Category: archives
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Siamese Dream
Anna Soloway and Steph Sanders make up the music group The Saras. The young musicians are trying to build on the success of their debut CD with a July 26 performance at Triumph Brewing Co. By: Matt Smith Musicians often recall their first band with a sort of undue fondness, waxing nostalgic about some short-lived,…
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Are they Top 40 hits from the 1970s … or misses?
Was music ever as weird as in that decade? By:Michael Maugeri I grew up during the 1970s. Thus, I consider Top 40 radio hits of that decade to be my comforting, albeit strange, little friends. Imagine my delight when I recently procured the last disc I needed to complete my 25-volume set from Rhino Records…
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07/25 OBITUARIES, pt. 1
From the July 25 edition of the Register-News By: Dorothy Cassidy MANSFIELD Dorothy Cassidy, 80 of Homestead at Mansfield died July 20 at home. Born in Brooklyn, she lived in the Bayridge section of Brooklyn and New Hyde Park, L.I. before moving to Homestead in Mansfield 16 years ago. She was a retired Legal…
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‘In the youth of primy nature’
Students in McCarter Theater’s Summer Shakespeare program tackle iambic pentameter and onstage kisses. By: Jillian Kolonick While other teenagers might be spending their summer by the pool, taking a well-deserved break from schoolwork, students enrolled in McCarter Theatre’s Summer Shakespeare program are tackling iambic pentameter and the awkwardness of onstage kisses. After five weeks of…
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Community pool cool recreation for seniors, too
You don’t have to be a kid to enjoy the water on a hot day. By: Jennifer Potash You don’t have to be a kid to enjoy the Princeton pool on a hot day. The Princeton Recreation Department offers several different aquatics programs for senior citizens at Princeton’s Community Park Pool. The most basic program,…
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WW-P’s Reece to leave post
Appointed superintendent of schools for Watchung Hills. By: Gwen Runkle Gary T. Reece, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction for the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District, soon will be moving on to a higher position. On Friday the Watchung Hills Regional Board of Education appointed him as superintendent of schools for the district, which serves…
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Montgomery looks to cull deer herd again
Hunters killed 318 deer last season under the program. By: Steve Rauscher MONTGOMERY Nearly a year after allowing deer hunting on public land for the first time, the Township Committee introduced an ordinance Thursday re-establishing its deer-management program for the coming hunting season. The committee launched the program last year to reduce the township’s…
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Students make art feel right at home
Children build miniature museums. By: Gwen Runkle PLAINSBORO Twenty-four lucky children recently got a whirlwind tour of art from around the world as part of a two-week program sponsored by West Windsor-Plainsboro Community Education. Heather Barros of Art Collaborations, a children’s art studio in Princeton, and Mary Fletcher, an elementary art teacher from Cadwalader…
