Category: archives
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Barclay house pondered
Township mulls prospect of building a home on the East Barclay property. By: Josh Appelbaum The Township Committee may allow for a house to be built on the 88-acre E. Barclay property on Ancil Davison Road. The township purchased the farm in June of 2004 for $3.4 million and plans to sell it at auction…
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EDITORIAL: Kids making important contributions
EDITORIAL Children are making amazing accomplishments with a little hard work and perserverance. Kids are amazing. Just when you think they’re hopelessly addicted to television, unmotivated to get involved and incapable of doing homework, they throw you for a loop. If you need an example, just take a look around. Students and kids in this…
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For Goff, 10-9 adds up to No. 1
The score of his only loss fuels MHS wrestler to county title By: Ken Weingartner During the past several weeks as Monroe High heavyweight Mike Goff ran after practice, he would repeat one thing over and over in his head. "I would sprint and ’10-9, 10-9, 10-9′ was all I could think of," Goff said,…
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‘Afghans for Afghans’
Princeton youngsters take up knitting for a worthy cause. It started with a book club and a young boy who wanted to learn how to knit. Last November a local French book club was reading "Visage Volé" (Stolen Face), the story of an Afghan woman who lived first under communist tyranny, then under the repressive…
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Man nabbed on theft charges
Man caughter after embezzling more than $100,000 from former employer. By: Leon Tovey JAMESBURG A 53-year-old borough man was charged Tuesday with theft by deception and forgery after South Brunswick police said he embezzled more than $100,000 from his former employer, Risk Enterprise Management on Route 130. Leslie Sperling of Hickory Court was charged…
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Husband continues wife’s fight with cancer
The Christina S. Walsh Breast Cancer Foundation is holding a benefit at City Streets Café in East Windsor on Feb. 20. By: Marisa Maldonado EAST WINDSOR During her two-and-a-half-year battle with breast cancer, Christina Walsh continued to try to help others. She went to work every day as a learning disabilities consultant in the…
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Knights holding court
Church group set for membership drive. By: Leon Tovey JAMESBURG Today is the first Friday in Lent and thanks to the St. James Council of the Knights of Columbus, local Catholics will have the opportunity to spend a night on the town without the temptation to violate the church’s injunction against eating meat on…
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Feb. 11, 5 p.m.: Wading into a sea of absurding
Much ado about nothing: The right turns the nutty professor into a liberal whipping boy. By: Hank Kalet Slate captures the complete absurdity of the current rage du jour that nutty professor from Colorado. Wade Churchill is a lot of things loud, extreme, illogical but he should not be seen as the…
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Montgomery seniors captivated by Chinese New Year
Year of the Rooster marked at senior center. By: Kara Fitzpatrick MONTGOMERY It may sound strange, but Shimin Tang plays the gourd. The gourd flute, that is. With the scent of fried niangao and red bean dumplings drifting into the room, Mr. Tang played his unusual flute to a captivated audience during the Montgomery…
