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  • Inherited Inspirations

    Sculptor John Mathews exhibits sculpture side by side with his father’s photography in an exhibition at Pennswood Village Art Gallery. By: Jessica Loughery    When his father died in 1974, John Mathews was 17. Though Paul L. Mathews had been a professional photographer and John’s mother was an art teacher, the pursuit of an artistic career…

  • In the Mood

    Rutgers Institute for Jazz Studies’ Ed Berger has created atmospheric images of the likes of Dizzy, Wynton and Benny. By: Susan Van Dongen    At first glance, the photograph looks like "The Thing that Ate the Saxophone Player." Is the musician controlling the enormous instrument or has it taken over from him? Is the bell going…

  • Couch in as new Hun starter

    Sophomore adds inside presence for girls’ hoops By: Justin Feil    Cyndra Couch was new to the Hun School girls’ basketball team last year, but she got her first taste of the program long ago.    Her sister, Cydnee, was a post-graduate who also played for the Raiders. The similarities in their games end there.    "I came…

  • Comcast move of channel draws criticism

    By: Dick Brinster    Comcast customers in East Windsor and Hightstown are classified as being in the Philadelphia region, so when the cable TV supplier needed room to make changes in its basic package, the NBC affiliate in New York was sent up the dial.    That led to customer complaints to the township and the borough,…

  • Montgomery seeks to improve property-tax assessments

    Tax assessor points to untrained staff and measurement problems By: Jake Uitti    MONTGOMERY — So as not to run into the same tax-assessment problems experienced this year, township officials on Wednesday discussed possible improvements in calculating property assessments in the future.    Eleanor Blake, the township’s tax assessor, said there were two main problems that contributed…

  • Joan Garrabrant

       Joan M. Devine Garrabrant, 77, of Monroe, died Monday, Dec. 4, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick.    Born in Newark, she lived in East Brunswick for 50 years before moving to Monroe four years ago. Ms. Garrabrant was a communicant of St. Bartholomew’s R.C. Church, East Brunswick.    Her husband, Edward Garrabrant, died in…

  • Four Seasons residents ask township to help get repairs

    Renovations needed faster By: Lacey Korevec    The Township Committee said Wednesday that it will put more pressure on K. Hovnanian, developer of the Four Seasons of Cranbury community, to complete repairs in a timely fashion.    It was standing room only as Four Seasons residents took the microphone one by one and voiced their frustrations with…

  • Lewis School to illuminate Tree of Light tonight

       The Lewis School’s 33rd Annual Tree of Light Celebration will take place 7 to 9:30 p.m. today.    A Princeton holiday tradition, it is free and open to the public. It will be held in the Lewis schoolyard at 53 Bayard Lane, near the corner of Paul Robeson Place and Route 206.    A silent auction will…

  • State hearing set on hospital move to Plainsboro

    Medical center seeks certificate of need By: Courtney Gross    The State Health Planning Board has scheduled a public hearing next week on the University Medical Center at Princeton’s certificate of need application — a meeting that could provide the only opportunity for Princeton-area residents to comment publicly on the state’s consideration of the hospital’s proposed…