Category: archives
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City not sure what to do with open space tract
Voters approved a 2-cent tax to pay $1.4 million for 11 acres behind Lambertville Public School and Ely Field and 5 acres along Jefferson Road. By: Linda Seida LAMBERTVILLE Now that voters have approved a new open space tax to pay for the acquisition of more than 11 acres on a hill behind Lambertville…
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Pet Talk-Nov. 18, 2004
Coping with a cat’s unacceptable behavior By: Dr. Daniel Eubanks This is the last of a three-part series on feline behavior. In the first and second parts of this series, we described the evolutionary origins of feline behaviors and how some of their instincts have persisted as unwanted attitudes in our domestic cat pets. More…
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BUSINESS WRAP-UP, Nov. 16
Tyco sells telecom network Tyco International, with headquarters in West Windsor, announced Nov. 1 it has agreed to sell its Tyco Global Network to Videsh Sanchar Nigam, India’s leading telephone and Internet services provider. The $130 million sale is subject to government approval in the United States and India. Additional terms of the deal were…
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Nov. 17, 10:25 p.m.: Standing up and fighting back
We need to fight against the turn away from reason and intellect that the re-election of George W. Bush represents. By: Hank Kalet Occasionally, you read something that makes you say, "I wish I’d written that." This piece in The New York Observer by Nicholas Von Hoffman, which calls on liberals to stand up to…
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MILESTONES, Nov. 16
TECHNOLOGY The New Jersey Technology Council has named Universal Display Corp., a Ewing-based company that hopes to develop a range of products using organic light-emitting diodes, its Public Company of the Year for 2004. Universal Display, which now employs about 50 people, hopes to develop products like glowing wall paper and flexible video monitors that…
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Obituaries-Nov. 18, 2004
Bernard Gaspari LAMBERTVILLE Bernard V. Gaspari, 76, died Monday, Nov. 8, from injuries received during an automobile accident in Hopewell Township. Mr. Gaspari was born and raised in Lambertville. Mr. Gaspari was a member of St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church. A graduate of Lambertville High School, he served in the Army during…
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Nov. 17, 10:24 p.m.: Exit Colin, enter Condi
Powell’s exit does not mean a change in direction. No one listened to him, anyway. By: Hank Kalet So long, Colin Powell. Congratulations Condi Rice. Whatever. The standard story line in Washington is that with Secretary Powell gone, the Bush administration will be free to follow an even more conservative foreign policy agenda. The standard…
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City Hall, church, Prallsville slated for grants
The money from the New Jersey Historic Trust would include $486,180 for City Hall, $343,650 for Prallsville Mills’ sawmill and $199,614 for Centenary United Methodist Church. By: Linda Seida The New Jersey Historic Trust announced Friday more than $7.5 million in historic preservation grants in Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset counties that include $486,180 for…
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PU football frustration continues
Tigers hope to finish .500 after fourth straight loss By: Justin Feil The Princeton University football team will look frustration in the face when it hosts Dartmouth on Saturday with a .500 season on the line. The Tigers won’t have a chance at what would have been their second winning season in seven years after…
