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  • Bulldogs suffer defeat… twice

    Boys Soccer By: Matt Nalbone    This past week, the Hopewell Valley Central High School boys soccer team tasted defeat for the first time, and in fact, they tasted it twice.    First up was a team from Nottingham that had 14 seniors on the roster, and the experience showed as they beat Hopewell, 2-1. It seemed…

  • Logan Inn to get face lift

    Building is New Hope’s oldest By: Cynthia Williamson    NEW HOPE – The borough’s oldest building will get a face-lift under plans by Carl Asplundh Jr. to renovate and expand the Logan Inn.    Mr. Asplundh has an agreement to purchase the historic property at 10 W. Ferry St. and is proposing to enclose the porch area,…

  • Ramblers capture two against Rams

       LAMBERTVILLE – The Lambertville Ramblers earned hard-fought victories when they tacked the Oxford Rams at home Saturday evening.    The Ramblers next match is Oct. 7 when they travel to Riegel Ridge. The first game is at 5 p.m.    The Midgets won 22-18 Saturday with Jesse Fennimore and Chad Ege scoring a total of three touchdowns…

  • Harvest Festival schedule

    By: The schedule of events for the Allentown Fall Harvest Festival, which will be held Oct. 14 and Oct. 15 in the borough: Saturday, Oct. 14    9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Vinny Smith and the Gobi Guru Band, Allentown Public Library, 16 S. Main St.    Noon to 1 p.m. – Crosswicks Historic Dance Co.…

  • The right choice

    Editorial By:    The Washington Township Board of Education made the only logical choice when it decided to construct a high school and dissolve its relationship with Lawrence Township.    From all accounts, there was nothing wrong with Washington’s relationship with Lawrence High School, where public school students from the township have attended high school since 1995.…

  • Footprints: Grant’s market well-stocked

    By: Iris Naylor    When the rumor started in Lambertville in 1866 that General Grant would be in town, it wasn’t strictly true.    There was a Grant coming to Lambertville but his name was James A. Grant, and he was opening a new store at the northeast corner of Bridge and Union streets.    Mr. Grant had…

  • Stockton firemen to have open house

    By: Sue Kramer    STOCKTON – The Stockton Fire Company has something new this year: a fire prevention committee.    Headed by chairman and Deputy Chief Rick Hendricks, the committee is gearing up for a fire prevention open house at the firehouse from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13.    "This year, we want to try to…

  • Edition of Oct. 5

    OBITUARIES Frances Terhune Conover    Frances Terhune Conover, 77, died Sunday at home.    Born in Blawenburg, she was a lifelong resident.    Mrs. Conover was a secretary to the superintendent of the Montgomery Township School District. She was a lifelong member of the Blawenburg Reformed Church.    Predeceased by her parents, Stephen and Mary Ellen Hoagland Terhune, her…

  • Obituaries

    Helen Vitale    STOCKTON – Helen Theresa Pescatore Vitale, 72, died Saturday, Sept. 23, at the Somerset Medical Center, Somerville.    Born in Ringoes, she lived in Stockton 37 years.    Before her retirement, she was a hostess with the Stage Depot Restaurant, Hopewell. Previously she worked as a home health aide and visiting homemaker.    She was a…