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1. Lawrenceville network artists will be ‘seeing red’ on 2nd Saturday
(Entertainment/Movies)

... this month, art on view at the gallery will also include the work of Mary Waltham, a new member. She grew up on a farm in a small village in Dorset, England, a rural county immortalized by Thomas Hardy; ...

2. Farmers markets: vital for everyone
(Opinion/Commentary)

... helping farmers, to create new, and revitalize existing farmers markets. This action will support efforts to strengthen the rural economy and catalyze redevelopment in cities and towns across America. ...

3. Punxsutawney Phil set to star in Groundhog Day 2011
(Life/Style)

... Phil emerges from his temporary hole — a simulated tree stump at the rural site of Gobbler's Knob — on February 2 and sees his shadow, winter weather will continue for six more weeks across the United ...

4. In search of New Jersey cowboy poets
(Life/Style)

... Poetry Gathering, a week-long celebration of life in the rural West. It features the contemporary and traditional arts that arise from lives lived caring for land and livestock. The 27th National Cowboy ...

5. Bishop's Residence - an Inexpensive Alternative
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

Wait a minute, there’s plenty of rural homeowners down there in South Jersey with an abandoned vehicle, trailer or Winnebago or two on their property. I’m sure one resident may wish to donate one of those ...

6. Trenton bishop’s planned move out of town provokes dissent
(N.J./State)

... the Trenton Diocese, and his house-to-be is in a semi-rural area of Lawrence Township virtually next door to Princeton. In fact, it has a Princeton address. No, Bishop David M. O'Connell will not be ...

7. Tyler Clementi’s suicide among the Ten Worst Stories Involving Sexuality in 2010
(Life/Style)

... by fighting other, less costly diseases. The Obama administration is shifting money for AIDS drugs to funding rural health care centers that focus on preventing a wider set of diseases, including malaria, ...

8. New Jersey deserves affordable housing and environmental protection
(Opinion/Commentary)

... would grant developers legal leverage to force new housing developments everywhere — especially in suburban and rural communities. Municipalities with less than 5,000 people per square mile, much of ...

9. Good
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... may be way too high but there are a lot of benefits as well. Higher paying jobs, nice communities, and everything from the shore, to very rural communities, to more city like ones. It's not all badf or ...

10. Affordable housing bill benefits New Jersey developers
(Opinion/Commentary)

... rural and environmentally sensitive parts of New Jersey. More than 75% of towns in New Jersey will not be compliant, which means they will be at the mercy of developers. We believe this bill will cause ...

11. Michael Vick debate re-opened by Obama’s odd call
(Sports/Professional)

... a dog fighting ring on his rural property in Virginia. As ESPN reported in December 2007, "Dogs that did not perform up to expectations were killed by electrocution, hanging, drowning and other violent ...

12. New Jerseyans support serving ‘Jersey Fresh’ food in schools
(N.J./State)

... under age 30. In the more rural southern and western portions of the state, 71 percent and 73 percent of residents respectively correctly associate the Garden State nickname with farming, compared to only ...

13. Preventing distracted driving: A conscious effort needed to save lives
(Opinion/Commentary)

... in urban, suburban and rural communities throughout the country. In a report released in September in the American Journal of Public Health, data gathered from the National Center for Statistics and ...

14. National farm policy should change to strengthen America's dairy farmers
(Opinion/Commentary)

... continue. Along with this loss, we will lose the rural working landscape and positive contributions their businesses provide local communities. Fred Hough, a Sussex County, New Jersey dairy farmer, laments ...

15. N.J. high school seniors test well in math, average in reading
(N.J./State)

... schools did about the same as rural schools nationally. In New Jersey, though, urban students trailed their peers elsewhere by an average of 138 to 151. Rural and suburban students in New Jersey scored ...

16. New Jerseyans approve of bear hunting, poll says
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... approve. Voters over age 60 approve by a margin of 2 to 1. New Jerseyans in the most rural parts of the state are more likely to approve of a bear hunt than others voters. In Sussex, Hunterdon, Warren, ...

17. Fawn Hill estate in New Vernon on auction block
(Money/Economy)

... site Jockey Hollow, this picturesque estate in its glory days was a working farm with two ponds, sunny pastures and unspoiled woods set in one of the most affluent rural areas in the United States, ranked ...

18. 48 New Jersey recreational trails benefiting from over $800,000 in 2010 federal aid
(Life/Style)

... towns is enhanced by the broad network of trails, which connects the fabric of our communities.'' Martin said trails can provide appreciation and accessibility of open space in rural, urban and suburban ...

19. Movie review: ‘Stone’ (with trailer)
(Entertainment/Movies)

... to and from his home in a rural suburb of Detroit, the radio crackles with the exhortations and mutterings of preachers and the would-be saved. But it's when Jack is at work with Stone that the sinning ...

20. Cablevisions pleads for government, non-profits to stream World Series over Internet
(Sports/Professional)

... Act in order to gain a commercial advantage," Fox said in its statement. "The obscure provision of the Copyright Act that Cablevision cites is for boosting over the air signals to rural areas for reception ...