There are dangers inherent in using the chemicals in the fine arts, from headaches to blurry vision to lead poisoning to complete dysfunction.
Marie, anonymous artist; Jane Cheryl, B.F.A., M.A., teacher of "Introduction to Painting" at Warren County Community College; Michael McCann, PHD, Certified Industrial Hygienist, Executive Director of the Center for Safety in the Arts and author of Health Hazards Manual for Artists and Artists Beware
I visit some of the religious communities in Warren County to learn about them and to discuss their impact on neighborhoods.
World Apostolate of Fatima: The Blue Army Shrine, Washington Township (Catholic);
Siddhachalam: the Mountain of God, Blairstown (Jain);
Labsum Shedrub Ling: Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center, Franklin Township
Life on a dairy farm is different these days.
Joseph Banghart, Sr., Franklin Township; Frank Gibbs, Allamuchy; Ray DiRisio, Jr., Mansfield; Bill Roseberry, Washington Township
How safe are those over-the-counter diet powders?
Arthur H. Popkave, MD, cardiologist, Phillipsburg; Carol Francis Jubert, RD, MS, Community Nutrition Coordinator for Morristown Memorial Hospital; Debbie Conrad, RD, Easton Hospital's Chief Clinical Dietician
A humorous look at coping with the impact of development on rural areas and the collision of concerns and expectations between old and new residents, including unexpected noises and smells, traffic obstruction and trespassing issues.
Bill Roseberry, farmer; Carl Sigler, farmer; Everett Chamberlain, agricultural agent, Cooperative Extension Service; Donna Rue, Public Health Nurse-Educator; Pat Kaspereen, real estate agent
The lazy way to create and maintain your flower garden.
Joe Gyurian, Horticultural Consultant, Rutgers Cooperative Extension, Somerset County; Bob Wedderman, co-owner, Three Brothers Nursery, Mansfield Township
How the Warren County Task Force on AIDS was formed in reaction to panic-driven events in the Washington Borough school district in 1985.
Anne Heft, member; Mary Ellen LaBrie, RN, executive board chairman; Linda Patak, executive board secretary
The Warren County Coalition of Adult Learning and Literacy (C.A.L.L.) teaches volunteers how to teach reading, matches each tutor with someone who wants to read and provides the materials necessary for the lessons.
Edgar Poyer, client; Lisa Hailey, volunteer tutor; Maria Heaton, literacy coordinator
A new, fun and much safer approach to graduation parties.
Rikk Streng, student participant, 1991 Warren Hills party; Donna McDonald, senior class advisor, Belvidere High School; Rita Fennell, active in the North Warren Regional High School's party; Carol Walker, Blairstown proponent; Trudy Piatt, president, Warren County Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)
What I learned after my (first) heart attack at age 35.
Me, patient; American Heart Association statistics; Nancy Lawson, area communications director, American Heart Association; Pat Mathews, manager of the CPR Training Center, Warren Hospital
Home schooling, laws and effects.
Donna Fox, Washington Township, parent; Diana D'Agostino, Independence Township, parent; Barbara LaBrie, Washington Borough, parent; Irene Mott, Blairstown, parent; Jane Keehn, Educational Planner and acting Warren County Superintendent of Schools; Patrick J. O'Malley, Superintendent of Schools, Washington Borough; John Deibert, Ed.D., Superintendent of Schools, Lebanon Township
How to use and avoid using dangerous pesticides.
Martha Maletta, Horticultural Consultant for the Rutgers Cooperative Extension Service, Flemington; Dr. Chris Milne, research scientist, the Department of Health's Environmental Health Service
Fiscal and physical impact of radon gas. How tests can trick you.
Joe Norton, owner/manager, Norton Conservation Company (Norcon), Hackettstown; Steve Vollers, managing partner, Western Acres development; Washington Borough; New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Energy, Radon Information Line
Understanding and responding to your town's proposed budget.
Alan Fisher, Washington Borough Town Manager; Dawn Merante, Franklin Township Finance Officer
Avoiding salmonella with safe cooking techniques. Diagnosis and treatment of salmonella.
Howard J. Swidler, M.D, Warren Hospital's Chief of Emergency Medicine; Shawn Padulo, executive chef, Branches Restaurant, North Branch; Ann M. Rhinesmith, extension home economist, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Warren County
What, who, why and how.
Jeff Polachek, Super Software BBS; Skal Loret, Back Lounge of the Tour Bus; Scott Johnson, The War Board; Kath Slawson, The RoundTable BBS
Tips from and recollections of the Warren County Fair's clown.
