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  • Retirement for pastor doesn’t mean life in an easy chair

    Conway ministered in local area for 18 years By:Vanessa S. Holt    CHESTERFIELD – This Sunday will mark the Rev. Dr. Edward Conway’s last services as pastor at the Crosswicks United Methodist and Ellisdale United Methodist churches, but retirement promises to be as busy and challenging as his 18 years as minister here have been.    Methodist…

  • ‘Baby with the Bathwater’

    It’s tough being a kid in this Christopher Durang selection by the Princeton Summer Theater. By: Stuart Duncan    The Princeton Summer Theater has opened its 29th season in the Hamilton Murray Theater on the Princeton University campus with Christopher Durang’s Baby with the Bathwater. It is a curious selection, and not only because it is…

  • POLICE BEAT 06/27

    From the June 27 edition of the Register-News By: FLORENCE    Police said money and valuables were stolen from a West Fifth Street house while an 81-year-old resident was distracted by a man claiming to be checking the basement water pipes.    Police said the resident, who requested anonymity, was approached at the house by a man…

  • COMMUNITY CALENDAR 06/27

    From the June 27 edition of the Register-News By: Auxiliary auction    The Bordentown Elks Lodge 2085 Ladies Auxiliary will hold its annual auction at 7:30 p.m., June 27, 11 Amboy Road, Bordentown. Doors open at 6:30 with an entrance fee of $3. For more information call 298-5492. Carnival    St. Mary’s Parish is holding their annual…

  • Testing for a town

    FROM ROOSEVELT By: Linda Schuster    Are you a Rooseveltian?    Roosevelt is one of the few small towns that are left in this country. Not to be taken for granted, a borough such as ours is hard to come by these days.    When I was a kid, all of the neighborhood grammar-school-age kids playing kickball together…

  • Proposed housing site to be purchased for open space

    Bordentown Township 99-acre tract will cost $3.9 million. By:David Koch    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — Land originally slated for residential development in the southern end of the township has been instead preserved as open space.    During its regular meeting Monday, the Township Committee unanimously passed an ordinance to purchase 99 acres near the Clifton Mills housing development…

  • Reporter enjoys ‘National Flag Month’

    Flags a favorite for ‘vexillologist’ By:Scott Morgan    The Danes had no idea what they’d done…    I’ve been looking forward to this particular month for at least 11 months now. This is the month in which I get to use the word "vexilloid" and make it relevant. The month in which I get to say "This…

  • ‘Bye Bye Birdie’

    The 1960s musical comedy works best when the cast is having fun – and a fun time it is at Actors’ NET of Bucks County. By: Stuart Duncan    Bye Bye Birdie opened on Broadway in mid-April of 1960 and almost immediately was labeled the first long-running musical comedy of the decade. The critics were more…

  • Planners to revise conservation design ordinance

    Montgomery Board of Health recommends that the ordinance prohibit farming on land saved as a result of reduced lot sizes. By: Steve Rauscher    MONTGOMERY — The Township Committee sent the much-debated conservation design ordinance back to the Planning Board on Thursday night.    The ordinance, designed to allow developers to build new homes on smaller lots…