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  • Obituaries (04.26.07)

    Leslie Ultan Leslie Barry Ultan, of Lawrence, died April 19 after a long illness. He was 72.    Mr. Ultan was born on Nov. 12, 1934 in New York City as the second child and son to late parents Carl and Blanche. He grew up in Bayside, N.Y. with his parents and older brother, Lloyd. After…

  • A Painterly Inheritance

    Impressionist Joseph Dawley passed along the greatest legacy of all. By: Jessica Loughery    In 2002, artist Cynthia Dawley bought her parents’ home in Cranford, where she had spent most of her life. When her parents moved out, she inherited many of their household items, including sofas, tables and chairs. She also inherited her father’s longtime…

  • New Jersey needs to break pension habit

    EDITORIAL The Packet Group    Like hard-core addicts who finally seek outside intervention because they can’t stop themselves from doing what they know is wrong, the New Jersey Legislature may soon be asking voters to help cure its regrettable habit of shortchanging the state pension system.    The Legislature’s compulsive behavior — which has particularly harmful consequences…

  • Shirley Schaefer

       HILLSBOROUGH — Shirley M. ( Mende) Schaefer died April 18 at Foothill Acres Nursing Home in Hillsborough. She was 85.    Born in Newark, she was raised in Irvington and lived in New Providence for 44 years before moving to Hillsborough three years ago.    Mrs. Schaefer was a homemaker.    She was a member of the United…

  • Rock-solid pitching helps Mustangs advance

    MHS travels to Ridge in SCT second round By: Rudy Brandl    Fans who arrived late to Saturday morning’s Somerset County Tournament baseball game at Manville High may have missed all the action.    Manville senior right-hander Tommy Rock pitched another masterpiece, outdueling Gill St. Bernards righty Sean Johnson in one of the fastest games in tournament…

  • Florence track wins a big one

    By: Sean Moylan    Because the Warriors had lost so few athletes from last year’s team, Florence boys’ varsity track and field head coach Mike Flynn was deeply concerned about his club’s chances versus New Egypt in last Thursday’s Freedom Divsion showdown at Florence.    Nonetheless, although New Egypt would be competing without a few of its…

  • New Twists on Olde Tales

    Aquila Theatre Company’s production of ‘The Canterbury Tales’ is a fast-moving, humorous, slightly naughty romp. By: Susan Van Dongen    The language of The Canterbury Tales may be more than 600 years old, but the characters and their foibles are timeless. Whether it’s the miller, the knight or the wife of Bath, the personalities of the…

  • Celebrity bagger

    PQM’s ‘Fight Cancer Day’ Belinda Ogitis, the Valley’s animal control officer, served as a celebrity bagger on Tuesday during Pennington Quality Market’s annual Fight Cancer Day. Market officials promised to donate 5 percent of the day’s total sales to the American Cancer Society (ACS). Shoppers helped raise $10,590 for ACS, bringing the market’s 14-year donation…

  • Letters to the editor

    Week of April 26 Green events make Earth Day, every day To the editor:    Two events were held last week to celebrate Earth Day, the annual Earth Day Clean Up and an "Earth Talk" on recycling, that helped "green up" Bordentown City.    On the first warm and sunny Saturday of the spring, over 45 people…