Category: archives

  • Does commission enjoy gambling?

    Sharron Dallas of Stockton     I, apparently along with many others, have been copied with some explicit, vivid and passion-filled e-mails over the past day.    It was an eye-opening experience.    I can tell you that the e-mail audience is at the very least in four states and pretty much covers the entire Delaware River Basin…

  • South proposes spending $10.13 million

    By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    WESTS AMWELL — South Hunterdon Regional High School’s proposed 2008-09 budget of $10.13 million would raise taxes in its three sending districts, but it also would relieve taxpayers of a portion of debt service thanks to almost $1 million in debt relief announced by the state last week.    The Board…

  • Barry Snyder

    Artist, gallery owner     LAMBERTVILLE — Barry Snyder died Tuesday in Princeton. He was 79.    Mr. Snyder was an artist and gallery owner. He owned the former Princeton Gallery of Fine Art on Chambers Street in Princeton, which was opened in 1970.    Born in Newark, he graduated from Trenton High School. After completing studies at…

  • DOT to resume Route 29 roadwork

    By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    LAMBERTVILLE — Motorists should take note of new detours in the city as the New Jersey Department of Transportation returns to complete the final touches on the Route 29 rehabilitation project.    The DOT was scheduled to return to Lambertville on Wednesday. Work will be ongoing through April 15.    The $11…

  • William R. Houser Sr.

       William R. Houser Sr., 73, of Barnegat, died Sunday at the University of Pennsylvania. Born in Trenton and formerly of Pennington, he moved to Barnegat in 2002.    He had worked for the U.S. Postal Office as a mail carrier for the Pennington Post Office for 37 years. He retired in 1989 and worked at the…

  • City may reduce services, workers to fix aid shortfall

    By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    LAMBERTVILLE — Facing a $545,000 shortfall, Lambertville may need to cut employees from police and Public Works, eliminate Sparkle Week, sell property and raise property taxes.    Not all of these options may come to pass although it is a virtual certainty property taxes will increase. The question remains by how…

  • John J. Dzurkoc

    State treasury employee     WEST WINDSOR — John J. Dzurkoc died Tuesday at Merwick Rehab Hospital & Nursing Care in Princeton. He was 79.    Born in Trenton, he resided in West Windsor.    He was retired from the New Jersey Department of the Treasury. He was a longtime employee of R.L. Polk in Trenton.    Mr. Dzurkoc…

  • Joan E. Bauer

       Joan E. Bauer, 78, of Pennington died March 7 at the Compassionate Care Hospice.    Born in Queens, N.Y., she received an undergraduate degree from Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y., and received her master’s degree from NYU in New York. She also completed additional courses at The College of NJ and Kean College.    Ms. Bauer…

  • ‘Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day’

    In the end, this cheery fable is less about romance than it is about a mutually empowering friendship developed by two women. By Elise Nakhnikian JUST a couple of weeks ago I was writing about Fool’s Gold, complaining that they don’t make romantic comedies like they used to anymore. So I’m grateful to the estimable…