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  • 2,500+ prepare to return to school

    New buildings, teachers and academic programs await students in the Lambertville-New Hope area, including a new playground at West Amwell Elementary School and a $18.8 bond referendum at South Hunterdon Regional High School. By: Mae Rhine    More than 2,500 local students will return to school Sept. 5, facing a myriad of building projects, new teachers…

  • South students have new math, business programs

    By: Jeremy Wang-Iverson    WEST AMWELL — South Hunterdon’s $18.8 million bond referendum will go before voters in just under a month, asking for their tax dollars to massively overhaul the school, add a performing arts facility and another gymnasium.    Sept. 25, voters will choose as many or as few of the proposals, which could receive…

  • Born of Fire

    Raku, a 16th century Japanese glazing technique, renders metallic rainbow effects on pottery. Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsman Tyler State Craft Center in Richboro offers eight-week sessions teaching the ancient method. By: Jodi Thompson Founded by Raku Chojiro in 16th century Japan and passed down through generations of potters, traditional Raku is hand-formed and glazed in…

  • ‘Miracle’ boy home after four-floor fall

    Father reports 3-year-old making great progress By: Gwen Runkle    WEST WINDSOR — Austin Freeman, the 3-year-old boy who fell from the fourth-floor balcony of the Hyatt Regency Princeton hotel earlier this month, has been released from the hospital and, according to his father, making great progress recovering at home.    "He is nothing short of a…

  • Letters

    Station owner trusted neighbor To the editor:    Let’s face it.    The city isn’t going to purchase any land for a parking lot that’s called Dreamland. If they did, everyone’s taxes would increase to support this non-taxable municipal land.    Danny Whitaker and his partners purchased the ugly old Ferrelgas plant, want to turn it into a…

  • Council rules again tanks must be underground

    New Hope decides for second time St. Martin of Tours Church must abide by its original land development plan and store its propane tanks underground. By: Cynthia Williamson    NEW HOPE — For a second time this year, the Borough Council decided St. Martin of Tours Church must abide by the original land development plan and…

  • Synagogue hopes hate crimes result in unity

    Kehilat HaNahar to have A Gathering in Love Sept. 7 to mark one-year anniversary of an outpouring of help to clean up graffiti and anti-Semitic messages scrawled on its building. By: Cynthia Williamson    NEW HOPE — Aug. 29 marked the one-year anniversary of when vandals scrawled backward swastikas and anti-Semitic messages across its little shul…

  • Obituaries

    Dr. Jonathan Hammond Sr.    NEW HOPE — Dr. Jonathan Acton Hammond Sr., 75, died Monday, Aug. 20, at home.    Born in Philadelphia, he was a longtime New Hope resident.    He received his bachelor’s degree from Williams College in 1948 and his medical degree from McGill University in 1952.    He completed his internship and residency in…

  • Survey: High school has support

    According to a public relations firm, 58 percent of the Washington’s residents intend to vote for the proposal. By: Mark Moffa    WASHINGTON — According to a public relations firm hired by the school board to research community support for building a high school, 58 percent of the township’s residents intend to vote for the proposal.…