Category: archives
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Letters
Residents object to word ‘seedy’ To the editor: With reference to your Sept. 26 editorial, the Connaught Homeowners Association takes exception to your use of the word "seedy" to describe the Connaught Hill section of Lambertville. While this area may be in need of revitalization and improvement in some areas, to characterize the area as…
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City seeks grant for senior housing plan
Lambertville applying for $700,000 to help fund $11 million project to build 87 units on Brunswick Pike (Route 518). By: Carl Reader LAMBERTVILLE The City Council will seek a $700,000 grant from the state Department of Community Affairs to help fund a proposed $11 million project to build senior housing on Brunswick Pike (Route…
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NEWS OF OTHER DAYS 10/17
From the oct. 17 edition of the Register-News By: 125 years ago William De Worth has an idea of sprinkling the street next summer if he can procure a sufficient number of persons at 10 cents per week to make the undertaking pay. If the plan proves feasible, Billy proposes to build the vehicle…
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Bordentown City woman is a friend to the Pinelands
O’Gorman is PPA’s director of development By:Michael Maugeri It can be a surreal place, with pine trees no bigger than the average person and loud-mouthed frogs the size of a person’s thumb. And throughout its terrain, it is said the Jersey Devil dances through the woods, its cloven hooves clomping. To many, the New Jersey…
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St. Alphonsus sets special dinner dance
Event is part of church’s 125th anniversary celebration. The parishioners and pastor, the Rev. Dennis A. Apoldite, of Saint Alphonsus Church in Hopewell, have announced plans for a dinner dance on Nov. 2 at the Princeton Elks, Route 518, Skillman. The event is part this year’s 125th Anniversary Celebration. The evening will begin at the…
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Ruth S. Etherington
Ruth S. Etherington, 82, died Saturday at Capital Health System at Mercer hospital, Trenton. Born in Warren, Pa., she lived in Pennington 46 years. She received a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College, Ohio, and a master’s in education from Trenton State College. She taught first grade in the Monroe school system before retiring in 1993.…
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Editorial: Put emergency managment plans to test
By: Mae Rhine Shootings in public schools. Terrorist attacks against Americans. Now a sniper running loose in the Washington, D.C., area, making people fearful of just going to the store or getting gas for their vehicles. These things can happen anywhere. And we must be prepared. After the Sept. 11 attacks, all municipalities in Hunterdon…
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New Hope receives grant for outdoor sculpture
Borough seeks artists for changeable outdoor exhibition By: Carl Reader NEW HOPE A grant for a changeable outdoor sculpture display has been received by the borough, according to Councilwoman Geri Delevich. At the Oct. 8 Borough Council meeting, Ms. Delevich said $3,635 has been granted by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance 5-County Arts Fund…
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Assemblyman Melvin Cottrell, 73, dies
"Uncle Mel" remembered as a special person By:Ken Weingartner Colleagues remember Melvin Cottrell for what they say he was above all else a representative of the people. "He personified public servant in the truest sense," Plumsted Mayor Ron Dancer said. "He came to serve, and not be served." Mr. Cottrell, a member of the…
