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  • The Life of the Party

    From Studio 54 to Wrightstown, Pa., event planner Renny Reynolds cultivates a blossoming business in Bucks County. By: Jodi Thompson If hiring a party planner is beyond your budget, take a look at Mr. Reynolds’ new book. Or explore his party-planning factory in Wrightstown, Pa.    A-list guests of the swankiest soirées enter party tents transformed…

  • Bradley pulls ahead to win board seat bid

    Spending plan defeated by 438-237 margin    Manville voters rejected the school district’s proposed $13.5 million budget Tuesday by a vote of 438-287.    Unofficial results for the three three-year board seats show Michael Impellizeri was the top vote-getter at 541, followed by incumbent Lisa Galasso at 521.    The results also put incumbent Dorothy Bradley and newcomer…

  • Suse Rosenstock

       Suse (Herz) Rosenstock, 70, of Monmouth Junction and San Diego, died Monday, April 8, in San Diego.    She was born on May 6, 1931, in Worms, Germany. In 1939, just before World War II began, 8-year old Suse escaped from Nazi Germany on one of the last Kindertransports to England. She spent the war years…

  • Carnegie Center crash kills one, injures two

    A drive to lunch ends in tragedy after driver apparently lost control of his BMW. By: Gwen Runkle    WEST WINDSOR — One man was killed and two seriously injured when their car crashed head-on with another vehicle in Carnegie Center and burst into flames Friday, police said.    James O’Connor, 32, of South Brunswick was pronounced…

  • South Hunterdon Regional budgets passes, 584-505

    Claus (West Amwell), Coleman (Lambertville) and Anthes (Lambertville) win board seats. By: See this week’s Beacon for details.

  • PDS students organize walk to raise money for open space

    Sunday event is outgrowth of a housing development proposed for nearby Coventry Farm. By: Jeff Milgram    When a developer wanted to build townhomes at Coventry Farm, the 16 high school students from the Environmental Action Club — EnAct — at Princeton Day School swung into action.    The students wrote letters, talked with the PDS Board…

  • Jamesburg voters say ‘no’ to school budget

    JAMESBURG — Voters defeated a 2002-2003 Jamesburg school budget and supported four candidates for school board Tuesday.    JAMESBURG — Voters defeated a 2002-2003 Jamesburg school budget and supported four candidates for school board Tuesday.    Voters rejected the $9.5 million spending plan by a vote of 164 to 111. If approved, the tax rate would have…

  • Distler, Maisel gain measure of revenge

    Doubles win leads PHS tennis past South By: Justin Feil        It wasn’t the expected formula, but the Princeton High boys’ tennis team was happy to beat West Windsor-Plainsboro High South, 3-2, Thursday any way it could. After all, it was the Little Tigers’ first win against WW-PS in eight years.    Benny Gordon-Goldstein topped Princeton’s…

  • Cougars rebound in style

    Lee hurls Montgomery baseball to win By: Justin Feil    For two straight games, the Montgomery High baseball team looked like an inexperienced squad, maybe a tad closer to the Bad News Bears than a team that visited the state tournament last season. The Cougars dropped a pair of games, giving up a combined 30 runs.…