Category: archives
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Have your cigar, and smoke it too
By: Molly Petrilla BORDENTOWN CITY Although smoking has been banned in most public places since April, one Farnsworth Avenue venue still allows locals to puff a cigar (or cigarette) without fearing the repercussions. Bordentown Township resident Joe Salera, 39, opened Ashes to Ashes Cigar Shop in late December, and has since been selling area…
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Flight of the Monarch
Food, music and kids’ crafts and costumes are part of the fun at the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association’s Butterfly Festival. By: Megan Sullivan During the colder months, a nice retreat south to a warm locale sounds enticing. It’s just a matter of booking a flight, boarding the plane and fastening your seatbelt for the ride.…
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State says Mill Street roadwork can proceed
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s Historic Preservation Office says the Indian artifacts found at the site were only "chips of rocks and flint." By: Linda Seida STOCKTON A drainage and roadwork project proposed for Mill Street can move forward now that the state has deemed the American Indian artifacts discovered there are…
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‘Boynton Beach Club’
Susan Seidelman’s film appeals to those who realize one’s appetite for connection, love and sex do not suddenly dry up. By: Bob Brown This low-budget film made waves with the over-50 set in South Florida, where it was filmed. Now it’s moving north into select theaters to reach a wider geographic audience, though I suspect…
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Quark Park
By: Ilene Dube Sculptor Jonathan Shor (below) has been teamed up with Princeton University Professor of computer science Perry Cook, whose field is psychoacoustics. Prof. Cook made headlines recently with his laptop orchestra and has recorded with the vocal group Schola Discantus. They have created a lithophone, or stone xylophone, an instrument that dates back…
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Lilly’s on the Canal
Style meets substance in this spot along the canal in Lambertville, where the focus is on Mediterranean, New Mexican and Caribbean flavors. By: Antoinette Buckley There I sat at the end of a satisfying meal mesmerized by a most beautiful display of nature at work: A spider was diligently spinning its web just outside the…
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‘Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby’
This sweet-natured spoof finds the funny in a lovingly drawn bunch of characters. By: Elise Nakhnikian When it comes to Will Ferrell, I’ve been an agnostic for years. I just don’t find it funny when men act like boys especially when they insist, like Ferrell and Adam Sandler, that we not only laugh at…
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Topsoil removal law mulled
West Amwell says developers are leaving little topsoil and trucking out the rest to make a profit. By: Linda Seida WEST AMWELL If the Environmental Commission has its way, pretty soon it will be much tougher for developers to truck West Amwell’s topsoil out of the township. Officials said much of the township’s land…
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Leona Howard Kostar
Leona ("Lee") Howard Kostar, 87, of Titusville died on Monday at RWJ Hospital in Hamilton. She had resided on Nursery Road with her family for the past 50 years. Born in Ocracoke, N.C., she moved to Riverside when she was 13, graduated from Trenton State College and later became a certified teacher. She taught for…
