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  • Larger Than Life

    ‘Sculpture New Hope: Indoors and Out’ creates a landscape to jar viewers out of the ordinary. By: Amy Brummer     "Boomer" doesn’t bite. The howling beast with the 24-foot tail is anything but a menace. If you could hear the yowl coming from its throat, it would be saying, "Welcome to Sculpture New Hope: Indoors…

  • Country Classics promises quick delivery

    Montgomery Township community offers four ready-to-be-personalized homes    New Jersey’s top-rated homebuilder (according to recent customer satisfaction surveys) is offering four ready-to-be-personalized quick delivery homes at its popular community Country Classics at Dutchtown.    Located in Montgomery Township, the community of 33 homes offers a wide array of architecturally distinctive homes on 2-4-acre homesites. Currently, these homes…

  • Larger Than Life

    ‘Sculpture New Hope: Indoors and Out’ creates a landscape to jar viewers out of the ordinary. A Legacy Reborn By: Amy Brummer TimeOFF/Frank Wojciechowski Lambertville resident Dana Stewart puts some finishing touches on "The Beast," above, part of Sculpture New Hope: Indoors and Out.     "Boomer" doesn’t bite. The howling beast with the 24-foot tail…

  • Clayton finishes year with a 10-2 record

    The season and career came to an end for Hightstown High tennis player Chris Clayton this week. By: Neil Hay Chris Clayton’s high school tennis career did not end the way he had hoped.    Clayton did not win the state singles tournament. Nor did he go out in a blaze of glory, clutching his racquet…

  • Falcon girls 4×400 must misses school record at Meet of Champs

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    SOUTH PLAINFIELD – After a day’s rain delay, the NJSIAA Meet of Champions for Track and Field finally took place on Thursday evening at Frank Jost Field in South Plainfield. The girls’ 4×400 meter relay squad from Monroe Township High School traveled up to compete in the final event on the…

  • Joseph Perdoni

       Joseph W. Perdoni, 79, of Fairfield, Calif., died Wednesday, May 21, after a long illness at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Vallejo, Calif.    Mr. Perdoni was a native of Jamesburg, living in Fairfield for the past 52 years. He attended South River High School and Middlesex County Vocational-Technical School. He entered the Army in 1942…

  • PHS, South doubles on joy ride to semis

    Little Tiger singles players out of states By: Justin Feil    David Black and Jim Giovacchini rode home together from the Inman Sports Club in Edison, two of the happiest — make that thrilled for Giovacchini — boys’ tennis coaches around.    Wednesday, both of their first doubles teams reached the semifinals of the state doubles tournament,…

  • University grads sent to enter a changed world

    Tilghman stresses need for a multicultural education. By: Jeff Milgram    With America becoming more racially and ethnically diverse, a multicultural university is needed to prepare graduates for the global community, President Shirley M. Tilghman told almost 10,000 graduating students, their families and friends at the university’s 256th commencement in front of Nassau Hall on Tuesday.…

  • June 6, 10:16 p.m.: New Lou

    A collection designed to tell a story. By: Hank Kalet    My friend Charles alerted me to the release of a two-disc collection of Lou Reed tunes called "NYC Man," a retrospective that mixes alternate versions with the familiar to create what Lou calls a novelistic or cinematic approach to the music. Came out Tuesday and…