Category: archives

  • Middle school parking sought

    The Millstone School District is requesting closure of Back Bone Hill Road due to safety concerns and a need for more middle school parking. By: Scott Morgan    MILLSTONE — The Township Committee is considering whether to close a portion of Back Bone Hill Road to create more parking at Millstone Township Middle School, said Mayor…

  • Parking lot applicants want direction

    Station partners ask Planning Board what they need to do now By: Laura Pelner    LAMBERTVILLE — Owners of the Lambertville Station informally met with the Planning Board Aug. 1 to ask for direction on how to proceed with their plans to build a parking lot on property south of the Station and between the Delaware…

  • Housing market forces tax hike

    West Amwell residents stunned by higher property tax bilsl By: Cynthia Williamson    WEST AMWELL — Chimney Hill Drive resident Greg Seikes nearly suffered a heart attack while walking up his driveway one recent day.    Not that he has any health concerns. The retired New Jersey state trooper is in excellent condition.    His "heart attack" was…

  • Mayor’s interns learn lessons in leadership

    For seven teen-agers, working every weekday in the mayor’s office on clerical, community service and administrative work meant sacrificing the leisure of their summer vacation, but that was the price they were willing to pay… By:Tammy Tibbetts For seven teen-agers, working every weekday in the mayor’s office on clerical, community service and administrative work meant…

  • Letters

    Signs of depravity are everywhere To the editor:    Once again scandal raises its head.    Washington, D.C., is becoming as well known for its scandals as for its monuments.    Gary Condit, like Bill Clinton, took advantage of a young woman and committed adultery. It seems that liberal Democrats want to control our lives but can’t control…

  • Chit-Chat: City residents make beautiful music together

    By: Merle Citron    Born and raised in Lambertville, Lisa Durburow Chouteau, Emmy-award winning TV producer, and her husband, Marcel Chouteau, of New Hope have a lot to shout about!    Marcel and his band, House of Swank, just came out with a CD that has received very positive reviews. To top is all off, most of…

  • Fictitious Orphans’ Misery Entertains Young Readers

    Attracted to a book display bearing a red sign that alerts, "Readers, Beware!", the curious child picks up one of the showcased books and turns it over. He discovers a signed letter written by the eccentric author Lemony Snicket, who warns, "the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant" and encourages him…

  • ‘Anything Goes’

    The Villagers in Franklin Township put on a revival of the cruise ship musical. By: Stuart Duncan    The current production of Anything Goes at The Villagers has all the fragility we associate with 1930s musicals.    Originally written by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, famous for writing "boutique" musicals in the ’20s, the plot was going…

  • ‘Greenfingers’

    An uplifting rehabilitation tale provides inspiration for this formulaic British comedy.   [R] By: Kam Williams    In 1998, the New York Times ran an article titled "Free to Grow Bluebells in England," detailing how some hardened cons had been rehabilitated by way of gardening in an experimental prison program. This touching tale has inspired the latest in…