Category: archives
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Monroe close to new superintendent
By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer MONROE — The search for a new superintendent for the Monroe school district is nearing an end as the Board of Education conducted interviews with its final two candidates during a closed meeting Tuesday. ”The board by consensus has picked a final candidate and we’re entering into contract negotiations with…
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Cardinals lose in first round
FOOTBALL By Tim Falls, Sports Editor The Lawrence High School football team lost in the first round of the NJISAA Group III Central Jersey playoffs again. It was a disheartening and all too familiar story for the Cardinals, who have also lost in the first round the past four years. Still Lawrence should take pride…
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Telling Twain’s tall tales
By Audrey Levine Staff Writer MANVILLE — He stood at the front of the room at the Senior Center Tuesday, wearing a white shirt and vest; white pants and shoes; and a black bow at his collar. His white wig and real white mustache completed the ensemble. As the crowd of about 11 people looked…
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POLICE BLOTTER
Joseph Crawford, 49, of Oxford Place, was charged with driving while intoxicated, maintenance of lamps, failure to drive properly in marked lanes and driving without a license after he was pulled over for swerving across the center line and then into the shoulder on Route 206, as well as driving with a broken head lamp,…
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Tarantino Studio honored for work at Frank Lloyd Wright house
The Bachman-Wilson House in Millstone House was in need of substantial restoration when the Tarantinos purchased it in 1988. Photo by William Taylor
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Bank bailout a great swindle
Joe Melillo of Lawrence To the editor: The handover of more than a trillion dollars of taxpayer funds to the former chief executive officer of the Goldman Sachs investment bank, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, is the greatest swindle of all time. His assignment is to distribute these multi-billion dollar handouts to the very same…
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Telling Twain’s tall tales
Actor David Kennedy’s portrayal of Mark Twain entertained a group at the Manville Senior Center. Staff photo by John Keating
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EDITORIAL: Residents can take heart at this flip-flop
One of the most tiresome charges hurled about during political campaigns is accusing a politician of a flip-flop. Those making the charge hope to paint their target as being uncommitted to principles or changing solely to appease public demands. But it’s not necessarily a bad thing, and the stunning reversal of plans for a parking…
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Spirits lifted by Haydn’s ‘Creation’
Ruth V. Sharon-Seed of Princeton To the editor: These days when our financial anxiety has been elevated, there was nothing that could have lifted our spirits as well as did Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation.” In a performance on Sunday, Oct 26 at Richardson Auditorium, the astonishing conductor, Francis Fowler Slade, the Princeton Pro Musica…
