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  • Obituaries

    Mary Hoagland    LAMBERTVILLE — Mary J. Finan Hoagland died Thursday, Sept. 26, at home.    Born in Lambertville, she was a lifelong resident.    She retired many years ago as a secretary for Stoakley Brothers in Trenton.    She was a member of St. John the Evangelist Church, Lambertville, a member of its Altar Rosary Society and a…

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 10/03

    From the Oct. 3 edition of the Register-News By: You’re kidding … another committee? To the editor: I cannot possibly be reading (Register-News, Sept. 26) that Mayor Roselli and Assemblyman Joseph Malone (R-30th) are planning to develop a committee to research the pros and cons of the Conectiv plans for Bordentown Township. Mayor Roselli and…

  • A stitch in times saves lives

    The Courthouse Quilters Guild to have show at Prallsville Mills By: Concetta Benuzzi Volpe    STOCKTON — The works of art lovingly and painstakingly created by members of The Courthouse Quilters Guild of Hunterdon County warm the young and the elderly, those who have lost everything in a fire, Sept. 11 victims’ families and countless others.…

  • TWELVE MONTHS: Fear and loathing in the water closet

    Nobody can tell me plumbing can’t think for itself, because mine is out to kill me. By: Scott Morgan    Nobody can tell me plumbing can’t think for itself, because mine is out to kill me.    Actually, that’s only half true. The shower is trying to kill me. The toilet’s just trying to drive me insane.…

  • COMMUNITY CALENDAR 10/03

    From the Oct. 3 edition of the Register-News By: School reunion    The Class of 1962 of William MacFarland High School in Bordentown is holding its 40th class reunion on Saturday, Oct. 5. For information call Susan West Ardoin, 298-3592. Trash or treasure    The Trinity United Methodist Church will hold a special sale from 10 a.m.…

  • School district equips itself with defibrillators

    Equipment could save life of students in cardiac arrest By:Vanessa S. Holt    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — All four school buildings in the Bordentown Regional School District are now equipped with defibrillators, which could potentially save the life of a person in cardiac arrest on the athletic field or at school.    Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs) are becoming…

  • Letters

    Freeholder wants to clarify position To the editor:    This letter is in response to the science fiction letter written by Jeffrey Marshall in the Sept. 19 edition.    I would like to address Mr. Marshall’s letter by first stating he has had a habit of being less than candid when making statements of which his knowledge…

  • Solebury hires first manager

    Michael A. Cotter to start Nov. 4 By: Carl Reader    SOLEBURY — The township expects to have its first-ever township manager in place Nov. 4.    That’s when Michael A. Cotter takes up his new duties of implementing the policies of the Board of Supervisors, directing the day-to-day operations of township business, directing financial matters and…

  • Locals remember Lambertville

    Memories flood squad building By: Carl Reader    LAMBERTVILLE — Man is the only animal without an age, the great French writer Marcel Proust said, because he has a memory.    The past emerged from its slumber Sept. 24 at the Lambertville-New Hope Ambulance and Rescue Squad when the city Historical Society sponsored a look back at…