Category: archives

  • Editorial: Help needy families afford to buy homes

       With all the contractors living in the Lambertville area, it should be no problem for Habitat for Humanity to find the help it needs to build a house on Connaught Hill and two more in West Amwell.    The area has a long history of helping its neighbors. We hope it won’t be any different now.…

  • ‘Hamlet’

    The New Jersey Shakespeare Festival takes on the Bard’s famous tragedy. By: Stuart Duncan    It has been more than 20 years since the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival in Madison has mounted a production of Hamlet. In truth, we might have waited longer — at least until a competent company and a suitable director were in…

  • Crenshaw leaves PU football team

    Head coach Hughes says former quarterback will focus on football By: Justin Feil    When the Princeton University football team opens its preseason camp Aug. 24, a familiar name will not be there.    Tommy Crenshaw, who started the first four games of last season at quarterback before breaking his wrist, has confirmed to the Princeton staff…

  • Painting Churches

    The Langhorne Players take on this rarely performed 1983 play. By: Stuart Duncan    Painting Churches is an intriguing 1983 play by Tina Howe that has probably been considered by every community group in the area. It has been discarded by most, a tribute to its complicated characterizations and questionable audience marketability.    But it is just…

  • Woody Allen’s Curse

    The legendary director talks about the delicate balance between filmmaking and daily life. By: Kam Williams    Born Allan Konigsberg in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Dec. 1, 1935, Woody Allen got off to an early start in his glorious entertainment career.    He was already selling snappy one-liners to established comics while still in high school. In college,…

  • 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, Aug. 16 — Pineapple juice, barbecued rib…

  • Station owner still wants parking lot

    Restaurant partners to seek legal advice and ‘wait and see’ what planners say By: Cynthia Williamson    LAMBERTVILLE — A proposal by Lambertville Station owners to construct a parking lot on land adjacent to the Delaware and Raritan Canal may not be dead in the water yet.    Following an informal discussion Aug. 1 with members of…

  • Jim Hamilton had uphill battle for art career

    By: Sue Kramer    LAMBERTVILLE — Designer Jim Hamilton fought his father and the Army to pursue a career in art.    Born in 1931, Mr. Hamilton, owner of the Fish House and Hamilton’s Grill Room, attended the Lambertville Public School, an unassuming child whose only claim to fame was he was "Doc Hamilton’s son."    "I loved…

  • ‘Guys and Dolls’

    The Bucks County Playhouse kicks up its heels to revive this Broadway classic. By: Stuart Duncan    Almost from the beginning, Guys and Dolls was a hit. The show opened in Philadelphia to sellout houses for a three-week run. Then producers, Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin, kept the production in rehearsal for three additional weeks, all…