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  • PFS develops new interface to global trading

    New interface allows investment managers and investment and brokerage firms to automate their trade details. By: George Frey    Princeton Financial Systems of Plainsboro, a provider of portfolio management and accounting systems, has developed a new international investment interface system that will connect a customer’s portfolio management systems to a leading international trading system.    Boston-based Omgeo,…

  • Enduring Heritage

    The Bucks County Audubon Society presents its ‘Barns of Distinction Tour.’ By: Debi Cowan In a scene from the 1985 film Witness, an entire Amish community comes together to raise a new barn for a family who has lost one to a fire.    As a matter of course, the other families gathered with tools and…

  • Resident doctors need protection

    Letter to the editor     Deaths linked to sleep-deprived resident doctors are growing at an alarming rate.    When a patient checks into a hospital, that patient expects the best possible care. But because of the stressful requirements placed on recent medical school graduates, patients are often placed in the care of doctors who are so…

  • Skate park plans get put on hold

    Cost of proposed project surprises Washington Township Committee members. By: Mark Moffa    WASHINGTON — Township Committee members last week postponed voting on a resolution that would have started the process of constructing a skateboard park in the municipal complex.    The resolution would have allowed the township to accept bids from contractors for construction of a…

  • Local artist rekindles passion for painting

    Joan Mintz will teach elementary school students about painting and sculpting this summer By: Brian Shappell    Joan Mintz won’t have to hire a decorator to chose art pieces to add color to her Kendall Park home.    Since tapping back into her love of the arts just four years ago, she’s been able to make the…

  • Cotrell is Redbirds’ top female athlete

    Led AHS field hockey and softball teams to unbeaten seasons in CVC Valley Division. By: Kyle Moylan    It’s no offense that Abby Cotrell is the Female Athlete of the Year at Allentown High School. In fact, no offense is what made her the winner.    During field hockey and softball seasons, Cotrell did everything in her…

  • TOWN TALK: ‘Under God’ since Gettysburg

    News and opinion from the mayor of Plumsted Township. By: Ron Dancer    Less than two months after the Township Committee and all 50 states, as well as the president of the United States, issued proclamations to observe National Prayer Day on May 2 with the national theme of "America — United Under God," Judge Alfred…

  • Alfred Stashek

       MANVILLE — Alfred Stashek died Thursday, June 27, in Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune. He was 78.    Born in East Millstone, he resided in Manville most of his life spending the past four years in Tinton Falls.    Mr. Stashek retired in 1990 as a butcher for Shop Rite of Middlesex and previously worked as…

  • Return pledgeto original words

    To the editor    The day after the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed down its decision regarding the constitutionality of the phrase "under God" as part of the Pledge of Allegiance, we sent the following letter to President George W. Bush; Vice President Dick Cheney; U.S. Senators Tom Daschle, D-So. Dakota;…