Category: archives
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‘Musical Chairs’
Rider University stages this ‘amusing little vintage.’ By: Stuart Duncan A long time ago, probably as much as 30 years, The New Yorker’s food and drink editor described a wine as "an amusing little vintage that will charm you by its lack of presumption." Three decades later that seems to be the perfect definition of…
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Stockton to decide how to fix gazebo
The supports have become bowed in the structure in the borough playground. By: Linda Seida STOCKTON Officials must decide whether to repair, replace or raze a public pavilion, which supports have become bowed. The gazebo-like structure stands in the Stockton playground, off Route 29 near Prallsville Mills. One early estimate placed the cost of…
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‘Orange and Black to the Future’
Princeton Triangle Club stages its annual pun-filled spectacular. By: Stuart Duncan It’s always a bit disconcerting to critique a Princeton Triangle Club show because one just doesn’t know where to begin. The current effort, Orange and Black to the Future, has no less than 17 undergraduates listed as writing the music, lyrics and sketches. And…
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City not sure what to do with open space tract
Voters approved a 2-cent tax to pay $1.4 million for 11 acres behind Lambertville Public School and Ely Field and 5 acres along Jefferson Road. By: Linda Seida LAMBERTVILLE Now that voters have approved a new open space tax to pay for the acquisition of more than 11 acres on a hill behind Lambertville…
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Pet Talk-Nov. 18, 2004
Coping with a cat’s unacceptable behavior By: Dr. Daniel Eubanks This is the last of a three-part series on feline behavior. In the first and second parts of this series, we described the evolutionary origins of feline behaviors and how some of their instincts have persisted as unwanted attitudes in our domestic cat pets. More…
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BUSINESS WRAP-UP, Nov. 16
Tyco sells telecom network Tyco International, with headquarters in West Windsor, announced Nov. 1 it has agreed to sell its Tyco Global Network to Videsh Sanchar Nigam, India’s leading telephone and Internet services provider. The $130 million sale is subject to government approval in the United States and India. Additional terms of the deal were…
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Nov. 17, 10:25 p.m.: Standing up and fighting back
We need to fight against the turn away from reason and intellect that the re-election of George W. Bush represents. By: Hank Kalet Occasionally, you read something that makes you say, "I wish I’d written that." This piece in The New York Observer by Nicholas Von Hoffman, which calls on liberals to stand up to…
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MILESTONES, Nov. 16
TECHNOLOGY The New Jersey Technology Council has named Universal Display Corp., a Ewing-based company that hopes to develop a range of products using organic light-emitting diodes, its Public Company of the Year for 2004. Universal Display, which now employs about 50 people, hopes to develop products like glowing wall paper and flexible video monitors that…
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Obituaries-Nov. 18, 2004
Bernard Gaspari LAMBERTVILLE Bernard V. Gaspari, 76, died Monday, Nov. 8, from injuries received during an automobile accident in Hopewell Township. Mr. Gaspari was born and raised in Lambertville. Mr. Gaspari was a member of St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church. A graduate of Lambertville High School, he served in the Army during…
