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  • Firemen to buy special pumps for flooding

    By: Sue Kramer        LAMBERTVILLE — The Board of Fire Commissioners will purchase two new portable pumps for the Hibernia Fire Company on South Main Street.    While electric pumps can pump flooded basements unattended, gas pumps have the advantage when power is lost as happened during Tropical Storm Floyd last September.    At the board’s meeting…

  • Officer sues city, officials

    Patrolman says disciplinary action conspiracy to fire him By: Cynthia Williamson        LAMBERTVILLE — A police officer who was found guilty Monday of violating departmental rules and regulations and suspended for 70 days without pay claims the disciplinary action was all part of a conspiracy to end his employment with the city.    The allegation was…

  • DOWN ON THE FARM

    Howell Farm activities    Horse-drawn wagon tours of Hopewell Township’s Pleasant Valley Rural Historic District will be offered to the public on Saturday, June 24, courtesy of Howell Living History Farm. The district, which includes 13 properties, is listed on the National and State Registers of Historic Places.    The 30-minute tours will leave the farm on…

  • Air boat capsizes on Delaware near wingdam

    Rescue boat still missing a week later By: Sue Kramer LAMBERTVILLE — Years of training on the Delaware River and as many years experience with river rescues averted a tragedy June 14 when the Lambertville-New Hope Ambulance and Rescue Squad’s airboat capsized and sank with two squad members aboard during a swift-water training session. Squad…

  • 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, June 22 — Grape juice, chicken cacciatore,…

  • Hopewell Valley Post 339 schedule

       Hopewell Valley American Legion Post 339’s baseball team has the following schedule:    July 10 – Post 31, Hopewell Valley, 5:45 p.m.    July 11 – Post 31, Hopewell Valley, 5:45 p.m.    July 13 – Post 182, Hopewell Valley, 5:45 p.m.    July 14 – Post 26, Gilder Park, 5:45 p.m.

  • Millstone teen dies in car accident

    AHS senior in critical condition By: Frank C. D’Amico        UPPER FREEHOLD — Many seniors who on Wednesday evening were scheduled to graduate from Allentown High School undoubtedly had their thoughts miles away from the campus.    That is because classmate Andrea N. Gardner, known to her friends as Nicki, and schoolmate Ian A. Alspaugh were…

  • Obituaries

    John Martin    HAMILTON — John R. Martin, 82, died Saturday, June 17, at Hamilton Continuing Care Center.    Born in Lambertville, he lived in Hamilton Square.    Mr. Martin was chief chemist for 45 years for Occidental Petroleum Products, formerly known as Columbia Carbon, Trenton.    He was an internationally recognized expert in iron oxide technologies and was…

  • Editorial

    New Hope needs capable administrator    The position of borough manager was created to save money.    Instead, some New Hope officials say, it has cost them money.    From what the public was told, Victoria Keller was not the right woman for the job.    The borough has a very real financial problem. It has been struggling to…