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  • City amends budget for state aid

    The $3.3 million budget, if approved, would mean about $31 more a year for the average homeowner. By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE – Property taxes will go up by about $31 for the average homeowner if the mayor and City Council pass a $3.3 million preliminary budget that was amended last week.    A public hearing and…

  • Pet Talk-July 15, 2004

    Shop for perfect pet at local SPCA By: Dr. Daniel Eubanks    In an earlier column, I mentioned the SPCA (the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) as a good source for obtaining a pet.    I would like to expound on that topic.    As Hunterdon County residents, we are fortunate to have a full-service SPCA…

  • Merchants nix business improvement district

    But business owners want the Lambertville Area Chamber of Commerce to develop some promotional advertising and fund-raising. By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — The city’s business community last week voted down a proposed business improvement district by a vote of 37 to 4.    Merchants and business owners said they weren’t willing to pay the price to…

  • Editorial-July 15, 2004

    City must work to avoid repeat gas explosions By: Mae Rhine    It’s been more than 34 years since the deadly gas explosion that rocked the city of Lambertville.    And no one can resist a shudder recalling that tragic event.    It must have felt like déjà vu Saturday when residents and businesses were evacuated near the…

  • Phyllis Bowers D’Autrechy

       Phyllis Bowers D’Autrechy, 71, died Tuesday in Venice, Fla.    Mrs. D’Autrechy, formerly of Pennington, was a former sixth-grade teacher in the Riverton and Hopewell Valley Regional School districts and retired as the archivist for Hunterdon County.    She was active in many genealogical and historical societies and served as a founder and charter member of the…

  • ‘Educating Rita’

    The Villagers offer this variation on the Pygmalion theme. By: Stuart Duncan    Educating Rita is a 1980 play by British playwright Willy Russell that takes the Pygmalion theme, chops it down to two characters, places the scene in the office of a dissipated professor at a university somewhere in the north of England, near Liverpool,…

  • Gas line ruptured during CVS work

    The contractor was working weekends without the supervision of the city engineer. By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — A construction crew, working Saturday morning on the new CVS drugstore on Cherry Street without the supervision of the city’s engineer, ruptured a gas line and caused the evacuation of nearby residents and businesses.    No injuries were reported,…

  • ‘Proof’

    Princeton Summer Theater stages this drama about a family of unstable mathematicians. By: Stuart Duncan    David Auburn’s first job after graduating from the University of Chicago was at a chemical company, writing copy for labels for a carpet shampoo. But his real interest was the theater, and when acting proved unpromising, he turned to playwriting.…

  • Letters-July 15, 2004

    Roxey Ballet needs support To the editor:    Last December, Roxey Ballet Company sent letters asking for support, and we thank all those who stepped forward during these difficult economic times.    In a time when public funding for the arts is being dramatically cut, and our families need the arts more than ever, we feel compelled…