Category: archives
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The abominable snowstorm
Area recovers from storm that dropped 2 feet of flakes. By:Eve Collins and Vanessa S. Holt Dump trucks hauled miniature mountains of snow off Farnsworth Avenue to Gilder Park in Bordentown City on Wednesday morning, clearing the street of nearly 2 feet of snow that fell Sunday and Monday. Streets and parking lots throughout the…
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Love and Marriage
The Villagers get some laughs out of ‘Run for Your Wife.’ By: Stuart Duncan Run For Your Wife is a very funny show. It can be staged as a knockabout farce or a semi-realistic British comedy. It doesn’t matter the laughs still come fast and furiously. The latest production on the Villagers’ main stage…
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Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On
McCarter Theatre stages Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest.’ By: Stuart Duncan The pre-opening publicity was fierce and intriguing. Blair Brown, an actress of considerable note and accomplishments, was going to play the role of Prospero in McCarter’s revival of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The name of the character would be changed, ending in "ra" rather than "ro," thereby…
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POLICE BEAT 02/20
From the Feb. 20 edition of the Register-News. By: BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP Police were called to the game room of the Petro Truck Stop on Rising Sun Road on Jan. 29 at 7:30 a.m. on report of a theft of coins from the video game machines. TD Rowe Amusements owns the machines. The truck stop employee…
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Residents dig out after major storm
Schools close, crews persist to clear roads. By: Jeff Milgram Students got an extra day off, businesses opened their doors and homeowners wearily pulled out their shovels again Tuesday as the great dig out continued in earnest after a monster storm dumped between 17 and 21 inches of snow on the greater Princeton area Sunday…
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PYHA Tigers grow into top team
Hockey team goes from two wins to championship game By: Ben Stentz Hard work and commitment must pay off. Just ask the players from the Princeton Tigers Squirt A youth hockey team. Two years ago the Tigers, then playing in the Mite B division, finished the season with a record of 2-37. One of those…
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Health officer re-issues emergency checklist
How to prepare for what was once the unimaginable. By: Jennifer Potash With the Boy Scouts’ motto of "be prepared" in mind, the Princeton Regional Health Department has issued a checklist for residents to use in the event of a biological or other emergency. The list, originally prepared and released to the public last year,…
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City wants chamber input on lockboxes
The rapid entry system would allow firefighters to enter a building without destroying windows or doors. By: Linda Seida LAMBERTVILLE The City Council will seek input from the Lambertville Area Chamber of Commerce before agreeing to make an emergency access system endorsed by the Board of Fire Commissioners mandatory. The emergency access system, also…
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WW-P North wins MCT hockey title
Title evidence of building program By: Justin Feil TRENTON The way that Joe Ferrara sees it, the West Windsor-Plainsboro High North ice hockey team’s Mercer County Tournament championship was just a matter of time. "It seems like we’ve been building," said Ferrara, a Knights defenseman. "First year, we missed the tournament by a half…
