Category: archives
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Where the Muse Strikes
Photographer Regine Corngold takes a close-up look at ‘Artists and Their Spaces. By: Susan Van Dongen Printmaker Joan Needham in her Hillier-designed home near Frenchtown. Sola Liu might be described as the Madonna of Chinese music. In addition to being a glamorous performer and recording artist in her native land, where millions of frenzied fans…
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Quick learning Mahon is a big help to PHS girls
By: Bob Nuse Blathnaid Mahon may have gotten a late start, but she’s making up for it rather quickly. Mahon, a junior at Princeton High School, comes from an ice hockey family. But, despite being older than her siblings, she actually started playing the sport after her younger sisters. "My cousin and sister started when…
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Congressional races attract challengers
The lineup begins for those seeking to oppose incumbents. By: Jennifer Potash The general election is still more than nine months off, but the campaigns for the 12th and 7th Congressional Districts are starting to take shape. Rep. Rush Holt (D-12) of Hopewell Township is not expected to face a primary opponent. The district includes…
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Hightstown would save with regional police
EDITORIAL On Monday the Hightstown Borough Council likely will pass an ordinance creating the position of lieutenant in the Police Department. On the surface this is not significant. It merely creates a line for the position on paper, and does not hire anyone. But it represents much more. The move almost certainly means that the…
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Padless Stephens has plenty of punch
Princeton center has career high in final prep for Ivies By: Justin Feil The black elbow pads that Mike Stephens donned for the first 12 Princeton University men’s basketball games seemed better suited for Sundays in the NFL. Sometimes they looked the part. Witness the photo of Minnesota’s Jeff Hagen eating elbow pad served Stephens…
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Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week
McKinley rebounds from injury with career best By: Justin Feil Last year, Tom McKinley dislocated his shoulder while playing football for Princeton High. It cost him the first week of preseason for swimming, but otherwise had little effect on his winter season. The Little Tiger junior wasn’t so sure he’d be able to say the…
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Towns get aid to support the arts
Jamesburg and Monroe receive $10,175 total from the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Committee. By: Al Wicklund The Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission awarded arts grants totaling $10,175 to support the activities of groups in Jamesburg and Monroe. The commission announced Jan. 21 that the Monroe Township Cultural Arts Commission will receive $5,000. In…
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Fish Tales: Logue legacy unmatched
By: Rich Fisher You can talk about Kevin Bacon and his six degrees of separation, but when it came to Joe Logue and Mercer County scholastic sports, it was one degree of separation. The athlete, and Joe Logue. You would be hard pressed to find a boys’ soccer, basketball or baseball player from Mercer in…
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Jan. 30, 4:50 p.m.: Fire the voters
A scathing bit of humor from the Boston Globe. By: Hank Kalet A funny piece from earlier this week that I’d missed, but that my friend Bill alerted me to. Definitely worth a read really skewers the news media and election industry. Check it out.
