Category: archives
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COLUMBUS: Greyhounds riding momentum of strong finish
By Bob Nuse, The Packet Group The Northern Burlington County Regional High School boys basketball team got hot towards the end of last season. And the Greyhounds have used that momentum and started this season playing just as well. They came into the week riding a three-game winning streak that had lifted their record to…
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SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Hugs for Brady Gala set
By Charles W. Kim, Managing Editor The second annual Hugs for Brady Winter Gala is scheduled for Feb. 18 and will honor local businessman and former New York Giants offensive lineman Brad Benson. The event will take place at the Hunterdon Hills Playhouse in West Hampton, according to the organization. Foundation founder Sherrie Wells said…
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MANVILLE: Tough choice: Stem floods or save farms?
It would appear that local municipalities have another tool in their kit to address the plight of some individuals who want out of their flood-prone properties. The district’s legislators, state Sen. “Kip” Bateman and Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli, are praising the new law, known as Assembly Bill 4267, that allows municipalities and counties to tap their…
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MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Iron Lady’
This is a hollow film with a great performance trapped inside it, ricocheting off the walls, with no place to go By Elise Nakhnikian It used to be about trying to DO something. Now it’s about trying to BE someone,” sneers The Iron Lady’s Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep) of our changing social values. She’s…
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CURE Auto Insurance and 94.5 PST Launch Seventh Annual "Pay It Forward" Scholarship
By Tom Cosentino Princeton, NJ – Young adults who do worthwhile things like feeding the hungry or raising money for an important cause will have a chance at being rewarded for their kindness by having it PAID FORWARD as part of the Seventh Annual “Pay It Forward” Scholarship Award from CURE Auto Insurance and 94.5…
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SAUMITRA SAHI OF PRINCETON ON TOUR WITH PRINCETON’S FAMOUS ‘TRIANGLE SHOW’ n PLAYS BROADWAY, FEBRUARY 3
Comedy reigns as apocalypse survivors try to deal with the hardships of their new world in Doomsdays of Our Lives
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ROBBINSVILLE: BOE mulls options for expanding two schools
By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor ROBBINSVILLE The school district’s architect told the Board of Education last week that adding a total 29 classrooms to the elementary and middle schools, and expanding both cafeterias, could be done for roughly half of the projected $35.1 million cost of building a new 38-classroom school building. Voters rejected…
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MANVILLE: Dentist will ‘give kids a smile’
By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer Manville Dental Group will again give free dental care to needy children in the annual “Give Kids A Smile” program Friday, Feb. 3, from 8:30 a.m-2 p.m. The nationwide National Dental Month event focuses on providing oral health education to all children despite their economic status. Give Kids A…
