Category: archives
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EDITORIAL: The high cost of incarceration
By: Another dubious milestone in American history was achieved recently when the nation’s prison and jail population topped 2 million for the first time. Don’t we all feel safer now? The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that our prisons and jails hold one in every 142 U.S. residents. During the 12-month period ending June 30,…
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Senior Menus-April 17
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, April 17 Apple juice, cheese lasagna…
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Obituaries-April 17
Eugene Jantos LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP Eugene S. Jantos Sr., 88, of Lawrence Township died Monday, April 7, at the Pavilion at Forrestal, Plainsboro Township. Born in Trenton, he was a lifetime resident of the Trenton and Lawrenceville area. He retired in 1981 after 42 years service with the former General Motors, Inland Fisher Guide, plant…
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Chit-Chat-April 17
Husband-wife team become publishers By: Merle Citron What does it take to start a new weekly newspaper called the Bucks County Herald? It takes the indomitable husband-and-wife team of Bridget Wingert, former editor of the New Hope Gazette, and Joe Wingert, former IBM computer salesman and mechanical engineer. Joe is the publisher, and Bridget is…
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Students have sculpture on their minds
By: Eve Collins MANSFIELD Joined by students from schools in neighboring counties, Northern Burlington County Regional High School artists displayed the fruits of their labor, hoping for first-place honors in the school’s first ceramics exhibit, last week. "I just felt that after 28 years of doing this, we needed more venues for three-dimensional art,"…
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West Amwell mayor knows pain of autism
Peter Buchsbaum was grateful to members of the Township Committee for proclaiming April Autism Awareness Month as his son has autism. By: Concetta Benuzzi Volpe WEST AMWELL An emotional Mayor Peter Buchsbaum, who knows the challenges of raising an autistic child firsthand, thanked Township Committee members for passing a resolution proclaiming April Autism Awareness…
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TANGENTS: Enduring the sloppiness of spring
By: John Saccenti Overthrown baseballs and snow. Aching joints and rain. Ugly strikeouts and mud. Chilly weather, slush and muck. These are the rites of spring, bad baseball and bad weather. The two go hand in hand like April and showers, like Tommy John and surgery. But, you would think that, after watching the first…
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Love is a Battlefield
Passage Theatre Company presents a work about a family divided by the distant specter of war. By: Susan Van Dongen TimeOFF/Frank Wojciechowski Princeton resident Andrew Ridings, a Pennington School senior, will perform in playwright Leslie Ayvazian’s Lovely Day. With Syracuse University beckoning in the fall, his first original play currently being staged and the normal…
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Springfield eyes redevelopment zone
In a redevelopment zone, a municipality has the option to institute a Payment in Lieu of Taxes agreement with businesses in the zone, which would require companies to pay 2 percent of their total project cost each year in lieu of taxes. A PILOT agreement cannot last more than 30 years. By: Vanessa Holt SPRINGFIELD…
