Word: hunterdon
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...warehouses. Since the manufacturers are selling their own goods, the stores are well stocked and well organized. Says Jean Smith, the manager of Liberty Village: "Mostly we have last season's styles and production overruns." Indeed, "Flemington is not competing with K mart," says Fran Durst, president of the Hunterdon < County Chamber of Commerce, which has headquarters here. "In the Anne Klein outlet, you're still going to pay $250 for a suit. But it would have cost you $500 in Bloomingdale...
Improbably, Flemington has managed to absorb the shopping influx without undue strain or violence to its historic setting. On Main Street, for instance, stands the 1828 Greek-revival Hunterdon County courthouse, famous as the site of the sensational 1935 trial of Bruno Hauptmann, who was convicted of kidnaping and killing aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby. Just a block away is the Clothing Mansion, a three-story emporium of discounted men's wear in a carefully preserved old home...
Danbury is followed by other New York exurbs: central New Jersey's Middlesex, Hunterdon and Somerset counties; Norwalk, Conn.; and Long Island. Then come San Francisco; Nashua, N.H.; Los Angeles-Long Beach; Orange County, Calif.; Boston; and Bergen and Passaic counties in New Jersey. At the bottom of the list: Jackson, Mich., and Atlantic City...
...football team at North Hunterdon High School in Annandale, N.J., started practice last week, one player trotted out on the field with a little extra padding. But despite some initial grumbling, there were no flags, because No. 18 was Elizabeth Balsley, 16, the first female to play on the school's team in the state's history. On her first day, the lissome (5 ft. 5 in., 127 lbs.) but stone-handed rookie dropped some 20 straight passes and described her own performance as "very, very poor." She had fared much better at tackling the local school board policy barring...
After disembarking, the assortment of Americans brought together by the tour hugged and kissed each other and sang the doxology in praise of God. "We were all prepared to crash," says Ronald D. Roth, a guidance counselor at North Hunterdon Regional High School in Annandale, N.J., who was leading the group. "This is one adventure we didn't need...