Col. Jim Russell, Peanut Circus Shows
Three successful Warren County crafters explain how craft-making hobbies became money-making home-businesses.
Sharon Wescoe, Washington Borough; Maureen Wahlers, Blairstown; April Ackerman, Blairstown
Checking out the fall foliage in Warren County on foot, from bicycle, from your car, from the air and from water. Suggested routes and contact people for such tours.
Don't miss any of your possible income tax deductions.
Denise O'Dell, C.P.A., Washington Borough
Managing asthma and small children.
Anonymous parent; Rakesh K. Garg, MD, FCCP
Determining when a bee sting is an emergency.
Teddy, anonymous child patient; Howard J. Swidler, M.D., F.A.C.E.T., Chief of Emergency Medicine at Warren Hospital
You're not nuts. This is real.
Jeff Danco, PSYD., American Institute for Counseling, Hampton and Green Brook
The diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease.
Anonymous child patient and her mother; Marvin Rosenthal, M. D., director, Family Practice Residency Program at Coventry Family Practice, Phillipsburg; Frank J. Gilly, M. D., Washington Clinic Medical Associates, Washington Borough
How to get the creepy-crawly safely off you.
Frank J. Gilly, M. D., Washington Clinic Medical Associates, Washington Borough
Lupus.
Kim, anonymous patient; Pat Johnson, executive director, Lupus Erythematosis Foundation of New Jersey
Depression, hunger and the wintertime blues: Seasonal Affective Disorder.
Ronald L. Sultan, Ph.D., Psychologist and Diplomate of the American Board of Psychotherapy
Avoiding unnecessary wrinkles; treatment with Retina A.
Jean Abel Cramer, MD, Assistant Professor at Cornell Medical School, whose dermatology office is in Flemington
Diagnosis and avoidance of skin cancer.
Dave, the patient; Jean Abel Cramer, MD, Assistant Professor at Cornell Medical School, whose dermatology office is in Flemington
Avoidance, diagnosis and treament of sports injuries.
Jerome D. Rosman, M.D., Orthopedic Surgeon, Hackettstown.
Walt Schneider on his Angel Falls, Venezuela, parachute jump
My (jaded and irascible) opinions on some laws under consideration
Guess how I feel about those massive, feather-bedding, expensive and inappropriate noise-containment lines of monoliths?
Anonymous Borough resident describes her and her son's meeting with a UFO in Mansfield
Man's insensitivity to man.
Trudy Piatt, Mothers against Drunk Driving
Why I like it here.
I rant about taxes, local laws, schools and agency rudeness.
Checking out the Merrill Creek Reservoir
Anti-teachers' strike diatribe with avoidance suggestions
Why it is impossible to hit it really big, or keep it if you do
In support thereof.
About contaminated water supplies and emergency responses
Donna Rue, Public Health Educator, alerts the public
Cummings [Jake] Piatt, former Assistant Commissioner of the (N.J.) Department of Education, discusses education today
Washington's Emergency Disaster Plan. Such as it was.
At a powwow
Jack Miller, glass cutter and car restorer
Lenny Duane, Jr., who rescued a drowning friend
A summer camp with special needs in mind
Steve Froemel, Camp Warren, The Association of Retarded Citizens
Duane Alpaugh, painter
Franklin Beaty, long distance rider
Jennifer Dante, beauty pageant contestant
Ann O'Malley, Big Brothers/Big Sisters
In which, despite some panic, I donate blood.
Sister Mary Francis, Blue Army Shrine
My beloved computer shows
Ken Snover, Central Warren Youth Association
Gladys Shires, Daughters of the American Revolution
Alan Fisher, Borough Manager, on garbage/recycling developments
Alan Fisher, Borough Manager, more on garbage/recycling developments or lack thereof
Ruth Toretta, Warren Grange #110
Three generations of Burds, mostly named Guy
Diane Friedman, whose 5th grade class recycles
Henry Scala advises parents and teens
Warren schools try to save taxpayers $$ while providing good educational value
Lenny Duane Sr, tattooist
Town manager Alan Fisher explains why we have them and what we can do about them
The state budget trashes local plans
Professional bicyclists roll through Warren County
Washington Township Superintendent of Schools Barry Dornich discusses the very positive impact of putting all kids in the same grade in one building.
Bob Richards, on volunteers and baseball
About that totally rad spring in Liberty Township on Route 46
See? I told you I was a writer.
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