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  • 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. Regular menu    Thursday, Aug. 2 — Cream of…

  • Station owners withdraw request for parking lot

    Partners to meet with city officials this week By: Cynthia Williamson    LAMBERTVILLE — Owners of the Lambertville Station have gotten a chilly reception from some residents for their controversial plan to build a 97-space parking lot on a 1-acre parcel south of the inn and restaurant.    But it was nothing compared to a chill that…

  • Zen Minimalism

    Using limestone to create lithographs, artist James Lang incorporates the tenets of Zen philosophy in his pieces. After an edition is completed, the stones are ground and used again. By: Susan Van Dongen    Diamonds, emeralds and other precious gems are usually the kind of "rocks" people put in their wills. It’s not often that pieces…

  • Residents sift through mud, dust during drainage project

    Company relocating underground water, sewer and gas lines to make room for the state DOT’s $4.8 million trunk line By: Cynthia Williamson    LAMBERTVILLE — Delaware Avenue resident Pat Casey is reluctantly resigning himself to the fact his once-quiet residential street will be a construction zone for sometime to come.    "It’s dirty; it’s noisy," he said,…

  • Habitat to begin house on Connaught Hill

    Two more sites eyed in West Amwell By: Laura Pelner    The Connaught Hill area in Lambertville will have new neighbors as soon as Habitat for Humanity gets ready to break ground on an affordable three-bedroom house for a family willing to put in the "sweat equity" required to buy it.    Habitat for Humanity is a…

  • 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…

  • Former West Amwell music teacher to teach in Belgium

    By: Cynthia Williamson    Former West Amwell School music teacher Jennifer Sweet has endeavored to teach abroad since she can remember.    Tuesday her dream will take the shape of reality when she boards a plane for Antwerp, Belgium, where she will teach music at the Antwerp International School, a pre-kindergarten through 12th grade school of about…

  • Engineers detail changes to Broad Street in Stockton

    Residents say stormwater cascading into lawns By: Paul French Jr.    STOCKTON — Residents of Broad Street came to the Borough Council meeting Monday equipped with letters, pictures and stories of homeowner’s nightmares.    The residents were given a chance to discuss their problems about the street and the damage it has caused with two representatives from…

  • Chit-Chat: Love lighting up Lambertville area!

    By: Merle Citron    Love is definitely in the air, and last week this is precisely what flowed from everyone’s heart at the wedding celebration for Daniel "Red" McCoy and Betty Lou Barlow of Grant’s Alley.    Betty and Red have never been known to rush into things, especially marriage. But after 37 years together, it was…