• WEST AMWELL: Wild about chicken

    WEST AMWELL: Wild about chicken

    Fire company fundraiser Staff photos by Phil McAuliffe    A chicken dinner was held at West Amwell Firehouse, Mount Airy Village Road, on Saturday night. The event was the fire company’s annual chicken barbecue fundraiser.

  • Substitutions compromise medical marijuana bill

    Ken Wolski, Executive Director, Coalition for Medical Marijuana New Jersey Inc. To the editor: I agree with your editorial, “Bill suffers from making compromises,” (Lawrence Ledger, June 11). While I am grateful to the assembly health committee for passing the New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act A804/S119 on to the full assembly, I object…

  • Accessible meetings a good move for the city

    Thomas Csapo of Bordentown City To the editor:    Starting in July, the Bordentown Commissioners meeting will be held at the Carslake Community Center on Crosswicks Street. This is a welcomed change for those that are wheelchair bound and those that have a hard time climbing stairs. No longer will there be Commissioners meetings in the…

  • SPRINGFIELD: Tax rate inches up with aid loss

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    SPRINGFIELD — The Township Council has approved a local purpose tax rate increase of 1.36 cents per $100 of assessed home value, officials said.    The total budget of about $3.4 million, which was unanimously approved June 10, is $35,706 higher than last year’s spending plan, said Mayor Denis McDaniel.    With…

  • The gravy train

    Phil Crandell, Lambertville     I encourage every Beacon reader and Lambertville taxpayer to go to www.shrhs.org and check out the numbers of people employed in each our high school’s various departments.    You will find that for a meager 345 pupils enrolled at South, it employs almost 90 employees — administrators, teachers and support personnel.    Yes,…

  • ALLENTOWN: High school years changed man’s life

    by Melissa L. Gaffney, Staff Writer    ALLENTOWN — Andrew Pillar, 23, soon will begin his graduate studies in social work, acclimate to a new apartment in Pennsylvania and get married — not all things he expected to be doing a few years ago.    The Allentown native recently graduated from Cabrini College in Radnor, Pa., with…

  • FLORENCE-ROEBLING NEWS: From the June 18 edition

    Peg Dotson Peg Dotson     Tel: 499-3807     Fax: 499-3807     E-mail: [email protected]    The Youth Group will be having a car wash Saturday, June 29, starting at 9 a.m. No charge, just leave what you can. This will take place at Florence U.M. Church, Second and Broad streets. * * *    Bordentown Chapter Order of…

  • Miles Harrison Greene gets scholarship

    New Hope Historical Society’s 2009 Francis Curley Scholarship    The New Hope Historical Society has announced that the 2009 Francis Curley Scholarship has been awarded to Miles Harrison Greene of New Hope.    The $1,000 scholarship is awarded by the Historical Society each year to a civic-minded senior at the New Hope-Solebury High School, who demonstrates excellence…

  • Princeton Summer Theater Season

    Princeton Summer Theater Season

    Rachel Wenitsky (Hope), Jon Feyer (Mr. Cladwell), and ensemble rehearse the song "Don’t be the Bunny" in Princeton Summer Theater’s season-opener "Urinetown, the Musical," opening Thursday, June 18 at Hamilton Murray Theater on the Princeton campus.

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