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  • Cultural Ambassador

    Mitali Banerjee Bhawmik brings Indian classical music to central New Jersey. By: Susan Van Dongen Staff photos by Mark Czajkowski Mitali Banerjee Bhawmik plays the tambura and sings Indian classical music.    And you thought the Grateful Dead played long shows.    The first thing that strikes you about Indian classical music is the length of the…

  • Ten things I wanted to see this spring

    RUDE AWAKENING By: Rudy Brandl    The spring athletic season at Hillsborough High was so spectacular it warrants a pre-awards column.    I know many readers have become fans of my seasonal awards. The best of the spring of 2004 at HHS will be honored in next week’s issue.    I’d like to think people are hanging in…

  • June 17, 2004

    By: infoUSA/Donnelley Marketing of Ames, Iowa The Princeton Packet Inc. publishes information on real estate transactions in its core market as a public service because it believes the information is newsworthy and appropriate. The information is all on the public record. In some cases the listing represents the property’s mailing address rather than the municipal…

  • Summer reading lists add favorite books

    District revamps program to encourage students to read By:Marnie Kunz    Manville kids may not always want to read during their summer vacation as the district requires them to do, but thanks to a new list of choices, they should be able to find something interesting to enjoy.    "We’ve changed the reading lists and added a…

  • VFW projects succeed thanks to community

    To the editor By:     We honor the dead by serving the living.    Around Memorial Day every year, you will find Hillsborough V.F.W. Post 8371 and it’s auxiliary selling poppies.    The poppies are made by the hospitalized veterans. Proceeds from these sales are used to provide clothing, gifts and parties for the veterans at Lyons…

  • Shelltown: Ellisdale, Part 3 of 3

    HISTORICALLY SPEAKING From Henry Charlton Beck’s 1939 "The Jersey Midlands," a chapter on the quaint hamlet, which straddles the old Province Line between East and West Jersey. Beck’s books have been republished by Rutgers University Press and are widely available.    The chronicle discloses that no matter what version of the death of John Ellis [an…

  • Allentown pastor looking forward to sabbatical

    Pastor Stephen James Heinzel-Nelson of Allentown Presbyterian Church will participate in a pulpit exhange with a Scottish pastor. By: Dana Lynn Flatekval    ALLENTOWN — After seven years of preaching, Pastor Stephen James Heinzel-Nelson of Allentown Presbyterian Church on High Street is ready to embark on a much-needed sabbatical to re-energize and gain knowledge.    Pastor Heinzel-Nelson…

  • Patriots off to a 4-1 start in wooden bat league

    By: Sean Moylan    Apparently, the Bordentown Regional High School boys’ varsity baseball team’s season never really ended.    Most of the Scotties’ underclassmen can be found playing for the Bordentown Patriots in the Delaware Valley Wooden Bat league (16 and under).    The Patriots have broken out to a splendid 4-1 record to start the season.    "The…

  • Moving on

    LHS Class of 2004 takes its next step By: Lea Kahn    With a flip of the tassel, childhood’s end arrived on a sultry Tuesday evening for the 342 teenagers who made up the Lawrence High School Class of 2004.    One by one, the seniors strode across the stage at the Patriots Theater at the War…