Category: archives

  • Chit-Chat: Midwife gets own delivery of love!

    By: Merle Citron    Barbara Winter arrived at her current residence on Church Street almost two years ago.    Barbara is a midwife and has worked as a midwife for the past eight years, although she has been involved in the field of women’s health for more than thirty years.    Now the plot thickens. Enter John Petito,…

  • Panel doubles trash collection

    Twice-a-week collection to take place beginning in May By:David Koch    MANSFIELD — Beginning May 15, township residents will have twice-a-week garbage collection for a four-month period.    In two last-minute motions, new Township Committeeman Arthur Puglia changed what was supposed to be an uneventful Dec. 26 meeting. One motion was a resolution for twice-a-week trash pickup…

  • eCom investors add $13 million to equity

    By: George Frey    Princeton eCom of Plainsboro, a provider of electronic billing and payment services, said Dec. 14 that it had completed a $13 million private equity investment by two existing investors, Mellon Venture and New Century Equity Holdings.    The equity investment includes the conversion of debt and interest funded previously by the investors and…

  • Changing of the guard in Montgomery

    Wilson expected to be named mayor on Wednesday. By: Steve Rauscher    MONTGOMERY — One morning in the spring of 1999, Louise Wilson was scooping rocks out of the dirt on a baseball field when a man she barely knew approached her.    "He asked me, ‘Are you a Democrat?’ " she said. "And I thought, ‘Why…

  • Nance Palladino is mayor in West Amwell

    Ms. Palladino said at the reorganization meeting New Year’s Day the committee has been looking for ‘ a better way to do business at a better cost to make a better life for all of us.’ By: Carl Reader    WEST AMWELL — The new mayor, Nance Palladino, has had her bad times and her good…

  • City gets one bid for recycling truck

    The Lambertville City Council accepted a bid of $73,150 from Bucks County International Inc. in Langhorne, Pa. By: Carl Reader    LAMBERTVILLE — One bid came in, and one bid was accepted.    The City Council opened the single envelope containing a bid for purchase of a recycling truck at a special meeting Dec. 27, and then…

  • Letters to the Editor, Jan. 1

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Jan. 1 By: The average person can be a hero To the editor:    Many things changed because of one day. In one day, our worries were changed from wondering about a bad grade to being scared that our parents might not come home alive. In one day, our country learned that…

  • 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…

  • Construction of sewer system begins in Chesterfield Township

    Work expected to begin Jan. 2 By:Vanessa S. Holt    CHESTERFIELD — Work on the sewer system that will serve a portion of the township has begun and the system should be online by the summer, said township officials last week.    Construction on a pumping station at Meadowbrook Drive is underway and work on the force…