Category: archives
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A sense of place at Plainsboro gardens
Sensory garden built for communiity By: Carolyn Foote Edelmann When is a garden more than a garden? When it’s a feast for the senses. With the eager assistance of young children and parents, Plainsboro Township has created a Sensory Garden for the entire community. Planned to appeal especially to seniors and the disabled, two separate…
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Wal-Mart presents third plan for store
Opponents of project stage protest before Planning Board Screening Committee meeting. By: Rebecca Weltmann The Planning Board Screening Committee on Tuesday reviewed Wal-Mart’s third proposal to build a store at Spruce Street and Arctic Parkway, near the Ewing Township border. The meeting took place at the Senior Center on Darrah Lane. About 40 area residents…
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Former Messenger-Press publisher dies
Robert Halle, 70, united the Allentown Messenger with the Millstone Illustrated Press By: Purvi Desai ALLENTOWN Robert Charles Halle, 70, for 20 years the publisher and editor of The Messenger-Press, died of lung cancer on July 8 at his home in Gouldsboro, Pa. "Everybody liked him," Joan Halle, his wife, said in a phone…
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School district sets activity fees
Extracurricular participation to generate annual charge By: Purvi Desai WASHINGTON For the first time in the school district’s history, there will be a student activity fee for the school year of 2006-07 and some parents and students aren’t very happy about it. On June 28, Superintendent Jack Szabo sent home a letter to…
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Teachers’ work on display
Local art teachers have work unveiled By: Joseph Harvie The works of three South Brunswick High School teachers were unveiled to the public as the third installment of the Municipal Art Gallery opened Tuesday. About 40 residents, including two dozen high school art students, attended the opening of "Teachers as Artists," sponsored by the township…
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Editorial
Readers suffer from county’s library project Maybe you’ve seen a movie about a magical device that can stop time. You might think someone had used one on East Union Street in Bordentown City for the past two years, as the library expansion project stood frozen in time while all around it we moved…
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Ellenor Elizabeth Mount Tyndale
Ellenor Elizabeth Mount Tyndale, 94, of Hamilton died Sunday in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton, following a brief illness. Raised on a farm in Manalapan, she received a diploma from the National Cooking School in 1935. She moved to Hamilton Square shortly after her marriage in 1937 to her late husband, William A.…
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Greeting card entries still needed
Cover design contest almost over By: Joseph Harvie Artists, get your pencils, paints, crayons, pastels or cameras ready. There are only two weeks left to enter the township Division of Social Services’ greeting card cover design contest. The division is running a contest to find a South Brunswick scene to place on the front of…
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Mystery and Mayhem
David Campbell’s new detective novel is rife with witty repartee. By: Susan Van Dongen David Campbell’s first novel, Venetian Holiday (St. Martin’s Press, $23.95), has a bit of the Audrey Hepburn-Cary Grant dynamic to it. But there’s a twinkling of Bob Hope-Bing Crosby in there too. There’s the snappy dialogue, sexual tension and exotic locations…
