Category: archives
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Committee OKs department restructure plan
Sixt, Resavy named to new director posts By:Roger Alvarado Municipal operations in the Parks, Recreation, Engineering and Public Works departments were reshuffled under two ordinances passed unanimously by the Township Committee on Tuesday. The committee also appointed two new department directors. Ernest "Buck" Sixt, a 27-year veteran of the Public Works department and lifelong Hillsborough…
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PERCEPTIONS: Murph took fans to ballgame
Hall of Fame Mets broadcaster died Aug. 3. By: Steve Feitl This is a column I wanted to write last week. It was Tuesday, Aug. 3, when I learned of the death of longtime New York Mets baseball announcer Bob Murphy. He was 79 when he succumbed to lung cancer. For the first 41 years…
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Charter petition tossed
Acting clerk says group used improper format for petitions By:Roger Alvarado Hillsborough Acting Clerk Kevin P. Davis says that a group of residents petitioning to change the township’s form of government has failed to come up with the 3,876 valid signatures needed to get their question on the Nov. 2 ballot. Mr. Davis threw out…
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Obituaries
Suzan S. Cashel, Charles L. Hackett, Janet Mae Anderson, Doris Letts Bowers, Elaine I. Burns, George A. Best, Ella C. Kaplan Suzan S. Cashel MORRISVILLE, Pa. Suzan S. Cashel, 58, died Aug. 9 after a courageous battle with cancer. Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., she was an art teacher at Bordentown Regional High School for…
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Obituaries-Aug. 12, 2004
Thomas Reading BERKS COUNTY, Pa. Thomas C. Reading, 58, of Windsor Township, Berks County, died Tuesday, Aug. 3, at home. Born in Lambertville, he was the son of Ancil J. and Elizabeth B. Muscatell Reading, both residents of the Easton (Pa.) Nursing Center. Mr. Reading was a senior sales representative for Numax Inc., Tappan,…
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‘Maria Full of Grace’
Heavy in symbolism, this tension-packed story shows the unglamorous side of the drug trade. By: Bob Brown Earlier this year, Maria Full of Grace won the Dramatic Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, and it’s easy to see why. Writer-director Joshua Marston knows how to tell a tension-packed story without wasted motion. You are…
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Hearing slated for city workers’ 3.5% pay hike
Mayor David Del Vecchio opted to continue his tradition of not taking a salary. By: Linda Seida LAMBERTVILLE Members of the City Council will raise most city workers wages by 3.5 percent while denying themselves raises for the fourth consecutive year if an ordinance introduced earlier this month is passed as expected. Council members…
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Police Blotter-Aug. 12, 2004
Lambertville Friday at 11:14 p.m., police were called to a fight near the area of 26 Wilson St. Police said Richard Reffitt, 47, of Lambertville was being detained by area neighbors who witnessed him bite Damian Albano, 36, of Lambertville. Mr. Reffitt’s girlfriend was attending a party at 26 Wilson St., police said. He went…
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Martino’s Cuban Restaurant
The food here is enough to seduce, but the chef-owner’s joie de vivre will hook you for life. By: Antoinette Buckley Martino’s Cuban Restaurant 212 W. Main St. Somerville (908) 722-8602 Fax: (908) 575-8395 Food: Very good Service: Embracing Prices: Inexpensive Cuisine: Cuban Ambience: Casual, family-friendly Hours: Tues.-Sun. 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Essentials: Accepts major credit…
