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  • Mayor’s grant request irks councilmen

    Stockton officials may not accept the $5,000 award for a visitors center. By: Linda Seida    STOCKTON — If someone wants to hand you $5,000, normally that’s a good thing.    That wasn’t the case at the Borough Council’s work session Monday. Councilmen were angry Mayor Gregg Rackin applied for a grant for a visitors center without…

  • Police, firefighters get raises with new contracts

    Three-year union contracts are retroactive to Jan. 1. By: Lea Kahn    The township’s police officers are in line for 3.75-percent pay increases and its paid firefighters will get pay hikes of 3.25 percent, under the terms of union contracts approved by Township Council Tuesday night.    The 3-year contracts for the Lawrence Township Police Benevolent Association…

  • The wild blue yonder

    Princeton Airport is thriving in the midst of challenges. By: Paul Sisolak    Superman learned to fly at Princeton Airport.    In 1976, years before The Man of Steel could be seen soaring over Metropolis on the big screen, Christopher Reeve flew his first solo flight in a small airplane from the airport on Route 206, in…

  • ‘Seabiscuit: An American Legend’ comes to the screen

    BOOK NOTES by Joan Ruddiman By:    ‘Seabiscuit: An American Legend’ comes to the screen    The national best seller "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand is soon to be a major motion picture starring Toby McGuire. The early buzz is that it is a winner — like the horse and great book he inspired. However,…

  • Library program invites adults to ‘read a good movie’

    Summer reading club focuses on books that became films By: Scott Morgan    BORDENTOWN CITY — Read any good movies lately?    No, really. Some folks at the Bordentown Library want to know.    As part of its annual summer reading program, the Bordentown Branch of the Burlington County Library is offering an adult reading program this year.…

  • Community Calendar

    From the July 17 edition of the Register-News Jazz, tap classes    Thursday, July 17 — The Ladies Auxiliary of Chesterfield Hose Company is sponsoring a six-week session of adult jazz and tap classes, at the Chesterfield Firehouse on Route 528. Classes are on July 17, 31; Aug. 7, 14, 21. Jazz class is 7 to…

  • Permit-only parking to continue

    New Hope has decided to continue the practice on Chestnut and Buttonwood streets. By: Linda Seida    NEW HOPE — At the end of a six-month trial period for permit-only parking on Chestnut and Buttonwood streets, the Borough Council has decided to continue the practice for the next 12 months.    Residents who tried it said they…

  • Perceptions: Films to watch on those hot summer nights

    PERCEPTIONS by Steve Feitl: Balmy weather is the perfect time to sit in your air conditioned living room and enjoy a good movie. By: Steve Feitl    We waited all spring for some decent summer weather to chase away the rain. So now when it finally comes, it gets so hot that the region goes under…

  • ‘Wozzeck’

    Opera Festival of New Jersey tackles one of the masterpieces of the 20th century. By: Stuart Duncan    Everyone knows that modern audiences shun modern operas. All you had to do to prove the theorem was to note the empty seats scattered all over McCarter Theatre for opening night of Wozzeck. But any opera company worth…