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City voters OK budget, incumbents
The budget includes a 2-cent decrease in the fire tax. By: Sue Kramer LAMBERTVILLE A record number of voters turned out Saturday to approve the city’s $455,597 fire budget, which includes a 2-cent decrease in the fire tax, and re-elect two incumbent fire commissioners to three-year terms. Voters also approved a second ballot question…
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South says Child Study Team not disbanding
Lambertville Public School has decided not to use the team’s services any longer, and that creates a worrisome reduction in funding. By: Linda Seida WEST AMWELL In the wake of a shakeup of South Hunterdon Regional High School’s Child Study Team, officials last week took pains to emphasize the special education unit is not…
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‘Deathtrap’
Pierrot Productions stages this 1978 Ira Levin thriller. By: Matt Smith Deathtrap, Ira Levin’s 1978 murder-mystery, ran on Broadway for 1,793 performances and a few thousand homicides over four and a half years. Pierrot Productions is currently offering its own fun, chilling version at the Kelsey Theatre in West Windsor. The story, as…
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Weddings & Special Occasions- 2004
In the Pink Pastel colors are coming on strong this spring. Page. 3 A Gathering with a View Mountain Lakes House provides an impressive space for almost any occasion. Pg. 5 Diamond Dazed The Jewelery Judge can help with tips on choosing a diamond. Pg. 7 MARKETPLACE: View All Our Display Ads
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Lady Eagles rout Phillipsburg
By: John Powers The South Hunterdon Regional High School girls basketball team is building something special for the future. And last Thursday night, the Eagles unveiled some of that promise in a preliminary round Hunterdon-Warren Tournament game. The Eagles, the No. 8 seed, routed No. 9 Phillipsburg 50-35, limiting the Stateliners to just nine baskets…
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‘Spunk’
Rider University impresses with this old-fashioned musical. By: Stuart Duncan In an age of battlements, crashing chandeliers and ear-splitting orchestra pits, Spunk is an old-fashioned musical, with a cast of 10 re-creating life in the rural South during the late 1920s and early ’30s. The noted Broadway director George C. Wolfe adapted three short stories…
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Feb. 25, 6:52 p.m.: Nader’s big blunder
Ralph chases irrelevancy with latest presidential run. By: Hank Kalet Here is what Robert Scheer has to say about Ralph Nader’s candidacy: "The arguments that Nader made last time around seem absurd this time, when it is all too clear that there are significant differences between the Democrats and Republicans on the issues Nader has…
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Police Blotter-Feb. 26, 2004
New Hope Feb. 14, Charles Christian Viskovich, 23, was arrested at 2:30 a.m. for suspicion of drunken driving after an officer stopped him for speeding. After failing a series of field sobriety tests, he was taken to Doylestown Hospital where he submitted to a blood test, police said. Charges are pending the results of the…
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Obituaries-Feb. 26, 2004
Edith Kramer BUCKINGHAM, Pa. Edith R. Kramer, 100, formerly of Lambertville, died Thursday, Feb. 19, at Buckingham (Pa.) Valley Care Center. Born in Lumberville, Pa., Mrs. Kramer came to Lambertville as a child and lived there until moving to Buckingham 10 years ago. With her late husband, Frank L. Kramer Sr., she owned and…
