Category: archives
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Town prepared for future attacks
If attack happens, SB is ready to take action By: Sharlee Joy DiMenichi If terror strikes South Brunswick, experience with natural disasters, flexibility and communications expertise will be essential to responding, said Deputy Police Chief Frederick Thompson at an Aug. 13 Township Council meeting. The Incident Command System, a flexible hierarchy of emergency services workers,…
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Do not forget thesewere acts of terrorism
EDITORIAL: Language matters when discussing Sept. 11 Wednesday will mark 365 days since one of the most cataclysmic events in the history of the United States. While the nation made rapid strides to return to normalcy after Sept. 11, as President George W. Bush wanted us to, we are concerned that perhaps we’ve returned a…
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BREAKING NEWS:
SETTLEMENT REACHED Princeton school board, teachers prepare to announce tentative agreement, subject to ratification By: Jeff Milgram BULLETIN (12:40 p.m.): The Princeton Regional Board of Education and the Princeton Regional Education Association were prepared to announce early this afternoon that negotiators have reached agreement on a new contract. No details of the agreement have…
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Post 9/11 motto: Be prepared
Municipalities take extra steps to improve safety, security. By: Scott Morgan Preparedness has come at a terrible price. In the year since terrorism struck the American consciousness, the issues of security and preparedness have attained unprecedented importance. Federal initiatives, such as the Office of Homeland Security, and strict new regulations on transportation and industry are…
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‘Dreamers’
Actors’ NET premieres an autobiographical new musical by co-founder Joe Doyle. By: Stuart Duncan You probably don’t think about it much, but almost every time you see a revival of a Broadway musical, at an open-air setting, on a college campus, at a community theater or at a professional site, you are seeing a work…
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Foundation launchedhonoring Jeff Perhach
Set fund-raising golf event for Oct. 4 By:Sally Goldenberg In the wake of witnessing a friend from high school lose a two-year battle with squamous cell cancer a type of skin cancer at the age of 35, five Manville High School graduates have formed a fund-raising group in his honor. The Jeffrey K.…
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High hopes for a better new year
Rosh Hashana begins at sundown on Friday, with hopes of beginning a new, sweet year By: Sharlee Joy DiMenichi Hopes of renewal and prosperity run high every Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, but because of the terror of Sept. 11 and the rising violence in Israel, this Jewish new year finds local believers with an…
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Stricter absence policy in effect
Students’ excuses face tighter guidelines By:Sally Goldenberg Manville’s recently approved school attendance policy, which aims to target truancy more proactively than the district’s previous policy, goes into effect with the start of school this week. Manville High School Vice Principal Mary McGovern said the new policy allows students the same number of absences as the…
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Pinpricking Pomposity
Joe Orton’s Loot, on stage at McCarter Theatre Sept. 8-29, is a farcical depiction of a world gone mad. By: Jillian Kalonick "I myself consider it to be the most loathsome play on in London at the present moment. ‘Bestial’ is how I described it to an acquaintance the other day," wrote Mrs. Edna…
