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  • Nuse Sense

    Madness could be even crazier By: Bob Nuse    Everybody loves March Madness.    Even people who don’t follow college basketball all season long get into the spirit when the NCAA men’s basketball tournament begins. People everywhere are filling out bracket sheets, trying to figure out where the upsets come.    It doesn’t really matter whether you follow…

  • New Hope to purchase police SUV

    By: Carl Reader    NEW HOPE — Those flashing lights in your rearview mirror could be on top of a shiny new police vehicle soon.    The Borough Council voted March 12 to purchase a new police vehicle for the force at a cost of $33,500. It will replace a clunker from 1988 that the police have…

  • Spring Home and Garden

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  • Letters

    What can reader tell her children? To the editor:    When I read in today’s paper that South Hunterdon’s referendum was one of the few in our area that was defeated, it made me want to cry.    Do you want to know why? Because when my seventh-grader gets off the bus today, I have to explain…

  • South Hunterdon to review options for funding high school repairs

    $11.8 million bond may go back to voters at the April 16 school election. By: Carl Reader    WEST AMWELL — Got an extra million?    South Hunterdon Board of Education officials this week will grapple with how to find more than $1 million to pay for repairs needed to bring the high school into compliance with…

  • Subtle Funk

    Electric Jellyfish delivers satisfying sounds. By: Daniel Shearer    With two years of weekly gigs at Joe’s Mill Hill Saloon under their belts, the four members of the Yardley-based band Electric Jellyfish have polished their groove to a glossy sheen.    Straddling the line between jam band and jazz quartet, the group started its career in the…

  • ‘Thrilled to Death’

    Hewitt Productions brings Thrilled to Death to the table at Peddlers Village. By: Stuart Duncan    In the theater world, 15 years is a long time. In the world of murder- mystery groups, it is an aeon.    While groups have arrived, flourished, stagnated and then closed, the granddaddy of them all, Hewitt Productions, continues to pack…

  • Chit-Chat: City man’s second career is blooming!

    By: Merle Citron    Roger Thompson and his wife, Cynthia Reed, own The Goldsmith, a jewelry store on North Union Street.    Roger loves all things of beauty, whether it is the sparkling jewelry he fashions or his collection of orchids, all of which he raises in his basement. He told me his passion for orchids is…

  • Two 10-year-olds win bikes from police

    By: Carl Reader    LAMBERTVILLE — Getting to know the local police was a more than just fun for both Zachary Marriott, 10, and Jessica Tsardoulias, 10.    Both got bicycles for their efforts in being the first to collect all the Lambertville Police Department’s baseball cards with the local officers on them. After approaching each and…