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  • Cooked Goose

    Metuchen resident Danny Adlerman provides music and lyrics for the children’s musical ‘Mother Goose Rocks!’ that gives nursery rhymes a twist. By: Jim Boyle    Mother Goose has been ripe for a plucking. Everybody knows the nursery rhyme inside-out. It was only a matter of time before someone decided to shake things up a little bit.…

  • Merchants say parking lot good for city

    Lambertville Station proposes lot on former Ferrellgas site By: Laura Pelner    Many business owners in Lambertville are supporting the proposed parking lot on the former Ferrellgas site behind the Lambertville Station.    Providing more parking spaces would help solve the city’s parking problem, which supporters say hurts businesses and inconveniences residents when tourists have to park…

  • Borough Council approves downtown garage plan

    Key 4-2 vote gives go-ahead to develop financing scheme. By: Jennifer Potash    The Princeton Borough Council voted 4 to 2 Tuesday to develop financial plans for a downtown parking garage and related development.    Council members Roger Martindell and David Goldfarb cast the no votes.    Mr. Martindell said the council had not fully committed itself to…

  • Board’s building delayed

    MONTGOMERY- The Township Board of Education’s plan to move into a building at the site of the former Lloyd McCorkle Training School for Boys on Route 601 has been delayed by at least a month, according to Business Administrator Jim Strimple. By: Helen Pettigrew MONTGOMERY- The Township Board of Education’s plan to move into a…

  • Footprints: Women worked to create community park

    By: Iris Naylor    It was hot the summer of 1900, hotter than it had been since 1887, so hot that anyone who asked "Is it hot enough for you?" ought to be fined as a public nuisance.    Temperatures rose beyond the 100-degree mark. The banks of the Delaware River, especially at the upper or second…

  • ‘Celluloid Heroes’

    The County Theater in Doylestown is revisiting Tinseltown’s glory days with the ‘Hol­lywood Summer Nights’ series, which runs through Labor Day. By: Matt Smith    If the dictatorial apes and clawing velociraptors overrunning the multiplexes have you terrified, throw down your popcorn and Junior Mints and run screaming for your life. The County Theater promises movie…

  • Police Blotter

    Delaware    The home of Alice Alvater of Sergeantsville Road was burglarized sometime between July 12 and 17.    Police said jewelry and cash was taken after someone kicked in a back door and ransacked house.    Anyone with information is asked to call police at 397-0911.    Barbara Buchanan, 52, of Locktown-Sergeantsville Road was charged with drunken driving…

  • No day off for Holliday at NiE 5k

    By: Justin Feil    Charles Holliday was happy he didn’t have to take a holiday from racing Saturday, and happier still after winning the inaugural Newspapers in Education 5k at Mercer County Park.    "I was looking for a local race," said the Ambler, Pa. resident. "And this is a lot closer than Scranton."    And it was…

  • Mayor calls for vote on borough’s garage

    The Princeton Borough Council will be asked to vote yea or nea Tuesday night. By: Jennifer Potash    The Princeton Borough Council will be asked to say yea or nay tonight to moving forward with a $16.5 million plan for a downtown parking garage.    "I am calling the question," Princeton Borough Mayor Marvin Reed said Monday.…