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  • Hanukkah offers hope of freedom

    Local rabbis this week stressed the significance the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah will hold for local members of their congregations. By: Michael Arges    Although Hanukkah celebrations may be more subdued this year, local rabbis think the message of the holiday is a powerful source of consolation and encouragement in these troubled times.    Hanukkah commemorates an…

  • George C. Keymer

       WALL — George C. Keymer, 94, died Sunday at Jersey Shore Medical Center, Neptune.    Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he lived in Hightstown 20 years and Princeton 27 years.    He graduated from Freehold High School in 1926 and Renoaurd Training School for Embalmers in New York in 1927.    Mr. Keymer had worked for C. Ensley Clayton…

  • Mironov to form rent control panel

    A special advisory committee will offer advice on how best to go about resolving some rent control issues in East Windsor. By: Chris Karmiol    EAST WINDSOR — Mayor Janice Mironov said this week she plans to appoint a special advisory committee on the township’s unsettled rent control issue.    The committee will consist of individuals representing…

  • Flog and Plotz Go Nuts

    Dan Griffiths and Stephen Chipps collaborated on Kapoot, a play they hope will help dispel incorrect notions about clowns and mimes. By: Jim Boyle ALT="image"> COLOR="black"> COLOR="black"> "Most of the population doesn’t know what mime really is," says Dan Griffiths, co-creator of Kapoot. "It’s the poetry of acting. They can’t have anything extra."    Most people…

  • Students salute their WTC heroes

    MONROE- Homemade paper quilt represents firefighters and other WTC volunteers. By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — A Hearts of America World Trade Center quilt and representatives of those who created it — kindergarten through second-grade students from Barclay Brook School — were involved in a presentation called "moving" by the mayor and council.    The 10-by-10-foot quilt,…

  • SPECIAL REPORT Old Nassau awakens to the new realities

    The face of Princeton has undergone an historic change By: Jeff Milgram    For much of Princeton University’s 255-year history, the average student was a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, upper middle-class, likely to be a graduate of a private prep school and absolutely certain to be male.    What little change took place at Princeton in the 18th,…

  • Annual Powder Puff game turns violent

    The annual football game between junior and senior cheerleaders at Hightstown High School was cancelled when two girls started a fight that was joined by a parent of one of the girls. By: Chris Karmiol    Police had to be called when a physical altercation between two girls and a parent broke out Nov. 19 on…

  • Thomas Kucker

       Thomas E. Kucker, 88, died Thursday, Nov. 29, at home.    Born in Trenton, he lived in Lawrenceville 50 years.    He was part owner of Kucker-Haney Paint Co. in Trenton, retiring in 1983 after 45 years in the paint business.    An Army Air Corps veteran of World War II, he served in the Pacific and received…

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