Category: archives
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Where old and new collide
Historic houses, old-time baseball, part of Village Festival By: Cara Latham CHESTERFIELD Bridging the old with the new. Organizers of the Crosswicks Village Festival, now in its 18th year, are trying to expand on that goal this year in more ways than one. While Chesterfield residents usually get the chance to explore historic houses,…
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0-2 aside, Vikes not any worse than last year upon closer look
By: Ken Weingartner At 0-2, the South Brunswick High football season seems to be a mirror reflection of last year’s start in which the Vikings went unbeaten in their first two games. But taking a closer look at that reflection reveals it not to be entirely true. At least that’s the way coach Mark Prelewicz…
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Book Notes
For mystery, take a look at Tony Hillerman By: Joan Ruddiman Most lovers of the mystery genre know Tony Hillerman. He has turned out a new mystery about every two years since his first, "The Blessing Way," was published in 1970. In following the adage, "write what you know," Hillerman has built his series in…
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LHS is still looking for a win
GIRLS SOCCER By: Tim Falls After two weeks of play, the Lawrence High School girls soccer team is still looking for its first win. The Cardinals opened their season with back-to-back overtime ties within a few hours of each other. Lawrence then suffered setbacks to Hun last Saturday and Steinert on Tuesday, while the scheduled…
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Toward sportsmanlike conduct
Township looks to keep behavior at local games under control By: Purvi Desai MILLSTONE The Township Committee is seeking to adopt a sports code designed to keep a check on inappropriate behavior at local games. The committee on Sept. 6 introduced an ordinance to create a sports code of conduct for the township’s growing…
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Officials deny application to demolish old house
New Hope building dates to about 1740. By: Linda Seida NEW HOPE A house that has been standing since before the American Revolution escaped the wrecking ball when officials recently denied a developer’s application to knock it down. "It’s the oldest house on its original foundation" in the borough, Historic Architecture Review Board member…
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TANGENTS by John Saccenti: Discovering wildlife at local park
Davidson Mill pond park provides unexpected natural surprises By: John Saccenti It wasn’t so much "gooorgeous," (as the late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin would call it) as it was startling a water snake that measured maybe 3 feet long resting just an inch or two below the water’s surface. Minutes later we watched as…
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And the winner is …
By: Purvi Desai ALLENTOWN A 10-year-old girl’s painting of the Presbyterian Church will be on the special 300th anniversary pictorial postal cancellation this October . Leah Gilbert, a fifth-grader from Millstone who has been learning fine art drawing and painting with Main Street’s Village Fine Art since the studio opened in Oct. 2005 received…
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SAFE program to replace DARE
"Substance Awareness For Empowerment" will now be tought By: Joseph Harvie Township middle school students will no longer participate in the 10-week Drug Abuse Resistance Education program, and will instead use the Substance Awareness for Empowerment program, which was designed by the township Police Department. Patrol Officer Gene Rickle, who has worked as a DARE…
