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  • GASP offers its guide to smoke-free dining

       For restaurant-goers seeking a meal sans tobacco smoke or those participating in the American Cancer Society’s Great American Smokeout, the New Jersey Group Against Smoking Pollution recently published its 2003 guide to smoke-free restaurants and eateries in New Jersey.    The 90-page guide, which is free, lists more than 2,200 smoke-free restaurants — a 10 percent…

  • Family Framers specializes in arts of all kind

    By: Rebecca Tokarz    Tomaso Migliaccio, Teddy Ehmann, Charlotte Rubackin and Jane Minto stand around a counter in the sales room of Family Framers of Jamesburg.    Sipping cups of coffee, the group discusses life in a planned retirement community and art as Mr. Ehmann studies Ms. Rubackin’s artwork.    Without thinking, he moves across the room, grabs…

  • POCKETS OF NEED: Cupboard depends on donations to feed the needy

    By:Rebecca Tokarz    Editor’s note: Part of an occasional series focusing on issues of hunger and financial need in the Jamesburg/Monroe area.    Rebecca TokarzStaff Writer    Thanks to the generosity of local residents, corporations and Scouts, the Deacons Food Cupboard of Jamesburg is able to provide food assistance to more than 30 families a month.    The food…

  • Cell tower approved for wooded area

       MONROE — AT&T Wireless, which faced strong opposition to two proposed sites for its cellular antennas in September, had applications for two new sites breeze to Zoning Board of Adjustment approval Tuesday. By: Casha Caponegro    MONROE — AT&T Wireless, which faced strong opposition to two proposed sites for its cellular antennas in September, had applications…

  • ‘Treasure Planet’

    Disney takes Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic into space, with a lesson about chasing dreams.   [PG] By: Jay Boyar Joseph Gordon-Levitt voices the adventure-loving Jim Hawkins in Treasure Planet, a sci-fi retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel Treasure Island.    Robert Louis Stevenson struck it rich his first time out with Treasure Island, the Harry Potter book of…

  • Proposal due on WW-P class schedule changes

    A goal to increase instructional time in middle and high schools By: Gwen Runkle    To increase instructional time for middle and high school students in the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District, as called for by the district’s teacher contract approved in May, district administrators are working to develop new class schedules for the fall of…

  • EDITORIAL: Physical education programs are needed

    By:     If we can believe what we hear and read, the state Department of Education, in an effort to open more time in the school day for today’s increased academic offerings, is considering asking the state Legislature to change or possibly drop the requirement that public school pupils have at least 2½ hours of…

  • Development review on too fast a track?

    Some advisors say accelerated review of downtown project is at expense of sound planning. By: David Campbell    Princeton environmental and planning advisers worry the review schedule for the borough’s proposed downtown parking garage and related development is being accelerated at the expense of sound planning.    On Thursday, the Princeton Regional Planning Board is expected to…

  • ‘Far From Heaven’

    Director and writer Todd Haynes creates a big-screen soap opera with soul.   [PG-13] By: Elise Nakhnikian    Far From Heaven Executive Producers Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney say their main job was convincing backers to invest more money in their relatively low-budget movie. It’s no surprise they faced resistance when you consider what they were pitching: a…