Category: archives
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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…
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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…
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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"…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
