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  • The wait in line is taxing for area IRS holdouts

    Post office pulls out the stops to accommodate the long lines. By: Helen Pettigrew    All service windows were open for business at the Palmer Square post office Monday, as the deadline for state and federal taxes brought a steady line of customers.    Meanwhile, a group of demonstrators outside polled taxpayers on how they want their…

  • School election results

    Ricardo Perez, Robert Laverty and Bonnie Fayer have won election to the school board and the budget and special question have passed. Board of Education Three three-year terms are available representing East Windsor. Winners are denoted with an "X." Incumbents are noted with an asterisk (*). These totals include absentee votes. X – Bonnie Fayer…

  • Senior Menus

       All meals are served at noon at Hibernia Apartments in Lambertville.    The value of each meal is $3.13. Any amount donated over this is a tax-deductible contribution. All menus are subject to change and include milk and margarine. The sodium-controlled menu is the same unless otherwise noted.    Thursday, April 19 — Split pea soup, honey…

  • Voting machine problems cause delay in city vote count

    Budget defeated in Delaware Township BY: Cindy Williamson    There was only one contest in April 17 school board races but Tuesday’s local elections and budget votes were anything but lackluster.    Election workers were unable to retrieve results from a machine in one of Lambertville’s four voting districts, keeping the six candidates vying for three seats…

  • ‘The Last Days of the Dinosaurs’

    THEATER REVIEW: Director Joe Doyle offers a memory play about the problems of old age and children’s rights, but it is a slice of life that seems to be buttered on both sides. By: Stuart Duncan    Joe Doyle is a very busy man. He and his wife, Cheryl, founded Actors’ NET of Bucks County and…

  • City rejects leasing City Hall parking spaces

    Tie vote results in defeat of proposed ordinance By: Cynthia Williamson    LAMBERTVILLE — The City Council voted 2-2 at a public hearing Monday to defeat an ordinance that would have made parking spaces in the lot behind City Hall available to the public for a monthly fee.    In the event of a tie vote, the…

  • Comic Jon Stewart to host benefit for former teacher

    The April 28 concert is a chance to see Stewart, the host of this year’s Grammy awards, and contribute to Parkinson’s disease research.    Jon Stewart, the Lawrence High School alumnus who hosts the Comedy Central hit "The Daily Show," will return to his alma mater April 28 as special guest host for a benefit concert…

  • Firemen await delivery of new truck

    Union to get 2,000-gallon-a-minute pumper By: Sue Kramer    LAMBERTVILLE — The Lambertville Fire Department is anxiously awaiting the arrival of a new fire truck, which will be housed at the Union Fire Co. on North Main Street.    The new truck, a 2000 gallon-per-minute American LaFrance pumper, is expected to be shipped from the manufacturing plant…

  • Don’t drink the water!

    Muddy water plagues residents By: Cynthia Williamson    LAMBERTVILLE — The quality of the water has become so inconsistent Tom Birkner has gotten into a "habit of filling up the tub" to determine how "dirty the water is" before he takes a shower.    Jane Wesby’s water is brown "almost all the time."    "We don’t drink your…