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  • Local retailers bucknational economic trends

    Main Street sales good Manville shop owners say By:Sally Goldenberg    Despite a national low in holiday shopping this year, Manville’s small businesses reported a boost in sales for December.    "I actually did very well. I sold a lot of leather coats and gloves and I sold a lot of Minnetonka moccasins this year. Nobody has…

  • Anna Homer

       MANVILLE — Anna V. Mislyan Homer died Dec. 23 at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. She was 75.    Born in New Brunswick, she lived in Bound Brook Heights in Piscataway before moving to Manville, where she lived most of her life.    Mrs. Homer was a communicant of Christ the King R.C. Church in Manville and…

  • OBITUARIES, Jan. 3, 2003

    Margaret Localio, Ronald G. Witter, Joseph Lamendola Sr., Abraham H. Kaplan Margaret Localio Retired from Acme Markets     MONTGOMERY — Margaret "Peggy" Localio died Monday at The Medical Center at Princeton. She was 87.    Born in McKeesport, Pa., she lived in the Montgomery area since 1934.    She was employed by Acme Markets at the Princeton…

  • A time to say thanks to some, welcome to others

    EDITORIAL By Ruth Luse     It’s time to say thanks for jobs well done and to offer our best wishes to some new people who will help lead our towns during the years ahead.    As this new year begins, our local officials will be occupying themselves with the business of reorganizing for 2003.    The first…

  • ‘Pinocchio’

    Hyperactive Italian Roberto Benigni delivers a lifeless live-action version of Carlo Collodi’s classic story.    [G] By: Jay Boyar    When you wish upon a star, makes no difference where you are. Unless, that is, you’re seeing Roberto Benigni’s wooden new Pinocchio.    That’s one place you don’t want to be.    The Miramax film opened Christmas Day without…

  • Kendall Park Shopping Center may face wrecking ball

    Mall merchants leery of reconstruction plan By: Sharlee Joy DiMenichi    Owners of the Kendall Park Shopping Center plan to tear down the more than 40-year-old structure and build a larger mall in the coming year, according to the mall’s leasing agent.    But those plans remain in the design phase and have not been submitted to…

  • Fire-scarred Allentown building rich in history

    Community hoping ‘architectural treasure’ can be saved. By: Rob Heyman    ALLENTOWN — To visitors who have walked or driven through the borough over the years, the building at 9 N. Main St. was just another downtown structure snuggled among many along the street. Today, the building is hard to ignore.    The front door is boarded…

  • Police say area man has admitted setting township house fire

    Convicted arsonist spent time in jail in 1994 for Hunterdon incidents By John Tredrea    Police say a convicted arsonist and former volunteer firefighter in Lambertville has confessed to starting the blaze that severely damaged a Hopewell Township residence the day after Christmas.    Having failed to post $300,000 full cash bail, Kenneth Bacorn, 38, of Jefferson…

  • Week of Jan. 2

    Floyd Capes    WHITING — Floyd Capes, 87, died Sunday at his home in Whiting, formerly of Lawrenceville and Browns Mills.    Born in Kirbensville, Pa., he moved to Whiting 20 years ago.    He had been employed by the Princeton University Press for many years; and prior to that he had worked for Buxton’s Dairy in Lawrenceville…