Category: archives
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Strike up the Band
The H.B. Smith Cornet Band performs in Fallsington, Pa. By: Beverly Berkeley The H.B. Smith Cornet Band in front of the Smith Mansion in Smithville named for the industrialist who founded the village. Originally formed in 1870, the H.B. Smith Cornet Band, under the direction of Bob Moore, performs music that keeps the spirit of…
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Florence 12’s second in District 12
Florence loses, 3-2 By:Sean Moylan The Florence 12-year-old Little League All-star baseball team didn’t play Sunday’s game versus Nottingham for moral victories. Nor did the Florence kids play hard to say they played well against a good team. Florence came for a sole purposeand that was to win a championship. So when Nottingham nipped Florence,…
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Panel OKs needs assessment study
Engineering study will cost $7.7K By:Sarah Winkelman MANSFIELD The Township Committee approved spending $7,700 for an independent engineering study in determining the current and future municipal department needs, including the possibility of expanding the municipal building. At the committee’s June 26 meeting, Committeeman Ray Stupienski introduced the resolution, which did not receive a second.…
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 07/18
From the July 18 edition of the Register-News By: Resident praises cemetery panel To the editor: First, let me begin with how very happy and delighted I am with the services the Bordentown Cemetery Association provides to our community. I want to give praise and accolades to the caretakers. I have never seen the…
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Proposed dormitory for farm workers needs new location
Facility will cost approximately $250K to build By:David Koch NORTH HANOVER After a barrage of complaints by residents, the North Hanover Joint Land Use Board asked local farmer Neil Robson to consider an alternative location for his proposed dormitory for seasonal workers. On July 10, Mr. Robson presented to the board a conceptual design…
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‘Pericles’
The New Jersey Shakespeare Festival takes a risk with this little-produced play and succeeds. By: Stuart Duncan Thomas M. Allen (right) plays Pericles and Michael Stewart Allen is Helicanus in the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival’s staging of Pericles. Most scholars agree Shakespeare was not alone if he wrote Pericles. Theater people will tell you it…
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Local man makes 26-ton train station look as good as new
Springfield resident loves to refurbish old antiques By:Vanessa S. Holt SPRINGFIELD - One March day in 1993, Jeffrey Nixon came home with a 26-ton train station in tow. Now, after 10 years of work, the old station building looks brand new, a piece of history enjoying a new life in a rural back yard. The…
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07/18 OBITUARIES, pt. 2
From July 18 By: John Zenon Horodysky HAMILTON John Zenon Horodysky, 87, died July 13 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton. Born in Semakiwci, Ukraine, he immigrated to the United States in 1951 and was a Trenton area resident since then. He retired from Rutgers University in 1983 as a librarian. He…
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‘Hotel d’Amour’
The must-see musical of the summer has arrived at Off-Broadstreet. By: Stuart Duncan Marieke Georgiadis (left) and Suzanne Houston star in Off-Broadstreet Theatre’s take on Hotel d’Amour. The must-see musical of the summer has arrived. It is called Hotel d’Amour, playing at Off-Broadstreet Theatre in Hopewell. My advice would be to skip to the phone…
