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  • ‘Passing the Blues Along’

    Crossroads Theatre offers this improv session with two guitarists and one special guest. By: Stuart Duncan    Passing the Blues Along, now at Crossroads Theatre in New Brunswick, really isn’t theater. It’s more like an improv session, with two guitar-playing musicians leisurely strumming through some of their favorites and adding dialogue that roams far afield and…

  • LBA Highlights

    By: Karen Scheetz    At the middle point of the season, the games in the Lambertville Basketball Association are beginning to heat up with the teams in the league working hard and improving with each game. Third- and fourth-grade boys Amwell Auto 27 Garefino 9    Amwell Auto picked up a win Saturday, Feb. 7, over Garefino.…

  • Letters-Feb. 12, 2004

    Trap Rock violating laws To the editor:    Monday, Feb. 9, the Delaware Township Committee was expected to vote on Trap Rock’s 2004 license renewal application.    A neighborhood organization urged the Township Committee to postpone approval of this operation until all ordinance requirements are met by Trap Rock. At issue is Trap Rock’s reclamation activities for…

  • Editorial-Feb. 12, 2004

    Consider running for school board By: Mae Rhine    There are only a few weeks left for residents to consider running for a seat on their local board of education.    The deadline to file nominating petitions is 4 p.m. Monday, March 1. The election will take place Tuesday, April 20.    It can be rewarding to serve.…

  • Three vie for two seats on city fire board

    Incumbents Robert Brown and Mitchell Ege face a challenge from Kenneth Williamson. By: Sue Kramer    LAMBERTVILLE — Residents will go to the polls Saturday, Feb. 21, to vote on the Fire Department budget and elect two men to fill three-year openings on the Board of Fire Commissioners.    The two seats on the board are held…

  • Contemporary Castaway

    Robinson Crusoe gets a modern twist with a woman stranded on a South Pacific island. By: Amy Brummer The Lower Makefield Society for the Performing Arts will bring Robinson and Friday to Yardley, Pa., for two performances Feb. 22. The productction features members of The Actor’s Company at the Fulton, based in Lancaster, Pa.    In…

  • A Beary Nice Book

    Author/illustrator Erica Wolf lovingly captures the emotions of animals for children and adult readers alike. By: Amy Brummer Staff photo by Amy Brummer Yardley, Pa., resident Erica Wolf recently published her first children’s book, I Love You Just the Same. She’ll be at Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Fairless Hills, Pa., for a book signing…

  • Winter Festival

    The Lambertville-New Hope Winter Festival has a little of everything, from a parade to ice carving to historical tours and a Chili Cook-Off. Katelin Tucker, 11, of Lambertville enjoys the parade Saturday during the Winter Festival.

  • Pirate boys in with win

    WW-PS hoops makes states with final chance By: Bob Nuse    HIGHTSTOWN — As excited as Eric Mooney was for himself on Friday night, he was even more excited for his players on the West Windsor-Plainsboro High South boys’ basketball team after a 57-50 win over Hightstown put the Pirates in the state tournament for the…