Category: archives

  • Senior Menus

       All meals are served at noon at Hibernia Apartments in Lambertville.    The value of each meal is $3.13. Any amount donated over this is a tax-deductible contribution. All menus are subject to change and include milk and margarine. The sodium-controlled menu is the same unless otherwise noted.    Thursday, Nov. 8 — Chicken orzo soup, meat…

  • ‘Gross Indecency’

    Alliance Repertory stages this controversial drama about Victorian-era writer Oscar Wilde in Bound Brook. By: Stuart Duncan    Alliance Repertory has found a home at last. The Edison-based group has staged some of the area’s best and most provocative plays in the past several years but has been bounced from site to site in the process.…

  • Editorial: Still awaiting election fix

    By: T.J. Furman    It has been one year since the start of our great national electoral crisis, and it appears to us that very little has been done to remedy the situation.    In case you have forgotten (and given the events of the past eight weeks, that is understandable), the United States waited 36 days…

  • Troubles, including fire, plagued McCready

    By: Iris Naylor    If ever there was a man who deserved to throw up his hands at the way life treated him, it was William McCready.    Born in New York City of a Scottish father and an Irish mother, he was apprenticed at the age of 13 to learn the trade of a hatter. He…

  • ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’

    Playhouse 22 stages the new version of the young Holocaust victim’s oft-told story. By: Stuart Duncan    Even after many decades, a good production of The Diary of Anne Frank is still painful, the story of how one young Holocaust victim retained hope amid horrific conditions, only to die in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March…

  • Winding Up

    Modern rock attack:  Tantric, Oleander and Beautiful Creatures perform in Philadelphia Nov. 9. By: Matt Smith    When Oleander’s song "Why I’m Here" reached number one on modern rock radio in 1999, the band hit the road for the obligatory radio station festivals. However, after two successful albums and more than two years of relentless touring,…

  • Women Exposed

    Camera Women, on view at the Princeton University Art Museum, looks at the history of the medium through a ‘feminine gaze.’ By: Ilene Dube    Looking at the Camera Women exhibit at Princeton University’s Art Museum, I find myself bonding with an infant whose identity and even gender are a mystery to me. My eyes lock…

  • OBITUARIES 11/08

    From the Nov. 11 edition of the Register-News By: Clara G. Wolfe Foulks    FLORENCE — Clara G. Wolfe Foulks, 90, died Nov. 1 at Mount Holly Care Center in Lumberton.    Born in Florence, she was a lifelong resident.    She owned Clara’s Variety Store and Luncheonette in Florence for more than 40 years, retiring in 1976.…

  • Meeting on police pact set

    Lambertville Police have been working without a contract since Jan. 1 of this year. A meeting was set with a negotiator last week, but it had to be rescheduled after the man broke a tooth. By: Carl Reader    LAMBERTVILLE — A meeting to begin negotiations on a new contract for Lambertville police will take place…