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Florence fire victims receive donations
Three affected families receive checks By:Vanessa S. Holt FLORENCE For the past month, donation jars have been set up throughout town to collect money for three families who were displaced by a fatal fire on April 29. The $1,860 collected in those jars was presented to the families on May 30, a little over…
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Letters
Residents gamble with their lives To the editor: I was recently driving across the state, and I began thinking about the many problems that our state’s roads and bridges are witnessing at this time. My thoughts were confirmed by a recent report that announced that 17 percent of the country’s most deficient bridges were located…
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Counterfeit bills show up in area
A Solebury bar and restaurant received $840 in counterfeit money over Memorial Day weekend. By:Sarah Winkelman During Memorial Day weekend, $840 in counterfeit money was passed at a Solebury bar and restaurant, police said. Police Chief Richard Mangan refused to disclose the name of the establishment, which discovered on May 25 that it had been…
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Footprints: City’s Franklin Street has interesting history
By:Iris Naylor Franklin Street doesn’t get as much recognition as some of the other streets in Lambertville. But it is one of the earlier streets, and it does have an interesting history. The street was shown on a map the Lambertville Historical Society dates to about 1834, after the canal was dug and before the…
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Getting another chance
Democrats Stephanie Smith and Bill Soodul win primary, will challenge for council Allentown council seats. By: Mark Moffa ALLENTOWN Stephanie Smith and Bill Soodul soundly defeated challenger Teresa Smith in the Democratic primary for Borough Council on Tuesday. Stephanie Smith received 51 votes, Mr. Soodul garnered 49 votes and Teresa Smith got 20 votes.…
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Bomb Squad called to city for false alarm
Postal workers did not inform Lambertville officials they were doing ‘routine work’ at 2 a.m. By: Mae Rhine LAMBERTVILLE A lack of communication was the reason the State Police Bomb Squad and numerous other law enforcement agencies were called out to the city post office early Saturday morning. According to Police Director Bruce Cocuzza,…
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Soaking it Up
Hitchcock’s land of The Birds is a laid-back oasis, a place to shrug off the pressures of the East Coast. By: Susan Van Dongen Photo by Bryan Grigsby The bonsai garden at the Osmosis Spa is the perfect place to unwind from East Coast pressures. "Let the composting begin!" I said to myself as…
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Reporter’s Notebook: Abandon all common sense for solution
By:Carl Reader When things were going completely wrong for George Costanza, that inveterate loser on the TV sitcom "Seinfeld," he decided simply to go with the flow. Instead of attempting to do things in the right way, he decided to do everything in the wrong way. The reasoning was if things don’t go well when…
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Fieldsboro faces 5-cent tax hike
School tax rate goes down By:Vanessa S. Holt FIELDSBORO The local purpose tax rate will go up 5 cents this year, the first change in the borough’s tax rate since 1994, said officials last week. The local purpose tax rate will increase from 56.8 cents to 61.8 cents per $100 of assessed property value.…
