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  • Syncopation in Yiddish

    The Györ National Ballet of Hungary and Budapest Klezmer Band perform Purim at the State Theatre. By: Susan Van Dongen The Budapest Klezmer Band    Mongolian throat-singing. Tibetan trance music. Inuit "ay-yas." "It’s not stage music, it’s the music of the shtetl (the village),"says Ferenc Jávori, com poser for Purim, the first full-length klezmer ballet, and music…

  • Construction on squad building to begin

    Construction permit has been issued for site By:Vanessa S. Holt    SPRINGFIELD — Construction on the building that will house the Springfield Township Emergency Squad is scheduled to begin this week, now that a construction permit has been issued for the site, Councilman Richard Toone said Monday.    The squad, which currently shares a building on Jacksonville-Jobstown…

  • OBITUARIES, Feb. 22, 2002

    Harold P. Furth, Dr. Gail Breslin, George R. Webster. Harold P. Furth Fusion science pioneer    Princeton University professor emeritus Harold P. Furth, a pioneer in the U.S. fusion program and the originator of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) project, died Thursday in Philadelphia of heart failure. He was 72.    "Harold was a giant of…

  • Reimbursement may be solution to appeals issue

    EDITORIAL: Washington Township Committee needs to clarify ordinance. By:    The Township Committee made the right decision when earlier this month it affirmed a Zoning Board of Adjustment ruling that will permit BP Amoco to build a gas station and convenience store on the corner of Route 130 South and Meadowbrook Road.    It is true, as…

  • County seeks feedback on bridge plans

    Engineers to hold presentation with Allentown community at the end of March. By: Mark Moffa    ALLENTOWN — Residents anxious to learn when work will begin on the Main Street bridge will have to wait several more weeks until Monmouth County is ready to present publicly its ideas for repairing the decaying structure.    Assistant Monmouth County…

  • Focus groups are into marketing, not solving problems

    DIPATCHES 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 a focus group. I would…

  • Zoners should make the public a priority

    LEDGER FORUM    For the first time in many years I attended a board of adjustment hearing on Feb. 13. Back in the ’70s and ’80s, I was a frequent attendee of these and Planning Board meetings. I was surprised to learn that the public is held in even less regard now than in the past.…

  • Thomas Kanach

       HILLSBOROUGH — Thomas G. Kanach died Friday, Feb. 8, in Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington. He was 80.    Born in Somerville, he farmed all his life on the family farm which was located in Hillsborough and East Amwell.    Mr. Kanach served in the U.S. Army during World War II.    He was a communicant of Mary,…

  • School bond: Pay now or more later

    Voters to decide on $47 million bond referendum By:    Nobody likes a tax increase. And with the economy as unstable as it is, higher taxes will be an added strain. But nobody wants to jeopardize the chances of local children to get a quality education, either.    Residents of Bordentown City, Bordentown Township and Fieldsboro Borough…