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  • For Cineastes Who Think

    The New Jersey Film Festival offers films open to interpretation. By: Anthony Stoeckert    Autumn is here, and it’s time to get serious about movies. No more pirates, mutants, snake-infested planes, and, best of all, not an Adam Sandler movie in sight. But even as mainstream movies start to get serious, true film devotees seek out…

  • Following the Mystery

    Maggie Anderson of New Hope, Pa., makes her Philadelphia debut in the new musical ‘Windy City’ at Walnut Street Theatre. By: Sally Friedman    She was the kind of kid who seemed to be born singing and dancing. Growing up in the Winston-Salem area of North Carolina, Maggie Anderson was singing and dancing and, yes, playing…

  • Plainsboro to hold arts festival Saturday

    Music gets the major focus at library event By: Molly Petrilla    With the strains of an eclectic mix of music in the background, a wide variety of painting, sculpting and other visual forms of expression will come to life tomorrow at Plainsboro Public Library’s annual Festival of the Arts.    "This year, the music is fabulous,"…

  • From Soufflé to Canvas

    Alison Weld seeks to feminize abstract expressionism with domestic materials. By: Susan Van Dongen    It might seem improbable to contemporary young women — encouraged by progressive parents to aspire to everything from the Senate to the recording studio — that females of previous generations were often relegated to reproduce, remain in the kitchen and stick…

  • A fair day in the country

    Monther’s Club’s annual festival brings out the community By: Stephanie Brown    MONROE — Pud, a 13-year-old pony from Ponies for Parties of Sicklerville, moseyed along the makeshift corral as if eagerly anticipating his next fare.    Three-year old Melissa Esposito’s bright blue eyes lit up when she saw him, and as she was lifted up onto…

  • Veteran Lynch makes leap

    PHS senior helps boys’ soccer start strong By: Bob Nuse    One of the great things about coaching high school athletes is watching them blossom and seeing it all come together.    Wayne Sutcliffe knows that happens at different times for different players. Sometimes it happens when they’re young. But other times, it happens later in their…

  • Opening act sets a record

    Wiseman jumps to new PHS mark By: Justin Feil    Megan Wiseman is a newcomer to the Princeton High School girls’ track and field team, and early indications are that she may just be a difference maker.    Wiseman, who moved to Cranbury from Hightstown before the school year began, opened her sophomore spring season by breaking…

  • Letters

    An open letter to the committee To the editor:     I can only begin to express in this e-mail the outrage I felt after reading on the township’s bulletin board the Request for Proposal to rebuild the Main Street firehouse tower into a communications / cell phone installation.    It is hard to imagine anything more…

  • Lower speed limits eyed for 2 roads

    Safety is a concern By: Stephanie Brown    MONROE — Drivers traveling on Possum Hollow Road and portions of Dey Grove Road may have to slow down.    The Township Council introduced an ordinance Sept. 6 to reduce the speed by up to 15 mph on sections of Possum Hollow Road, and by 5 mph on the…