• LAMBERTVILLE: Fencing academy in new home

    LAMBERTVILLE: Fencing academy in new home

    LAMBERTVILLE — Foils, epees and sabers once again will reign in the Lambertville studio of Bucks County Academy of Fencing. More than seven months after Hurricane Irene devastated the 10,000-square-foot facility along the canal, the academy has been looking for a new location, battling with its insurance company, dealing with reconstruction and running its operation…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: BoroGreen posts historic sites map online

        The BoroGreen grassroots group has posted an online map of Hillsborough historical sites.     The work is done in partnership of the Hillsborough Public Library and the Historical Preservation Committee.     In two library workshops, BoroGreen learned what mattered to residents. Avid cyclists explained how dangerous it was to bike in certain areas because…

  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: Senior services offering programs

       Hopewell Valley Senior Services is offering the following programs:    The Let’s Chat group with Vivian Greenberg will meet Friday, May 4, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the Hopewell Valley Senior Center, 395 Reading St., in Pennington.    Stop by for a discussion. All are welcome. No registration is required.    Refreshments are served.    Generation Connection: Tech…

  • LAWRENCE: Boy, 11, rescued from lake after canoe flips

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Police are continuing an investigation into an incident last week on Colonial Lake in which a young boy was rescued after a canoe in which he and three friends were in flipped over.    The 11-year-old Trenton boy was in the canoe with three friends at around 7 p.m. April 25…

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Trenton man faces assault charge

    By Ruth Luse, Managing Editor    Lt. Lance Maloney of the Hopewell Township Police Department reported:    A homeless man was charged with drunken driving April 21 at 11:58 p.m.    Edward Brown, 50, was charged after Officer Joseph McNeil observed a car traveling at 64 mph in a 45-mph zone along Washington Crossing-Pennington Road in the township.…

  • Thumbs down on ordinance

    Aurelio Colina, Hopewell Township We have only a few days before the Tuesday, May 8, ELSA sewer bond ordinance referendum.    The supporters of this ordinance continue to argue developers will use the so-called “builder’s remedy” to construct thousands of new McMansions in Hopewell Township shortly after the ordinance is defeated.    If these ordinance proponents strongly…

  • Ahn’s TaeKwonDo Students Win 75 Medals at Big East Competition

    Ahn’s TaeKwonDo Students Win 75 Medals at Big East Competition

    Ahn’s TaeKwonDo Students at 2012 Big East Competition

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: More Lawrence-Hopewell trail segments opened

    By Lea Kahn, The Packet Group    With a snip of a pair of oversized scissors, a bright green ribbon was cut, and two more segments of the Lawrence Hopewell Trail were officially opened in a field at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. on April 24.    The two segments — a nearly 1-mile-long stretch along the Province…

  • A dime can buy a big part of the future

    Jim Burd, Titusville Back in the ‘50’s, I’d bike to Zeke’s (now Greg’s Deli) to buy a candy bar for a dime.    Hopewell Township was much more farmland then and a lot less houses.    May 8, township residents must vote to approve the sewer bond. With your “yes” vote, the average voter will commit about…

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