Category: archives
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Footprints: City hopping in summer of 1874
By: Experts in the business of writing family histories suggest adding color to the bare facts to make the story more interesting. Now what could add more interest to the story of an ancestor who was of school age in Lambertville in 1874 than to know one week in December he or she could see…
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Fantastic Voyage
History comes alive in a spectacular sound-and-light show celebrating our nation’s birth. By: Daniel Shearer A pair of wooden doors swing open, revealing a cobblestone passageway leading to a courtyard. It’s a warm summer night in Philadelphia. The streets are quiet as roughly 50 strangers step into the beckoning darkness, each wearing a wireless stereo…
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The Magic Flute
Opera Festival of New Jersey stages Mozart’s comic masterpiece. By: Stuart Duncan It began as the June Opera on a pastoral campus in Lawrenceville. Now transferred to McCarter Theatre in Princeton, The Opera Festival of New Jersey celebrates its 17th birthday, and boy has it grown up. Clearly its most ambitious, interesting season has begun…
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Obituaries
Robert Swanson HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP Robert F. Swanson, 86, died Monday, June 18, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton. Born in Lambertville, he was a longtime Titusville resident. He retired from U.S. Steel Corp. after 37 years. He served in the Army. He is survived by his wife, Mildred Davis Swanson; a son,…
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Ruhling’s Buck Hotel
This Bucks County hotel’s cavernous dining area serves up consistent seafood with attentive service, despite a recent change in ownership. It can only improve as the dust settles. By: James d’Esterre Ruhling’s Buck Hotel 1200 Buck Road, Feasterville, Pa. (215) 396-2002 Food: Good to very good Service: Good Cuisine: Seafood with some pasta, steak and…
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New paramedic unit dedicated in Lambertville
MIC unit called out 128 times since April 1 By: Sue Kramer LAMBERTVILLE "I drove in from the south this afternoon, and I couldn’t help but think, as I watched ball playing and dog walking, cars zipping around the routes and byways of Lambertville, that, somehow, this place is just a little safer now…
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Mountain View Inn
This hillside retreat in Ewing is a pleasant newcomer, where the prices are right, the service is caring and the menu is solid By:Pat Tanner THERE is no mountain view at the Mountain View Inn, although it is located on a hillside in Ewing, on the site of what had been the Silo restaurant. Opened…
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Letters
Ban trucks from New Hope To the editor: I have a real concern about the lack of police enforcement of the speed limits by trucks on the Route 32 portion in New Hope. The speed limit is 25 mph. Each morning between 6 and 7 a.m. and each afternoon between 3:30 and 5 p.m., I…
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Chit-Chat: Town father helps needy earthquake victims
By: Merle Citron Lambertville’s Father Leon of St. John’s Church recently flew to El Salvador with a group of 15 people from an organization called Food For the Poor. They were shown how the donations of Father Leon and many others have helped needy people in the Caribbean. Father Leon explained, "Food For the Poor…
