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Chili cook-off spices up church’s fifth annual carnival
BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer Above: Volunteers and local residents sample chili at the inaugural Immaculate Conception Chili Cook-Off held at the parish carnival in Spotswood on June 17. Right: Veteran chili cook John Walsh Jr. of Monroe Township samples his chili made with several “secret” ingredients. PHOTOS BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI SPOTSWOOD — Pat Esposito…
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This’ll make you view the neighbors in a new light
CODA GREG BEAN Here’s the tale of my only near brush with the fame that sometimes comes to people who witness mob violence firsthand: It was a sunny June morning in 1989, and I was the editor of an alternative newspaper serving the North Shore of Boston. My mother had been visiting, and I was…
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Offshore drilling arguments belie the truth
Just a year after the disastrous Gulf of Mexico fire and oil spill, six of the state’s House of Representatives members have voted in favor of offshore oil drilling. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R- 11), Scott Garrett (R-5), Leonard Lance (R-7), Frank LoBiondo (R- 2), Jon Runyan (R-3) and Chris Smith (R-4) voted to rush drilling permits…
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Calls for need to fully restore Senior Freeze
I f anyone has not already seen it, AARP New Jersey released a video about AARP member Ruthann Wohlforth’s struggles to remain in her house with dignity in the face of rising property taxes. (Her video can be found online at youtube.com/users/AARPNewJersey.) Her ability to live independently depends on the fate of the state’s Senior…
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Residents must ask questions on ‘Golden’ plan
Depending on your sensibilities, you will either love or hate what the East Brunswick Township Council is being asked to consider by the mayor. Once again, the much-less-than- Golden Triangle is up for negotiations. You may like the fact that anyone is in there and that this episode is finally over. You may like the…
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Dylan Shrine goes on tour
Next stop for exhibit is East Brunswick Public Library in July BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer Mel Prussack of Old Bridge set up an exhibit of his personal Bob Dylan memorabilia in recognition of the rock icon’s 70th birthday. The display now will travel to libraries in East Brunswick and Manalapan. JEFF GRANIT staff Since…
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‘Rhapsody in Two’ coming to Monroe
The Greenbriar at Whittingham adult community, Monroe, will present Linda Purl and Kevin Spirtas in “Rhapsody in Two,” a singing and dancing tribute to composers Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin and more, 8 p.m. July 16 at the Richard P. Marasco Performing Arts Center, Monroe Township High School, Perrineville Road. The evening…
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Concert to aid young woman’s RSD fight
Abenefit rock concert to help raise money for Brittany Fields of West Windsor, a young woman fighting reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), a debilitating and progressive disease of the autonomic nervous system, is set for 8 p.m. July 7 in the Kelsey Theatre at Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor. RSD is…
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