Category: archives

  • Historic Dayton house will be made a museum

    The Dayton Village Citizen’s Coalition continues to restore the historic Slack-Carroll house after saving it from demolition, following through on the plan to turn it into a museum on Civil War medicine. By:Tammy Tibbetts Historic Dayton house will be made a museum By: Tammy Tibbetts The Dayton Village Citizen’s Coalition continues to restore the historic…

  • Editorial: City should listen carefully to Station owners

       Lambertville needs parking.    That’s a fact.    The owners of the Lambertville Station want to provide some of it in the form of a 97-space parking lot. They said they would allow free parking weekdays.    When they first proposed it, there was a catch; they needed the lot to satisfy one of the requirements for a…

  • Program provides help from the experts

    NJTC launches Advise & Consult, a new initiative to offer sales and marketing advice to high-tech entrepreneurs. By: Susan Briggs    Having a good technology idea or a great product is no longer a guarantee of success in the highly competitive technology market. In fact, a targeted marketing campaign that will attract the attention of client…

  • Keep Looking Up

    The New Jersey State Museum is exploring the wonders of the stars with two space-related programs. By: Jodi Thompson    The children walk into the dome they’ve seen from the outside many times. On a platform in the center sits a strange device reminiscent of Star Wars. Of course, it isn’t a weapon from a galaxy…

  • Letters

    M&W trying to work with firemen To the editor:    We are writing in response to your recent article of July 19 about our company, M&W Communications Inc., and the allegations made by the Lambertville Fire Department.    Neither the writer, Sue Kramer, nor anyone associated with your newspaper, The Beacon, ever contacted us to obtain the…

  • Police Blotter

    Delaware    Gordon Haas of Weeden Street, Lambertville, was charged Saturday with driving with a suspended driver’s license and failure to appear on warrants issued by the Delaware-East Amwell Municipal Court.    Mr. Weeden was stopped on Route 29 by Quarry Road. He was released after posting $80 bail. Lambertville    An Annapolis, Md., man found himself without…

  • Glass Goddesses

    Stories and myths of women from ancient cultures are the focus of a glass sculpture exhibit at ETS. By: Ilene Dube    Starting in bright sunlight, walk into a dark cave. Or, if a dark cave is not readily available, close your eyes. Do you see squiggles? Swirls? Zig-zaggy lines? Triangles?    It is possible these symbols…

  • That Great Come-and-Get-It Day

    Bristol Riverside Theatre presents an evening of Loesser, Lane and Loewe, composers who shaped musical comedy. By: Daniel Shearer "It’s a celebration of musical theater," says singer and actor Anthony Cummings, above, singing with Bethe B. Austin, one of his co-stars in Love, Luck and Ladies at Bristol Riverside Theatre.    It’s always the same story:…

  • Painted Conversations

    Artist Linda Guenste has created a mixed-media experience at the Atelier Fine Art Gallery in Frenchtown. A soundtrack containing snippets of interviews she conducted with the subjects of the portraits on display plays throughout the exhibit. By: Jim Boyle    A new exhibit at the Atelier Fine Art Gallery in Frenchtown offers art lovers a chance…