Category: archives

  • No prison for shade tree violations

    A month-long prison term won’t be levied, but there still is a fine of $600 a day per violation. By: Linda Seida    NEW HOPE — The borough’s shade tree ordinance has become a lot more friendly now that officials have agreed no one can be imprisoned for a violation.    But friendly only goes so far.…

  • July 20, 8:40 p.m.: The supreme choice

    The president made his choice; now it’s up to the Senate to make sure the nominee belongs on the court. By: Hank Kalet    The president has made his choice.    "President Bush nominated U.S. Court of Appeals Judge John G. Roberts Jr. for the Supreme Court last night, passing over several female candidates to replace the…

  • ‘Godspell’

    Princeton Summer Theater revives the John Michael Tebelak/Stephen Schwartz musical. By: Stuart Duncan    The beginnings of Godspell are well known: How John Michael Tebelak, a student in the master’s degree program at Carnegie Mellon University, was dawdling with his thesis; how he attended sunrise services on Easter Sunday in 1970 at the cathedral in Pittsburgh;…

  • Delay from county means city taxes due later

    Taxpayers won’t have to pay interest unless their bill is paid after Aug. 16. By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — Third-quarter tax bills will be mailed tomorrow (Friday), but taxpayers won’t have to worry about accruing interest unless they pay after mid-August.    Interest will not be applied until after Aug. 16 because the bills are going…

  • Striking Accord

    By: Scott Morgan TIMEOFF/FRANK WOJCIECHOWSKI Composer/producer/film school grad Bill Milbrodt with his guitar – the body is made from an air cleaner – and drums that were once aluminum wheels    It isn’t quite paradox, the way Bill Milbrodt speaks. Not quite contradiction, either. The words are English, but that’s as far as conventional structure goes.…

  • ‘My Way’

    Bucks County Playhouse pays a musical tribute to Frank Sinatra. By: Stuart Duncan Klint J. Rudolph, Jaimie Standish, Adrian Zmed and Julie Zimmer star in My Way in New Hope.    My Way, which has just opened for a two-week run at Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pa., joins the familiar genre of tributes to…

  • Obituaries-July 21, 2005

    Lynne Sewell    ROSEMONT — Lynne Sewell, 69, of Rosemont died Monday, July 11, in Doylestown (Pa.) Hospital.    Born in Bogota, she was the daughter of the late Engelbert and Elizabeth Behr Heinzmann.    She lived in Hillsborough, then Flemington before moving to Rosemont since 1971.    A registered nurse, she was a graduate of the Holy Name…

  • Canal House can be demolished for condos

    George Michael plans to build 20 condos on Mechanic Street. By: Linda Seida    NEW HOPE — A developer received approval to tear down the Canal House on Mechanic Street to make way for luxury condominiums, but the Borough Council tempered its approval with a list of 13 conditions and a stipulation to obtain state permits…

  • Senior Menus-July 21, 2005

       All meals are served at noon at Hibernia Apartments in Lambertville.    The value of each meal is $4.45. Any amount donated over this is a tax-deductible contribution. All menus are subject to change and include milk and margarine.    The sodium-controlled menu is the same unless otherwise noted.    Thursday, July 21 — Tomato and pasta salad,…