Category: archives
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OBITUARY: Rosalie LaScala Patrick
Rosalie LaScala Patrick, 67, of Monroe, died Thursday, July 15, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Born in Staten Island, N.Y., she lived in Monroe for the past 35 years. Before her retirement in 1969, she was employed as a secretary by J.P. Morgan in Manhattan, where she worked for 14 years. Ms.…
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NEWS OF OTHER DAYS
125 years ago The illumination by the electric light will take place on Wednesday evening. Mr. Sturtevant has engaged the parties who lighted Wanamaker’s great store at Philadelphia, last Christmas, to illuminate his garden for this one evening. Four lamps will be suspended in different parts of the grounds. At quite a long distance the…
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Quick-thinking youngster earns council recognition
Nicole Dima ran for help when her mother fainted By:Roger Alvarado When 6-year-old Nicole Dima saw her mother lose consciousness and collapse on the hallway floor of their South Sixth Avenue house last month, she didn’t panic. Instead, she did what every parent would want her young child to do in a similar situation …
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Borough takes a lead in organ donation efforts
Sharing Network recognizes plans to encourage donors By:Roger Alvarado Mayor Angelo Corradino says that because organ donations save lives, the borough soon will launch a campaign to raise awareness and get people to be more open minded about the prospect of filling out a donor card. Each day, 17 people in the United States die…
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Teacher/poet drawing on experiences
Local poet Joyce Lott publishes debut work By:Sharlee Joy DiMenichi For poet Joyce Lott, the best writing comes from trying to juxtapose seemingly unrelated aspects of experience. Ms. Lott, a South Brunswick High School teacher whose first poetry collection was recently published, said that after her second husband, Gary, died last November, she was struck…
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Climb every mountain
Area climber’s efforts to scale the Seven Summits under way with two conquered. By: Scott Morgan FLORENCE Mount Kosciuszko isn’t supposed to be anybody’s idea of a strenuous climb. Among the Seven Summits of mountain climbing, Kosciuszko is a pimple. But to conquer the tallest mountains on each continent, you have to scale Australia’s…
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Borough still battling trash train complaints
By:Roger Alvarado Lee Place resident Chris Gosk says the borough should be more concerned about doing something about the putrid smell that continues to emanate from the trash train than worrying about whether people’s eyesore properties are being properly maintained. Last week, Mayor Angelo Corradino announced that the borough would be coming down hard on…
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PAL track excels in championship
By: In early July, nine members of the South Brunswick PAL track and field team competed in the USATF Youth Outdoor Championship at Morgan State University in Baltimore. Athletes needed to meet or beat qualifying standards within their events over the last year in order to participate. The requirement to exceed an established time, number…
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July 22: 6:03 p.m.: Berger-meiesters
Hypocrisy and silliness and Sandy Berger By: Hank Kalet Sandy Berger, former national security adviser under President Bill Clinton, appears to be in a heck of a mess. And yet, I think anyone willing to go on about it has motives he or she probably would rather not discuss. Here is what Eric Alterman says…
