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  • Florence High School students now must cope with death of two teens

    Christmas Eve crash claims three lives By:Vanessa S. Holt    FLORENCE — The new year began on a somber note at Florence Township Memorial High School, where students, staff and administrators were trying to come to terms with the death of two seniors in a Christmas Eve car crash.    Justin Ondusko, 17, and Ryan Lovejoy, 17,…

  • COMMUNITY CALENDAR 01/03

    From the Jan. 3 edition of the Register-News By: Orientation program    Bordentown Regional High School is holding a 2002-2003 school year orientation program for parents of incoming ninth graders, 7 p.m., Jan. 10 at the high school auditorium. This program is designed to acquaint parents with the academic, athletic and co-curricular offerings at the school,…

  • Mayor asks residents to get involved

    Sean Faherty, a member of the law firm of Hunt and Faherty, was sworn to do work for the city. He is the third generation in his family to work as an attorney for Lambertville in a relationship that goes back 57 years. By: Carl Reader    LAMBERTVILLE — Mayor David Del Vecchio, speaking at the…

  • Officers recognized for trying to quell rampage

    Money will pay for bills not covered by insurance By:David Koch    MANSFIELD — Lt. William Kerr of the Mansfield Township Police Department had just put on his civilian clothes and was ready to go home for the day when he heard the call: "officer down."    The officer was Sgt. Kyle Wilson from Chesterfield, and the…

  • Bankers must prepare for suspicious activity

    ‘What used to just be a regulation in a book somewhere has now become important to the security of the country.’ By: George Frey    If you don’t have a backup plan, you may wind up not having a plan — or a business — at all, was the message at the recent New Jersey Bankers…

  • West Amwell to give most employees 3.5 percent raises

    Township committee members took raises of half that amount. By: Carl Reader    WEST AMWELL — With the Super Bowl coming up, the Township Committee had its own big game to deal with — working on the budget for 2002.    The committee hashed out salaries and the percent of increase most employees would get as raises…

  • OBITUARIES 01/03

    From the Jan. 3 issue of the Register-News By: Ryan Lovejoy    ROEBLING — Ryan Paul Lovejoy, 17, died Dec. 24 from injuries received in an auto accident.    Born in Willingboro Township, he had lived in Roebling all of his life.    He was a senior at Florence Township Memorial High School and a member of the…

  • Editorial: Let residents decide future of library

    By: Mae Rhine    The New Hope-Solebury Library Board of Trustees must think carefully before it makes a decision where to move the library from its present location on Ferry Street in New Hope.    Eight members of the 15-member board want to trade its present 2,800-square-foot building and land for 5,000 square feet of space underneath…

  • Footprints: Coryell’s Hall saw evidence of a growing city

    By: Iris Naylor    "Lambertville is a growing place, and there is every evidence of life and activity there."    W.W.H. Davis, editor of the Doylestown Democrat, made this observation while visiting Lambertville in December 1858. He came to give a lecture on New Mexico at the invitation of the Young Men’s Literary Society. The lecture was…