• ROBBINSVILLE: Senior Art Show tomorrow

       ROBBINSVILLE — The Mercer County Senior Art Show will be held Thursday at the Robbinsville Senior Center.    The show will feature 80 works of art including paintings and photography created by more than 70 different artists over age 60 from around the county.    It will run from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.    The Senior Center…

  • BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP: BRSD moves vote date

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — The Bordentown Regional School District Board of Education has voted to push an athletic field referendum back to the winter from its previously anticipated September date and to add a second ballot question regarding the installation of solar panels.    ”It’s a remarkable opportunity to both invest in…

  • Benefit dinner, movie package set for ACME Screening Room

    Tickets can be purchased September through Nov. 30    Friends of Lambertville Library and Hamilton’s Grill Room have joined forces to raise money for the ACME Screening Room with a “Dinner & A Movie” ticket offer.    Dinner & A Movie tickets are good for one three-course prix fixe dinner at Hamilton’s Grill Room on any night…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Township man, 20, killed in Missouri crash

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    A 20-year-old Hillsborough man was killed Saturday when the vehicle in which he was a passenger was struck broadside by a pickup truck in Missouri, where he was visiting a friend.    Greene County police in Missouri said David Yang died at the scene when the driver of the car he…

  • ‘Inglourious Basterds’

    ‘Inglourious Basterds’

    The unsettling message is that torture is fine if the victim is beneath contempt by Elise Nakhnikian    As a German officer who refused to betray his troops is bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat by a gloating American soldier, the audience at my screening of Inglorious Basterds laughed and cheered.    Did writer/director Quentin Tarantino…

  • GUEST COLUMN: Food we eat does not support healthy lifestyle

    By Julia Taylor    The typical meal eaten by Americans travels approximately 1,500 miles before it reaches the table.    Do most of us live in areas where fresh food is unavailable? No, but our industrial food production system would have us think so. The mainstream food system is based on concentrated production and economies of scale,…

  • BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP: ‘Clunkers’ program boosts sales

    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP: ‘Clunkers’ program boosts sales

    Phil McAuliffe A sign for the government-run car allowance rebate system, Cash for Clunkers, in the window of a new car at Saturn of Bordentown on Route 130. Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe.

  • Ken Burns to Attend WHYY’s Preview Screening of "National Parks" Series

    Ken Burns to Attend WHYY’s Preview Screening of "National Parks" Series

    By WHYY KEN BURNS TO ATTEND WHYY SCREENING OF THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA’S BEST IDEA Filmmaker Will Attend Reception Open to WHYY Members Before Screening PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 20, 2009 — Filmmaker Ken Burns will join an audience of Delaware Valley residents expected to number in the thousands at a free preview screening of his new…

  • NORTHERN BURLINGTON: Team signups continue

    Bordentown Area Basketball registration dates:     In-person, Wednesday, Sept. 9, from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept.12, from 10 a.m. to noon. Wednesday, Sept. 16, 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, 10 a.m. to noon. Wednesday, Sept., 23, 6 to 8 p.m. All at Carslake Gym.     Online registration open Sept.1at www.bablinfo.org.     Bordentown…

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