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  • Eight battle for four seats in New Hope

    Two incumbents and six newcomers fight for seats on Borough Council. By: Mae Rhine    NEW HOPE — Eight candidates, including two incumbents, are battling for four four-year terms on the Borough Council.    Incumbents Sharyn Keiser, a Democrat, and Jake Fell, a Republican, are joined on the ballot by Democrats Randy Flager, Edward Duffy and Dr.…

  • Let freedom ring loudly in the voting booth

    Show your commitment to freedom By:    Now is the time to get out to the polls to vote, showing a commitment to freedom, showing courage and speaking out for the American way.    As a nation, we may feel anxious over what has happened to us recently.    Airplane hijackings, numerous deaths, anthrax scares and troops in…

  • Strike up the Trio

    Le Trio Gershwin performs in Doylestown, Pa. By: Jodi Thompson    They come from Paris to play An American in Paris. Le Trio Gershwin is comprised of French musicians who primarily play the music of American composer George Gershwin on piano, cello and guitar.    Alfred Eric Street, Jean-Noël Roux and Benoit Charvet will present a program…

  • Signs would director visitors to little-known streets

    Chamber says new signs would direct potential customers to little-traveled side streets in the central business district. By: Steve Bates    LAMBERTVILLE — Some central business district merchants are hoping a new sign project will help pull foot traffic onto roads less traveled.    The signs project and a plan to encourage merchants to purchase decorative parking…

  • Township denies building permits

    School district needs state OK first By:David Koch    MANSFIELD — A request by local school districts for the township to issue building permits for two proposed schools without prior state approvals was rejected by the Township Committee at its meeting Oct. 24 on the advice of the municipality’s construction officer.    The Northern Burlington County Regional…

  • ‘Moon Over Buffalo’

    The Somerset Valley players revive Ken Ludwig’s delicious farce at their Hillsborough home. By: Stuart Duncan    Moon Over Buffalo is a delicious farce by Ken Ludwig, who also has given us Lend Me A Tenor. It requires some talented farceurs, a set with plenty of doors to open and slam, and a touch of insanity.…

  • Students raise funds for animals

    Principal may end up kissing a pig By:David Koch    FLORENCE — Students at Florence Township Middle School will get to live out every kid’s fantasy when they get to see their principal kiss a pig.    That’s if the 423 students at the middle school can raise $1,000 by Nov. 15 for the American Society for…

  • All Aboard

    An inaugural exhibit at the newly restored Hopewell train station puts the nostalgic artwork of Jerry Cable ‘On Track.’ By: Ilene Dube    For the moment, turn off CNN and NPR. Put away those magnificent color photo spreads in The New York Times of Northern Alliance soldiers in their ethnic garb, holding rifles, against the wheat-colored…

  • Old bombs found in scrap at Griffin Pipe in Florence

    No one at Griffin injured. By:David Koch    FLORENCE — State and military officials were sent to the Griffin Pipe Products Co. on West Front Street after an old military bomb was found Friday in a pile of scrap metal.    Employees at Griffin called township police after the bomb, the second in as many days, was…