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  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: Lively local lady celebrates 95th

    HOPEWELL VALLEY: Lively local lady celebrates 95th

    On Saturday, Ruth Pierson’s six children and extended family got together at Pennington Point to fete her 95th birthday. Shown above are the Pierson children and their mother. From left, they are: (back row) Frances Hansbrough and John Pierson; (front row) Mary Coleman, Mrs. Pierson (the birthday lady), Martha Payne, Jane Loney and Kristin Crate.

  • LAMBERTVILLE: St. John’s church renovation is on schedule

    LAMBERTVILLE: St. John’s church renovation is on schedule

    Needed work on stained glass led to other projects By John Tredrea, Special Writer Work on a major renovation of St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church at 44 Bridge St. in Lambertville is going well and expected to be complete in late October. "The work is about half finished," said Tana Dimino, one of…

  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: Lively local lady celebrates 95th

    HOPEWELL VALLEY: Lively local lady celebrates 95th

    Great-granddaughter, Allyson Hansbrough, is shown with Ruth Pierson.

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  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: Lively local lady celebrates 95th

    HOPEWELL VALLEY: Lively local lady celebrates 95th

    Great-grandsons (from left) Logan Pierson, Lucius Neely, JJ Helverson and Darius Neely.

  • HAMILTON: Traffic impact of Kingdom Church project reviewed

    By Amy Batista, Special Writer    The Zoning Board heard about the potential traffic impacts of the Kingdom Church project on July 22.    The application is for a 51,017-square-foot church with 254 parking spots at 2367 Kuser Road. The applicant is seeking a use variance, various waivers and preliminary and final site plan.    To accommodate…

  • POLICE BLOTTER: Aug. 7

    A joyride on Brunswick Avenue resulted in two 15-year-old Lawrence Township boys being charged with taking a motor vehicle without the owner’s permission on July 31. A police officer on patrol observed a car on Brunswick Avenue around 2 a.m. that was being driven in an erratic manner. The officer stopped the car and when…

  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: Lively local lady celebrates 95th

    HOPEWELL VALLEY: Lively local lady celebrates 95th

    Photos by Paige Hansbrough On Saturday (Aug. 2), a birthday party/celebration was held at the clubhouse in Pennington Point for longtime area resident, Ruth Pierson, on the occasion of her 95th birthday. The party, organized by two of her daughters, Frances Hansbrough and Martha Payne, was attended by 50 family members — including her six…

  • LAWRENCE: Everything’s just peachy at Terhune

    LAWRENCE: Everything’s just peachy at Terhune

    By Charley Falkenburg, Special Writer LAWRENCE — Things were just peachy keen at Terhune Orchards last weekend as people came from all over to celebrate the season’s fuzziest fruit at the farm’s second annual peach festival. And to pay homage to the peach, a lot of sampling went on at the farm-to-fork tasting section where…