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  • ‘Aqua Teen Hunger Force’

    ‘If you don’t like it, go away,’ say Dave Willis and Matt Maiellaro of their TV cartoon-turned-‘movie film.’ By: Elise Nakhnikian    You know how Meatwad and Shake can get on Frylock’s last nerve? No? Then you probably want to give Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters a pass.    The trailer is a…

  • Episodic Memory

    Rider University delves into ‘The Heidi Chronicles.’ By: Stuart Duncan    The Heidi Chronicles is generally acknowledged to be Wendy Wasserstein’s finest play. Personally I like The Sisters Rosensweig for its masterful use of humor to establish its serious points, but since Heidi won the Pulitzer, the Tony and virtually every other award in 1989, one…

  • Eagle Fire Company report-April 19, 2007

       April 9 at 12:30 p.m. — Eagle Fire Company responded with an engine and tanker to assist Point Pleasant Fire Company with a barn fire on Stump Road in Plumstead Township; 21 personnel were in service for 3.5 hours.    April 11 at 1:05 p.m. — Reported brush fire on School Lane in Solebury Township, The…

  • Obituaries-April 19, 2007

    Marjorie Larkin    CAMPBELL, Calif. — Marjorie Ellen Thomas Larkin, formerly of Solebury, 81, died Wednesday, April 4, in Campbell, Calif., from complications from diabetes.    Mrs. Larkin was a longtime resident of the Phillips Mill area.    After her children were grown, Mrs. Larkin received a real estate license at Bucks County Community College and worked at…

  • Strength in Music Scholarship

    Richard Tang Yuk will conduct ‘Hercules’ for the American Handel Festival. By: Susan Van Dongen    What kind of a creature is Hercules, the rarely performed work by George Frideric Handel? Scholars and musicians have often scratched their heads about Hercules. Is it an opera or an oratorio?    Richard Tang Yuk, Princeton University’s director of choral…

  • South OKs random drug testing over protests

    Some parents and a South board member wanted more information about the risks and other options before the policy was approved. By: Linda Seida    WEST AMWELL — Despite the objections of parents who called its voluntary aspect "1984 doublespeak" and "hocus pocus," the South Hunterdon Regional High School Board of Education approved a new random…

  • Pet Talk-April 19, 2007

    Vet asks musical surgical outcome! By: Dr. Daniel Eubanks    More than a few decades ago — pre Rolex when Timex was king — there was a TV ad with a veterinarian and dog owner studying an X-ray.    The doctor adroitly points out the bright shiny thing in the stomach looks like a wristwatch and probably…

  • WW-P school district works to encourage autism awareness

    The spectrum of the disorder requires a spectrum of responses By: Nick Norlen    When Lorell Levy’s son was 2 years and 4 months old, he started losing his language.    His once extensive vocabulary was reduced to just three words.    Soon after, he was diagnosed with autism.    At the time, Ms. Levy was a special education…

  • West Windsor candidates wary about transit village

    Two slates appear before Village Grande Civic Association By: Nick Norlen    WEST WINDSOR — At a forum for West Windsor Township Council candidates Thursday, the last question asked was certainly not the least: Are the candidates on board for a "town center" that includes a transit village in Princeton Junction?    Two slates of candidates are…