Electric bicycle shop opens in N.J. river town
Posted May 18, 2021
Pedego Electric Bike store has opened on North Union Street in Lambertville.Keith A. Muccilli | For NJ Advance Media
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But those behind Pedego Electric Bikes say it does both.
“People might think by riding an e-bike you’re kind of cheating, that you’re not getting as much exercise as a conventional bike,” said Bob Lonsdale, store manager for Pedego Electric Bikes in Lambertville. “But there have been different studies . where they found that people actually get as much exercise if not more on an e-bike for two really big reasons. First is that they ride longer on an e-bike, and the second is because it’s so fun they do it more often.”
He loved to talk and had a huge heart. Locals share stories of N.J.’s Famous River Hot Dog Man.
Updated May 13, 2021;
Posted May 12, 2021
Greg Crance, who, since 1987, operated a hotdog stand on a platform stationed in the middle of the Delaware River. Crance died Monday of complications related to COVID.
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He had a heart that was as big as anything.
That’s how a close friend of Greg Crance, ubiquitous for his role as the Famous River Hot Dog Man, described him in the wake of his death on Monday from COVID-related complications.
“He was very passionate about his business and did everything he could as far as the (Delaware) River goes to clean it,” said Wes Siegel, a resident of Delaware Township. “I know him and his boys and his employees once a year would go up and down the river and clean all of the garbage that they would find.
Invasive plants are being turned into artwork by this N.J.-based eco-artist
Posted Apr 27, 2021
Lambertville artist Lauren Rosenthal McManus is pictured processing pigments in her studio at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation in North Carolina.Courtesy
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New Jersey residents are regularly encouraged to remove invasive plants and species they come into contact.
One local artist is joining in the effort to mitigate invasive species in an unprecedented way that benefits both her and the community she lives in.
An eco-artist based in Lambertville, Lauren Rosenthal McManus is spearheading a project in which she will remove
invasive plants species
Queer icons visit Lambertville and New Hope via new art installations
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There will be a bevy of notable visitors to the river towns of Lambertville and New Hope this May. You just may have to stroll around a bit to find them.
The Greater Lambertville Chamber of Commerce and New Hope Celebrates History will host “Queer Icons: Pioneers,” an art installation of life-sized plywood portraits by artist Silky Shoemaker to be displayed in storefront windows throughout both communities through May.
The Flemington-based ArtYard commissioned Shoemaker to construct 10 portraits of monumental figures from the LGBTQ community for a spring 2019 exhibit, 10 more LGBTQ icons added last year.
Queer icons in Lambertville will try to win back tourism
When the pandemic hit it killed all kinds of businesses in New Jersey. Because people were ordered to stay home if they could, it certainly crushed tourism. In Lambertville, NJ on the Delaware River they’re all about tourism. So it’s been quite a blow to the town.
Now there are plans under the newly named Greater Lambertville Chamber of Commerce (formerly Delaware River Towns Chamber of Commerce) to get people to come back. There will be videos on YouTube, a repurposed
Love Lambertville film, a welcome banner on Bridge street where you can walk across the Delaware River to New Hope, Pa., and, on May 1, ‘Queer Icons.’