Category: archives

  • Sferrazza likes arms on MHS staff

    Sferrazza likes arms on MHS staff

    New baseball skipper set to begin season by John Beisser, Sports Writer    There’s a new man at the helm of the Manville High baseball program. He’s got a name that’s hard to spell, even harder to pronounce, and a big, baritone of a voice that easily reveals his love for the game.    Meet 26-year old…

  • Teresa Russo

    BORDENTOWN — Teresa Civitano Panebianco Russo, 100, died Friday at Morris Hall in Lawrenceville.     Born in the Bronx, N.Y., she had been a Bordentown resident for many years.     She was a parishioner at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in Bordentown, past president of the Ladies Auxiliary of BPOE Lodge 2085 of Bordentown, and…

  • City library sets programs

       The Lambertville Public Library will have the following; call 397-0275 to register:    • Bouncy Booktime in pajamas, April 9, 16, 23 and 30.    The library’s weekly storytime will debut its evening counterpart for four weeks in April.    It will be held Wednesday evenings from 6:45 to 7:30 p.m.    This program is geared to children 5 months…

  • Police Blotter-April 3, 2008

    Lambertville    March 24 at 12:30 p.m., police went to the Mercer County Corrections Center and arrested Brenda F. Ford of Trenton.    Ms. Ford had a traffic warrant from Lambertville Municipal Court for $500.    She was taken to the Hunterdon County Jail in lieu of bail.    Saturday at 9:30 p.m., police went to the Trenton Police…

  • Editorial – Cleanup events continue to be important

       The Shabakunk Creek today is a depressing sight. After a sunny day last June, however, it was beautiful.    Ten months ago, The Stony Brook- Millstone Watershed Association held its inaugural cleanup events in five towns within the Watershed’s 265-square-mile region. The purpose was to clear out as much trash as possible from waterways whose contents…

  • Governor lauds towns’ efforts to share services

    Governor lauds towns’ efforts to share services

    Lambertville Mayor David Del Vecchio speaks at a press conference March 27 as DCA Commissioner Joseph Doria and Gov. Jon Corzine listen. Staff photo by Robyn C. Stein

  • BRSD keeps tax levy stable

    By Vanessa S. Holt, Managing Editor BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — The Board of Education will ask voters April 15 to approve a $23 million tax levy, the same amount as last year, but two sending districts could see a higher school tax bill this year because of a revaluation in Bordentown City last year resulting in…

  • Stop-Loss

    This is the first non-documentary American film about our post-9/11 presence in Iraq that has the heft and urgency of truth. By Elise Nakhnikian    STOP-LOSS is a flare sent out on behalf of all the soldiers who’ve served in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s partly a tribute, partly a protest, and partly a promise to never…

  • Don’t spend money city doesn’t have

    Bruce Currie of Lambertville     Having a problem warming up to your opinion in favor of more government spending for flood studies in Lambertville when common sense suggest the river floods because the volume of water in it exceeds its capacity to stay within its banks.    The volume of water we gets depends on rainfall…