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  • Legion team hits tough stretch

    Looks to finish strong in final week By: Rudy Brandl    The Somerville American Legion baseball team wasn’t able to continue its three-game winning streak from the previous weekend last week. The combination of a tougher schedule and some key absences sent Post 12 into a skid that included four losses and a tie.    "We’ve been…

  • ‘Three Sisters’

    The New Jersey Shakespeare Festival brings Anton Chekhov’s dark play to life. By: Stuart Duncan    The New Jersey Shakespeare Festival in Madison is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters with one of the most acessible productions of the work in memory. The playwright himself, upon finishing the writing, complained to a Moscow…

  • Whole Earth Center offers Kopp’s Cycle discounts to encourage bike riding in downtown Princeton

    ‘Anything that gets people on bikes and reduces parking and the traffic is a good thing.’ — Charlie Kuhn By: George Frey    PRINCETON — The Whole Earth Center, the Nassau Street health food store, and Kopp’s Cycle on Spring Street are working together to promote their "Buy by Bike" program, which the store owners say…

  • Lewis Godown Jr., 60

       KINGWOOD — Lewis Godown Jr., 60, died Sunday at home. Born in Kingwood, he was a longtime resident before living in Hope, R.I., for 18 years, and returning in 1996.     He retired as a lace weaver for lace mills in Lambertville and Troy, R.I. He was an Army veteran of the Vietnam War.    …

  • ‘1776’

    Actors’ NET of Bucks County brings back their 2000 phenomenon. By: Stuart Duncan    Thomas Wolfe may have been right; it may be difficult to go home again. Actors’ NET of Bucks County is reprising last summer’s sold-out hit, 1776, at The Heritage Center in Morrisville, Pa. Director Cheryl Doyle is back at the helm; 20…

  • City gets no satisfaction from DOT

    Among the ideas rejected so far by the state is reducing the speed limit throughout Lambertville to 25 mph. By: Cynthia Williamson    LAMBERTVILLE—Frustrated the state Department of Transportation has "not agreed to anything we’ve asked," the City Council has tentatively set early September to hold another public meeting with DOT representatives.    That was one of…

  • Isabel C. Corrigan, 83

       DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — Isabel C. Corrigan, 83, died Sunday.     Born in New Hope, she was a longtime Trenton and Ortley Beach, N.J., resident before moving to Heritage Towers in Doylestown three years ago.     Wife of the late John Corrigan and daughter of the late Charles and Elizabeth Heller Corrigan, she is survived by…

  • Police still seek two in abduction

    Police say minivan used in the July 3 kidnapping of a New Hope girl was recovered in Texas. By: Cynthia Williamson    NEW HOPE—Two men charged with kidnapping a 17-year-old borough girl were still at large this week, police said.    But the Mazda minivan used in the July 3 abduction has been recovered in Beaumont, Texas,…

  • Diane Hamilton Bulger, 57

       SOLEBURY — Diane Hamilton Bulger, 57, died Sunday, July 8, at Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia.    She was an expert in the field of photo research, working in Washington, D.C., for more than 25 years. She won an Emmy for her work on the documentary "Teddy Roosevelt," shown on PBS in 1998. She also worked in…