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  • Modern is Back

    An old friend is made new at the Museum of Modern Art. By: Pat Summers Barnett Newman’s "Broken Obelisk" takes center stage in the museum’s air- and light-filled second-story atrium    We’d grown used to the crowds at the Museum of Modern Art on New York’s West 53rd Street. Veterans of exhibition lines snaking through galleries…

  • Plainsboro library sets holiday sale

       PLAINSBORO — The Plainsboro Public Library is holding a holiday shopping benefit sale, featuring date books, book bags, hand-painted bookmarks and books donated to the library.    The holiday shopping sale will also include two publications by Bill Hart, which feature postcards of Plainsboro and explore the history of the Lenape in the township.    The book…

  • Marion George Burd

       Marion George Burd, formerly of Hopewell Township, died in Willow Valley Lakes Manor, Willow Street, Pa., on Friday.    Born in Trenton, she had been a resident of Hopewell Township for over 50 years before moving to Willow Street 15 years ago.    A graduate of Trenton Central High School, she retired in 1985 from the New…

  • Candlelight tour of Rockingham set Sunday

       Historic Rockingham, Washington’s last war-time headquarters in 1783, once again will be decorated for the holidays for the annual Candlelight Tour, which will take place from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.    Members of The Stony Brook Garden Club, designers of the popular 18th-century kitchen garden at Rockingham, will have fresh greens and fruits placed throughout…

  • An option for total disc replacement

    The goal is to eliminate the disc that is generating pain while restoring the disc space height and maintain´ing the range of motion of that particular segment By: Lorraine Seabrook with Haim D. Blecher, M.D.    According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), low back pain is second only to colds and flu when it…

  • Remembering an innovator

    Cranbury to honor renowned engineer. By: Elaine Worden    Walter Cronkite called him the father of space television.    Max H. Mesner was a humble engineer born and raised in Missouri, whose extraordinary innovations helped advance the country’s space program and pioneer new technologies that have become an integral part to most American homes, including the color…

  • OBITUARIES: Jesse M. Gaynor

       Jesse Meyer Gaynor, 81, of Monroe, formerly of East Brunswick, died Tuesday, Nov. 23.    He worked tirelessly to advance the ethics in the pharmaceutical profession. His humor and compassion will be missed by all.    He was the loving and devoted husband of Natalie Seltzer Gaynor for 57 years. He was the adoring and loving father…

  • Men’s choir plans Christmas concert

    Men of Harmony to lighten up the halls of the United Methodist Church. By: Josh Appelbaum    Touches of a Dickensian Christmas will come to Fellowship Hall at the United Methodist Church on Sunday as the Men of Harmony sing traditional carols in Victorian garb.    The Dickens Christmas Concert will include excerpts from an original Christmas…

  • PU soccer hopes for NCAA twin killing

    Tigers, Willis sisters two wins from first national championship By: Justin Feil    When Janine and Rochelle Willis decided to come to Princeton University, it wasn’t for the soccer and certainly there weren’t any thoughts of a national championship in their heads.    "My dad said it best," said Rochelle, the older of the twins by 21…