the weekly…
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Newspaper returns to Allentown
Beginning Friday the Messenger-Press headquarters will be located at 34 S. Main St. Beginning Friday the Messenger-Press headquarters will be located at 34 S. Main St. behind the Quilter’s Barn. The move returns The Messenger-Press to the building that served as the newspaper’s base of operations before its move to East Windsor in 1991. Our…
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Mapp chases down another championship
Hopewell Valley indoor track By: Jim Green All Natalie Mapp did this weekend was add a national championship to her already overwhelmingly impressive track and field résumé. The Hopewell Valley Central High School senior already had achieved just about everything one could ever hope to do at the high school level, helping the Lady Bulldogs…
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OBITUARIES: George Paynor
George Paynor George M. Paynor, 72, died Tuesday, March 8, at the University Medical Center at Princeton. Born in Budapest, Hungary, he escaped his communist country and immigrated to the United States in 1956. He lived with his uncle in Jackson Heights, N.Y., until he moved to New Jersey in 1962 with his wife. He…
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Kessler connects for 100th hit
Senior center fielder C.J. Kessler (Florence, N.J./Florence) of the Muhlenberg College baseball team reached a career milestone during the Mules’ season-opening trip to Chandler, Ariz. A two-run single in the eighth inning of Muhlenberg’s 15-13 loss to Beloit was the 100th hit of Kessler’s career. The 26th player in team history to reach the century…
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OBITUARIES: M. Irene Walker
M. Irene Webster M. Irene Webster, 85, of Kendall Park, formerly of Devon, Pa., died Friday, March 11. Her husband, Edwin L. Webster, Esq., two sisters, Eleanor deSimone Weed and Julia deSimone Prusinowski, and a brother, Henry A. deSimone, are deceased. She is survived by a stepdaughter, Susan Kieronski of Rhode Island; a stepson, Thomas…
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Woman dies in crash
Accident at intersection of Route 32 and Route 535 kills one, leaves other in critical condition. By: Joseph Harvie A 71-year-old Matawan woman was killed and another woman is in critical condition following a three-vehicle accident at the intersection of Route 32 and Route 535 at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, police said. Police said Dorothy Davino,…
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Something for Nothing
Playwright Theresa Rebeck explores post-Gold Rush desperation in her drama ‘The Bells,’ premiering at McCarter Theatre. By: Jillian Kalonick TIMEOFF/FRANK WOJCIECHOWSKI Theresa Rebeck’s new play, on stage in Princeton March 22-April 10, is loosely based on a Victorian melodrama. For prospectors seeking riches in Alaska’s Gold Rush, the lure was the same as modern-day Las…
