Category: archives
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Donations sought for injured city mailman
Richard Groom of Levittown, Pa., was hurt when he tripped over construction material during flood cleanup in August. By: Linda Seida LAMBERTVILLE A mailman is one of those people who are part of the fabric of the landscape. People tend to notice him more when he’s not there. That’s how it is four months…
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‘Eragon’
For all its stars and special effects, this film about a teenager and his hatchling dragon never leaves the shallow end of the pool. By: Bob Brown And now for your typical boy-meets-girl except the girl happens to be a dragon. Stefen Fangmeier directed this interspecies love story, a sort of My Friend Flicka…
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Obituaries-Dec. 21, 2006
Robert Bland WEST AMWELL Robert L. Bland, 62, of West Amwell Township died Saturday, Dec. 9, at the Penn Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia. Mr. Bland was born in Norwich, N.Y. He was director of state government information services at the New Jersey State Library from 1992 until his retirement in the fall of 1999.…
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Early deadline for Dec. 28 edition
Items due Friday! Because of the Christmas holiday Dec. 25, the deadline for submission of news copy, letters to the editor, etc., for the Dec. 28 edition of the HVN is Friday, Dec. 22 at 2 p.m. All photos being submitted for that edition should be in this office or e-mailed as jpegs no later…
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Marathon Man
Jon Solomon is set to host his 19th 24-Hour Christmas Show on WPRB. By: Susan Van Dongen He’s making a playlist and checking it twice. What will go out on the air and sound nice? Jon Solomon, a fixture at Princeton University’s WPRB 103.3 FM, collects and muses on holiday music all year. But when…
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Editorial-Dec. 21, 2006
City also needs law that targets young drinkers By: Mae Rhine Back in June, we urged Lambertville and West Amwell to take a cue from neighboring Hopewell and consider an ordinance that would ban underage drinking on private property. Hopewell police were frustrated because they couldn’t do anything about minors sitting outside drinking while police…
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The Twelve Days of Christmas
If the 2006 season could be repeated, there are the plays TIMEOFF critic Stuart Duncan would choose to see again. By: Stuart Duncan It’s that wonderful time of the year when we invite our memories to catch up with all of the year’s activities. That time when we can look at the year just now…
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Beatrice Hackert
Beatrice Hackert of Philadelphia died Monday at the Evangelical Manor. Born in Trenton, she had resided in Ewing Township for many years and retiring to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. She was retired from the New Jersey National Bank in Trenton. Daughter of the late Giacomo and Mary Terone Giordano and wife of the late Frederich E.…
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Police Blotter-Dec. 21, 2006
Lambertville Painting were reported stolen from the People’s Store on North Union Street. One, described as being a painting of cows in a meadow and valued at $595, was hanging on a wall and taken sometime between Dec. 7 and Dec. 9. Another, also valued at $595, was taken from a wall display sometime between…
