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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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‘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,…
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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…
