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  • Inner Visions

    Pianist Marcantonio Barone, violinist David Kim and the Wister String Quartet open the 26th season for the Lower Makefield Society for the Performing Arts. By: Daniel Shearer The Wister String Quartet (from left): Lloyd Smith, Nancy Bean, Pamela Fay and Davyd Booth.    If his life hadn’t been cut short by a cycling accident, French composer…

  • Pennington beats ANC

    Football By: Mike Molaro    For The Pennington School football squad to be successful this season, coach Jerry Eure knows the Red Raiders need to do two things consistently: get the ball into the hands of Rob Cousar and have their offensive line blow open huge holes.    Both keys were accomplished in Friday’s 28-14 season-opening triumph…

  • Township vehicle bears memorial to victims

    Victims of Sept. 11 memorialized on North Hanover Police Department vehicle with Cranbury resident’s last recorded words, "Let’s Roll". By: Eve Collins    NORTH HANOVER — In remembrance of the tragedies of Sept. 11, 2001, officials in North Hanover have dedicated one of the Police Department’s vehicles to the victims of the terrorist attacks.    "We sat…

  • SBHS cross country teams both hope for improvement

    By: Redd E. Patrick    After being recognized as one of the top programs in Middlesex County and Central Jersey for a good portion of the 1990s, the South Brunswick High School girls cross country program went into a rebuilding phase as the new millennium approached.    The pieces have been fitting in smoothly ever since.    As…

  • Residents make our towns safe places to live

    EDITORIAL    This year’s State Police Uniform Crime Report (UCR) gives us a new crop of statistics to look at and wonder: are our towns safer than they were last year? Or are the numbers, like all statistics, subject to interpretation and the context in which they are presented?    The nine municipalities covered by the Register-News…

  • Robert Roscoe

    By:    HILLSBOROUGH — Robert T. Roscoe died Sunday, Sept. 7, in Summerville Assisted Living in Hillsborough. He was 81.    Born in New York City, he lived in Pennington and Branchburg for over 30 years, before moving to Hillsborough two years ago.    Mr. Roscoe was employed as a Department Chief of Gateway Data Center Operations for…

  • Sept. 11, 5:58 p.m.: Remastered Monk

    Some late-career music from a piano master. By: Hank Kalet    Here is some good news for fans of Thelonious Monk and for jazz fans in general.    "Columbia/Legacy has reissued several of Monk’s albums from the ’60s, and, thanks to project director Seth Rothstein, reissue producer Orrin Keepnews, and remastering engineer Mark Wilder, we can, for…

  • Back to school

    Students, parents have first-day jitters. By: Rebecca Tokarz    Standing in the hallway by the gymnasium at Monmouth Junction School on Sept. 4 was a herd of about 20 students and their parents, anxiously waiting to be told the whereabouts of their classrooms.    Amid the sounds of children loudly greeting their old teachers, parents offered soothing…

  • Ceramic work that was worth the wait

    Lawrence resident Sue Chiu devotes her energy to craft. By: Pat Summers    Sue S. Chiu seems to have known after her first taste of ceramics — one or two classes in 1984 — that she should wait until she had enough time to really throw herself into it. For that reason, the Lawrence resident waited…