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  • Roof bids rejected at school

    Drainage needs were not included in the original specifications. By: Linda Seida    WEST AMWELL — South Hunterdon Regional High School’s Board of Education has rejected all five bids for a new roof because the lowest bid was $64,000 over the project’s budget.    In the initial cost estimate, "the roof work numbers were accurate," said Armand…

  • Obituaries-Oct. 9, 2003

    Jason Thumann    NEWTOWN, Pa. — Jason Michael Thumann, 15, died Tuesday, Sept. 30, at Holland Glen Home in Hatboro, Pa.    Born in Doylestown, Jason had lived in Newtown with his parents until last year.    He was a member of St. Bede’s Roman Catholic Church. He attended BARC School and the McDonald’s School, both in Warminster,…

  • ‘for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf’

    The Rutgers Theater Company opens its season with Trenton playwright Ntozake Shange’s powerful work. By: Stuart Duncan    Playwright Ntozake Shange was born in Trenton. Her play for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the Rainbow is enuf startled Broadway veterans. It consisted of seven colored girls (the word would shortly become "black" and then "African-American")…

  • ‘The Lawrenceville Ten Minute Play Festival’

    Head to the Lawrence Library for an evening of short, short works. By: Stuart Duncan    The 10-minute play is an art form largely unknown in our area. It is rooted in Louisville, Ky., and spread to the Midwest, encouraged apparently by high-school English teachers, discouraged by trying to get ninth graders to read Romeo and…

  • PECO tree trimming ‘devastates’ Solebury

    Officials say Asplundh "raped" township when trimming trees from power lines. By: Linda Seida    SOLEBURY — The men involved didn’t cut much slack for beauty and even less for age.    They weren’t local boys. They weren’t even from Pennsylvania or New Jersey, but from numerous other states: Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Illinois.    They were…

  • Oct. 8, 9 p.m.: Leaky investigations in the White House

    The White House plans to plug the leaks. And I’ve got a bridge for you, real cheap. By: Hank Kalet    Ellis Henican puts the hunt for the White House leaker in perspective in today’s column in Newsday.    "They can’t find Osama bin Laden," he writes.    "They can’t find Saddam Hussein.    "They can’t find the weapons…

  • Blizzard of Passion

    Half-dressed lovers and slamming doors abound in Charles Mee’s farcical ‘Wintertime’ at McCarter Theatre. By: Jillian Kalonick Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski Marsha Mason plays the matriarch and Michael Cerveris is her lover in Wintertime at McCarter Theatre.    It’s enough to mortify any son, sneaking off with his significant other to a secluded country house,…

  • Blood drive

    Delaware Township Elementary School sponsored a blood drive Monday, Oct. 6. Dana Donahue of Delaware Township donates blood during the blood drive at Delaware Township Elementary School Monday afternoon.

  • ‘Friend of city’ in trouble with the law

    Robert Torricelli was charged with leaving the scene of an accident, but he says his ex-wife was driving. By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — Once touted as a "friend of the city," former U.S. Sen. Robert Torricelli is none too fond of Lambertville police these days, thanks to a charge of leaving the scene of an…