Category: archives
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Tiger trumps Crimson in old Ivy rivalry
PACKET EDITORIAL, April 16 By: Packet Editorial It’s nice to see a good old-fashioned rivalry is still thriving in the oh-so-proper Ivy League. Not on the football field, mind you. Oh, they may still call the annual Harvard-Yale contest THE GAME and there may even be a few people in Cambridge and New Haven…
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Frosh Kasper pitches, bats WW-P South to first win
No-hitter lifts Pirates over North By: Bob Nuse Kelly Kasper certainly wasn’t going to beat the West Windsor-Plainsboro High North softball team all alone on Saturday. It only seemed like she could have. Kasper, a freshman for West Windsor-Plainsboro South, did all she could to make sure the Pirates finally picked up their first…
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James Toner
James F. Toner, 69, died Monday, Feb. 25 in Laguna Woods, Calif. Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., he lived in East Brunswick before moving to Rossmoor in 1991. He was a printing pressman with the Newark Evening News, the New York Daily News and The New York Times. While employed at the Newark Evening…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
