Category: archives

  • LETTER: Village is vibrant thanks to Main Street

    Group’s efforts have yielded wonderful results. To the editor:    Thanks to the efforts of the volunteers and staff of the Lawrenceville Main Street project, the village of Lawrence has been transformed into a vibrant community, day and night providing services, food and entertainment within easy walking or biking distance.    On Saturday, Aug. 23, the patrons…

  • Police hiring approval questioned

    Committeeman John Souren says he didn’t mean to vote for hiring new officer By:Alec Moore    The Township Committee is considering leaving a vacancy within the Police Department unfilled, after confusion over an earlier hiring approval arose at last week’s meeting.    After a resident publicly criticized the committee at its Aug. 26 meeting over the hiring…

  • Editorial: Council should put limits on campaign gifts

    EDITORIAL: A call for proposed sanctions on campaign funding distributions.    There is only one reason why campaign donor limits may not be make it through the Township Council: politics.    Mayor Frank Gambatese and fellow Democratic Councilman Edmund Luciano are balking at proposed limits on the amount of money firms seeking public contracts or submitting development…

  • Lightning strike zaps power

    Lightning left some Washington Township residents without power for more than two hours on Saturday, Aug. 30. By: Cynthia Koons    WASHINGTON — Lightning struck a utility pole on Sharon Road leaving some residents without power for more than two hours Saturday afternoon.    Washington Township Deputy Fire Chief Kevin Brink said a call came from a…

  • DISPATCHES: Singer bravely looks death in the eye

    DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: A look at Warren Zevon’s new album. By: Hank Kalet    You don’t need to know that Warren Zevon is dying from a rare form of lung cancer to understand the obsessions that undergird his latest — and last — disc, "The Wind."    You needn’t have seen his appearance last year on…

  • Manville woman walks to fight breast cancer

    Sherri Lynn will participate in the Sept. 21 Avon Walk By:Mary Kaempfen    She is curly-haired and smiling and has the taut, sturdy body of an athlete. She is Sherri Lynn, and right now she is getting ready for the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in New York City on Sept. 21.    The Avon Fund for…

  • Teams ready for 2003 Heart Walk Sept. 13

       The 2003 Mercer County American Heart Walk is scheduled to step off Saturday, Sept. 13 at Mercer County Park in West Windsor,    Teams from Bristol-Myers Squibb, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, area hospitals and local businesses ranked among the top teams that participated in the American Heart Association’s 2002 American Heart Walk.    Featuring the statewide…

  • Sept. 4, 2003

    Estelow and Reading Richard K. Estelow    Richard K. Estelow, 102, died Wednesday in St. Joseph’s Nursing Center, Lawrenceville.    Born in Mount Holly, he had been a resident of Pennington from 1958 to 1996.    He was a graduate of Bucknell University, Class of 1922. He was a chemist with Columbian Carbon Co., Princeton, and at the…

  • Sept. 4, 6:30 p.m.: Evidence of a corrupt process

    Is the EPA in bed with industry? You be the judge. By: Hank Kalet    Here’s a fun story from the Los Angeles Times that shows how corrupted our political system has become.    The Kansas City Star offers a similar report.    Here’s the gist (from the Times):    "Atlanta-based Southern Co., which owns coal-fired power plants in…