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  • DISPATCHES

    Marketing policy is bad for democracy By: Hank Kalet    I did something last week I never thought I’d do.    I participated in a focus group.    I received a call from a friend of the family who told me the public opinion firm she worked for was looking for members of the media to participate in…

  • Michael Perone

       RARITAN BOROUGH — Michael A. Perone died Saturday, Feb. 16, at Harborside Health Care at Woods Edge in Bridgewater. He was 84.    Born in Bronx, N.Y., he formerly resided in Manville before moving to Raritan in 1958.    Mr. Perone worked for General Service Administration Depot in Belle Mead as a general maintenance supervisor for 42…

  • Celebrity Honeymoons

    Spend your dream vacation where the stars do By: GLORIA HAYES KREMER Romance your own star at the Sonesta Resort in Bermuda. Click to view the print ads in this magazine! Battleground Country Club Casa dei Tesori – Merchendise Century 21 – K. Sucharski Charley’s Other Brother Rest. Doral Forrestal Hotel and Spa Double Exposure…

  • Swimmers hope South Brunswick OKs pool

    SBHS team travels long way to practice By: Nick D’Amore    South Brunswick High School swimmers practice hard. And late. And far.    Four times a week, the girls and boys teams get on a bus bound for Mercer County Community College in West Windsor to practice in the college’s pool. On Mondays and Wednesdays, they practice…

  • Sacred Space

    Princeton High School’s Numina Gallery takes a trip down memory lane, exploring its own past. By: Susan Van Dongen Photographic Memoirs: 1883-48 is the first installment in a three-part series the Numina Gallery has envisioned.    In the 1890s and early 1900s, when you sat for a picture you really sat… and sat and sat and…

  • Vo-Tech pupil chargedwith intent to sell marijuana

    Hopewell Township police have charged an 18-year-old Trenton man with trying to sell drugs at school By: John Tredrea    Hopewell Township police have charged an 18-year-old Trenton man who attends the Mercer County Vocational-Technical School on Bull Run Road with trying to sell drugs at school.    Martel Tilgham, who lives on Ardley Avenue in Trenton,…

  • Assisted living center fetes opening

    Stony Brook officially opened its doors on Feb. 4, and already has become part of the Pennington community    Stony Brook Assisted Living, located off Route 31 at West Franklin Avenue, Pennington, celebrated its opening on Feb. 12 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.    The Feb. 12 event also served as an opportunity for Stony Brook residents and…

  • LIFESTYLE: Driving home

    The American lifestyle on the road. By: Scott Morgan Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose. — Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road    Somewhere in the middle space between primeval nature and the halcyon blanket of…

  • Budget shortfall hits Manville police hardest

    Mayor to present borough’s case to Statehouse By:Alec Moore    Five Manville police officers and three of the department’s four civilian dispatchers will be laid off as a result of the borough’s current financial crisis.    The crisis has been spurred by Gov. James E. McGreevey’s decision not to grant the borough the roughly $1.3 million in…