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Princeton Borough to hold Q&A session on development project Thursday night
Council releases financial projections. By: Jennifer Potash With a standing-room-only audience anxiously listening, the Princeton Borough Council released the financial projections for the downtown garage development Tuesday. The council, which is expected to vote on the project Dec. 17, will hold a question and answer session for the public at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Borough…
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Democrats take first steps in Plumsted
Loser in Township Committee race says his party is "here to stay." By: Scott Morgan PLUMSTED At first, the victory of Mayor Ron Dancer in last week’s Township Committee election might seem like a landslide. The incumbent Republican scored 1,755 votes a full, five times that of his Democratic contender, Howard Nadell. But…
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‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’
Actors’ NET of Bucks County revives Dale Wasserman’s play, adapted from the book by Ken Kesey. By: Stuart Duncan It has been 40 years since Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest skewered conditions in state-run mental facilities throughout the country. Playwright Dale Wasserman adapted the novel after Kesey sold the rights to…
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Clinton lawyer to be municipal judge in two towns
Richard P. Cushing will replace Judge Jeffrey Martin in Lambertville, West Amwell By: Linda Seida Richard P. Cushing, an attorney with the Clinton firm of Gebhardt and Kiefer, will replace Judge Jeffrey Martin in the municipal courts of West Amwell and Lambertville when Judge Martin retires at the end of the year. The West Amwell…
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GOP committees pick Dancer to finish Assembly term
Plumsted mayor to fill 30th District seat left vacant by death of Melvin Cottrell. By: Cynthia Koons PLUMSTED In his fifth attempt at seeking state office, Plumsted Mayor Ron Dancer finally prevailed Tuesday when the Republican committees in the 30th Legislative District selected him to fill the New Jersey General Assembly seat left vacant…
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West Amwell to study light ordinance from other town
By: Concetta Benuzzi Volpe WEST AMWELL A local resident has persuaded the Township Committee members to review recent research about outdoor lighting gathered by the Union Township’s Environmental Commission. A recent agreement between the township and Oxford Communications has lights dimmed at the advertising firm’s Route 179 location, the site of the former Yellow…
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Lillian Brooks
HAMILTON – Lillian Brooks, 89, died Sunday at Compassionate Care Hospice at St. Francis Medical Center, Trenton. Born in Trenton, she was a lifelong area resident. She was a homemaker. Daughter of the late Albert and Margaret Patterson Bishop, wife of the late Edward H. Brooks and sister of the late Albert, Edward and Earl…
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Phyllis Chrismer to be honored by LHS-SHR Alumni Association
By: Sue Kramer LAMBERTVILLE Phyllis Chrismer has a philosophy she lives by: Your community gives to you while you’re growing up. You should give back to your community when you become an adult. Ms. Chrismer, 68, is one of two recipients of the Lambertville High School-South Hunterdon Regional Alumni Association’s 2002 Distinguished Alumnus Community…
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Haberle won’t seek recount in Stockton
Mayoral hopeful says opposition ‘told some lies’ By: Linda Seida STOCKTON Defeated Democratic mayoral candidate Joan Haberle will not ask for a recount, despite an election that saw Republican Gregg Rackin take the post of mayor of Stockton by six votes. Mr. Rackin triumphed 144 to 138, according to Hunterdon County Clerk Dorothy Tirpok.…
