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‘Sweeney Todd’
The Actors Company at Westminster Conservatory stages this 1979 Broadway musical. By: Stuart Duncan Terina Westmeyer and Charles Walker star in Sweeney Todd, being staged by the Actors Company at Westminster Conservatory. The 1979 Broadway musical Sweeney Todd was more Grand Guignol than Broadway, more opera than musical comedy. It told the horrific tale of…
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Healthy Sciotto has found niche with XC
Sophomore has become Cougars’ No. 2 runner By: Justin Feil Nikki Sciotto grew up playing soccer and basketball, but she’d always been told that she had the talent to be a good runner. So last year, she gave it a try. After an injury-plagued fall and winter, the Montgomery High runner was questioning her choice.…
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Princeton House sexual assault brings 4-year sentence
Former nursing assistant pleaded guilty in case involving young patient. By: David Campbell David Koch, a former nursing assistant at Princeton House, was sentenced Friday to four years in prison for sexual assault, Mercer County Administrative Assistant Prosecutor Angelo Onofri said Monday. The 24-year-old East Windsor resident pleaded guilty in May to one count of…
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Dorothy C. Stout
Dorothy C. Stout, 94, died Sunday at home. Born in West Hoboken, she lived in Pennington 30 years. Mrs. Stout had been a principal clerk with the state Department of Transportation, retiring in 1974 after 25 years. Wife of the late David L. Stout, she is survived by a son, Richard L. Stout of Ewing;…
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North girls soccer in midst of special season
Knights have bonded under difficult circumstances By: Bob Nuse The more he watches his team play, the more Kevin Mackenzie realizes there is something special about his West Windsor-Plainsboro North girls’ soccer team. "I’m very proud of these girls," the Knights’ head coach said. "We’re a highly motivated team. Obviously, the loss of Diana (Rochford,…
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Montgomery gets first football win
Cougars dominate early in win over Hackettstown By: Bob Nuse As Zoran Milich gets closer and closer to having his full team on the field, the Montgomery High football coach takes another step toward seeing the team he expected to be coaching all along. That team was on display Friday night at Hackettstown, where the…
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Borough mayor in new push for downtown plan
Project’s financial details expected to be released soon. By: Jennifer Potash Princeton Borough officials cranked up their effort Sunday to sell a controversial downtown development project proposal including a new parking garage, apartments and retail shops. The energized outreach comes as the borough prepares to release to the public the detailed developer’s agreement and financial…
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Montgomery set to reconfigure schools
When the new high school opens, other schools in the system face major changes. By: Steve Rauscher MONTGOMERY When the new high school opens in 2004, the district will have more than 350,000 additional square feet of space in which to educate its ever-expanding student population, but it remains to be seen how the…
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Saber rattling evokes rhetoric of Vietnam era
PACKET EDITORIAL, Oct. 1 By: Packet Editorial It’s getting harder and harder these days to listen to all the rhetoric about Iraq without hearing echoes of Vietnam. It isn’t so much in the justification for U.S. involvement although there are some striking parallels between our determination in the 1960s to rid Vietnam of communism…
