Category: archives
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Kidney donor’s wedding made possible by team of nurses
Roebling resident gave organ to Home Depot co-worker. By:Vanessa S. Holt ROEBLING As Susan Patricelli and Terry Douglass shared a dance to the song "Wind Beneath My Wings," her wedding guests could barely hold back their tears. On Feb. 23, she took vows to spend her life with her new husband, James Patricelli, but…
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Editorial-March 6
Get your fair share of earned income tax credit. By: Mae Rhine West Amwell is determined to help low-income residents get their fair share. There are some township residents who might be eligible to get money from the state’s earned income tax credit, and the township is set on finding them. Township and state officials…
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Chit-Chat
A local trio scoots away on a trip abroad. By: Merle Citron When Elaine Daniels of New Hope and Bette Baer and Harriet Schwartz of Lambertville plan a trip to Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand for three weeks, it doesn’t matter what’s happening around the world. Although many of their friends tried to talk them out…
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POLICE BEAT 03/06
From the March 6 edition of the Register-News. By: BORDENTOWN CITY Barbara Trebotica, 48, of Bordentown Township was charged with drunken driving, drug possession and other charges after she hit a parked car on Farnsworth Avenue at 8:51 p.m. on Feb. 21, police said. Officers responding to the accident on the 500 block of Farnsworth…
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‘The Dining Room’
The South Street Players take on the humor and pathos in A.R. Gurney’s lovely work. By: Stuart Duncan What I Do, I Do did for the marriage bed, The Dining Room does for the family dinner table. Playwright A.R Gurney (probably best known for Love Letters) shows us a handsome dining room, complete with a…
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Woman charged with false terror attack report
LAMBERTVILLE A Solebury Township woman has been charged with filing a false police report after fabricating a story about terrorists plotting to poison a Pennsylvania water supply, police said. Mary Jackson Powell, 54, of Walton Drive, along with a friend, visited a local restaurant for dinner around 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23. Ms. Powell,…
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LBA HIghlights
By: Karen Scheetz The Lambertville Basketball Association finished its regular season this past week with all of the teams gearing up for the playoffs. The playoffs will be held over the next two weeks. Third- and fourth-grade boys E.J. Lelie 29 Café Europa 13 E.J. Lelie picked up a win Saturday, Feb. 22, over Café…
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03/06 OBITUARIES, pt. 1
From the March 6 edition of the Register-News. By: Fred A. DeFlece FLORENCE Fred A. DeFlece, 92, of Roebling, died Feb. 26 at Lourdes Hospital in Willingboro after a brief illness. Born in Florence, he lived all his life in the Florence-Roebling area. Mr. DeFlece retired in 1972 as a wire drawer for the…
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Quarry woes prompt Solebury noise law
Supervisors are considering passage of the township’s first ordinance against excessive noise levels. By: Linda Seida SOLEBURY Township supervisors are considering passing its first ordinance against excessive noise levels, prompted, in part, by problems at the New Hope Crushed Stone quarry. They are seeking input from both the public and other officials before taking…
