Category: archives
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LIFESTYLE: Watercolor wonder
South Brunswick artist Maxwell Nimeck compares painting to baking cookies By: Sharlee DiMenichi A childhood spent where water was scarce made the ocean alluring to one South Brunswick artist. Growing up on the Canadian plains left Maxwell Nimeck with an affinity for water, which shows in both his subject matter and medium. "I just somehow…
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Hearon elected in Princeton Township
Democrats retain complete hold on Township Committee. By: David Campbell Princeton Township Democrats retained their hold on the Township Committee following Tuesday’s election, when voters elected Democrat William Hearon to a three-year term. Mr. Hearon received 1,868 votes and carried 10 of the township’s 14 voting districts. Republican challenger Colin Vonvorys garnered 1,360 votes. Newcomer…
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Seaside Frontier
Bristol-Myers Squibb exhibits the neglected body of work of the Jersey Shore Impressionists. By: Ilene Dube "At Play, Barnegat Bay," c. 1912, by Carl Buergerniss. In the early 20th century, fishing shanties perched on wooden pilings up above the lapping surf, like the one painted by Mildred Miller with its gingerbread trim, were everywhere on…
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OBITUARIES, Nov. 7, 2003
Ruth S. Bailey, Charles F. Baunach, Charles Biddle, Ruth Bonner, Susan Hendrickson, Guta Motiuk. Ruth S. Bailey Co-owned Princeton store Ruth Sloshberg Bailey of Princeton died Monday at home after a brief illness. She was 96. Born in New York, she moved to Trenton where she met her husband. The couple moved to Princeton…
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Mudslinging ads will haunt our candidates
EDITORIAL Election Day has come and gone which means, among other things, that TV and radio commercials can now get back to selling us stuff we don’t need instead of stuff we don’t want. Every year at this time, we think the tone of political campaigns can’t get any meaner, any nastier, any uglier…
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MacDonald and Cranbury cronies spark PHS turnaround
By: Bob Nuse It was midway through the Princeton High boys’ soccer season and head coach Wayne Sutcliffe knew something needed to be done about his struggling defense. The Little Tigers, who have always had a history of being stingy with allowing goals, had given up 15 in a five-game stretch. Those defensive lapses left…
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Town to fight Sunoco planned by neighbor
Monroe is against the construction of a gas station in South Brunswick. By: Rebecca Tokarz MONROE The township does not want a gas station and a convenience store to be constructed in South Brunswick. That’s because the proposed location of the Sunoco would be near residential housing in Monroe. The Township Council passed a…
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Tales from the Podium
After a career of milestones, Joseph Flummerfelt reaches a bittersweet decision. By: Daniel Shearer Staff Photo by Frank Wojciechowski "I’m almost more fascinated with the process than I am with the performance," says Joseph Flummerfelt, now in his final season at Westminster Choir College. The modestly framed photographs on the wall speak of a lifetime…
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Montgomery voters split their ticket
Repubican incumbent Mark Caliguire and Democrat Cecilia Birge elected to committee. By: Paul Sisolak MONTGOMERY Republican incumbent Mark Caliguire and Democrat Cecilia Birge were elected Tuesday to seats on the Township Committee. Mr. Caliguire received 2,031 votes. Ms. Birge came in second with a total of 1,992 votes, narrowly defeating Republican Hugh Hurley, who…
