Category: archives

  • ‘Funny Games’

    This hard-to-watch film takes us out of our comfort zone, but it’s also diabolically clever in achieving its effects. By Bob Brown THIS is a cinematic mugging. The mugger is writer-director Michael Haneke (Cache), who has remade his 1997 Austrian film shot for shot. In a way, he lifts your wallet then waves it in…

  • Cyrus Hoover

       GRIGGSTOWN — Cyrus P. Hoover died March 15. He was 63.    Born in Swedesboro, he lived in Griggstown.    Mr. Hoover was employed as a seventh-grade teacher at Hillsborough Middle School. He began teaching at the school in 1966.    He was a member of the Hillsborough Reformed Church in Millstone where he served as an elder,…

  • Indoor sale of crafts, soup

       Saturday, April 5, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. will be an indoor yard sale with crafts and soups for sale at the Stockton firehouse on Mill Street.    Soup will be available by the quart to purchase to take out.    Vendor tables will be $10 each; call 397-8736 to reserve a space.    The sale is…

  • Bar wins appeal to stay open

    By Audrey Levine    A stay of the 390-day suspension of Uncle Davey’s Tavern owner David Kiernan’s liquor license has been accepted, allowing the bar to remain open during the appeal of the Borough Council’s guilty ruling.    Skip Reale, Mr. Kiernan’s attorney, filed the appeal with the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) last…

  • Joseph R. Andrews Jr.

    Retired from General Motors     WEST WINDSOR — Joseph R. “Bob” Andrews Jr. died Friday at home. He was 74.    Born in Trenton, he resided in the West Windsor area for the past 40 years.    He retired from General Motors Corp. with over 20 years of service.    A Navy veteran of the Korean Conflict, he…

  • Sara Webb

    Legal secretary     MONTGOMERY — Sara “Sally” Jane Webb died Friday at University Medical Center at Princeton. She was 69.    Born in New Haven, Conn., she was a longtime Princeton-area resident.    She was employed as a legal secretary for many years.    She was a graduate of Bates College, Lewiston, Maine.    She was a parishioner of…

  • Cora Malloy

    Lifelong Princeton resident     TRENTON — Cora Malloy died Friday at Compassionate Care Hospice at St. Francis Medical Center. She was 83.    Born in Princeton, she was educated in Princeton Public Schools and was a lifelong Princeton resident.    She was employed 20 years as a mail clerk at Princeton University.    Mrs. Malloy was a member…

  • Flora Z. Boggs

    Retired surgical nurse     Flora Z. Boggs of Princeton died Wednesday at Merwick Rehab Hospital & and Nursing Care. She was 102.    Born in Chester, Pa., she was a resident of Princeton for over 66 years.    She was a surgical nurse for 22 years at University Medical Center at Princeton.    She attended Chester, Pa., public…

  • Michael A. Leiggi Jr.

    Operated Princeton service station     EWING — Michael A. Leiggi Jr. died Sunday at the University Medical Center at Princeton. He was 83.    Born in Princeton, he was a Princeton resident most of his life before moving to Ewing in 1993.    Mr. Leiggi was a master automobile mechanic, operating a service station in Princeton for…