Category: archives
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EDITORIAL: This Web site mixes high-tech and low deceit
Need a good laugh to brighten your day? Have we got a Web site for you! Log on and you’ll be greeted by the following message: "Integrity, trust, passion, creativity, quality and sharing. They’re the values that guide us as a business and as individuals. So does a belief in adult choice – that’s why…
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Purchasing procedures spark heated debate
Fire commissioners exchange words By: Sue Kramer LAMBERTVILLE – The Board of Fire Commissioners meeting broke into fireworks Aug. 8 with board member Richard Anthes and Fire Chief Ronald R. Tillett Jr. exchanging words in an hour-long heated discussion about the fire department’s purchasing procedures. Mr. Anthes, the board’s newly appointed purchasing agent, began…
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Council: Don’t feed the fowl!
City introduces law prohibiting feeding wildlife By: Les Sdorow LAMBERTVILLE – The gourmet feast for fowl that has been served in parts of Lambertville may be reduced to a mere smorgasbord. An ordinance introduced at the Aug. 10 City Council meeting would prohibit the feeding of nondomesticated animals on city property or properties controlled…
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Kids get chance to race at New Egypt
By: Junior fans will be in the driver’s seat, literally, at New Egypt Speedway on Saturday with a program of hands-on activities that’ll give kids a chance to race on the track for trophies and paint a real, full-sized stock car. John and Shirley Leach, owners of Delran Auto Body in Burlington, NJ, are sponsoring…
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Editorial: Halp mayor stay out of state ‘jail’
Fining Lambertville for not meeting its state-imposed deadline for making improvements to its police station wouldn’t help anyone – least of all the taxpayers.. Since the city has gone ahead and purchased the former Chuck’s Auto Body on Route 29 at the northern end of town, and construction will start "any day now" on a…
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FFA leader attends national conference
By: Christiene Chin, president of the New Jersey FFA Association, was one of more than 100 state FFA officers who gathered in Washington, D.C. July 24-30 to strengthen their skills in leadership and citizenship and discuss national FFA business as part of the National FFA State Presidents’ Conference. The officers, representing each state, Puerto Rico…
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Area towns see crime rates drop
Follow state, county trends By: Mark Moffa and Frank C. D’Amico Millstone, Roosevelt, Upper Freehold, Allentown and Washington all had 1999 crime rates that dipped from the previous year, according to the Uniform Crime Report compiled by the State Police. This reflects a similar trend statewide and in Monmouth County, which had its rate drop…
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Festival of Horses on Sunday
By: The 14th annual Festival of Horses will begin at 9:30 a.m. Sunday at the Horse Park of New Jersey on Route 524 in Upper Freehold Township. During this year’s festival, more than 150 New Jersey-bred Standardbreds and Thoroughbreds will compete in mare-and-foal and yearling classes for a total of $15,000 in cash prizes. Throughout…
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Rec group mulls fowl problem
Officials say not feeding them only way to solve problem By: Nicoel Taylor An influx of complaints from community members about the large amount of duck and goose feces at Cavallo Park led the Recreation Commission to suggest: Don’t feed them. Dave Winternute, chairman of the Lambertville Recreation Commission, said at its meeting Aug.…
