Category: archives

  • Finding their way in the world

    Learning in the Community program offers practical business experience to students. By: Jeff Milgram    When Andrea Dinan was in high school in Milford, she had her heart set on being a marine biologist when she grew up.    But when she discovered that she had to cut up animals in lab classes, she changed her mind.…

  • Township agency puts meetings on hold

    Agency never registered with Local Finance Board By:Vanessa S. Holt    FLORENCE — The Florence Township Redevelopment Agency was instructed by the mayor and council last week to put its meetings on hold until the township is able to resolve an oversight by which the agency was not registered with the state.    Earlier this month the…

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 09/27

    From the Sept. 27 edition of the Register-News By: Chief clarifies fund-raising calls To the editor:    It has come to our attention that a telemarketing company has been telephoning our residents and soliciting donations for the Bordentown Township Police Department.    It is not the practice of the Bordentown Township Police Department to solicit money from…

  • Editorial: City restores disabled man’s right to vote

       Everything America values was threatened Sept. 11. It will take us a long time to recover. But it’s nice to know one of the freedoms we hold so dear — the right to vote — has been protected in Lambertville for a handicapped man.    Bill Brown was unable to vote in the April school elections…

  • Senior housing measure approved

    Units will be permitted as conditional use By:Vanessa S. Holt    FLORENCE — An ordinance allowing as many as 500 new senior housing units to be built in the township received approval from the Township Council on Sept. 19.    The units will be permitted as a conditional use within the township’s low-density residential district and agricultural…

  • 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, Sept. 27 — Grape juice, stuffed green…

  • ‘Code one’ disaster

    A hospital security manager who lives in Bordentown City had to deal with the Sept. 11 crisis. By:Vanessa S. Holt    BORDENTOWN CITY — Donnell Cole can recall only a few occasions in which the hospitals where he works experienced a "code one" disaster.    It happened after the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, and it…

  • King of the Vine

    Wine master Joseph Maxian reveals a few trade secrets. By: Jodi Thompson THERE are 72 acres on top of a hill next to the Delaware River where the weather is perfect: hot summer sun, cold winter chill and a steady breeze. Perfect — for grapes.    Joseph Maxian, owner of Sand Castle Winery in Erwinna, Pa.,…