Category: archives

  • ‘The Miracle Worker’

    Actors’ NET of Bucks County puts on William Gibson’s poignant drama about Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan. By: Stuart Duncan    She’s like a little safe, locked, that no one can open," a country doctor tells the Kellers, referring to the couple’s 7-year-old daughter, Helen, left deaf and speechless by a vicious attack of scarlet fever.…

  • Letters

    Due to the number of letters this week, The Beacon is unable to post opinions from our readers. Please see this week’s issue, Sept. 20.

  • City man gets Scout Wood Badge

    By: Cynthia Williamson    LAMBERTVILLE — Scouting is a pursuit Lambertville Troop 49 Scout Master Thomas Sheppard said he could really dig his teeth into.    His 19-year journey through Boy Scouts began when he joined Cub Scouts at age 7.    Mr. Sheppard, 29, was presented with the distinguished Wood Badge when the Lambertville troop held its…

  • ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’

    A botched sex-change operation sets the stage for this rock ‘n’ roll musical.   [R] By: Kam Williams    What would you do if a botched sex-change operation left you angry and short of your goal?    If you’re Hansel, a handsome German homosexual, you’d change your name to Hedwig, run off to Kansas with an infatuated G.I. to…

  • Editorial: Ask questions before voting on questions

       Voters in the South Hunterdon Regional High School district need to make sure all their questions are answered before voting on the $18.8 million bond referendum Sept. 25.    The school says its 42-year-old boiler could go any time. Narrow spaces are being used for offices, classrooms and computers. The library, dating from the ’50s, has…

  • City gets $335,000 state grant

    Money to be used to improve bicycle and pedestrian safety in Lambertville. By: Cynthia Williamson    LAMBERTVILLE — Cindy Ege remembers the recent August day she received a call on her cellphone from fellow City Council member Steve Stegman that almost "knocked me over."    He called to tell Ms. Ege the $335,000 state grant she applied…

  • Eyewitness to history:A journalist grapples with her mixed emotions

    OP-ED, Sept. 18 By: Helen Pettigrew    I woke up Tuesday morning to an eerie sound outside my Manhattan apartment window — silence.    And then came the sirens. They began their wailing just after 9 a.m. and streamed south through my neighborhood for more than 12 hours.    I had been listening drowsily to National Public Radio…

  • Pulitizer Prize-winning author James McPherson to give talk

       James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Princeton University professor, will give a talk titled "The American Civil War: Its Meaning for the New Millennium," Friday, Oct. 12, 8 p.m., in Nassau Presbyterian Church.    A buffet dinner for individual patrons and corporate sponsors will be held at the Nassau Club at 5:45 p.m. Seating is…

  • From senior to freshman

    Students urged to consider taking an ‘interim’ year off By: Kara Alaimo    Last week, 1,185 Princeton University students joined the 43,000 teenagers across New Jersey who entered their freshman year of college. There’s a question being raised. Are they ready to make the most of their college experiences and thrive in the "real world" that…