Category: archives
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Freeman claims 171-pound championship
WRESTLING: The Rams placed third overall in the Truman Holiday Tournament at Truman High School in Pennsylvania last week. By: Neil Hay Rich Freeman took home a first place at 171 pounds as the Hightstown wrestling team placed third Saturday in the eight-team Truman Holiday Tournament. Truman High School, the host school from Lower Bucks…
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Domestic violence program seeks help
By: Steve Rauscher MONTGOMERY Township police are seeking volunteers for a new program aimed at curbing domestic violence. The Police Department recently received a $5,000 grant from the state Department of Law and Public Safety’s Criminal Justice Division to recruit local volunteers for a domestic-violence response team. There were 70 incidents of domestic violence…
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Heart Attacks, Part 1: Both genders should know their risk factors
By: Dr. John Passalaris This column is Part 1 of two parts. Part 2 will appear Friday, Jan. 11. When part of the heart muscle dies due to a sudden loss of blood supply, this is known as a heart attack or myocardial infarction. Approximately 1.5 million people in the United States suffer a…
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NJ Transit knows it can’t, knows it can’t
PACKET EDITORIAL, Jan. 4 By: Packet Editorial Every schoolchild knows the story of the little engine that could, the motivational saga of drive and determination that turned a poor, undersized locomotive into an overachieving dynamo. Maybe it’s this piece of inspirational fiction that motivates adults to think of railroads as the sort of I-think-I-can-I-think-I-can enterprises…
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Viewing a painter’s vivid legacy
The work of the late David Raymond is on exhibit at the 1860 House in Montgomery. By: Michael Redmond According to people who knew him, the late David Raymond was a quiet, kind and gentle man and an outstanding art teacher who kept a low profile. It was through his brilliant abstract paintings and his…
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Stewart L. Mitchell Sr.
TAMARAC, Fla. Stewart L. Mitchell Sr., 76, died Dec. 25 at Holy Cross Hospital, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Born in Trenton, he lived in Hamilton Square before moving to Fort Lauderdale 22 years ago. Mr. Mitchell was an Army veteran. He retired from the New Jersey Hospital Association of Princeton. He was a member of…
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North Jersey’s last frontier should be saved
THE STATE WE’RE IN: A column from the New Jersey Conservation Foundation By: Michele S. Byers More than a century ago, the City of Newark acquired 35,000 acres of the pristine Pequannock River watershed in upper Passaic, Sussex and Morris counties, at the heart of the New Jersey Highlands. Before chlorine treatment, the best way…
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Tessie Gehling
Tessie Cimine Gehling, 94, died Tuesday, Dec. 25, at the Monroe Village Health Care Center. Born in Brooklyn, she lived there before moving to South River and then Monroe in 1970. She was a member of Nativity of Our Lord R.C. Church in Monroe. Her husband, Ernest E. Gehling died in 1991 and her sister,…
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CARE to host talks on school plan
The $7.3 million project goes to Cranbury voters Jan. 22. CRANBURY Citizens Advocating the Referendum for Education has scheduled a series of neighborhood coffees designed to present information on the Jan. 22 school vote. The $7.3 million plan calls for construction of seven new general classrooms, a gymnasium, special education, preschool-disabled and basic-skills class…
