Category: archives

  • Parenting Pearls-Aug. 3, 2006

    Children need structure to learn to read By: Dr. Mae Sakharov    Children have confided to me they hate reading, leading me to wonder, how can you hate reading?    It must be something else, something more particular, you hate.    Perhaps you feel frustrated because learning how to read was difficult for you. After all, learning how…

  • Editorial-Aug. 3, 2006

    Should city query voters about plastics? By: Mae Rhine    You asked for it. Now do you want it?    Lambertville is responding to residents’ requests to start collecting plastic recyclables by asking them whether they want to put the question to voters on November’s ballot.    The program would mean an extra 2 cents per $100 of…

  • Stockton considers historic district

    The borough Planning Board will have a public hearing on a land use plan that also includes recommendations for future development. By: Linda Seida    STOCKTON — The Planning Board will hold a public hearing Tuesday to discuss a proposed land use plan, including recommendations for future development and the creation of a historic district.    The…

  • City may ask voters about recycling plastics

    A public hearing on whether to put the question on the November ballot will be held Aug. 10. By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — Voters will decide a ballot question in November that asks if they’re willing to pay more taxes for the ability to recycle plastics.    The council agreed unanimously to place the question on…

  • Mansfield secures farmers’ rights

    Local ordinance gives farmers better working hours, helps preserve farmland By: Molly Petrilla    MANSFIELD — A Right to Farm ordinance passed by the Township Committee on July 26 will help local farmers continue planting, reaping and sowing with minimal disturbance from their nonfarming neighbors.    The ordinance "allows an already established farmer some latitude if there…

  • ‘Grease’

    Kelsey Theatre stages the ’50s inspired musical. By: Stuart Duncan    There’s nothing unique about yet another production of Grease. But the current staging at Kelsey Theatre on the campus of Mercer County Community College certainly seems different. It is being offered by Stars In The Park, a group that was originally formed in 1998, specifically…

  • ‘Scoop’

    A mellower, milder, Woody Allen is back in front of the camera, still working the twin strands of his obsessions: love and death. By: Bob Brown    Allen, often frustrating to fans who wonder where the humor went, or the depth, has settled on a persona and an approach that works for him at this stage…

  • Senior Menus-Aug. 3, 2006

    Lambertville    Carol A. Sassman of North Union Street reported July 24 that someone had removed the cover off her husband’s motorcycle, which was parked at the rear of her house.    The right rear blinker was taken. The saddlebags were fond on the ground next to the motorcycle, police said.    John L. Jackson, 46, of Rosemont…

  • ‘Mr. Hobbs’ Vacation’

    Somerset Valley Playhouse interprets Edward Streeter’s classic summertime tale. By: Stuart Duncan    Mr. Hobbs’ Vacation was a 1954 novel, grabbed by Hollywood eight years later and turned into a movie which starred Jimmy Stewart and Maureen O’Hara (with a very young Fabian in a minor role). The final incarnation was a play, adapted by F.…