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  • Edition of July 11, 2002

    Donald A. Allen    Donald A. Allen, 93, died Monday at Virtua Memorial Hospital, Mount Holly.    Born in Hopewell, he was a lifelong resident.    He owned Allen’s Atlantic Service Station on the Pennington Circle from 1942 to 1967.    Mr. Allen was a member of Calvary Baptist Church of Hopewell, Amwell Lodge 12 Free and Accepted Masons,…

  • A week of food, fun and fund raising

    South Brunswick Family YMCA carnival brings in $22,000 in a week By: Brian Shappell    YMCA volunteers had to close the gates on the Y’s 2002 summer carnival Saturday at 11 p.m.    And like any good party, more than 50 people were still around at the end complaining that the festivities had to be brought to…

  • Congregation raises $1 million for Israel

    Perrineville Jewish Center project exceeds expectations. By: Scott Morgan    MILLSTONE — Solidarity can go a long way. Just ask the congregation of the Perrineville Jewish Center, which recently raised $1 million to aid Israel.    That’s right, a million — twice what the project’s coordinator, Wendy Heifetz, was banking on.    Ms. Heifetz said in April that…

  • ‘Sunshine State’

    Pitch-perfect performances combine with John Sayles’ meaty roles in his film about land development on a Florida island.   [PG-13] By: Bob Brown    The license plate says, "The Sunshine State," but what illuminates the true Florida? In John Sayles’ film, Florida is the lowland that once was mangrove swamps and mosquitoes. It’s the developers’ artificial dream of…

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    For the week of July 11. By: Disappointed that board dismissed teacher petition To the editor:    There’s something wrong with a school system that lets the voices of 800 people go silent.    This letter is to the 800 parents and students of Millstone who signed the petition requesting that the Millstone Board of Education reconsider…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

       Reginald A. Kayes, 52, of Hillsborough was charged with DWI at 1:10 a.m. July 7 at the Yellow Rose parking lot on South Main Street, according to police.    The police noticed Mr. Kayes’ 1985 Chevrolet parked in the lot and observed him urinating in the area. He refused to undergo a breath test at police…

  • Delaware River takes life of Trenton man on July 4

    Drowning emphasizes the river’s dangers. By: Carl Reader    A Trenton man drowned in the Delaware River July 4 after he and his fiancée waded into its waters to escape the day’s heat. The couple had planned to be married this week.    Julio O. Garcia, 21, was pulled from the river near Fireman’s Island in West…

  • Emma Williamson

       Emma Arcangela Iacobelli Williamson, 80, died Monday, July 8, at Capital Health System at Fuld hospital, Trenton.    Born in Paterson, she lived in Lawrenceville more than 50 years.    A graduate of Eastside High School in Paterson, she worked with General Motors five years during World War II and worked for the Lawrence Township Police Department…

  • Someone in baseball is about to throw a strike

    EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: By T.J. Furman    It’s inevitable, so I suppose I had just better accept the fact that it’s going to happen.    The flushing sound you will soon here is not a toilet, but rather the 2002 Major League Baseball season heading the way of Enron.    As I write this on Monday the executive board…