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  • Hunt for Banned Books to be held

       LAMBERTVILLE — From Sept. 29 to Oct. 6, get out a spyglass and town map and be ready for the 2007 Hunt for Banned Books sponsored by the Friends of the Lambertville Library.    The hunt is being held in celebration of Banned Books Week and will be just like a treasure hunt, but in this…

  • Capital Health to ask for GDP amendment

    Planning session set Sept. 27 By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    Capital Health System (CHS) wants to build a 237-bed hospital, plus three companion office buildings, on a Merrill Lynch-owned tract of land in south-central Hopewell Township.    Among the governmental approvals CHS needs to accomplish that goal is township Planning Board approval to amend the General…

  • Princeton Future plans open meeting

    Princeton Future will hold an open meeting 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6 at the Princeton Public Library. Development Director Kevin Wilkes will open the meeting by presenting a summary of what was said at the June meeting, and 150 transcripts of the conversations are being donated by Triangle Repro Center. From 9:30…

  • Shopping and other tales from the food chain

    Princeton Business Journal’s September FAMILY BUSINESS column By Diane Landis Hackett    The other day, I was running through Eckerd Drugs when I realized that I didn’t have enough food to pack in the kid’s lunches for the next day. Not wanting to make a full-fledged shopping trip, I swooped down the processed food aisle and…

  • Two men stabbed in borough

    Police say they are instable condition By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer HIGHTSTOWN — A fight among at least four men Friday night landed two of them in the hospital with stab wounds, police said. Police said they responded to multiple reports of an altercation on Rogers Avenue near Outcalt Street at 7:30 p.m., during which…

  • Meeting: Millstone BOE

    Monday The Board of Education is scheduled to meet at 8 p.m. in the Millstone Elementary School library, Schoolhouse Road.

  • Montgomery FD plans fundraiser for injured firefighter.

    The Montgomery Township Volunteer Fire Company #1, is hosting a Benefit Rock Concert next Saturday, Sept. 29, from 4 PM to 10 PM, for the Craig Schenck Special Needs Foundation. Craig Schenck, 22,  is Somerset County Firefighter and EMT who was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident. The foundation was established to help defray expenses…

  • Colonial service 

        Sunday, Sept. 23 — The First Baptist Church of Bordentown will hold a 1700s colonial service at 10:15 a.m. It will feature a high pulpit, candlelight as the light source, no musical instruments and lined-out hymns. The pastor and ushers will be dressed in colonial garb and the offering will be taken with wooden…

  • Blues Fest to be offered

       STOCKTON — The first Stockton Blues Fest will be held at the Stockton Inn on Sunday, Sept. 23, from 1 to 0 p.m., rain or shine.    There will be six bands, food and raffles.    For information or tickets at $10 a person, call 397-1250.