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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • NH-S library board debates where to move facility

    Members are divided 8-7 over a possible move underneath the new Michener Art Museum satellite in Union Square in New Hope. By: Carl Reader    NEW HOPE — The Free Library of New Hope and Solebury on Ferry Street might find a new address in the future.    Now a controversy rages about a possible move to…

  • Soil structure is vital portion of ecosystem

    Artifical turf is "intriguing" By:Michele S. Byers    From a conservation perspective, the concept of "artificial turf" is intriguing. Once it was used to replace natural grass ball fields that couldn’t stand up to the punishment doled out by weather and players. In recent years, artificial turf has been ripped up in stadiums around the country…

  • 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…