Category: archives

  • ‘The Grouch’

    The New Jersey Shakespeare Festival heads outdoors to stage Menander’s only surviving play. By: Stuart Duncan Joe Discher as Pan in the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival production of The Grouch.    It is the year 317 B.C. in Athens, Greece. It is a morning in late March and about 1,000 citizens are up early. They have…

  • Purslane: If you can’t beat it, eat it — in all kinds of dishes

    IN THE KITCHEN by Pat Tanner:  At one time a staple of English kitchen gardens, purslane is a nutritional powerhouse, containing more beta-carotene than an equivalent serving of spinach. Purslane is recognizable for its oval, paddle-shaped leaves, round stems tinged with brownish red, and tiny yellow flowers.    Several years ago I accompanied a naturalist on…

  • Editorial: Have fun and support city, too

    By:Mae Rhine    There are two great opportunities coming up to support the city and have fun, too.    Tuesday night, Town Watch will be having a block party in honor of National Night Out. It will be held 6 to 9 p.m. on South Union Street (at the old Acme) between Ferry and Swan streets. There…

  • POST FORUM: Campaign finance

    Should local political parties put a voluntary limit on campaign spending? Should local political parties put a voluntary limit on campaign spending?

  • 08/01 OBITUARIES, pt. 1

    From the Aug. 1 edition of the Register-News By: Helen Tangney Lynch    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — Helen Tangney Lynch, 80, died July 28 at Compassionate Care Hospice at St. Francis Medical Center, Trenton.    Born in Jamesburg, she lived in Skillman before moving to Bordentown many years ago.    Daughter of the late Patrick and Helen O’Connor Tangney…

  • Audit: Stockton has serious financial problems

    Surplus slashed $27,000; resales considerably higher than assessed values By:Carl Reader    STOCKTON — The Borough Council voted to approve accountant Bill Colantano’s financial report Monday night, but there wasn’t very much good news.    "We’re going to face some serious, serious problems next year," Councilwoman Joan Haberle said.    In its current account, Mr. Colantano reported the…

  • Footprints: Dangerous work late 1800s at area quarries

    By:Iris Naylor    This area of the Delaware Valley was not always as peaceful as it is today.    Once it was filled with quarries, working quarries. There were quarries on Goat Hill, on Galboa between Lambertville and Stockton, at Brookville, Prallsville, Raven Rock and Byram. In 1868, there were five stone quarries in Lambertville and Prallsville.…

  • More problems loom in zoning request for building, driveway

    By:Carl Reader    LAMBERTVILLE — For the Board of Adjustment, things weren’t as they appeared at what was to be the public hearing on the application of Rolf Van Ishem to build a driveway and a house on a lot on a paper street.    Mr. Van Ishem has been before the board several times now attempting…

  • Frame shop owner wants building razed

    Hrefna Jottsdottir wants to demolish and rebuild 46-48 S. Union St. By:Carl Reader    LAMBERTVILLE — Things got a little complicated for Hrefna Jonsdottir when she brought two matters before the Board of Adjustment.    Ms. Jonsdottir sought the board’s approval July 25 to demolish an existing building at 46-48 S. Union St. and to build a…