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  • HEALTH MATTERS: ‘Soul to Soul’ highlights choice

    We need to talk to the people we love and encourage them to take care of themselves so they can be with us for a long time to come. By Rameck R. Hunt, M.D. Princeton HealthCare System     We all know that taking control of our health and making smart choices can help us live…

  • LIVING WELL: Good health starts with self-awareness

    By Renate Novak Health Choices Institute     I had the privilege to know a Buddhist monk named Bhante when he was around 110 years old. One of the things he used to say to us was, “If you are not your own doctor by the time you are 40, then God help you.” What he…

  • ‘Leatherheads’

    ‘Leatherheads’

    It’s impossible not to think of other films as you watch this one and to wish you were watching them instead. By Elise Nakhnikian “I liked George Clooney’s smile,” the woman in the bathroom told her friend. “And I liked the relationship between him and Renée Zellweger. But I kept looking over and seeing Earl…

  • Mary Beth Miller

    Former Princeton resident     PENOBSCOT, Maine — Mary Beth Cooper Miller died March 30 at Blue Hill Memorial Hospital. She was 52.    A former resident of Princeton, she was a member of Princeton Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends.    While in Princeton, she founded a women’s theater group and taught and performed in numerous…

  • Church to have dinners, sales

       Centenary United Methodist Church at 108 N. Union St. in Lambertville will have dinners and sales.    April 4 will be a ziti dinner from 5 to 7 p.m. The cost is $8; $8.50 for takeouts.    April 11 will be a soup sale, including beef-vegetable, potato, onion and cabbage.    The cost is $6 a quart. Call…

  • Montgomery Mayor Birge to run for Somerset freeholder

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — Montgomery Mayor Cecilia Birge announced today she will be running for a seat on the Somerset County Board of Chosen freeholders.    Ms. Birge, a Democrat, began serving as mayor in 2007 and was reappointed to the seat in January by her fellow Township Committee members. She has served…

  • Prosecutors say Russo helped clean murder scene

    Staten Island man pleads not guilty to evidence tampering charge By Anthony V. Coppola    TRENTON — John Russo Jr., the second person charged in connection to the alleged murder of Amy Giordano of Hightstown, helped clean her Mercer Street apartment and dispose of her body in a Staten Island, N.Y., pond following the crime, according…

  • Delaware: Delle Donne Drops McDouble-Double

    Of the 24 girls that played in the annual McDonald’s High School All-American basketball game last Wednesday night, only one was from Delaware. And only one recorded a double-double.   Ursuline’s Elena Delle Donne went 5-for-12 from the floor for 10 points and added 11 rebounds and two blocked shots in her 27 minutes of…

  • Kathleen A. Lippincott

    Substitute teacher at St. Paul’s     LAWRENCE — Kathleen A. Lippincott died Friday at University Medical Center of Princeton. She was 87.    Born in Elizabeth, she was a resident of Lawrence for over 50 years.    She taught business education at Baton High School in Elizabeth, and was a substitute at the St. Paul’s School in…