Category: archives
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Fed up with 3M, Montgomery, DEP assail pollution
Company charged with doing little to control runoff and dust at Belle Mead quarry. By: Jill Matthews MONTGOMERY Mayor Louise Wilson, on behalf of the Township Committee, has sent the 3M Company a harshly worded letter outlining the township’s environmental grievances against the company. And the state Department of Environmental Protection has responded to…
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PHASE THREE: Movies can map you memories
PHASE THREE By Arnold Bornstein: From the days of double features to today’s big budget adventures attending the movies is a staple in our culture. By: Arnold Bornstein Sitting by myself in the theater the other night, waiting for the start of the movie, "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," I…
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Imagination brings fairy tales to life
Shoestring Players perform folktales from around the globe to Mill Lake Students. By: Joseph Harvie MONROE Stories of princes and princesses, stingy bread-baking French Canadians and stubborn Irish heroines entertained the students of Mill Lake Elementary School. On Jan. 23 Mill Lake students were visited by the Shoestring Players, a group of eight players…
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Cranbury OKs debt for farms
Township Committee authorized borrowing $9.55 million for open space, raising its debt limit to maximum allowed by the state. By: Matthew Kirdahy The Township Committee on Monday authorized borrowing $9.55 million to acquire 272 acres of open space, which will raise Cranbury’s debt total to the maximum allowed by the state. That means the township…
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Council eyes tax increase
Jamesburg residents may pay 11.4 percent more in municipal taxes. By: Al Wicklund JAMESBURG Borough taxpayers may pay 11.4 percent more in municipal taxes this year. The Borough Council introduced Wednesday a tentative $4.8 million spending plan for 2004, with $2.6 million to be raised through local taxation. The amount to be raised through…
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Local Stars tryouts delayed by weather
The Mighty Oak Players reschedule auditions for this Monday, Wednesday and Friday. By: Al Wicklund MONROE Delayed by the tricks of winter weather, the Mighty Oak Players, the community theater group of Monroe, have new audition dates for their annual musical, "Local Stars." Auditions, originally scheduled for earlier this week, now will be held…
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Secrets of science for high schoolers
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s annual "Science on Saturday" program, a series of talks geared toward high school students, will run through March 20. The talks, with topics ranging from hydrogen fuel cells to the "dark side of the universe," begin at 9:30 a.m. on designated Saturdays and usually finish by 11:15 a.m. Students, teachers,…
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Esther E. Stonaker
Esther E. Stonaker, 76, died Friday, Jan. 23, in Rockledge, Fla. Born in Perth Amboy, she lived in Jamesburg before moving to Florida in 1965, living in Miami and recently in Rockledge for many years. She was a graduate of St. Agnes School of Nursing in Philadelphia and had a 43-year career as a registered…
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HHS boys’ basketball holds on for fifth in a row
By: Kyle Moylan The Hopewell Valley boys’ basketball team fouled Hightstown over and over again in the fourth quarter, looking for an opening to either tie or take the lead in Friday night’s game. It never came. Hightstown made 16 out of 19 free throws in the fourth quarter and pulled out a 54-52 win.…
