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  • Panel urges state to think ‘SMART’

    Bill would shift 90 percent of school taxes to state surcharge. By:Vanessa S. Holt    FLORENCE — The Township Council passed a resolution Feb. 19, urging the governor and state Legislature to consider reforming the property tax system used to fund public schools in the state.    The resolution supports introduction of the "SMART" (Save Money and…

  • Lambertville ready to ‘Step out’ with wallets

    City officials are willing to participate in "Step Out Lambertville" to increase awareness of the health improvement program. By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — How do you get a politician to open his wallet?    Watch Donna Knoell. She did it, and she wasn’t even trying.    Ms. Knoell, program coordinator for Hunterdon Regional Community Health, went to…

  • ‘Proof’

    George Street welcomes back David Auburn’s acclaimed family drama, which grabs your heart and mind and doesn’t let go. By: Stuart Duncan    Proof is back home. One late evening in 1999, David Saint, the artistic director of George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, picked up a play by a new author and began to read.…

  • NEWS OF OTHER DAYS 02/27

    From the Feb. 27 edition of the Register-News. By: 100 years ago     Ash Wednesday was observed by the Catholic and Episcopal churches. In the former, there was the usual large attendance morning and evening to have the cross of ashes marked on their foreheads while the priest repeated these words, "Remember, man, that thou…

  • Florence Township police contract OK’d

    Patrolmen get a 4 percent raise each year of three-year pact. By:Vanessa S. Holt    FLORENCE — After a year of negotiations, the Florence Township Police Patrolmen’s Association contract was approved by the Township Council last week, giving patrolmen a 4 percent raise each year of the three-year pact.    The contract, which is retroactive to Jan.…

  • ‘Arms and the Man’

    Shakespeare ’70 offers a charming revival of George Bernard Shaw’s anti-war play. By: Stuart Duncan    Arms and the Man is one of George Bernard Shaw’s earliest plays (1898) and one of his best titled. The phrase, of course, comes from the opening line of Virgil’s masterpiece Aeneid: "Of arms and the man I sing." Shaw…

  • New Hope Visitors Center to be improved

    By: Linda Seida    NEW HOPE — Before the summer tourist season begins, the historic New Hope Visitors Center will undergo renovations to make it easier to use, according to Rob Loughery, a consultant working on the project with the borough’s Revitalization Committee.    Two grants will finance the work. One, for $50,000, comes from the Pennsylvania…

  • Jan. 1-Feb. 26, 2003

    The book on Bush Feb. 26    What did the president know and when did he know it? That’s the subject of a new book by BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast, excerpted on TomPaine.commonsense.    According to Mr. Palast, U.S. intelligence agencies should have known about the plans for the Sept. 11 attacks.    "If U.S. intelligence agencies…

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 02/27

    From the Feb. 27 edition of the Register-News. By: Snow removal was effective To the editor:     Three cheers to those who planned the removal of all the mounds of snow in Bordentown.    These fellows and the police moved the plows and trucks and traffic with such precision they could give the Philadelphia Motorcycle Show…