Category: archives
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NEWS OF OTHER DAYS 10/18
From the Oct. 18 edition of the Register-News By: 110 years ago The Trenton Fair took about 7,000 dahlias from the pretty floral garden of August Zeller at White Hill. Last Friday, a block of Maryland granite, rock cut, pyramid shaped and weighing 13 tons, was placed on the foundation proposed for the first locomotive…
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When life gets stressful, put a little color in your life
Crayons are just the thing to chase the blues away By:Michael Maugeri There are many memorable scents of childhood. Classrooms, blackboard chalk, Play-Doh and Vicks VapoRub are just some that come to mind. But to me, the most pleasant smell was the subtle bouquet which emanated from a box of freshly opened Crayola crayons. Yes,…
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Nextel might need new site for proposed cellular tower
Tower was initially proposed for Civic Center site By:David Koch MANSFIELD Nextel Communications may have to look for a new site in Mansfield for a proposed communications tower if Mansfield accepts Green Acres funding for the Civic Center property. The Civic Center property, located on Route 206 and New York Avenue, is one of…
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Volunteers needed for cleanup
Cleanup is for new township emergency squad building By:Vanessa S. Holt SPRINGFIELD Put on your work gloves, grab a broom and head to Jobstown-Juliustown Road on Sunday if you’d like to volunteer to be part of a cleanup crew for the new township emergency squad building. Emergency squad members and community volunteers will sweep…
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Homework Blues
Once a songwriter for Diana Ross and Kool & the Gang, Buckingham, Pa., resident Cathy Block now directs a charismatic group of young performers. By: Jodi Thompson The situations and dilemmas are universal. Kids worry about the first day of school, fashion crises, getting busted for passing notes and not being invited to the big…
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City seeks way to demolish fure-gutted row homes
The city has petitioned the construction officials to decide whether the dwellings at 310 adn 312 M. Union St., owned by Eric and Patricia Hineline, should be demolished because they posed a safety and health threat to residents. By: Steve Bates LAMBERTVILLE City officials have found a way to move ahead with plans to…
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Letters
City resident answers ‘detractors’ To the editor: I want to thank you for permitting me the time to research some issues before I responded to my detractors of the Oct. 4 letters to the editor. It seems that although you do have and print your "letter policy," the unwritten policy of "letters to the editor"…
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Rec Commission seeks more funds for Ely Field plan
Phase one of the contruction, including relocation of the baseball field, a new playground and basketball court and a renovated and relocated parking area, could cost more than $160,000. By: Jessica Pallay LAMBERTVILLE With planning under way for the first phase of the reconstruction of Ely Memorial Field, the Lambertville Recreation Commission is hard…
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Songs of the Sea
Folk singer Charlie Zahm brings a deep voice Oct. 19 to Levittown, Pa. By: Jodi Thompson There’s a place in Bucks County where a technical writer goes to re-create feelings from his childhood. Not necessarily memorials of the days he spent in his family’s boat or on the beach near their island home off the…
