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  • Crossing Borders

    Many stories about life in Spain, Brazil and Mexico will be told this year at Princeton University’s Latin American and Spanish documentary film festival. See also:  ‘Viva Sao Joao!’ By: Elise Nakhnikian    The military coup that displaced Chile’s leader in 1973, the gentrification of a Barcelona neighborhood that can’t escape its past and a musician’s…

  • Aboard the Peace Train

    South African singer-songwriter Sharon Katz and her internationally renowned group, the Peace Train, will make a stop at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Titusville Sept. 28. By: Susan Van Dongen    Don’t let South African singer-songwriter Sharon Katz’s down-to-earth demeanor fool you. This is a very special woman whose life is peppered with extraordinary achievements, such…

  • Plumsted hosting first Harvest Weekend

    Events to focus on community groups, businesses and local activities. By:    PLUMSTED — The Economic Development Authority, in conjunction with merchants and community volunteers of Main Street New Egypt, are promoting the township’s first Fall Harvest Weekend.    The collection of local events and activities is the organization’s effort to highlight fall happenings that focus the…

  • DISPATCHES: Better planning could avert droughts

    DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: Development has not helped the drought situation    The forecast for Saturday is rain.    And given that my plans for the day include sitting in Giants Stadium while the Pretenders and Rolling Stones rock the night away, that’s not such good news.    And yet we desperately need the rain. New Jersey remains…

  • Princeton Symphony to open 23rd season

       The Princeton Symphony Orchestra, the Princeton area’s only resident professional orchestra, opens its 2002-2003 Sunday at 4 p.m. in Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium, with music director Mark Laycock conducting.    The acclaimed Russian pianist Vladimir Ovchinnikov will be featured as soloist in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3. The program will also offer Bartok’s Dance Suite and…

  • For the week of Sept. 26

    By: John D. Flodmand    FALLS, Pa. — John D. Flodmand, 61, died Sunday, Sept. 22, at St. Mary Medical Center, Middletown.    Born in Trenton, he lived in Morrisville 18 years before moving to Levittown five years ago.    He was an employee of DiDonato Beauty Supply, Trenton, for 30 years. Mr. Flodmand was an armored car…

  • Eleanor Linskey

       Eleanor Linskey, 82, of Dayton, died Saturday, Sept. 21, at McCarrick Care Center in Somerset.    A lifelong New Jersey resident, Ms. Linskey resided in Dayton for the past 12 years.    She was a former CCD teacher at St. Michael’s Monastery in Union City. She was a member of St. Cecilia’s R.C. Church, where she was…

  • Viking football team ready for break after loss to Piscataway

    By: Ken Weingartner    In most cases, a coach wouldn’t like to see his football team get a week off just two games into the season. But Tony Maglione thinks it’s the perfect time for South Brunswick High.    "We’re a little worn out," said Maglione, whose squad fell to 1-1 with a 34-12 loss to Piscataway…

  • Three attack, rob taxi driver

    Second incident in last month By: Sharlee Joy DiMenichi    Three men, one with a gun, robbed a driver for ABC Taxi on Tree Farm Road Friday night, Detective Jim Ryan, of the south Brunswick Police Department said.    The driver picked up the three passengers outside the Kingston Terrace Apartments off Route 27, Detective Ryan said.…