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  • Princeton Presbyterians to climax 250th anniversary celebration

    Two congregations to worship together at McCarter Theatre on Sunday By: Jake Uitti    The year-long celebration of 250 years of Presbyterian presence in Princeton will have its grand finale when the congregations of Nassau Presbyterian Church and Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church come together again in worship at McCarter Theatre 11 a.m. Sunday.    "Our year-long celebration…

  • Local men face drug charges

    Found with large quantity of marijuana By: Joseph Harvie    Mike Gambino, 20, and Russell Hennessy, 21, both of Monroe, were charged with possession of over 50 grams of marijuana after police said the pair were growing marijuana plants on property owned by the Dallenbach Sand Co. on Deans Rhode Hall Road.    Police said they were…

  • Rosh Hashana, a time to start anew

    Local Jewish community celebrates their new year By: Stephanie Brown    MONROE — In a modern world wrought with hostility and violence, leaders of local Jewish groups say the observance of Rosh Hashana is truly an opportunity to start anew on both a personal and global level.    Rosh Hashana, the first day of the Jewish new…

  • Letters to the editor

    Resident says Mironov unfair To the editor:     This is in response to the town hall meeting held Sept. 6. I felt very upset at the way it was conducted by the mayor.    Without any presentation of pros and cons of the project, she came out very strongly and denounced BAPS, one of the most…

  • Raiders do it again to Falcons

    By: Dave Gurney    NORTH BRUNSWICK — Soccer is a funny game.    You can control the time of possession, have the better of the play, and have the most opportunities offensively.    But most of the time, you just have to have the breaks.    Whether or not they will fall your way could determine your fate more…

  • Francis Riddell

       Francis X. Riddell, 90, of Monroe, died Tuesday, Sept. 12, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick.    Born in Jersey City, Mr. Riddell lived in Belford for 38 years before moving to Clearbrook in 1983. Mr. Riddell was employed for 32 years as a machinist at Bell Labs, Holmdel, retiring in 1980. He was…

  • Warts and Comb-Overs

    Duane Hanson’s sculpture is so life-like, it’s hard to discern viewers from the art on display at the Michener Museum in Doylestown, Pa. By: Jillian Kalonick    At the bottom of the steps leading down to the exhibition Duane Hanson: Real Life in the Michener Museum’s Wachovia Gallery, there were two men standing watch. Since Mr.…

  • Ex-funeral director dies at 101

    By: Purvi Desai    ALLENTOWN — His three sons say he was a gem of a man and a real gentleman.    An orphan at age 8, he started working with his uncle at what is now the Peppler Funeral Home when just 14.    And they say he used to kiss his wife good night, every day…

  • Four PHS students charged with complicity in racially charged robberies

    Parents file civil rights complaint By: Coutney Gross    Princeton Borough police, in connection with a series of racially biased robberies at the beginning of September, apprehended four Princeton High School students on Wednesday morning and charged them with complicity to robbery.    The black male teenagers — two 14 and two 15 — arrived at the…