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When camping with boys, load up the food
ARE WE THERE YET Lori Clinch I have said it before and I’ll say it again, raising boys is not for the faint of heart. They build tunnels under fences, scale walls for no apparent reason and are known to jump off structures with nothing more than a grocery sack for a parachute. One has…
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BUSINESS BRIEFS
CentraState Healthcare System, Freehold Township, announced that its Family Medicine Residency Program was highlighted at the annual New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians summer assembly in Atlantic City on June 13. Class of 2015 graduate Joan Medina, MD, received the “New Jersey Family Physician Resident of the Year” award for “Demonstration of the Outstanding Attributes…
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DATEBOOK
The Friends of the Old Yellow Meeting House will host the 100th annual Reunion Service at 2 p.m. July 26 in the historic church at 70 Yellow Meeting House Road, Upper Freehold Township. Accompanying the service will be a choir comprised of members from the First Baptist Church, Allentown, and Memorial Baptist Church, Yardville.…
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PRINCETON: Sanctuary status sends a muddled message
Dudley Sipprelle, Princeton On Wednesday, July 1, a young woman named Kathryn Steinle was shot in the chest in broad daylight on a popular pedestrian pier in San Francisco as she walked with her father and a friend. She collapsed in her father’s arms begging for his help and died several hours later in a…
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PRINCETON: Sanctuary status seeks to build trust in the community
Judy Hutton, Princeton We congratulate Mayor Liz Lempert for standing firm on Princeton’s intent to remain a sanctuary city for immigrants navigating the path to citizenship, despite fear and reaction following the recent tragedy in San Francisco where a woman was killed allegedly by an undocumented immigrant. Mayor Lempert and the Police Department are working…
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Bird flu is devastating to American egg industry
Ivan Slotsky, Princeton The U.S. egg industry is reeling from a colossal outbreak of avian flu, mostly among egg-laying chickens. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 48 million birds, accounting for 11 percent of the nation’s egg-laying hens, have been slaughtered for fear of infection during the past few months. The effects are far-reaching,…
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AS I SEE IT: Was Atticus Finch racist?
By Anne Waldron Neumann Hurray! Harper Lee, author of the 1960 classic “To Kill a Mockingbird,” probably America’s best-loved novel, has, at 89, published a new novel. Well, “Go Set a Watchman” is not exactly new. And it’s not exactly very good. It was written before “Mockingbird” though it introduces Atticus Finch 20 years later,…
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PRINCETON: Sick pay law needed here
Princeton Board of Health The Princeton Council has been discussing legislation that would allow nearly everyone who works in the town to earn sick time they can use for themselves or a loved one in the event of an illness. The Princeton Board of Health urges the municipality to pass the ordinance and join nine…
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PRINCETON: For Ken Larini, and his customers, it’s the end of an era as he closes his garage, gas station and towing service
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer Ken Larini has been part of the neighborhood on Alexander Street, the guy who owned the garage, gas station and towing service that helped keep Princeton running for 32 years. He gradually shrank his business over the past five years to the point where he sold his property to…
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