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  • UPPER FREEHOLD: Cemetery proposal stalls over number in town

    by Sean Ruppert, The Packet Group    UPPER FREEHOLD — How many cemeteries are there within the township’s borders?    The answer, currently unclear, may go a long way toward deciding whether another can be established.    John Gahler — the owner of a 26-acre plot along Route 524 — said at the Township Committee’s April 2 meeting…

  • Spring beauties

    Spring beauties

    Phil McAuliffe Laura Finneran puts out the flowers

  • NEW HOPE: Customer cons cashier out of $100

    Flimflam at Super Fresh on West Bridge Street By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    NEW HOPE — It’s an old con, a flimflam that short-changes a store clerk.    It has been around for generations because it works.    A cashier at the Super Fresh on West Bridge Street was conned out of $100 at 1:39 a.m. Saturday…

  • Broadway in New Hope is historians’ topic on Monday

    The Bucks County Playhouse will be the setting for the discussion    The seventh annual April Speaker Series continues on April 20 at 5 p.m. when the New Hope Historical Society will feature Bucks County Herald theater critics, John Dwyer and Herb Millman, discussing the history of Broadway in New Hope.    The Bucks County Playhouse will…

  • Montgomery Travelers Soccer Club to Host Annual Try-outs for boys and girls, ages 10 to 14

    By John Lyssikatos The Montgomery Travelers Soccer Club (MTSC) will be conducting their annual try-outs for boys and girls, ages 10 to 14, interested in being part of the 2009-2010 travel program.  Try-outs will be held during the month of May at the Mill Pond Soccer Complex located in Belle Mead.    MTSC is also pleased to announce a partnership…

  • LHS-SHRHS alumni dinner dance in jeopardy?

    Event comeback would mean organization once again could award scholarships to graduating seniors at South Hunterdon Regional High School By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    Organizers of the annual dinner dance for the Lambertville High School-South Hunterdon Regional Alumni Association hope to bring back the event this year after slow ticket sales caused its cancellation last…

  • April showers

    April showers

    Trout season begins Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe    Fishermen took shelter from the rain under a tarp on Saturday along the Delaware & Raritan Canal, south of Lambertville, on the first day of trout season. Saturday was indeed a day for ducks, and hopefully fish.

  • Candidate enjoyed forum

    Al Csapo of Bordentown City, Candidate for City Commission To the editor:    On Tuesday, April 7, I had the best experience I ever had running for city commissioner. The other seven candidates and I participated in the first of three forums scheduled for this election.    I appreciate the Mount Zion AME Church congregation’s thoughtfulness in…

  • LAWRENCE: Housing plan gets COAH nod

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer Lawrence Township became the first municipality in the state to have its affordable housing plan approved by the state Council on Affordable Housing under the agency’s revised third-round regulations, according to township officials.     The township’s Housing Element and Fair Share Plan, which provides for the construction of 537 affordable…