Category: archives

  • City OKs $50-a-seat outdoor dining law

    Eateries can avoid the fee if they go through the often expensive process of getting approval for outdoor seating from either the Planning Board or Zoning Board of Adjustment. By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — Outdoor dining will cost restaurants $50 per seat annually if they haven’t been cleared to offer the amenity by either the…

  • Flood task force urges residents to share stories

    Another meeting will be held sometime next month in Stockton. By: Linda Seida    For those who missed Monday’s meeting of the Flood Mitigation Task Force in Trenton, another is scheduled for next month with Stockton as the tentative location.    An announcement of a firm date and location will be forthcoming. The task force hopes to…

  • Cut From the Same Cloth

    Enchanted Forrest Art in New Hope, Pa., is truly a family affair. By: Megan Sullivan TIMEOFF PHOTOS/MEGAN SULLIVAN From left, sisters Laura and Jenni Forrest and their mom, Patti Buchanan, draped in Ms. Buchanan’s crocheted designs in Laura’s new gallery, Enchanted Forrest Art.    Twenty-three-year-old Laura Forrest was faced with an empty space before her, and…

  • Feelin’ It

    Electric guitarist Chris Beard hits Maggie’s Place and the Bucks County Blues Society R&B Picnic. By: Matt Smith Rochester, N.Y., native Chris Beard will play in Doylestown July 15 and Morrisville July 16.    Musicians always declare "love" for their instruments, but when a guitarist expresses this sentiment, it goes beyond mere hyperbole. Just ask Chris…

  • Sweet Thing in Sour Land

    The Sourlands Music Festival aims to raise awareness about a way of life. By: Susan Van Dongen    There’s gold in them thar Sourland Mountains — stories say that John Ringo left it there. The pirate, who is also the namesake for the town of Ringoes, was said to have buried his treasure in the Sourlands…

  • ‘Meshuggah-Nuns!’

    Off-Broadstreet Theatre revisits Don Goggin’s habit-forming sisters of the cloth. By: Stuart Duncan Clockwise from front: Angela Sytko, Michelle Russell, Lauren Brader, Robert Thick and Lillian Israel in the zany musical Meshuggah-Nuns!    The little sisters of Hoboken are back. Those ladies who first appeared as cartoon characters for a Philadelphia greeting card company and made…

  • Secret Service training CD stars city police

    The video provides training for law enforcement agencies on electronic crimes. By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — Because the Secret Service is, well, secret, not too many people knew the federal agents were in Lambertville recently to film training materials for the nation’s law enforcement agencies, using the city’s own police force as actors.    Now that…

  • Police Blotter-July 14, 2005

    Lambertville    Franciso "David" Guzman, 27, of Lambertville was charged July 3 at 6:30 a.m. with aggravated assault on a Lambertville woman.    Police said he was arrested after he allegedly pushed the woman through a plate glass window.    Mr. Guzman also was found to be listed as a fugitive from Bucks County, Pa.    He was released…

  • ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’

    The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey presents the elegant tale of seduction and betrayal, adapted by Christopher Hampton. By: Stuart Duncan Gareth Saxe (left) and Tamara Tunie star in Les Liaisons Dangereuses at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Madison.    Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a deliciously wicked and perversely cynical tale first ventured in…