Category: archives

  • Eagle Fire Company report-June 7, 2007

       May 28 at 10:51 a.m. — Fire alarm, Greenwich Court in Solebury; one engine responded; 17 personnel in service for 30 minutes.    May 28 at 1:13 p.m. — Alarm system, Riverwoods Drive, New Hope; one engine responded; 16 personnel on duty for 45 minutes.    May 29 at 10:56 a.m. — Reported vehicle fire at Kitchen…

  • Editorial-June 7, 2007

    Hunting on Stockton tract needs debate By: Mae Rhine    Stockton residents need to let their officials know how they feel about permitting hunting on the land the borough fought so hard to preserve.    The 63-acre tract, usually referred to as the My Ben property after the developer that wanted to build on it, was preserved…

  • Parenting Pearls-June 7, 2007

    Applying to college can be an adventure By: Dr. Mae Sakharov    This was a most difficult year for students applying to colleges.    The largest population of young people since the 1960s is coming to age. This generation has been dubbed "echo boomers" in homage to their parents, themselves members of the baby boom generation.    There…

  • ‘Mr. Brooks’

    It’s difficult to know where things are going in this thriller, since the plots direct our attention in so many divergent paths. By: Bob Brown    "The hunger has returned to Mr. Brooks’ brain. It never really left." So begins director-writer Bruce A. Evans’ thriller, co-written with sometime collaborator Raynold Gideon (Stand by Me). The public…

  • City wants federal funds for Ely Creek flood remedy

    John Miller, a member of the Planning Board and a certified floodplain manager with Princeton Hydro, will write the application. By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — The City Council agreed to pay an engineering firm another $10,000 to put together a grant application for federal funds to help pay for an Ely Creek flood remedy.    John…

  • Man critical after work accident

    David Mummey, 45, of Ringoes fell trying to remove a large machine in West Amwell Township. By: Linda Seida    WEST AMWELL — David Mummey of Dave’s Sunoco in Ringoes remained hospitalized in critical condition Tuesday after an industrial accident, according to police.    Mr. Mummey. 45, was hospitalized Monday at Capital Health Systems at Fuld in…

  • Bob N. Jones

    Robert Norbert Jones, 72, of Nowhere, died at 5:19 a.m. Sunday, August 2, 2006, at his home in Nowhere.

  • Jane A. Doe

    Jane A. Doe, 75, of Springfield, died at 2:49 p.m. Wednesday, August 5, 2006, at Mercy Hospital in Springfield.

  • ‘Once’

    It all feels very realistic, and that’s odd in itself since musicals are surely one of the most artificial forms of storytelling. By: Elise Nakhnikian    I’ve never seen anything quite like Once. Even the robbery that opens the movie veers off in an unexpected direction, as the skittish robber that a street musician (Glen Hansard…