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  • Superintendent candidate meets parents

    West Amwell Board of Education selects Dr. Todd Fay as finalist By: Linda Seida    WEST AMWELL — Approximately 40 parents turned out for a meet-and-greet session Monday night with the Board of Education’s selection for superintendent, taking full advantage of an opportunity to ask questions and have their concerns addressed before the board makes its…

  • ‘Bowling for Columbine’

    Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore takes aim at America’s gun culture.   [R] By: Elise Nakhnikian    Despite its title, Bowling for Columbine is about more than the 1999 Colorado high school shootings. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, writer-director Michael Moore said he started out making a movie about gun violence in America after Columbine but broadened his…

  • Gildenberg, Smith are best for town

    To the editor:     Next Tuesday, we will face an important choice when we elect our next mayor and a new council member. While it’s easy to get caught up in the hype and rhetoric that epitomize political campaigns, I ask you to make your selection after careful thought and reflection. I urge you to…

  • Lasting Romance

    Cellist Gerard Le Feuvre’s performance of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme highlights a busy fall for the Princeton Symphony Orchestra. By: Matt Smith    As a teen-ager, Gerard Le Feuvre was one of the most acclaimed young cellists in Britain, winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music and studying with some…

  • DISPATCHES: Seven reasons I didn’t watch the Series

    DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: What made our managing editor stay away this year?    "The World Series was wonderful because it was wild, insane and totally unpredictable. The only predictable game ended being Game 7. Was it as great as last year’s Series? No. As great as ’75 or ’86? No. Yet it went seven games,…

  • Department seeks to make policing a community event

    Another look into the Citizens Police Academy By: Sharlee Joy DiMenichi Far from the hard-boiled, nightstick-swinging stereotype, many of today’s police officers seek to work with, rather than intimidate, members of the community they serve, an officer told students at the South Brunswick civilian police academy.    South Brunswick, like many police departments across the country,…

  • Democrats offer the best plan

    To the editor:     I have lived in Kendall Park for 45 years — one of the first "settlers" — and so what happens to the future of South Brunswick has a direct effect on me, my wife and on my three children. They are grown and no longer live here, but they care deeply…

  • Prosecutor: Parents beware of teens with pacifiers

    By: Sue Kramer    TRENTON — "Aside from all the problems you might have if your daughter is raped or sexually assaulted in some ugly fashion, kill yourself if you ever let your kid go to a teen night at an adult club.    "There is absolutely no reason on the face of the earth to have…

  • Soul Connection

    Anoushka Shankar carries on the tradition of her father, sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar. She will perform at McCarter Theatre Nov. 8 and with her father at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center Nov. 12. By: Susan Van Dongen Anoushka Shankar has been playing and studying with her father since she was 9, working first on a miniature sitar…