Category: archives
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Denise Carmen (Boyer) Brown, Princeton
was born in Princeton, New Jersey on May 13, 1955 to the late Beatrice (Waller) and Francis D. Boyer, Sr. She departed this life for glory on Monday, December 1, 2008 at the University Medical Center at Princeton. Denise was a resident of Princeton her entire life until she married and moved to Piscataway, New…
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Robert Francis Shimer
Robert Francis Shimer, 87, died Friday, Nov. 28, at his home of more than 50 years in Cranbury, after a valiant battle with cancer. Born in Indiana, Mr. Shimer was raised at the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors Children’s Home, and served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II…
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Pondering Obama’s election triumph
Adele Vexler of Lawrence To the editor: As I ponder the choice of Barak Obama by our American electorate, I am also reading a biography of Zora Neale Hurston, a very successful African-American writer. She gives me insight into how changes taking place in New York City’s Harlem District had a profound effect on…
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Leave recreation group alone
As the father of five school-age children, I have been involved with Manville’s recreation program for quite a few years now and now I understand the Borough Council wants to take it over. Now they have repeatedly said nothing will change so that makes it more confusing. It can’t just mean they want the rec…
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LAWRENCE AREA: Retailers heartened by weekend of sales
By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer An encouraging Black Friday weekend for retailers nationwide was reflected in healthy numbers of shoppers in the Lawrence and Princeton areas over this bellwether holiday weekend, although any optimism expressed was tempered by the sobering prospect of continuing poor economic news and jittery financial markets. ”From what I can piece…
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A new kind of food fight
Members of the MHS Student Council survey the food collected in the school’s food drive last week. Photos by Mary Ellen Zangara
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MILLSTONE: DiGirolamo home for holidays
$1 million bond releases accused killer By Vic Monaco Rosario DiGirolamo, the man charged with killing and dismembering Amy Giordano in her Hightstown apartment, ate Thanksgiving dinner with his family after spending eight months in jail. The Millstone man was released Nov. 26 from the Mercer County Correction Center in Hopewell after $1 million was…
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Borough not ready to give Habitat reply
Nonprofit formally seeks lot; prefers donation By Vic Monaco, Staff Writer HIGHTSTOWN The local Habitat for Humanity chapter formally asked the Borough Council this week if it would donate or sell a lot on South Academy Street so it could build its first residences in the borough for low-income families. Despite much support voiced…
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EAST WINDSOR: Local man pleads guilty to murder of Newark police officer
By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer A local man charged with the murder of a Newark police officer last year pleaded guilty to felony murder Wednesday on what would have been his victim’s 35th birthday. William Ramirez-Rodriguez, 22, whose last known address was the Windsor Castle Apartments on Devonshire Drive in East Windsor, entered his plea…
