Category: archives
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Benedetto Mattei
Benedetto Mattei, 81, died Aug. 9 at Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy. Born in Perugia, Italy, he came to the United States in 1954 and settled in Jamesburg shortly after. He was a porter at Carter Wallace Corp. in Cranbury for more than 15 years until retiring in 1985. He was a member of…
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Angela Manning Shelton
Angela Manning Shelton, 81, died Sunday at St. Peter’s Medical Center, New Brunswick. She lived in the Bronx for many years before moving to Perrineville five years ago. She was an advertising research manager for Petersen Publishing Co., New York, for over 10 years, retiring in 1984. She was a member of Nativity of Our…
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Schroeder takes round-about way to reaching his goal
Goalie hopes to make pro leagues By: Frankie Richards Craig Schroeder thought that dropping out of college and going to England to play soccer would be the opportunity of a lifetime. Turns out leaving England and returning to college was the opportunity of a lifetime. The final-semester senior at Lafayette College will play his third…
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A CHAT WITH MARY
Taxes, health care major issues for local diners By:Mary Kaempfen Issues. There are plenty of them whether you are in the Democratic camp or the Republican camp. They stare at you from the headlines, and some of them affect your purse or your moral fiber. Some issues seem to have been stolen from one set…
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Sushi restaurants proliferate in Princeton
Offering delicious food that’s easy to eat, mostly low in calories and full of wonderful textures, Japanese fare is hardly resistible By: Judith Levin Whenever I can, I make it a point to stop and admire the deft hands of sushi chefs as their beautiful works emerge suddenly from the palms of their hands…
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Man charged with luring teen for sex
Police allege Monroe man attempted to arrange sexual encounter with someone he believed to be 14-year-old girl By: Al Wicklund MONROE – A local resident is awaiting an arraignment date on multiple charges of solicitation of sex from a minor in Pennsylvania. The charges were lodged against him in Delaware County. Stephen R. Kies, 45,…
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Wrecking ball adds urgency to preservation plans
Brockaw-Gulick house site marked for car wash By:Eric Schwarz When wrecking equipment began to knock down auxiliary parts of the Brockaw-Gulick House property the morning of Aug. 4, all Sue Nittolo could do was to watch in shock. Mrs. Nittolo, a resident of Brook Drive close to Route 206, grew up in the 155-year-old house…
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Recalling Janssen traffic ballyhoo, then decade of silence
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK By:John Tredrea Lately, as the opening of the first two buildings of Merrill Lynch’s Southfields office park draws near, dire predictions of the project’s traffic impact seem to have increased in frequency and intensity. I’m sure there will be a substantial traffic impact. How could it be otherwise? Indeed, I remember sitting in…
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Valley resident has spent years in and out of trees
On the job in Hopewell Valley By:John Tredrea Editor’s Note: This is the eighth in a series of portraits of people at work. Craig Drummond has spent almost all his long working life in trees – pruning them, removing them (or their stumps) and occasionally planting them – just as his father, Douglas Drummond, did.…
