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  • ‘In One Bed and Out the Other’

    Somerset Valley Playhouse takes on this French bedroom farce. By: Stuart Duncan    In One Bed and Out The Other, which has opened at Somerset Valley Playhouse, is a French bedroom farce. In truth, there’s not much difference between a British bedroom farce, such as those written by Ray Cooney, and a French bedroom farce, as…

  • Tax hike looming

    Debt payments drive Cranbury budget By: Jessica Beym    Repayment of debt associated with the purchase and preservation of farmland and open space over the past three years could result in an 8.4 percent increase in municipal spending in 2006.    The $12.5 million budget introduced by the Township Committee on Monday includes an increase of $972,000…

  • ‘The Odd Couple’

    Actors’ NET of Bucks County presents both the male and female versions of Neil Simon’s comedy as part of its 10th anniversary season. By: Stuart Duncan    Last Saturday, on the coldest, windiest evening of the winter, Actors’ NET of Bucks County had a sell-out, overflow crowd at its theater in Morrisville, Pa., once the site…

  • Dressing up the language

    Poet gives Barclay Brook students a literary lesson. By: Marisa Maldonado    MONROE — Lamont Dixon likes to dress for the occasion — like when he wore a button-down shirt the color of a school bus, gray slacks and a court-jester hat.    The poet spent the last two weeks teaching second-grade students at Barclay Brook School,…

  • Voters OK budget, fire truck

    Robert "Peachy" Hayes and Nate Waldron were elected to two three-year terms on the Lambertville Board of Fire Commissioners. By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — Less than 10 percent of the city’s registered voters turned out for the fire commission election on Saturday, but those who did overwhelmingly approved the purchase of a new ladder truck…

  • City revamps rental law

    The ordinance would allow the city to inspect rental properties to prevent jam-packed boardinghouses. By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — Officials will replace an ordinance they killed Tuesday with one that is more "streamlined" as they attempt to increase the city’s oversight of rental units.    The city wants to prevent the unsafe and unhealthy conditions that…

  • LBA HIghlights-Feb. 23, 2006

    By: Laura Kropp    Action continued in the Lambertville Basketball Association this past weekend. Third- and fourth-grade girls Body Tech 10 Kiwanis 4    Megan Donnelly led Body Tech to another win Saturday by scoring four points.    Madeline Colavita, Brett Lelie and Julia Maier each scored two points for the winners.    Amy Dupuis did a great job…

  • Fire budgets on ballots

    Residents in Jamesburg and Monroe will elect fire commissioners and vote on budgets Saturday, Feb. 18. Running commissioners and proposed budgets are listed. By: Leon Tovey    Voters in Jamesburg and Monroe will elect fire commissioners and approve or reject budgets in the annual fire election Saturday.    Voters in Monroe’s Fire District 2 will also be…

  • Mayor to be reimbursed for legal fees

    New Hope agrees to pay $4,147.50 for the costs Laurence Keller incurred defending himself against a state ethics charge. By: Linda Seida    NEW HOPE — With little fanfare, the Borough Council approved the reimbursement of more than $4,000 to Mayor Laurence Keller for part of the legal fees he incurred in his defense of a…