Category: archives
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Student interns tackle variety of jobs
BUZZ IN THE HALLS By: Pam Koharchik There are many exciting things happening in the school this week, so I’ll get right down to them. The fall semester’s senior practicum class is wrapping up with another list of impressive placements. Shannon Gallagher worked with Dr. Gemmel of Rider University and Maureen Nosal of AHS on…
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Tragedy into Triumph
The touring production of Titanic makes a stop at the State Theatre in New Brunswick Jan. 25-26. By: Jim Boyle It’s a risk to produce a Broadway show that ends in death. It’s an even bigger gamble when it ends with thousands of deaths. When most people think of Broadway musicals, images of casts dancing…
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‘Beau Jest’
The Circle Players stage an energetic version of the James Sherman comedy. By: Stuart Duncan ALT="image"> COLOR="black"> COLOR="black"> Michelle Mulvihill and Rob McBurnie star in Beau Jest. Beau Jest is a mild, one-joke comedy by James Sherman being given an energetic production by the Circle Players of Piscataway. Director Amy Levine, who moved to that…
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Muschal School honors King’s memory
Students honor what would have been leader’s 73rd birthday By:David Koch BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP For many elementary school students, the federal holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is just another day off from school. But teachers and high school students in Bordentown Township want the kids at Peter Muschal Elementary School to know…
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Letters
Kindness showed by Bambi Kuhl To the editor: I am writing this to extend my profound gratitude and appreciation for the kindness that I have been shown by the social agencies of the City of Lambertville and, specifically, by Bambi Kuhl, the director of public assistance. I have fallen on hard times this past year…
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Solebury opposes bill on variance time limitations
Board of Supervisors says House Bill 1219 puts time contraints on many zoning variances and conditional uses and limits the time period for consideration of an application to 100 days. By: Carl Reader SOLEBURY The Board of Supervisors had an earful to give to the Pennsylvania State Legislature and Gov. Mark Schweiker, thanks to…
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Lambertville proposes $1.2 million to buy former Acme lot
Some residents opposed the purchase and also the city’s plan to increase parking meter fees from a quarter for 30 minutes to a quarter for 20 minutes. By: Carl Reader LAMBERTVILLE "Park" has long been a four-letter word in town, and at the City Council meeting Monday night the word lived up to its…
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Steps Ahead
Hamilton resident Jim Ridl and his jazz trio will launch the Ellarslie Jazz and Avant Garde Music Series at the Trenton City Museum in Cadwalader Park Jan. 27. By: Susan Van Dongen It’s a good thing Jim Ridl’s childhood piano teacher wasn’t a vegetarian, because the boy’s cattle-farming father paid the man with a side…
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Officers use community policing as a proactive way to serve public
Program started three years ago By:David Koch NORTH HANOVER The job description for police officer in North Hanover Township includes a little more than serving and protecting the public. It also includes getting to know the public. Started three years ago by Sgt. Mark Keubler, the North Hanover Police Department is practicing a more…
