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  • ‘Intermission’

    As light as a meringue confection, this film by a pair of Irish theater directors feels like a series of vignettes. By: Elise Nakhnikian    Ben (Tomás O’Suilleabháin), one of the dozen or so featured characters in Intermission, is a callow TV producer who yearns to be a groundbreaking "maverick." Pitching a sketchy concept to a…

  • Fifth annual SBHS Hall of Fame induction set

    Ceremony, brunch to be held Sunday at high school. By:        The fifth annual South Brunswick High School Athletic Hall of Fame induction ceremony and brunch will be held at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, May 2, in the SBHS Atrium area.    Tickets are available at the athletic office and are $25 a person. For information call…

  • For the April 29 issue

    Marie M. Cartlidge, Evelyn Melton, Frank A. Cocchiola Jr. Marie M. Cartlidge    WASHINGTON — Marie M. Cartlidge, 87, died April 22 at home.    Born in Trenton, Marie lived in Yardville and then Robbinsville for a combined 60 years.    She retired from the New Jersey Department of Agriculture in 1981 and in her later years was…

  • Miller twirls no-hitter in MCT win

    Softball By: Jim Green    Great players usually save their best performances for the biggest games.    So, it was no surprise when senior right-hander Stephanie Miller hurled her first career no-hitter Saturday in the Hopewell Valley Central High School softball team’s Mercer County Tournament first-round game against Hightstown. Miller’s tremendous outing lifted the Lady Bulldogs to…

  • Puppet power

    New Egypt Elementary school teacher creates a new learning tool to help students learn about puppetry and drama, Spanish language and culture. By: Dan Sergeant    PLUMSTED — Elementary school teacher Scott Jacobs devised an interesting way to teach his students about the world around them.    He uses puppets.    Mr. Jacobs, who teaches Spanish and gifted-and-talented…

  • Changing lives, one word at a time

    By: Scott Morgan    TRENTON – Jamie Parker is running late. If she didn’t get the extra sleep, she was going to wake up sick, and that doesn’t fly when your life is constantly in fifth gear.    Waiting for her in the Gilman-Stanley building, better known as the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (or TASK), is a…

  • Morven to host plant sale May 8

       The terraces at Historic Morven in Princeton will be filled with an assortment of plants for the discriminating gardener during an heirloom plant sale on Saturday, May 8 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.    Plants for sale will include flowering annuals, 10-foot castor bean plants, cascading coleus, old-fashioned petunias, lush flowering vines, time-tested roses, peonies…

  • Lawrence observers analyze 19-percent turnout

    Large tax increase, heated board race credited. By: Lea Kahn    Combine a proposed 16-cent property tax rate increase with a hotly contested race for three school board seats and the result is a larger-than-average voter turnout, according to some observers of the April 20 school board election.    Nineteen percent of the 16,147 registered voters in…

  • Closing of The Great Road now set for Saturday

    By: David Campbell    The Great Road will be closed between North Road and Pretty Brook Road beginning Saturday, weather permitting, for sanitary-sewer improvements to the Coventry Farm park.    The road closing originally was planned for this week but was postponed due to rain, said Princeton Township Engineer Robert Kiser.    Work is expected to start 7…