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Mon., Jan. 3
By: centraljersey.com Off the Page: Try out your acting chops (or indulge your secret passion) to play one of the great characters from dramatic literature or contemporary comedy – without the threat of performing in front of a live audience. Off the Page will "cast" and read a play aloud, seated around a table, as…
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BORDENTOWN: Perfect start for Scotties
By Bob Nuse, The Packet Group The Bordentown High School wrestling team couldn’t have hoped for a better start to the season. Four matches into the season the Scotties are perfect. ”We couldn’t ask for anything more,” Bordentown coach Joe Sprague said. “We won the Patriot duals and we beat Rancocas Valley, which were two…
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SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Town asked to read classic
By Mary Brienza, Staff Writer Everyone in South Brunswick is being asked to read The Wizard of Oz this winter. The South Brunswick Library, the South Brunswick schools, and the Aging in Place Partnership are sponsoring a South Brunswick Reads program in conjunction with the Friends of the Library organization, according to Susanna Chan, a…
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Pat Tanner
By: centraljersey.com I recently asked a select group of Princeton-area chefs to share their most delicious, most furtive secrets, and, boy, did they ever! One was even moved to wax poetic. Contrary to what I’m trying to get you to believe, though, I asked not for their personal peccadilloes but rather for their best, most…
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Photo by Lydia Loyer
By: centraljersey.com Hillsborough Senior Citizens Chapter "A" meets the first Thursday of the month in the municipal complex. Doors open at 11:30 a.m., meeting begins at 12:30 p.m. We are open to new members. Our president is Dick Meier, 908-359-6948. Call if you have a question. Jan. 6 – Regular meeting. We’ll have installation of…
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HIGHTSTOWN: Local son is rhyming and chiming
Aspiring rapper on a lyrical Quest By Raunaq Singh, Special Writer Rappers. Wrappers. What’s the difference? Most people nowadays seem to think both are the equivalent of trash. Kid Prodigy and his fans beg to differ. Quest Wattley, a 15-year old sophomore at Hightstown High School, is better known by his rap name: Kid Prodigy.…
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Mary Brienza
By: centraljersey.com Township schools are making an effort to acknowledge all of the diverse faith communities, by closing Oct. 26 for the Hindu holiday of Diwali. Diwali, which is also known as Deepavali, will be added to the other religious holidays of Rosh Hoshanah, Christmas, Good Friday, and Easter, for the schools to be closed…
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HIGHTSTOWN: Murder trial starts Monday
DiGirolamo faces life if found guilty By Doug Carman, Staff Writer A pretrial conference for the grisly 2007 murder of Hightstown resident Amy Giordano will begin at 9 a.m. Monday at the Mercer County Courthouse in Trenton, with jury selection scheduled to begin the next morning. Rosario DiGirolamo, 35, of Millstone, faces a maximum life…
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Camel goal realized
Laurel Nestor-Pasicznyk, Stockton and seventh-grader, South Hunterdon Regional High School I want to thank everyone who contributed to The Camel for Tanzania fund that I started. Because of your generosity I was able to hit my goal of $850. That will buy a camel for a needy family in Tanzania, Africa. In fact I…
