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  • City fire budget approved

    Incumbent Lester Myers Sr. beats Union Fire Company Capt. Brian Snell by two absentee ballots. By: Sue Kramer    LAMBERTVILLE — Two absentee ballots gave incumbent Fire Commissioner Lester E. Myers Sr. the edge he needed to narrowly defeat Union Fire Company Capt. Brian Snell in Saturday’s election.    Voters on Saturday also overwhelmingly approved the $401,997…

  • Talent Show: Photo 2

    Talent Show (From Left) MANDA LUPO, KAYLA D’ANGELO, REBECCA PANE, AND MORGAN JOHNSTON SINGING THE OPENING ACT "MY COUNTRY TIS OF THEE". MON JCT TALENT SHOW. Photo by John Keating www.southbrunswickpost.com PHOTOS: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

  • ‘The Odd Couple’

    Somerset Valley Players put on Neil Simon’s time-tested classic. By: Stuart Duncan    Like the little girl with the curl right in the middle of her forehead, when Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple is good, it is very, very good. You may remember the alternate conduct of the little girl. Well, the current revival at The…

  • Footprints: Station bell rang for every train departure

    By: Iris Naylor    The ringing of a bell can have different meanings for different situations at different times but it always commands attention.    The bell at the Lambertville railroad station was once rung a half hour before the departure of every passenger train. That gave ample time for passengers to reach the station. The practice…

  • Drug bust nets dozen

    Among those arrested were two Lambertville men, one from Sergeantsville, one from Stockton and one from Ringoes. More arrests are pending. By: Mae Rhine    A major drug operation in the Lambertville, Kingwood Township and neighboring Pennsylvania area suffered a setback from the Hunterdon County prosecutor’s office, resulting in the arrests of a dozen people so…

  • Not the Same

    Blues legend Buddy Guy brews ‘Sweet Tea’ at Trenton’s War Memorial. By: Matt Smith    On the opening track of his latest album, Sweet Tea (Jive/Silvertone), Buddy Guy sounds like he’s sitting alone in the dark with an acoustic guitar, the room bare except for a creaky rocking chair and maybe a flickering light bulb swinging…

  • Editorial: Let Solebury keep all of 1 percent tax for open space

    By: Mae Rhine    New Hope residents are faced with a real dilemma.    Not only have they just been hit with a 1 percent resident income tax, they also may be hit with another 1 percent tax. And all because neighboring Solebury Township hit its residents with a 1 percent earned income tax.    Because New Hope…

  • New Hope to install more speed humps despite complaints

    By: Carl Reader    NEW HOPE — Speed humps had a little bit of a rough ride Feb. 12 at the Borough Council meeting.    The council voted to install two more traffic-slowing humps on West Mechanic Street and two more on lower Old York Road, despite complaints from residfents who contended some of the town’s existing…