Category: archives
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Superintendent is eager to start her new job
Come Tuesday, Judith Wilson will officially launch her effort to meet just about every student, parent and teacher in Princeton. By: Rachel Silverman Though she’ll be the new kid on the block come Tuesday, Judith Wilson is determined to meet just about every student, parent and teacher in town. "I want to extend an open…
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American Pie
Norman Rockwell’s quest for canine perfection. By: Susan Van Dongen Rockwell: A Boy and His Dog by Loren Spiotta-DiMare is the semi-fictitious tale of the artist’s quest to find the right canine model for his calendar illustrations. Although she studied sociology and journalism, Loren Spiotta-DiMare knows almost as much about certain four-legged creatures as many…
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Gang membership target of Mercer County task force
By: Jennifer Potash Mercer County will form a new task force aimed at preventing teenagers from joining street gangs. Mercer County Executive Brian Hughes announced the Mercer County Gang Prevention and Intervention Task Force and plans for a new county police academy Tuesday in his State of the County speech. Gary DiBlasio, executive director of…
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Senior center to make house calls
New outreach professional to help seniors get food, exercise or just good company. By: Leon Tovey MONROE For years, the Monroe Township Senior Center has offered a variety of services and activities to older residents out of its base of operations in the township municipal complex. Now the center is extending those services to…
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Letters to the Editor, Jan. 28
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Jan. 28 Shoveling kids did prompt, excellent job To the editor: As a senior with his share (or more) of infirmities making snow shoveling a distant memory, I was pleased and delighted to have Andrew Bergman and his high school friends ring my doorbell and ask if I wanted to…
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LETTERS: Prognostications for the new year
To the editor: The year 2005 is still in its infancy but we have already witnessed an extraordinary development in what may prove to be an extraordinary year indeed. In his speeches and public appearances, U.S. Sen. "Teddy" Kennedy is emerging as the "Moral Values" spokesman for the Democratic Party. What else does this…
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Borough endorses traffic plan for HHS
East Windsor Regional School District requests that police enforce traffic regulations at Hightstown High School. By: Michael Ross HIGHTSTOWN Borough Council supports the school district’s desire to have police enforce traffic regulations at Hightstown High School. The East Windsor Regional School District submitted an application to the borough governing body in October, requesting that…
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Ghosts of Inhumanity
The Michener Museum presents Michael Kenna’s haunting photographs of Nazi concentration camps. By: Susan Van Dongen "Theresienstadt, 1989" People of a certain age might remember their fathers and grandfathers dipping a small horsehair brush into a cup of shaving soap, then spreading the lather across their faces like frosting on a cake. It’s a more…
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OBITUARIES: Pauline Blinder Last
Pauline Blinder Last Pauline "Pearl" Blinder Last, 86, died Saturday, Jan. 22, at the Central New Jersey Jewish Home for the Aged, Somerset. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, she lived in Rahway, Westfield and Monroe before moving into the Central N.J. Jewish Home for the Aged. Prior…
