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  • Intrepid kayakers explore the Millstone

    Anthony V. Coppola Staff Writer    EAST WINDSOR — Curiosity finally got the best of lifetime friends Keith Rebhorn and Remi Cossart.    The result was a grueling but satisfying conclusion to their high school days.    Early last month the duo embarked on an estimated 60-mile kayaking journey beginning in the Millstone River behind Mr. Rebhorn’s house…

  • OBITUARY: Alma M. O’Hara Versfeld

    Lawrence resident     Alma M. O’Hara Versfeld, 72, died Saturday at the Lawrenceville Nursing and Rehabilitation Hospice in Lawrenceville. She was 72.    She was born in Mt. Carmel, Pa., and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. Mrs. Versfeld worked and traveled for the American consulate in South Africa, where she met and married her husband Alexander, before…

  • OBITUARY: John J. McCarthy

    Longtime West Windsor resident     John J. McCarthy died at home on Friday. He was 71.    Born in Philadelphia, Pa., he was a resident of West Windsor since 1941.    He was a graduate of St Paul’s School, Trenton Catholic High School, and Rutgers University. While at Trenton Catholic High School he was a quarterback on…

  • OBITUARY: Suzanne S. Kernan

    Wife of Princeton University graduate dean     Suzanne Scoble Kernan died Friday at home after a long illness. She was 84.    She was born in New Rochelle, N.Y. in 1923. She graduated from New Rochelle High School and attended Parsons School of Design. She served in the WAVES in 1944 and 1945, and married Alvin…

  • Ideal openers for MHS, PHS football

    North nightmare as Parrott lost for year By: Bob Nuse    If Steve Everette and Zoran Milich each had an idea of how they wanted their respective season-opening football games to go, neither could have hoped for anything better than what actually happened.    Both Everette’s Princeton High team and Milich’s Montgomery High team were dominant on…

  • As he remembers Luciano Pavarotti

    William Lockwood booked tenor at McCarter in 1980 By: Michael Redmond McCarter Theatre William W. Lockwood Jr. escorts Luciano Pavarotti to a reception at Bristol-Myers Squibb following the tenor’s appearance at a benefit concert for McCarter Threatre in 1980.    His is one of the unforgettable images of 20th-century show business — that bear of a…

  • East Windsor police getting a four-year deal

    Health co-pays added with 3.75-percent pay hikes Vic Monaco Managing Editor    EAST WINDSOR — The Township Council next week is expected to approve a four-year contract for police that grants annual pay hikes of 3.75 percent and, for the first time, requires township employees to contribute to their health benefits.    That was the word Wednesday…

  • Changes in latest mill plan revealed

    Divided borough leaders designate redeveloper; this time with deadline Vic Monaco Managing Editor    Vic MonacoManaging Editor    HIGHTSTOWN — A pending agreement to redevelop the former rug mill property now includes a developer’s contribution of $485,000 and a small, free-standing retail/office building across the street from 130 residential units.    The deal has a three-month deadline for…

  • OBITUARY: Marie Vaccaro

    Grew up in Hopewell     Marie Vaccaro died Thursday at Compassionate Care Hospice, St Francis Medical Center, Trenton.    Ms. Vaccaro was born in Trenton in 1940 and spent her childhood on a farm in Hopewell.    She is a graduate of Barry University, Miami, Fla., where she earned a BA in elementary education. She taught for…