Category: archives

  • Letters-March 2, 2006

    Thank firefighters with contributions To the editor:    The time has come for the members of the Lambertville Fire Department to celebrate yet another year of service.    We also have made history within the department ranks yet again as Matthew Hartigan has assumed the rank of chief.    Under Chief Hartigan’s leadership so far, the department has…

  • ‘Falstaff’

    New Jersey Opera Theater offers a semi-staged performance of Verdi’s final work. By: Stuart Duncan    It has always been intriguing that Giuseppe Verdi, the creator of some of the world’s finest and best loved tragic operas (Aida and Otello, for two) at the end of his career, on the threshold of age 80, would turn…

  • Parenting Pearls-March 2, 2006

    Awards given to so-called underachievers By: Dr. mae Sakharov    March is time for the Academy Awards when Hollywood rolls out the red carpet and honors those the academy members vote the best of the year.    Viewers who do not fall asleep during interminable speeches watch this program with rapt attention. They applaud brave performances, which…

  • ‘The Pillowman’

    Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy is staged at George Street Playhouse. By: Stuart Duncan    Irish playwright Martin McDonagh looks at life from a tilt of at least 15 degrees. That makes his plays funny, sometimes very funny indeed. It also makes them disturbing, sometimes extremely disturbing. Having set the table with works such as A Skull…

  • Obituaries-March 2, 2006

    Samuel Travia    RINGOES — Samuel Travia Jr., 63, of Ringoes died Tuesday, Feb. 21, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.    Born in Trenton, he lived in Ringoes for more than 30 years.    Mr. Travia was employed by Educational Testing Service in Princeton as a systems analyst for 39 years.    He was…

  • Jayne G. Sked

       Jayne G. Sked, 91, of Pennington died Monday in the Princeton Care Center, Princeton.    Born in Weiser, Idaho, she had been a Hopewell Township resident since 1934.    .She was a homemaker and a member of the Morning Star Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, Pennington, the Hopewell Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary, the Hopewell…

  • Police Blotter-March 2, 2006

    Lambertville    David March, 36, of Lambertville is facing charges after entering a North Union Street residence and startling the homeowner.    Police were called to the residence Feb. 16 at 3:40 a.m. for an unknown male that had walked in the unlocked front door of the residence and had to be forced out. Police found Mr.…

  • $1M surplus could lower city taxes

    Lambertville will discuss a proposed $3.71 million municipal budget March 2. By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — A surplus of about $1 million could slightly reduce municipal taxes under a proposed $3.71 million budget scheduled for a City Council discussion March 2.    "The average taxpayer, even with assessments going up, will pay a little less, with…

  • Truck ban overturned in court

    Lambertville Mayor David Del Vecchio, chairman of the New Jersey League of Municipalities’ Heavy Truck Traffic Task Force, vowed the court ruling will be appealed. By: Linda Seida    The federal appeals court ruling last week that allows large out-of-state tractor-trailers to travel on local roads will have no effect on Lambertville.    But it will affect…