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  • New Hope to upgrade traffic signals

    By: Carl Reader    NEW HOPE — The Borough Council took a step Oct. 8 toward making pedestrian crossings at a couple of local intersections a lot safer.    The council voted to apply for a Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program Grant for $185,000, with the borough to spend $30,000 of that toward design and…

  • District leader Steffe to retire

    Superintendent spends three decades in Florence Township By:Vanessa S. Holt    FLORENCE — School district officials said Tuesday they will begin the search process next week for a candidate to replace retiring Superintendent Gerard Steffe, who intends to leave next September after serving 29 years in the district.    Mr. Steffe, who was appointed superintendent in 2001…

  • Oct. 23, 2002

    By: infoUSA/Donnelley Marketing of Ames, Iowa In some cases the listing represents the property’s mailing address rather than the municipal location. While the intention is to include all reported transactions, Packet Online does not guarantee its completeness or independently verify its contents. Basking Ridge, Michael Buckman, 220 English Pl, $214,900, 8/8/02 Basking Ridge, Carolyn Duch,…

  • West Amwell concerned about false alarms

    By: Concetta Benuzzi Volpe    WEST AMWELL —False burglar alarm reports to the Police Department are escalating, prompting the Township Committee to consider creating an alarm ordinance.    At the Oct. 16 meeting, Mayor Nance Palladino said increased numbers viewed in monthly police reports suggest a steady rise in alarm responses and proposed that Lt. Stephen Bartzak…

  • Voices in the Dark

    Passage Theatre Company presents Robin Hirsch’s Mosaic, the six-part story of a life spent in the shadow of the Holocaust. By: Matt Smith

  • Joint court plan mulled by West Amwell

    But township vows not to make a move unless there are considerable savings. By: Concetta Benuzzi Volpe    WEST AMWELL — West Amwell has decided to look into whether it should form a joint municipal court system with East Amwell, Stockton, Lambertville and Delaware Township.    But it also agreed unless considerable savings were evident, disrupting the…

  • Senior Menus

       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, Oct. 24 — Grape juice, stuffed green…

  • Heat returns to Tollgate next month

    Condominium owners to use electric heaters to combat cold. By:Vanessa S. Holt    FLORENCE — The Florence Tollgate condominiums are without heat until Nov. 1, but electric heaters will take the edge off the cold until new chimneys are installed at the complex at the end of this month.    The problem arose this month when the…

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 10/24

    From the Oct. 24 edition of the Register-News By: Shame comes from not trying To the editor: Every election is an important one, and this one is no less important then the last. One difference in the Mansfield Township race is that the voters have a choice to elect three individuals that possess the philosophy…