Category: archives
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14th Annual Albert Einstein Memorial Lecture
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Dodds Auditorium, Princeton University — Thursday, October 25, 2007, 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. The Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation is proud to announce this year’s Albert Einstein Memorial Lecturer, Richard Axel, M.D., Nobel Prize winner in Physiology/Medicine in 2004 for Discovering Genetic Coding That Allows…
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Vikings gear for counties
By Michael Holcombe, Sports Writer With a pair of easy wins over Perth Amboy and North Brunswick on Tuesday, the South Brunswick High girls cross country team wrapped up a 7-0 dual meet season. But in spite of the wins, all of the Vikings’ thoughts were turned to defending their title at the Greater Middlesex…
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Republican candidate: Democrats ‘flat-out wrong’ on Dyson, Trent
Bob Bostock, Springwood Drive I am surprised at the clumsiness of the recent effort by certain incumbent council members to divert attention away from some of their biggest failures. They charged that my running mates and I violated our Clean Campaign Pledge simply because we called attention to some of the major mistakes in their…
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Harvest celebration! Campfires and storytelling!
Township senior harvest celebration, 6 to 9 p.m. at senior center; campfires and storytelling, 6:30 p.m. at Lawrence Nature Center Harvest Celebration: A Lawrence Township Senior Harvest Celebration, with harvest games, crafts, costume contest, music, dancing and a picnic meal, will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Lawrence Senior Center, 30 Darrah…
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Book Notes: Breaking down struggles with the price of privilege
Joan Ruddiman Madeline Levine, Ph.D., has worked with troubled teens and families for 25 years. However, nothing in her experience prepared her for the crush of emotionally fragile, impaired, young patients she sees now in record numbers. That her patients are from seemingly stable homes, well cared for and well-educated, further compounds her dismay that…
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Further support for name change
A petition to change the name of Township of Washington to the Township of Robbinsville was given by myself to Dawn Ferreri at the township clerk’s office on June 4. When I started this project as a member of the Washington Township Senior Advisory Council, I planned a three stage program. Why was this being…
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On Point: The new, improved Halloween?
Linda McCarthy I’ve always loved Halloween. There is something very liberating about pretending you are someone else and begging for candy. As a kid I was painfully shy. The idea of knocking on doors was unbearable. Consequently, my nerves made me throw up long before I even ate my first pound of candy corn. For…
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Live for Pink turning parks yellow
Plantings honor those who have battled cancer by Paul Koepp, Staff Writer Live for Pink is raising funds for cancer research by turning township parks yellow. The Kingston-based group is well on its way toward planting 20,000 daffodil bulbs in “Fields of Hope” in South Brunswick, Plainsboro, and Princeton. Each bulb can be dedicated in…
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Printing money
An alternative solution to monetize the state assets is for New Jersey to print its own currency. In the early days of our country, individual banks printed their own money supported by gold and silver holdings. Today, our national currency is being pumped up by the printing presses. New Jersey should emulate the federal government…
