Category: archives

  • Mercer to lead AHS girls basketball

    By: Kyle Moylan    According to Paul Mercer, he has been coaching basketball "longer than he cares to remember." Among his various stops, he’s been the head coach at the Sharon School and an assistant for the Allentown High School boys’ basketball team. Now he’s taking a very appropriate time to be moving to the varsity.…

  • A lesson on sign language

    By: Frank C. D’Amico    WASHINGTON – Maureen Little grew up in a big family, 10 children in all.    Six of her siblings are deaf. Ms. Little is not, and she spends much of her time traveling to school districts across New Jersey teaching students about sign language.    "Deaf children are really starting to mainstream into…

  • Redbird boys hoops a ‘work in progress’

    By: Kyle Moylan    The Allentown High School boys’ basketball team got off to a great start last season and faded after that. This season the opposite may occur.    Allentown graduated most of its team from last year. This may cause some problems at the start of the season, but Coach Brian Fifield believes he has…

  • Obituaries

    Josephine Kasprzyk    HAMILTON – Josephine M. Rajzner Kasprzyk, 92, died Saturday, Dec. 9, at home.    Born in Trenton, she was a lifelong area resident.    She was a member of the Holy Cross Altar-Rosary Society, Crusaders and PTA and the Mount Carmel Guild. She was a former member of the Diocese of Trenton Holy Innocents Society.…

  • Map provides a look at history

    By: Mark Moffa    WASHINGTON – It’s all about something old and something new, and it has township resident Cathy Lubbe excited.    The something new: a map of the township; the something old: the many features on the map dating back to the Revolutionary War.    Ms. Lubbe is chairwoman of the township’s Historic Preservation Committee, an…

  • Restaurant transformed by ‘white goop’

    By: Mae Rhine    NEW HOPE – Walking into the new restaurant, Moonlight, feels, at first, like going into a cave.    A visitor automatically puts her hand up on the white rock-like walls, expecting it to be damp and cold.    But it’s an illusion. And it’s all created by "white goop," says owner Andrew Abruzzeze.    The…

  • Historically Speaking

    For Dec. 14 By: Information provided by Allentown resident Ann Garrison, Allentown-Upper Freehold Historical Society President John Fabiano and society member Alice Wikoff from their draft abstract, "Allen’s Town, New Jersey: A Crossroads of the American Revolution, 1775-1783." Background    Colonial Allentown was a bustling, established agrarian village. There were approximately 80 buildings (unconfirmed), farms and…

  • Footprints: Sturdy Durham boats used for crossing

    By: Iris Naylor    Another Christmas is almost here and, with it, another reenactment of the boat ride General George Washington took across the Delaware on that stormy Christmas night 224 years ago.    It was a crossing that changed the face of history.    It also was a crossing that made Durham boats famous. Not that they…

  • Chit-Chat: Toad owners to sail seven seas

    By: Merle Citron    After almost 24 years in the restaurant business, David Duthie of the Yellow Brick Toad will close his doors forever as of Jan. 1, 2001.    David has sold the property to Oxford Communications.    This is sad news for all of us who have enjoyed dining at the "Toad." The really good news…