Category: archives
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Internet safety topic for Plainsboro police outreach effort
By: Emily Craighead PLAINSBORO The police Community Outreach and Education Unit and I-Safe will hold an Internet safety information program for parents at 7 p.m. Feb. 7. It will take place in the courtroom in the Municipal Building. The program is designed to help inform parents, whose children are often more technologically savvy than…
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SPECIAL REPORT: KIDS, CARBS & CARDIOGood eating habits plus lots of exercise add up to good health
The obesity epidemic boils down to one simple equation: "calories in" minus "calories out." By: Hilary Parker At its most basic level, the obesity epidemic boils down to two numbers and one simple equation: "calories in" minus "calories out." "The way I tend to think about it is that obesity is really the result of…
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Students make a soldier’s Christmas brighter
Fourth-grade students at Cranbury School send care packages to Iraq. By: Jessica Beym Nikki Dykovitz, a teacher’s assistant at the Cranbury School, won’t be seeing her 22-year-old son Steve, this Christmas. But with help from the fourth-grade classes, "Sgt. Steve" and the rest of his squad in Iraq will still be able to have a…
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Monroe loses but battles Princeton to the end
By: Rich Fisher With the Monroe and Princeton High basketball teams both coming off tough opening-night losses, each side felt Monday night provided the perfect opportunity to gain that all-important first win of the season. The Falcons were recovering from a 64-19 loss to Colonia and the Little Tigers were coming off a 47-32 loss…
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Artist pairs up paintings with shops
Princeton Shopping Center becomes an outdoor gallery By: Rachel Silverman If Victoria Bell has a muse, it’s psychology, and her children. Both themes figure prominently in the artist’s whimsical work, the most recent example of which is on display at the Princeton Shopping Center. The shopping center installation features 60 black-and-white paintings of household items,…
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Spreading the word
Church sermons focus on the true spirit of Christmas. By: Leon Tovey Following and spreading the word of Christ will be the theme at churches in Jamesburg and Monroe this Christmas. The Rev. Mike Bruni, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Jamesburg, said his Christmas Day sermon on Sunday would come from the Gospel…
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Plainsboro’s Wicoff House to hold Christmas exhibit Jan. 15
By: Emily Craighead Christmas at the Wicoff House, home of the Plainsboro Historical Society, will last through the third week in January. The decorations and displays are reminiscent of what Christmas would have been like for Plainsboro’s founding families in the 1920s and 1930s. Wicoff family Christmas cards from the 1930s are displayed in the…
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RETROSPECTIVE: Jamesburg-Monroe
10 Years Ago As a student at the American Boychoir School in Princeton, Monroe resident Brendan Houle did his share of Christmas caroling this holiday season. Last week alone, the 11-year-old sang in Hoboken, Trenton, New York, New Brunswick and Rahway, and three times in Princeton. While on tour he sang many seasonal songs,…
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Dilemma? What Dilemma?
‘Tis the season to celebrate family and to share traditions By: Hilary Parker When Mary Borchers was a little girl, she would wake up early on Christmas morning and sit on the stairs excitedly with her brother and two sisters. They could barely sit still as they waited for their parents to give them the…
