Category: archives

  • The Beat Goes On

    Connect with your inner rhythms by joining a drum circle. By: Jodi Thompson    Learning a new language is challenging. But it is always rewarding, especially when unexpected. The last place I imagined I’d learn a new language was at a drum circle.    Recently, I attended a monthly circle held in the Wycombe, Pa., house of…

  • Sept. 26, 2001 – Part 2

    By: infoUSA/Donnelley Marketing of Ames, Iowa Part 2 In some cases the listing represents the property’s mailing address rather than the municipal location. While the intention is to include all reported transactions, Packet Online does not guarantee its completeness or independently verify its contents. Pennington, Craig Allen, 35 Diverty Rd, $185,000, 07/27/01 Pennington, James Bancroft,…

  • School Menus

    Delaware    A la carte items and bagel bag available daily. All meals served with choice of white, 2-percent or low-fat chocolate milk.    Monday, Oct. 1 — Menu not available yet.    Tuesday, Oct. 2 — Menu not available yet.    Wednesday, Oct. 3 — Menu not available yet.    Thursday, Oct. 5 — Menu not available yet.    Friday,…

  • Chit-Chat: You go, girls, in Lambertville!

    By: Merle Citron    Lambertville certainly has the right to boast about its women.    Oct. 29, Debbie Wean of South Union Street will walk a 26-mile marathon in Dublin, Ireland, in order to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America.    Last year, Debbie walked in a marathon in Anchorage, Alaska, for the same…

  • Relatively Speaking

    The Smothers Brothers,who have endured changing comedic climates for more than 40 years, bring their old-fashioned humor to New Brunswick Oct. 4. By: Jim Boyle    Comedians have a long history of fighting for their first-amendment rights. Lenny Bruce had numerous run-ins with police officers. The Supreme Court banned George Carlin’s "Seven Words You Can Never…

  • Obituaries

    Helen Gill    FOUNTAINVILLE, Pa — Helen A. Gill of Fountainville died Friday, Sept. 14, at Phoebe Richland Home. She was 83.    Born in Solebury Township, she was the daughter of the late Charles and Elsie Gerhart Gill.    Miss Gill graduated from Doylestown High School, Class of 1934. She graduated from West Chester State Teachers College…

  • New Hope woman cries ‘no hate’ with new pin

    By: Sue Kramer    Something happened Sept. 11, something that went beyond a militant group’s terrorist attacks on Washington, D.C., and New York City.    That day, people found themselves enigmatically drawn together as a country, unified in grief, anger and horror as they witnessed the very symbols of the country’s values and freedom explode into flames…

  • Lofty Space

    First Friday looks to help make the Trenton Makes complex a thriving artists’ community. By: Matt Smith    The Urban Word Café and Conduit nightclub are the legs on which the Trenton Makes arts complex will stand, but its artistic heart and soul might end up being the interconnected studios that twist through the 19th century…

  • Footprints: Memory Lane column had interesting tidbits

    By: Iris Naylor    The late 1940s and early 1950s The Beacon ran a column called "This & That."    It was written by Editor John C. Hazen and contained a section that was titled "Memory Lane."    There was no way John Hazen could have had first-hand knowledge of some of the events mentioned in that section…