Category: archives

  • Parenting Pearls-Feb 1, 2007

    Twenty colleges are too many to apply to By: Dr. Mae Sakharov    The expenses involved in applying to colleges have accelerated along with tuition costs.    Sending out college applications costs between $25 and $75 apiece, a rate that goes up every year. The lower cost is for most state colleges while the higher processing fee…

  • Senior Menus-Feb. 1, 2007

       All meals are served at noon at Hibernia Apartments in Lambertville.    The value of each meal is $4.60. Any amount donated over this is a tax-deductible contribution. All menus are subject to change and include milk and margarine.    The sodium-controlled menu is the same unless otherwise noted.    Thursday, Feb. 1 — Vegetable rice soup, meatloaf…

  • Cronce is new board chairman

    Chester Urbanski was named vice chairman of the West Amwell Zoning Board of Adjustment after a challenge by member Robert Fulper II failed. By: Linda Seida    WEST AMWELL — Former Mayor John Cronce was unanimously elected chairman of the Zoning Board of Adjustment, and Chester Urbanski was elected vice chairman after a 3-3 "silent vote"…

  • Theater of Rock

    The Villagers catches ‘Bat Boy’ By: Stuart Duncan    Bat Boy — The Musical is clearly not to everyone’s taste. I suspect it may be a generational thing: If you come from a younger generation not yet deaf (tone deaf doesn’t count) from existing rock scores; if you have been nurtured throughout your formative years on…

  • Obituaries-Feb. 1, 2007

    Donald Remer    LAWRENCEVILLE — Donald Glenn Remer, 81, died Thursday, Jan. 25, at Helene Fuld Medical Center.    Born in New Hope, he had been a resident of New Jersey for more than 75 years.    He was a Navy veteran of World War II and served for three years, enlisting at the age of 17 and…

  • Lambertville wants answers for contaminated water

    Levels of trihalomethanes were elevated in December. By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — Although experts say there is no need to boil tap water, Mayor David Del Vecchio says there is a need for answers from United Water on why the city’s drinking water had elevated levels of trihalomethanes in December.    Trihalomethanes, or THMs, are potentially…

  • City to decide if police director can do internal affairs checks

    The hearing into insubordination charges against Lambertville Sgt. Michael O’Rourke will continue Feb. 13. By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — The disciplinary hearing for Lambertville police Sgt. 1st Class Michael O’ Rourke will resume Feb. 13 at 6 p.m. in the Justice Center on South Union Street.    If the insubordination charges filed against him by Police…

  • Police Blotter-Feb. 1, 2007

    Lambertville    An employee of a local restaurant was severely burned while working Jan. 22.    Police were called to Sneddon’s Luncheonette at 47 Bridge St. at 11:15 a.m.    The victim, Edilberto Montes, 26, of Lambertville was in the rear of the kitchen with apparent second-degree burns to more than half of his body and unable to…

  • Editorial-Feb. 1, 2007

    City must weigh decision on Cocuzza’s power By: Mae Rhine    Lambertville should tread carefully when deciding whether Police Director Bruce Cocuzza — as the civilian head of the department — has the right to conduct internal affairs investigations.    The city is conducting a disciplinary hearing into whether Sgt. Michael O’Rourke disobeyed a direct order from…