Category: archives

  • Holy Assumption reacts to closure

    Scott Morgan, Staff Writer ROEBLING — Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2006. The feast of St. Francis DeSales. Gerard Steffe lifts the telephone receiver/intercom microphone to his chin and begins his morning address. It is a little after 8 a.m. He doesn’t specifically reference what everyone has come to know. But listen to what he’s really saying…

  • Lawrenceville Volunteer Fire Company Halloween Parade on Tuesday

    Lawrenceville Volunteer Fire Company invites local children to participate in the annual Halloween Parade and Costume Contest on Oct. 30.  The event begins at Lawrenceville Elementary School parking lot at 6:30pm. A lighted fire truck will lead children and their families around the neighborhood for a mini-parade and end at the firehouse. The costume contest will…

  • A bug’s life (and death)

    By Scott Morgan, Staff Writer Editor’s Note: This is the first in a two-part look at scientists’ attempts to save the state’s endangered plant life. Eighteen inches from the mouth of a 6-foot ceramic praying mantis seemed hardly the place for Dan Palmer to assert the uniqueness of the operation. Around the corner, researchers like…

  • Trail building

    Saturday, Nov. 3 — Anyone wishing to participate in the Thorntown Creek Trail Building Day should meet at the trailhead on Elizabeth Street, between the Ocean Spray driveway and Lafayette Street, at 9 a.m. in Bordentown City.  Bring gloves, rakes, pruning shears and hedge clippers.  The Bordentown City Environmental Commission is sponsoring the event.  For…

  • Peacemaking forum for parents set

       LAMBERTVILLE — What can parents do to become more peaceful?    How can they help their children talk over problems instead of fighting and cool off when angry?    What can they do to help their children be less volatile and more cooperative?    Naomi Drew, an educator and leader in conflict resolution, has some practical solutions.    The…

  • County roots grow deep for 240-member Agans family

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer    She lives in a home that was once a general store and almost 240 members of her family live nearby.    For Cathy Agans, of Manville, that is just another day for her family, 99 percent of whom live in Somerset County.    Ms. Agans and her family held their 47th annual…

  • Peter Niemiec awarded chaplains’ award

       South Sixth Avenue resident Peter Niemiec, veterans specialist in the Somerset County Office of Veterans Services, recently received the Chapel of Four Chaplains’ Legion of Honor Award.    The Chapel of Four Chaplains was dedicated by President Harry S Truman in 1951. It seeks to encourage the unity that binds together Americans of all faiths.    Shortly…

  • Bootleggers beleaguer farm market operators

    By Scott Morgan, Staff Writer SPRINGFIELD — At first glance, last Thursday morning at Columbus Farmers’ Market looked normal enough. So normal, in fact, that you might never guess a familiar incident had just transpired here. But it had. On the sunny Sunday morning of July 6, Police Chief Kenneth Gerber escorted 60-year-old Mount Laurel…

  • LPS seeks plants and bulbs

       LAMBERTVILLE — Originally designed by Kevin Rice of Innovative Landscape Design, the courtyard at Lambertville Public School underwent a transformation into an outdoor learning space.    It has quiet reading areas with boulder seatings, picnic tables for projects and designs, benches for parent pickups and walkways through planting areas.    Over the past two years, it has…