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  • Spirit of the Season

    Spirit of the Season

    Board games, mittens, beer – a roundup of gifts that will spread holiday cheer By Megan Sullivan    WHAT better time to start new traditions than the holidays, especially those that can bring family, friends and community together. Whether you concoct a festive winter homebrew, bond over a rousing party game or engage in a new…

  • BORDENTOWN: Blaze guts city house

    Family displaced, but none injured By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    BORDENTOWN CITY — A three-alarm fire destroyed a three-story single-family house on Willow Street. But while it destroyed the house, it also brought the community out in support of its owners.    Homeowner Susan Inman, 60, said she heard water dripping as she did housework at…

  • DISPATCHES: A Jersey tradition

    By Hank Kalet, Online editor There’s nothing like a crisis to get New Jersey legislators moving.     Too bad they rarely move until the crisis occurs — especially when it is a crisis of their own making.     Consider the constitutional amendment that state Sen. Stephen Sweeney is proposing that would prohibit the state from…

  • Raymond Kintzel

       Raymond “Fats” Kintzel, 83, of Lambertville, died Dec. 9, at the Doylestown Hospital, Doylestown, Pa.    Born in Lambertville, Mr. Kintzel was a lifelong resident of the city. He was a supervisor with the Jockey Men’s Wear Company in Lambertville, retiring in 1986 after 35 years of service. A veteran of World War II, Mr. Kintzel…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Y keeps kids healthy

    by Davy James, Staff Writer    The South Brunswick Family YMCA is helping kids learn to stay healthy.    As part of its Healthy U after-school program, introduced in October, children at the YMCA are getting a workout for both the body and the mind.    The Healthy U program uses fun games to increase physical activity and…

  • Community demonstrates its caring spirit

    Connie Mercer, Executive director, Home FRONT, Lawrence To the editor:    Want to live in great community? You already do. Once again, our community has demonstrated its caring and commitment to our area’s neediest families.     Thanks to literally hundreds of individuals, organizations, corporations and congregations, HomeFront was able to provide an estimated 6,000 very…

  • EDITORIAL: Falling prices no answer to energy crisis

    Gas prices have hit their lowest point in nearly four years.     Prices for unleaded regular gasoline ranged from an average of about $1.61 per gallon in Kendall Park to about $1.80 in the Princeton area, according to the AAA Fuel Price Finder. The national average, according to the federal Department of Energy, is $1.87…

  • EDITOR’S NOTE: Accidental journalist

    by Hank Kalet    I never intended to be a journalist.    My initial goal after leaving graduate school at Rutgers was to catch on with a book publishing firm and to work my way up to becoming an editor, while at the same time writing as much poetry as I could.    Instead, I’ve spent almost 19…

  • ALLENTOWN: Land-lacking borough seeks affordable housing waiver

    by Jessica Ercolino, Staff Writer    ALLENTOWN — The borough is requesting its affordable housing obligation be eliminated because of a lack of land.    Under revised third-round state Council on Affordable Housing rules, the municipality is being required to provide 38 new affordable housing units by 2018.    Allentown’s housing element and fair share plan must be…