Category: archives
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 11/08
From the Nov. 8 edition of the Register-News By: Resident commends smoking ban To the editor: As spokesperson for the Burlington County Communities Against Tobacco, I commend Frederick S. D’Antoni, principal of Bordentown Regional High School, for using the "Letters" column to alert the public about the ban on smoking in school buildings and…
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NEWS OF OTHER DAYS 11/08
From the Nov. 8 edition of the Register-News By: 125 years ago A miscellaneous entertainment, consisting of tableaux, recitations, music and a festival was held in Rogers’ hall, Allentown, last evening. The Mt. Holly Mirror says it might congratulate Bordentown on the increase of its population, were it likely to prove permanent. Come up, neighbor,…
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Classmates to reunite at annual dinner dance
By: Sue Kramer LAMBERTVILLE It’s the time of year when copious amounts of leaves adorn lawns, oil burners begin to fire up, and thoughts turn to the holidays and gift giving. But for Lambertville High School and South Hunterdon Regional graduates, fall also marks the time when classmates reunite at the annual LHS-SHR alumni…
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Senior Menus
All meals are served at noon at Hibernia Apartments in Lambertville. The value of each meal is $3.13. Any amount donated over this is a tax-deductible contribution. All menus are subject to change and include milk and margarine. The sodium-controlled menu is the same unless otherwise noted. Thursday, Nov. 8 Chicken orzo soup, meat…
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‘Gross Indecency’
Alliance Repertory stages this controversial drama about Victorian-era writer Oscar Wilde in Bound Brook. By: Stuart Duncan Alliance Repertory has found a home at last. The Edison-based group has staged some of the area’s best and most provocative plays in the past several years but has been bounced from site to site in the process.…
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Editorial: Still awaiting election fix
By: T.J. Furman It has been one year since the start of our great national electoral crisis, and it appears to us that very little has been done to remedy the situation. In case you have forgotten (and given the events of the past eight weeks, that is understandable), the United States waited 36 days…
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Troubles, including fire, plagued McCready
By: Iris Naylor If ever there was a man who deserved to throw up his hands at the way life treated him, it was William McCready. Born in New York City of a Scottish father and an Irish mother, he was apprenticed at the age of 13 to learn the trade of a hatter. He…
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‘The Diary of Anne Frank’
Playhouse 22 stages the new version of the young Holocaust victim’s oft-told story. By: Stuart Duncan Even after many decades, a good production of The Diary of Anne Frank is still painful, the story of how one young Holocaust victim retained hope amid horrific conditions, only to die in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March…
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Winding Up
Modern rock attack: Tantric, Oleander and Beautiful Creatures perform in Philadelphia Nov. 9. By: Matt Smith When Oleander’s song "Why I’m Here" reached number one on modern rock radio in 1999, the band hit the road for the obligatory radio station festivals. However, after two successful albums and more than two years of relentless touring,…
