Category: archives
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Board to hold budget hearing
The school board’s public hearing on the proposed budget, which would raise taxes 5.4 percent, is scheduled for Monday night in the high school cafeteria. By: Amanda Bok Community members will have a chance Monday to voice their opinions about the proposed school budget, which, if approved, would raise the school tax rate by 5.4…
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Wanted: Teachers to fill new slots
The South Brunswick school district is looking to fill about 38 new full-time teaching positions for the 2000-2001 year. Most of the openings are in grades six through 12. By: Amanda Bok The hunt is on South Brunswick schools are looking for teachers. This is the time when teacher contracts are renewed, school budgets…
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Spring Home & Garden 2001
THE PACKET MAGAZINE: Our Spring Home & Garden 2001 issue offers impressions of post-modern living, from architect Michael Graves’ revival of classic lines for easy living to roses for rose-gardening phobics. Go To Stories
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‘Heartbreakers’
While this movie has a few funny scenes here and there, the overall story is simply not coherent enough to make it worth your while. By: Kam Williams Max is the type of temptress who’d marry any man with money. Then, while still newlyweds, she arranges for her partner, Page, to seduce her hubby right…
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High Pointe at Hopewell offers spectacular views
Situated on one of the highest points in Mercer County, each home has a natural privacy created by the hills High Pointe at Hopewell is situated on one of the highest points in Mercer County. This location between Pennington and Princeton is the undertaking of Mercer County developer Nexus Properties, with homes starting at $699,000.…
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Council offers trash compromise
The township began delivery of the new specialized garbage containers to residents this week. By: Lea Kahn Township residents began taking delivery of new, specialized garbage containers this week, Municipal Manager William Guhl told Township Council Tuesday night. The blue containers will be delivered to all households in time for the startup of the new,…
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Reelin’ in the years
Donald Fagen talks about Steely Dan’s induction into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, winning a Grammy, and his years as a teen-ager in South Brunswick. By: Brian Shappell The musical careers of Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, the two men behind the band Steely Dan, have come full-circle in recent weeks. The duo…
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Board seeks replacement
Looking for candidates to fill unexpired term created by departure of Peggy Romans By: Frank C. D’Amico MILLSTONE – The Board of Education is looking for candidates to fill the vacancy created by the departure of Peggy Romans. Residents interested in the unexpired school board position must send in a letter of application by 4…
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Blurring the lines
BecauseHeCan, which opened this week at McCarter Theatre, centers on a chic, upper-middle-class New York City couple whose lives are violated by an unrepentant young computer hacker. By: Matt Smith PRINCETON Gustave Flaubert once wrote "Everything you create is true." That maxim underlies Arthur Kopit’s BecauseHeCan, which explores privacy and slander in the information…
