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  • School visitor hogs spotlight

    Kiss the Pig fund-raiser marks Earth Day at LPS By: Cynthia Williamson    LAMBERTVILLE — Christopher Colt practiced with his wife.    Mary Jane Legere did "lots of puckering."    Eileen Markey prayed.    There’s more than one way to practice puckering up to a pig as these Lambertville Public School teachers can attest. They were among more than…

  • School names new wing for late board member

    2,400-square-foot addition dedicated to Robert Kascik By: Cynthia Williamson    WEST AMWELL — West Amwell School dedicated its new 2,400-square-foot wing in memory of Robert Kascik at a ceremony held Saturday at the facility on Route 179.    Mr. Kascik served on the board from 1983 until his death in July 1999 at age 62 following a…

  • Power to the People

    Bristol Riverside Theatre stages ‘Evita’ starring Broadway veterans Bethe Austin and Brad Little. By: Daniel Shearer    It is late July, 1952. The streets of Buenos Aires, Argentina, are awash with humanity as roughly 2 million mourners pay tribute to a national hero, Eva Peron, also known as Evita.    The wife of Argentine Dictator Juan Peron,…

  • River cleanup efforts sparked first shad festival

    Return of shad was seen by officials as way to boost sagging economy By: Gwen Runkle    Today the Delaware is a changed river.    No longer choked lifeless by more than a half-century of pollution from industrial waste and sewage, the river once again is supporting life within and outside of its banks.    Year-round fish populations…

  • Savory crab shares spotlight at a wedding

    IN THE KITCHEN by Ann Harwood: When dining in Annapolis, or anywhere on the eastern or western shore of Maryland, crab is the thing!    It was a glorious wedding. After what seemed like weeks of raw, rainy weather, the sun parted the clouds on the afternoon before my daughter’s wedding, just in time for the…

  • D&R Greenway to help township with open space

    West Amwell will pay group up to $10,000 to aid in buying property By: Bruce Palmer    WEST AMWELL — Delaware & Raritan Greenway Inc., a not-for-profit land trust, will assist West Amwell with the preservation of open space properties acquired directly by the township in 2001-2002.    By unanimous vote April 4, the Township Committee allocated…

  • Shad Fest this weekend in Lambertville

    The riverside town of 4,000 expects about 30,000 visitors to stroll its streets and waterfront during the two-day event. By: Jodi Thompson    Each year, Lambertville throws a huge party in honor of a special guest, the American shad. The shad is a saltwater fish that swims upstream each spring to spawn. It grows to nearly…

  • ‘Macbeth’

    THEATER REVIEW: This Princeton Intime production removes Shakespeare almost entirely and passes it back to the Greeks. And it’s fascinating — controversial to be sure, but intriguing nevertheless. By: Stuart Duncan    It has become acceptable to shift Shakespeare’s plays around, as if the poor Elizabethan had no sense of time or place. Comedies or tragedies,…

  • Panel weighs the pros and consof public subsidies for sports

    The stadium complex subsidized by taxpayers, held up as a home-run success, is Trenton Waterfont Park and the Sovereign Bank Arena. By: Jennifer Potash    Mercer County may have hit a home run with its sports complex in Trenton, but other communities have struck out, raising questions of whether those facilities should be subsidized by state…