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  • ‘Baby’

    Bristol Riverside Theatre makes a special delivery. By: Staurt Duncan    It is not unusual for a Broadway musical to have small revisions to the book or lyrics once the show has opened in New York, but Baby, which premiered in 1983, had major surgery for a revival last season at Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn.…

  • Underage drinking topic of forum

    The workshop, to be held May 16 at the Lambertville-New Hope Ambulance and Rescue Squad, will focus on developing an action plan for the community. By: Mae Rhine    In one month, 68 percent of juniors and seniors, 43 percent of ninth- and 10th-graders and 17 percent of seventh- and eighth-graders at South Hunterdon Regional High…

  • Changes in trash drop-off site mulled

    West Amwell’s insurer wants only one car at a time in the lot, which was the site of a fatal accident in 2001. By: Linda Seida    WEST AMWELL — Changes could be coming to the way residents dispose of their trash at the garbage and recycling transfer station on Rocktown-Lambertville Road.    The township’s insurer, Public…

  • Lambertville asks for lower speed limits

    Mayor David Del Vecchio and Police Director Bruce Cocuzza wrote to DOT Commissioner Kris Kolluri, asking that speed limits on all state roads in the city be reduced to 25 mph in the wake of a fatal accident April 28. By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — In response to the recent fatal accident that occurred on…

  • ‘An American Haunting’

    The haunting of a 19th century Tennessee clan gets old fast, even when the spirit is presented as a psychological aberration. By: Bob Brown    Put an impressionable young girl in a creaky, spooky house on the edge of nowhere, toss in mysterious noises, things that go bump in the night, and an irresistible force who…

  • Catherine Lombardi

    Based on Italian-American comfort food, the cuisine here is prepared with a commitment to excellence. By: Kate and Tom O’Neill    Up a long flight of stairs and behind a solid, outsized door lies the enchantment of Catherine Lombardi. As a boy, restaurateur Mark Pascal found magic in the home-cooked dinners of his grandmother, after whom…

  • Gypsy Nature

    The Arts Council offers an evening of flamenco, filled with sunshine and shadows, happiness and pain. By: Susan Van Dongen (LISA BOTALICO)    Women of a certain age may not have the supple bodies of the archetypal flamenco dancer, but they have experience and often pain — and that’s what drives the soul of flamenco dance…

  • Obituaries-May 11, 2006

    Isabel Parks    FLEMINGTON — Isabel B. Parks, 94, of Flemington, formerly of Sea Girt, died Sunday, April 30, , at Hunterdon Medical Center, Raritan Township.    Born in Newburgh, N.Y., Mrs. Parks lived in Park Ridge, N.J., and Sea Girt, N.J., before moving to Flemington 14 years ago.    She was a 60-year member of the Catholic…

  • Senior Menus-May 11, 2006

       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, May 11 — Chicken vegetable soup, honey…