Category: archives

  • EDITORIAL: Town needs help to save Van Dyke

    Inclusion on preservation list could help preserve 220-acre farm.    A statewide preservation group wants to see a historic farm saved from development.    Preservation New Jersey has listed the Van Dyke Farm on Davidsons Mill Road on its annual "10 Most Endangered" list in the hopes of generating momentum toward preserving the 200-plus-acre property, an 18th-century…

  • Taste of the Pacific Northwest

    By: Josh Appelbaum    Wine enthusiasts hot on the trail of the newest and fastest growing regions should consider canceling their flights to Australia or South Africa and discover the Bordeaux-like varieties of the Pacific Northwest.    But you don’t even have to travel to Washington or Oregon to experience the region’s flavors, thanks to the Hunterdon…

  • ‘M*A*S*H’

    Somerset Valley Players takes on Tim Kelly’s Korean War story. By: Stuart Duncan    Sitting through the production of M*A*S*H at Somerset Valley Playhouse was rather like attending one’s 30th high school reunion. You know a lot of the names, but the faces changed and somehow things seemed different than you had remembered.    For most people,…

  • ‘Of Mice and Men’

    Actors’ NET brings the John Steinbeck classic back to the stage. By: Stuart Duncan    For the second week in a row, a production of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men has opened in the Bucks County, Pa./central New Jersey area. Surely this is a rarity for this 1938 drama, adapted by the author himself from…

  • West Amwell OKs $3.03M tab

    The budget includes $40,000 toward two Fire Department vehicles. By: Linda Seida    WEST AMWELL — The Township Committee approved a $3.03 million budget for 2006 that includes almost $40,000 toward the purchase of the fire company’s new ladder truck and command vehicle.    The ladder truck, which also features a water tank and pump, would be…

  • ‘Mission: Impossible III’

    ‘Lost’ creator J.J. Abrams puts his stamp on the latest installment of Tom Cruise’s franchise, doling out visceral action at a propulsive pace. By: Elise Nakhnikian    As we morph with alarming speed into a can’t-do nation, unable to build levees that can withstand hurricanes, or find ways to secure our ports and airports, or manufacture…

  • Stand Up

    The Princeton Human Rights Film Festival offers film and discussions toward a better world. By: Hilary Parker    "Somebody’s got to believe that things are going to get better… " That tagline for the 2001 Sundance Film Festival’s Best Cinematography Award-winning film LaLee’s Kin: The Legacy of Cotton, could just as easily be the mission statement…

  • Township finalizes school budget cut

    The Board of Education was expected to agree May 9 to the $20,000 cut that would delay moving the preschool for handicapped children. By: Linda Seida    WEST AMWELL — The Township Committee has made its final recommendation to cut $20,000 from West Amwell Elementary School’s defeated $3.67 million budget.    The cut will delay the relocation…

  • To Your Health-May 11, 2006

    How to cope with morning sickness By: Dr. Terry Shlimbaum    Most expectant mothers experience morning sickness to some degree during their first four months of pregnancy, but why does it happen and is there anything you can do about it?    Pregnancy causes an increase in hormones, especially estrogen, in the body and, sometimes, a women’s…