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  • TANGENTS: Wiffleball deserves a little respect

    TANGENTS by John Saccenti: John Saccenti speaks out on how wiffleball is a respected sport and should be recognized    I imagine hitting a game winning home run to win game seven of the World Series would be exciting. That is, if you’re into that sort of thing. Which, I guess, I am.    But, if pressed,…

  • Council mulls letting groups adopt parks

    Council discusses adopt-a-park program By: Brian Shappell    Portions of South Brunswick’s parks soon may be brought to you by a locally owned business or even a large national chain.    The Township Council is considering an ordinance that could establish an adopt–a-park program in the township. Like the widely used adopt-a-highway program, the township is considering…

  • Survey points to overcrowding in Lawrence schools

    Of the 382 people who answered the survey questions, 59 percent said they thought the schools were overcrowded. By: Lea Kahn    Ask a handful of township residents to name the most serious problems facing Lawrence Township schools today, and they list overcrowding, a need for quality teachers and a lack of funding for schools.    But…

  • Community recognizes ‘key’ volunteer

    Grace Plater, noted for community activism, was awarded a Key to the Township By: Brian Shappell        Grace Plater says she wishes she could get around better these days.    But those around the talkative and friendly 87-year-old seem to think she’s doing just fine as the recent recipient of the Key to the Township. And…

  • ‘The Lady and the Duke’

    Eric Rohmer’s drama chronicles unfolding revolution and political intrigue from a woman’s point of view.   [PG-13] By: Bob Brown Grace Elliott (English actress Lucy Russell) has loyalist leanings, while the Duke (Jean-Claude Dreyfus) is a revolutionary at heart, even though King Louis XVI is his cousin.    THE French Revolution has been done to death. Director Eric…

  • DISPATCHES: The power of a live show can’t be beat

    DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: Live music can’t compare to a CD    Neil Young once wrote, "Live music is better." Who am I to argue?    The charge that a live show offers differs dramatically from what you get on disc, or at least it should.    There is something in watching the drummer kick off a tune…

  • Folly to give money without safeguards

    Letter to the editor To the editor:     While I’m heartened that Hank Kalet endorses in glowing terms a tax hike to aggressively pursue open space acquisition in South Brunswick, I’m disappointed he failed to flesh out the nuances of such a blanket endorsement. You see, incentives are created for fiscal mischief by politicians who…

  • Angry driver is charged in stabbing

    A 37-year old South River man was charged with aggrevated assault in connection to Tuesday’s ‘road rage’ incident on Route 1. By: Hank Kalet    A 37-year-old South River man was charged with aggravated assault Wednesday in connection with a "road rage" incident in which he allegedly stabbed a driver who made an obscene hand gesture…

  • Retiring from a job that was a dream

    Pat Hannigan loved her career as a teacher and looks forward to life after teaching By: Melissa Morgan    Pat Hannigan experienced something unusual in her career.    "I know it’s hard to believe, but there has never been a day when I said, ‘I don’t want to go to work today’," she said.    Ms. Hannigan never…