Category: archives

  • Board approves budget plan

    Voter aproval of the school tax levy for the 2001-02 budget would raise the school property tax rate by 5 cents.    Continuing the annual rite of budget-sharing, Township Council and the Board of Education shared their respective budgets at a special meeting Tuesday night. By: Lea Kahn    The school board combined the special meeting with…

  • Elsa Holst

       WESTAMPTON — Elsa G. Holst died Tuesday, March 27, at Alterra Clare Bridge.    Born in Trenton, she lived in Lawrenceville 50 years before moving to Westampton 10 months ago.    Mrs. Holst retired as a clerical supervisor with New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. after 41 years.    She was a member of Telephone Pioneers of America Burlington-Trenton…

  • Delaware Valley Horsemen’s Association has awards banquet

    By: Cynthia Williamson    As they might say in equestrian circles, the Delaware Valley Horsemen’s Association has jumped many hurdles since holding its first horse show in the summer of 1950 at Ely Memorial Field in Lambertville.    The organization was founded in 1949 by the late Welling Howell, a veterinarian from Lambertville, who conceived the idea…

  • Moonlight

    The experience at this New Hope eatery is something close to "dining meets Blue Man Group." The surroundings and food are difficult to take in on a single visit. A second visit is more than deserved. By: Antoinette Buckley Moonlight 36 Mechanic Street, New Hope (215) 862-3100 Food: Very Good Service: Good Cuisine: New American…

  • Central Alliance chairman Volunteer of Year

    By: Sue Kramer    DELAWARE — The chairman of the Central Hunterdon Municipal Alliance, one of the member alliances in the Hunterdon County Municipal Alliance, was honored as volunteer of the year at the fourth annual dinner at the Sergeantsville firehouse March 22.    Each year, as part of its dinner program, the Central Alliance honors different…

  • K.K.: The school kids’ kitty cat

    By: The Edwards family    K.K. was adopted as a kitten by Lori Naylor when she was discovered at her place of work and seemed in need of a good home.    When K.K. first arrived at the Naylor home as a kitten, she would be outside in the mornings and afternoons when the high school students…

  • The tree that keeps on giving

    By: Cynthia Williamson    WEST AMWELL — Jan Miller isn’t out of her tree; she just enjoys decorating it.    And decorating it.    And decorating it.    And decorating it.    It all started four years ago when she set out to plan a welcome home surprise for her husband, Bert, who had been away for a week hunting…

  • ‘Blues For An Alabama Sky’

    THEATER REVIEW: The New Theatre at Rutgers University has put together a stunning production that not only digs deeply into the characters, but richly outlines a broad cultural era. By: Stuart Duncan    NEW BRUNSWICK — Pearl Cleage is probably best known for a novel, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day, picked by Oprah…

  • New Hope men ‘Queen for a Day’

    Fund-raiser to determine borough’s best drag queen By: Cynthia Williamson    NEW HOPE — After a long day on the job filling potholes, sweeping streets and emptying trash receptacles, the last thing New Hope Public Works Director Tom Carroll wants to do is slip his tired size 13 feet into a pair of black pumps.    "Don’t…