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  • Golf outing to benefit seriously ill children

    The golf event in Ringoes will help the families of Erik Zimmerman of East Amwell and Timothy Deignan of Union Township pay some of the medical bills for their children. By: Linda Seida    EAST AMWELL — All of the proceeds from a charity golf outing Monday will help ease the financial burden faced by the…

  • Editorial-June 21, 2007

    Stay alert for signs of rabies in local animals By: Mae Rhine    Rabies cases are on the rise in Hunterdon County.    So far this year there have been 11 confirmed cases: eight raccoons, two cats and one fox. That’s up slightly from last year’s eight cases as of this time: four raccoons, two cats, a…

  • Moonstruck by Moonlight

    The Met celebrates opera with a free performance of ‘La Bohème’ at Buccleuch Park. By: Anthony Stoeckert    The sopranos are coming back to New Jersey, along with some tenors, baritones and bass baritones.    The Metropolitan Opera will perform Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème in New Brunswick June 23 as part of its Met in the Parks…

  • Sergeantsville Inn

    In a vintage building with rustic charm, unfussy but innovative seasonal cuisine delights the palate while reasonably priced wines infuse the soul. By: Tom and Kate O’Neill    Sergeantsville is a picturesque, 18th century crossroads village in Hunterdon County. At the center of town stands the Sergeantsville Inn, created from two vintage buildings. One houses the…

  • ‘Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer’

    Despite the cast’s credentials, the driving engine is an army of technicians, slaving away over glowing screens to make everything look, well, fantastic. By: Bob Brown The Silver Surfer bears down on New York City in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.    Let’s be blunt about this at the outset: Fantastic Four: Rise of…

  • They’ve Got Rhythm

    Bucks County Playhouse goes ‘Crazy for You.’ By: Stuart Duncan    If Crazy For You seems like an old-fashioned musical, that’s because it is. It opened on Broadway in mid-October, 1930, just as the Depression was beginning to show its teeth, and its tale of luck and pluck helped a lackluster theater season. It had a…

  • British Humor

    Off-Broadstreet Theatre takes a ‘Run For Your Wife.’ By: Stuart Duncan Michael A. Iacovelli plays Bobby, the neighbor of taxi driver John Smith (Steve Lobis) and his wife, Barbara (Amy Locane), in Off-Broadstreet Theatre’s Run For Your Wife.    British playwright Ray Cooney has become almost as popular in the U.S. as he is at home.…

  • Bell, Book and Candle

    Can a young witch fall in love and keep her magical powers too? Or does this play have a deeper subtext? By: Janet Stern Shannon Lee Clair plays Gillian (right), who comes from a family of witches, and John Hardin is Shep Henderson, her handsome upstairs neighbor, in Princeton Summer Theater’s production of Bell, Book…

  • Bell, Book and Candle

    Can a young witch fall in love and keep her magical powers too? Or does this play have a deeper subtext? By: Janet Stern Shannon Lee Clair plays Gillian (right), who comes from a family of witches, and John Hardin is Shep Henderson, her handsome upstairs neighbor, in Princeton Summer Theater’s production of Bell, Book…