Category: archives

  • Painful past recalled by residents

    Many sat down at the YMAC in Lambertville to reminisce about the city’s deadly gas explosions, fires and floods. By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — The human details of the old stories were buried so deep, they were easy to miss.    They’d been relegated to the bottom of long, gray columns of newsprint, below the crumbling…

  • Editorial-Oct. 2, 2003

    Tabby’s Place a dream come true By: Mae Rhine    How often do people realize their dreams?    It’s not that often. Sometimes it’s just that, a dream, without the money or ambition to carry it out.    But Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg is making his personal dream come true.    He has opened a wonderful cage-less sanctuary for cats…

  • Chit-Chat-Oct. 2, 2003

    Island girls bring talents to the city! By: Merle Citron    For almost 25 years, Lambertville and environs have been the main stomping grounds for two very witty women, Valorie Johnson, goldsmith extraordinaire of B. Adorned on South Main Street, and Gerry Martin, a very talented actress.    "I am totally amazed that 30 years have passed…

  • Senior Menus-Oct. 2, 2003

       All meals are served at noon at Hibernia Apartments in Lambertville.    The value of each meal is $3.13. Any amount donated over this is a tax-deductible contribution. All menus are subject to change and include milk and margarine.    The sodium-controlled menu is the same unless otherwise noted.    Thursday, Oct. 2 — Minestrone soup, roast loin…

  • Round Peg, Square Hole

    Steven Mackey’s classical compositions grew from his rock roots. By: Susan Van Dongen Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski Classical music meets electric guitar in the compositions of Steven Mackey.    Composer Steven Mackey has been on the music faculty at Princeton University for 19 years now, collecting commissions and numerous accolades for his compositions, as well…

  • Letters-Oct. 2, 2003

    Candidate won’t accept pay if elected To the editor:    As a candidate for a member of the Delaware Township Committee, I will not accept the annual $2,000 remuneration offered to those who are elected.    Taxes in the township are high, and we need to do everything we can, in big and small ways, to bring…

  • ‘Casa de los Babys’

    Fate and casual decisions converge in a thought-provoking film about six American women hoping to adopt children south of the border. By: Elise Nakhnikian    A fiction writer and filmmaker with the soul of a documentarian, John Sayles makes movies liberal humanists want to love. Unfortunately, they’re almost never as interesting to watch as they are…

  • Spike

    "Spike," a very cute and friendly miniature pinscher-terrier cross, is in need of a loving home and available for adoption from SAVE, 900 Herrontown Road, Princeton. For information about adopting "Spike" or another dog or cat, call (609) 921-6122. SAVE: http://www.petfinder.org/shelters/NJ143.html

  • Police Blotter-Oct. 2, 2003

    New Hope    Sept. 16, James J. Kuney, 49, of Yardley, Pa., was charged with drunken driving, possession of drug paraphernalia and careless driving as a result of a one vehicle traffic accident on South Main Street Aug. 19.    Sept. 20, Traci VanPelt, 34, of Dayton, N.J., was charged at 2 a.m. with criminal mischief, disorderly…