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  • Editorial-Dec. 9, 2004

    Support your local businesses By: Mae Rhine    Here’s a way to support the local business community as well as find that special gift.    The Independent Merchants of New Hope has "good neighbor" discount cards.    The cards are bring mailed to the nearly 10,000 residents of New Hope and Lambertville. And they are not just for…

  • Behind Blue Eyes

    90 Main is the place to go for global cuisine and Jason Nazzaro as Frank Sinatra. By: Amy Brummer JASON NAZZARO    The 12 CDs for the price of one deal seems the ultimate bargain until you have to pick a dozen albums from a somewhat paltry list. After exhausting the possibilities of gems like the…

  • ‘Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song’

    Crossroads Theatre Company presents this show about the legendary jazz singer, starring Freda Payne. By: Stuart Duncan    There’s a new style of musical out there these days. It begins with a legend (which probably means deceased) with enough hits to support an evening of, say, two hours plus. That means roughly 30 tunes, give or…

  • To your Health-Dec. 9, 2004

    Ways to stay healthy this flu season By: Dr. Terry Shlimbaum    Dec. 5-11 was named National Handwashing Awareness Week.    Though the influenza vaccine is helpful, vaccination is not the only way to help prevent the flu.    Here are steps you and your family can take to stay healthy this winter.    Perhaps the simplest and most…

  • Road to Bethlehem

    TIMEOFF PHOTOS/MATT SMITH A historic water trough on Main Street.    The road to Bethlehem, Pa., actually winds through Bucks County — a 90-minute pilgrimage up routes 413, 611 and 412 — when you start a block from the Delaware River way down in Bristol Borough.    Just over the line into Northampton County, this city of…

  • Police Blotter-Dec. 9, 2004

    Lambertville    Police were called to Ely Field Dec. 6 for a report of two storage sheds that were broken into.    Police found a wooden storage shed, used to store sports equipment, with a wooden jamb broken off. The second shed, made of vinyl and containing a sprinkler system and hose, had its lock broken off.…

  • Scaffolding topples; power cut in area

    The First Baptist Church and the contractor hired to fix its roof have been fined for failure to obtain permits. By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — The First Baptist Church and the contractor hired to fix its roof each has been fined $1,000 for failure to obtain the proper permits before erecting scaffolding, and the fines…

  • Obituaries-Dec. 9, 2004

    Margaret Schmutz    LAMBERTVILLE — Margaret T. Schmutz, 82, of Lambertville died Monday, Nov. 29, at home.    Born in New Hope, Mrs. Schmutz was a Lambertville resident since childhood.    She was a bookkeeper at the Chocolate Shoppe Restaurant in Lambertville, a business owned by her brother-in-law and his wife, Harry and Frieda Schmutz.    She also worked…

  • Longtime West Amwell clerk to retire

    Betty Jane Hunt has been serving the township for 32 years. By: Linda Seida    WEST AMWELL — Municipal Clerk Betty Jane Hunt will retire Dec. 31 after serving the township for 32 years.    Mrs. Hunt will continue as secretary of the Board of Adjustment. Her replacement as municipal clerk has not been announced yet. An…