Category: archives

  • ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’

    It’s a challenge bringing big, sentimental novels like this to the screen. They’re so unwieldy that the flavor of real life is missing. By Bob Brown    Gabriel García Márquez’s heart-rending novel almost cries out to be made into a sprawling, epic film spanning the centuries. In fact, producer Scott Steindorff pestered the novelist for three…

  • LPS recyclign fundraiser

       The sixth-grade class at Lambertville Public School is raising funds for its Washington, D.C., trip.    Consider donating and recycling the following items — cell phones, ink jet printer cartridges, DVD movies and video games; portable DVD players, laptop computers, MP3 players; X-Boxes, Sony Playstations, WII; digital cameras and digital video cameras; digital picture frames; and…

  • BREAKING NEWS ALERT

    Digirolamo accepts plea, according to lawyer By Vic Monaco, Managing Editor Rosario DiGirolamo, described as a person of interest in the disappearance of his mistress, Amy Giordano, of Hightstown, accepted a plea agreement today related to his abandonment of the couple’s baby, according to his lawyer. Jerome Ballarotto said his client pleaded guilty in Delaware…

  • Ordinance would ban parking already prohibited

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer    In an effort to match borough regulations with a practice, the Borough Council unanimously approved the introduction of an ordinance Monday concerning prohibited parking on North Fifth Avenue at Roosevelt School.    According to C. Douglas Reina, borough attorney, parking is not allowed on the east side of North Fifth Avenue…

  • Foreign policy expert speaks at PU

           Foreign policy expert Walter Russell Mead will present a talk titled “The Protocols of the Elders of Greenwich: The Secret American Plot to Rule the World” at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19, in 16 Robertson Hall at Princeton University.    Mr. Mead’s lecture title is based on ideas included in his most recent book, “God and…

  • Princeton U. president cited among "America’s Best Leaders"

           PRINCETON — Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman is one of 18 people included in U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Leaders”.    In the magazine’s Nov. 19 issue, each individual selected is profiled. According to the magazine, these people excel in their chosen fields but also embrace a concept of leadership as a broader…

  • ‘When Broken Glass Floats’ on Monday

    The Lawrence Library, 2751 Brunswick Pike (Business Route 1) will hold a book reading and discussion group on the novel "When Broken Glass Floats," by Chanrithy Him, at 10 a.m. Monday. A fighting memoir from a surivivor of the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia (1975-79). After her entire family dies in the killing fields, Him escapes…

  • Board of Education meeting Monday

    Upper Freehold The Board of Education is scheduled to meet Monday night at 8 in the Middle/Elementary School media center.

  • Early dismissal

    Springfield Elementary, NBC Middle and High schools will have an early dismissal on Wednesday, Nov. 21. Area schools will be closed Thursday and Friday.