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Music, dance, games, cars to highlight fair
Hightstown’s second annual fair will be held downtown on Saturday, Oct. 9, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. By: Michael Ross HIGHTSTOWN The borough will host its second annual fair next Saturday with a daylong festival of activities scheduled to include musical performances, dance acts, children’s games, an antique and exotic automobile display and…
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Sunshine
"Sunshine," a 3-month-old spayed female kitten, is in need of a loving home and available for adoption from SAVE, 900 Herrontown Road, Princeton. For information about adopting "Sunshine" or another dog or cat, call (609) 921-6122. SAVE: http://www.petfinder.org/shelters/NJ143.html
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DISPATCHES:Campaigns create fractured electorate
DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: Playing the demographic game may endanger democracy. By:Hank Kalet Boston Globe writer Jeff Jacoby raised an interesting question this week. In a "Web exclusive" column, he asked: Who will American Jews vote for on Nov. 2? He reminded his readers that American Jews have tended to vote Democratic (only 19 percent…
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Back in the USSR
Former Reagan advisor Jack Matlock Jr. revisits détente in a new book. By: Susan Van Dongen In ‘Reagan and Gorbachev,’ Jack Matlock gives an eyewitness acount of how the Cold War ended, with humankind declared the winner. Mr. Matlock, who divides his time between Princeton and Booneville, Tenn., will sign copies of the book at…
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Montgomery vows to fight DOT on Hillsborough bypass
Current design would bisect Pike Run development. By: Jill Matthews MONTGOMERY Despite protests by the township, the state has announced its intention to move forward with its current design for the Route 206 bypass, which cuts through the Pike Run Development in the northeastern section of the township. But while the state Department of…
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Teacher’s letter to seniors a first-grade experience
Compositions written 11 years earlier become gifts to high school grads, thanks to this retired West Windsor-Plainsboro educator. By: Shanay Cadette WEST WINDSOR For several years now, Tamara Keys has tacked a group photo of about 20 children on her refrigerator, pulled out a stack of 11-year-old letters to mail and wondered if any…
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Police charge man in hit-and-run crush
Drunk driver apprehended after getting into two accidents. By: Leon Tovey MONROE A hit-and-run driver injured a Jamesburg woman during an accident at the intersection of Matchaponix Road and Spotswood Englishtown Road on Saturday. Monroe police said that Kenneth Jomo, 41, of Fernhead Avenue in Spotswood rear-ended a car driven by Richard Thomasen, 22,…
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Stacked parking, alarm fee ordinances get borough backing
Council introduces ordinance designed to allow packing more cars into garages and a measure to control false alarms. By: Jennifer Potash The Princeton Borough Council introduced ordinances Tuesday that allow stacked parking in the three downtown parking garages and set new fees for property owners who have monitored fire alarm systems. As part of the…
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Station construction set to begin
Groundbreaking ceremony set for Monday By:Josh Appelbaum An official groundbreaking ceremony for the new Cranbury police station will take place Monday at 3 p.m. on Police Drive off Station Road. Mark Berkowsky, president of Berkowsky and Associates of Cranbury; Vice President of Construction Tim Neylan; representatives from the station’s contractor, M&K Contracting of Colts Neck;…
