Category: archives
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Blame Game
George Street Playhouse’s production of ‘The Pillowman’ takes a darkly humorous look at who’s at fault when heinous crimes are committed based on one writer’s supposedly fictional stories. By:Jillian Kalonick If Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman is a black comedy, they don’t get much darker. In the play, a writer of short stories, Katurian, is taken…
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Janet Mazdi
HILLSBOROUGH Janet Mazdi died Feb. 6 in Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. She was 88. Born in Bothwell, Scotland, she grew up in Bayonne and lived most of her life in Union County, moving to Montgomery in 1995 and then finally to Hillsborough in 2002. Mrs. Mazdi was an executive secretary for Alcoa Aluminum…
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Raiders eliminated in county quarterfinals
Early deficit too much to overcome at B-R By: Rudy Brandl BRIDGEWATER If anyone had a shot to climb this mountain, it was the Hillsborough High boys’ basketball team. After all, the Raiders recently completed an amazing rally back to the .500 mark after starting the season with a 4-9 record. The team put…
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A sweet for someone sweet
Valentine’s Day at PQM Megan Radice, 6, of Hopewell adds icing to top the cookie she’s decorating during Pennington Quality Market’s annual St. Valentine’s Day celebration held Saturday for PQM Kids Club members.
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SBHS hopes disappointing seed will grow into a GMCT success
By: Rich Fisher The South Brunswick High girls basketball team was less than happy with its fourth-seed in the Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament. But that just gives coach Jaymee Boehmer more ammunition for motivation. "I’ll use that, absolutely," Boehmer said. "I’ll use anything I can." The Vikings, who carried a 16-4 record into Wednesday’s last-minute…
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Gail Filock
Gail E. Filock, 57, of Kendall Park, died Saturday, Feb. 4, in Ewing Township. Born in New Brunswick, Ms. Filock lived in South Brunswick for the past 44 years. She was employed many years ago as a beautician at Jilly’s Place, Edison. Her parents, Frank and Bessie (Wolfe) Filock, are deceased. She is survived by…
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Rolland Hill
WARETOWN Rolland Hill died Jan. 31 in Hunterdon Medical Center, Flemington. He was 89. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he lived in Newark and then moved to Maplewood in 1944 relocated to Waretown after his retirement in 1981. For the past two years he resided at Summerville Assisted Living & Foothill Acres Rehab & Nursing…
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Bordentown basketball players top 1,000 points
Taylor made for success By: Sean Moylan Latoya Taylor likes to kid around with classmate Sammie McDuffie. "I’m always telling him I can beat him (in one-on-one basketball)," said Taylor. "We’re always going back and forth (with good-natured trash talking)." Taylor has reason to be confident and boast about her basketball skills because she is…
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Ruth Hosea
Ruth A. Hosea, 78, of Monmouth Junction, died Saturday, Feb. 11, in the University Medical Center at Princeton after long battles with cancer and finally failure of several body organs. She was born in Green Lane, Pa. After college graduation, she lived four years each in Nebraska and Maine, and has resided in South Brunswick…
