Category: archives

  • Sept. 2, 5:40 p.m.: Top Ten guitar men

    Fret not, these guys can play. By: Hank Kalet    This week’s Top Ten on Tuesday — I skipped last week while on vacation — focuses on rock guitar. Rolling Stone magazine offers its top 100 this week, which contained the usual suspects and some interesting surprises.    My criteria, as usual, is a bit personal. First,…

  • Powering up for TV debut

    Four-month-old is going to be a television star. By: Jeff Milgram    He’s only 4 months old, but Austin Ronald Forsythe is going to be a television star.    Young Austin, born April 21 at the Somerset Medical Center in Somerville, and his family will be featured on "A Baby Story" on The Learning Channel at 3…

  • PDS tennis turns to good parenting

    Headley is new Panther girls’ head coach By: Justin Feil    After watching from the other side as her two children were singles players for the Princeton Day School tennis teams, Patty Headley feels well prepared to be on the other side as the Panthers’ new girls’ head coach.    "It’s helped a lot," said Headley, who…

  • Sept. 2, 10:14 p.m.: Iraq war is a loser

    We’ve gained nothing and are losing everything. By: Hank Kalet    I was thinking of making a checklist and heading it "I told you invading Iraq was a bad idea."    I was going to come up with a list of goals we allegedly were interested in achieving and then I was planning to check each off…

  • Look, Up in the Sky

    It’s a bird – hundreds of them, at the Cape May Bird Observatory. By: Carolyn Foote Edelmann PHOTOS/CAROLYN FOOTE EDELMANN Great egret.    Cape May to most people means (1) the beach and (2) Victoriana. But there is an entire spectrum of opportunity having little to do with either.    The overwhelming popularity of the film Winged…

  • Hearing aids sought for charity effort in Argentina

    By: Gwen McNamara    WEST WINDSOR — In an effort to help hearing-impaired children in Argentina, Bear Creek Assisted Living has set up a hearing aid drop-off center at its facility on Village Road East.    The effort will benefit Help the Children Hear, an international project started jointly by several Rotary organizations to alleviate the plight…

  • Reception in Montgomery for new high school principal

    By: Paul Sisolak    MONTGOMERY — The Board of Education will host a press conference and informal reception Wednesday for new Montgomery High School Principal James Misek.    The event will be held at 3:30 p.m. in the high school’s media center at 375 Burnt Hill Road. Members of the community will have the opportunity to meet…

  • Aug. 30, 12:36 a.m.: Some reading from the news

    Some suggested articles to enlighten. By: Hank Kalet    Been away from the computer for a week, taking it easy this last week of summer. Spent some time at the beach, lost a little at the track, while spending some time with family.    That said, I figured I’d take a moment to offer some quick hits…

  • Aug. 30, 2 p.m.: Bush and the foolish flag flap

    It’s a grand old flag in which the president wraps himself. By: Hank Kalet    From today’s Washington Post: foolish man, foolish cause, great editorial.