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  • Judge’s ruling favors Washington First

    Citizens group will get change-of-government question on November ballot. By: Lauren Burgoon TRENTON – Citizens group Washington First won the right to secure a November ballot question after a judge voided the Township Committee’s ordinance to put its own question on the ballot. The judge’s decision allows Washington First’s question to appear on the November…

  • OBITUARIES, July 30, 2004

    Alexander J. Bordash, James C.W. Chen, Mary B. Mazeikis. Alexander J. Bordash Former Princeton resident     MARLTON — Alexander J. Bordash died Wednesday. He was 52.    Mr. Bordash was a former Princeton resident.    He was senior technical analyst at Princeton Financial Services for eight years    He was a longtime local musician.    Son of the late…

  • A Balkan quest

    A poet and educator returns to her ancestral roots in Romania. By: Pat Summers    In what she calls "a landmark trip" to Romania this spring, Joan Goldstein of Montgomery actually turned up a couple of sites with family significance. On her first visit to her family’s country of origin and the city where three of…

  • Atomic bombing to be commemorated Thursday

       Survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and contributors to an upcoming book on peacemaking in the religious community, will be featured at Coalition for Peace Action’s annual commemoration of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.    The ceremony will be at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton on Thursday, Aug.…

  • Judge sentences Marut to life for murder, arson

    Steven Marut is sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of murdering his mother and setting fire to her East Windsor home. By: Dana Lynn Flatekval    TRENTON — Convicted murderer Steven Marut listened impassively last week as a judge sentenced to him to life in prison for killing his mother with a hammer and…

  • Children invited to tour hospital ER

    Program aims to alleviate their fears. By: David Campbell    A hospital emergency room can seem like a scary place to a child. But University Medical Center at Princeton has a new program that aims to alleviate those fears with a guided tour.    "We wanted to let them know we’re a safe place, that people get…

  • OBITUARY:Lydia Craig

       Lydia C. (Reinke) Craig, 79, of Monroe, died Friday, July 23, at Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge Division.    Born Feb. 5, 1925, in Jersey City to the late Adam and Emma (Bonkowska) Reinke, Ms. Craig married John L. Craig on Oct. 19, 1947. In 1956, they moved to Orange, then to Monroe, where they…

  • Friends honor 90-year-old former teacher

    Catherine Copleston of Hightstown celebrated her 90th birthday and the 120th anniversary of her house. By: Dana Lynn Flatekval    HIGHTSTOWN — When Catherine Copleston was born in her Cole Avenue house, Babe Ruth was debuting in the major leagues and World War I was just beginning.    Now, almost a century later, Ms. Copleston has plenty…

  • Humble Master

    By: Ilene Dube SURROUNDED by beets, burgundy bush beans, peppers and broccoli, Ben Eberle is down on his haunches, pulling up weeds.    Little purple plants with ruffled leaves sprout everywhere, even in the gravel. "That’s shiso," or Japanese mint, he says. "It’s what they use in Japanese restaurants to (garnish sashimi)."    Working in the garden…