Category: archives

  • Opinion: Public Service Academy is long overdue

    The United States of America was established to realize a vision and effectuate an ideal anchored in the maxim that liberty produced by democratic citizenship is supported by a foundation of individual civic engagement. From the earliest days of this republic, presidents have encouraged citizens to concern themselves with the national interest. Unfortunately, however, notwithstanding…

  • American Prospect editor speaks on trade at PU

    Robert Kuttner, a founding co-editor of the political magazine The American Prospect, will deliver a lecture titled “Trade and Equality” at 4 p.m. Sept. 26 (today), in 219 Burr Hall at Princeton University.    Mr. Kuttner’s talk will explore whether globalization must undercut the protections of the advanced welfare state, the subject of a book he…

  • Candidate says opponent stole slogan

    West Amwell Township Committee hopeful Frank Masterson filed a complant Monday with the state. By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    WEST AMWELL — A candidate running for a seat on the Township Committee filed a complaint Monday with the state commission that oversees elections, alleging his political rival stole his slogan.    Democrat Frank Masterson registered his…

  • Plea to cat lvoers

    Audrey Werner To the editor: This is a plea to cat lovers.    There are nine 5-month-old kittens and four adult cats who need a lot of TLC.    My husband and I have been feeding feral cats for four years. Now we both have health issues, and our age is working against us.    I would love…

  • Neighbors of proposed Dunkin’ Donuts go on attack

    They are concerned about increased traffic and trash. By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    NEW HOPE — Talk of trash and traffic dominated a conditional use hearing for a proposed Dunkin’ Donuts last week.    Neighbors who oppose the shop in the center of the tourist and historic district at 1 N. Main St. began calling witnesses…

  • Library supporters want guarantees from county

    Residents are concerned about who pays for what and who keeps what when or if the relationship ends. By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    LAMBERTVILLE — Supporters of the city’s library were cautioned to refrain from entering into a relationship with the county library system as if they were newlyweds looking forward to the divorce decree.…

  • Siegfried Langer

       SOLEBURY, PA — Siegfried K. Langer, 79, longtime Solebury, Pa. resident died Sept. 10 at his home.    He was born April 23, 1928, in Patterson, to Hans and Gertrud Langer, both deceased. At the age of 2 he moved to Erzegebirge, Germany with his parents and then returned to the United States in the mid-1940s.…

  • Rocky Hill school board meets tonight

    The Rocky Hill Borough Board of Education will hold a business meeting tonight at 7 p.m. in borough hall.

  • Historically Speaking

    Allentown, N.J.: It’s Rise and Progress, Part 52 John Fabiano    In this next to last chapter, C. R. Hutchinson recanted the macabre story of old “Hans” and suggested that James Lawrence’s Spring Mill in Upper Freehold predated Allen’s in town. The school house which in 1816 stood at the westerly corner of Peter Wikoff farm…