Category: archives

  • Bear Necessities

    A new documentary on NJN explores the issues surrounding 2003’s controversial bear hunt. By: Susan Van Dongen <</td> New Jersey’s growing bear population and the methods state officials are using to control it are the subjects of Bears: Too Close for Comfort, airing on NJN Aug. 1.    Tom Phillips would like to put a large…

  • Businesses divided over future of Shad Festival

    Some feel it’s a valuable tourism tool while others say it doesn’t attract the "high-end" shoppers Lambertville merchants want to attract. By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — Is the annual Shad Festival a valuable tourism tool or an overgrown street festival that benefits the out-of-town vendors more than the city’s own shopkeepers?    Depends who you ask.…

  • Putting the ‘garden’ in ‘state’

    The recipes…not only utilize the best of the summer bounty we are now enjoying, but reflect some of the many ethnic groups that give our state its characteristic diversity By: Pat Tanner The latest addition to Garden State-centered cook´books is Brian Yarvin’s "Farms and Foods of the Garden State."    The newest addition to my rapidly…

  • The one that didn’t get away

    Lambertville resident Dick Welsh reeled in a nearly 20-pound brown trout in a fishing tournament this summer in Chicago. By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — It sounds like a fish story, one of those tall tales told by fishermen about the big one finally landed but lost.    But the nearly 20-pound brown trout is no fish…

  • July National Ice Cream Month

    By: Breanna Fulper    July is National Ice Cream Month.    What better way to celebrate than with a refreshing frozen dairy treat?    Ice cream is always a favorite, and with so many flavors available, it’s hard to stop at just one scoop! Try some low-fat frozen yogurt; a tasty way to cut fat and calories.    Many…

  • Obituaries-July 28, 2005

    Edward Williams    LAMBERTVILLE — Edward J. "Shorty" Williams, 80, of Lambertville died Sunday, July 17, at Hunterdon Medical Center, Raritan Township.    Born in Lambertville, Mr. Williams was a lifelong city resident.    He was employed by the Union Camp Paper Bag Mill in New Hope for more than 40 years before retiring in 1990.    He was…

  • OBITUARIES, July 26, 2005

    Arthur E. Mittnacht Jr., Margaret J. Schmidt, Karen Olbis. Arthur E. Mittnacht Jr. Retired Princeton orthopedist     PINEHURST, N.C. — Arthur E. Mittnacht Jr. died July 14 of complications from leukemia and cerebrovascular and cardiovascular illness. He was 85.    An orthopedist, Dr. Mittnacht spent most of his practice at the Princeton Orthopedic Group in Princeton.…

  • Committee in Montgomery to evaluate emergency, fire needs

    Increase in traffic and growth in elderly population prompts study. By: Kara Fitzpatrick    MONTGOMERY — A subcommittee of members of the Township Committee and volunteer emergency medical services and fire personnel will be formed to evaluate the needs of the community relating to emergency rescue situations and address concerns as the township population continues to…

  • PU astrophysicist wins major cosmology prize

       Princeton astrophysicist James Gunn has been awarded the 2005 Cosmology Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation, which honors groundbreaking contributions in the field of cosmology, the university has announced.    The award carries a $200,000 prize. It will be presented to Professor Gunn on Nov. 4 at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, where Nicholas Copernicus completed…