TOP LOCAL News
By TAPINTO PRINCETON STAFF
February 5, 2026
Princeton, NJ – Cellist and Princeton resident Jennifer Guy gives about two concerts a year these days — but to her, each one is more than a performance. It’s a conversation with the audience. And, having lived and worked in central New Jersey and Princeton since she delayed her initial entrance ...
Princeton, NJ — If the names Drainy McDrainface, Shark Attack, or Grate Expectation don’t make you love stormwater, then maybe you’re not having enough fun.Fortunately, several Princeton residents are reaching deep for the puns. In the service of keeping runoff from ponding on their street, they ...
Princeton, NJ — That cold wind blowing through town may not be from the winter weather alone. Princeton University President Chris Eisgruber’s latest “Annual State of the University” letter is also likely to generate chills.In his latest communiqué to the university community, Eisgruber warned of ...
Princeton, NJ — The new streetlights on Witherspoon Street weren’t supposed to be controversial. They were to be the final flourish of Phase III of the Witherspoon Street Improvement Project, a behemoth of a scheme that took more than six years and millions of dollars to complete. But before the ...
Princeton, NJ — The weather outside is still frightful. Fortunately, the Arts Council of Princeton has an excuse for us to go out anyway.This winter, the community non-profit continues with its ART OF series, a lineup of two-hour workshops blending creativity, culture, and community connection.The ...
Princeton, NJ –- As a Princeton resident and parent, I strongly encourage my daughter to continue riding her bike to school every day, even in the winters. Unfortunately, following the recent snowstorm, that ride has become unnecessarily arduous and unsafe.Nearly a week after the storm, sidewalks ...
Princeton, NJ – Just for fun imagine some of your extended family announce they are coming to Princeton for three of four days and are hoping you can suggest some things to while they are here. The guests know the town and the university campus. They can get around.But they would like to get out ...
Princeton, NJ –The Historic Preservation Commission meeting on January 27 was a “changing of the guard,” HPC member Roger Shatzkin observed at the beginning of the in-person meeting – an observation that was soon borne out in several ways.First was the HPC’s reorganization. Outgoing chair Julie ...
Princeton, NJ – People who like to find a free parking space on Chestnut or Pine streets while they run an errand on Nassau Street may have to resort to their Plan B on Monday, February 2. The municipality has announced that no parking will be allowed on either street beginning Monday at 6 a.m. to ...
Princeton, NJ – If you have found it a little depressing in the last few days to read one negative review after another about a highly touted, heavily marketed theatrical presentation about an immigrant’s experience in a new country, then turn your attention to the current production – through ...
Princeton, NJ – Progressive groups around the country called for Friday, January 30, to be a day for a national strike – a nationwide day of no school, no work, and no shopping to protest the killings of Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and others at the hands of federal agents. In Princeton demonstrators ...
Princeton, NJ – The Dryden Ensemble, named in honor of John Dryden, the English poet laureate whose words inspired Baroque composers and which specializes in performing music of the 17th and 18th centuries on period instruments, continues its season this weekend with a program entitled "Lachrimæ: ...
Princeton, NJ – Kids around Princeton – more than in a lot of towns of similar size – seize on opportunities to hang out with college students and professors. There’s two fun and educational opportunities this weekend – one for budding athletes, the other for aspiring scientists, engineers, and ...
Princeton, NJ — At the Council meeting on Tuesday, January 27, Police Chief Matthew Solovay presented the December, 2025, police monthly report. This document collates all police departmental activity, including detailed information about motor vehicle crashes.Solovay noted that the report captures ...
Princeton, NJ — Last fall saw Princeton’s first Music For Food concert, a musician-led initiative to raise funds for local food pantries. Spearheaded by violinist Anna Lim, a Princeton resident and member of the performance faculty at Princeton University’s Department of Music, the event raised ...
Princeton, NJ – We’re not sure how many people are needed to have a reasonably scientific poll, but the number of announced candidates running for the 12th District Congressional seat being vacated by Bonnie Watson Coleman is now up to at least 16 and maybe even 18. And the most recent person ...
Princeton, NJ – While ice and ICE is on our minds, this upcoming book talk caught our eye. On Thursday, January 29, Labyrinth Books will host Brian Soucek in conversation with Joan Scott to discuss his new book, “The Opinionated University.”Soucek, a law professor at University of California, ...
Princeton, NJ — The public schools are back in session and the roads are cleared of snow, but another big storm could be in the weekend forecast. As we wait for the weather models to settle, here are a few municipal updates to get us through the week.The recycling pickup that had been scheduled for ...
Princeton, NJ – We’re getting back to normal, we think, after the weekend storm. Princeton Public Schools are having a 90-minute delayed opening on Tuesday, January 27. Otherwise most other major institutions in town seem to be on course to operate as usual on Tuesday.We also have a fully packed ...
Princeton, NJ – Coming on the heels of a major snowstorm and in a deep cold freeze that followed, Monday, January 26, was not the kind of day that turns out protesters in Princeton. But a hardy group of students from the Princeton Theological Seminary turned out to join thousands across the country ...
Princeton, NJ – An occupational health expert has been named as the new president of the Sustainable Princeton board of trustees. Two new trustees are joining the board – an executive with NRG Energy and an energy attorney with Dentons US LLP, a global law headquartered in Manhattan.Betsy Marshall, ...
Princeton, NJ — Of all the cancellations noted so far because of winter storm Fern (yes, she has a name), one of them should be viewed as good news. Great news, actually, if you have bins of recycling on hand and you are trying to figure out where they might go on sidewalks already consumed by ...
Editor's note: This post was updated at 12:15 p.m. on Sunday, January 25.Princeton, NJ — As we maintained our event vigil in advance of Snowmageddon 2026, the most encouraging word we heard was from the staff at Kristine's restaurant on Hinds Plaza:"Dear Valued Guests,Due to expected snow ...
Paterson, NJ — Florio “Floyd” Vivino, the Paterson native best known to generations of fans as Uncle Floyd, has died after a lengthy battle with health issues, his family has announced. He was 74. Vivino’s brother, Jerry Vivino, shared the news in a Facebook post, saying Floyd died Thursday, ...
Princeton, NJ -- Fifty years ago today, January 23, 1976, Paul Robeson died in Philadelphia. Born on April 9, 1898, in Princeton, in a modest house at the corner of Green and Witherspoon Streets, Robeson became a world-renowned singer, actor, scholar, and activist who refused silence in the face of ...
Princeton, NJ — If your New Year’s resolution is to reduce your time spent on screens (excluding, of course, the Garden Theatre’s big screen) and increase exercise for your brain, this weekend might be a good time to start. On both Friday and Saturday, January 23 and 24, the calendar includes ...
Princeton, NJ — There’s a new law regulating e-bicycles and Princeton bike advocates are not happy. The legislation, one of the last Phil Murphy signed before leaving the Governor’s office, severely curtails who may use e-bicycles and how they use them.Starting this summer, under-15s are banned ...
Princeton, NJ — Princeton Police are investigating a reported shoplifting incident on Palmer Square West involving the theft of an $11,000 leather jacket. Police said the suspects may have been wearing wigs.On January 15 at 9:59 p.m., staff at an unnamed business on Palmer Square West told the ...
Newark, NJ – Governor Mikie Sherrill declared a utility-costs state of emergency in an inauguration speech filled with New Jersey pride on Tuesday, January 20, as she moved to take on the affordability crisis in the Garden State and “shake up the status quo.”Standing before state lawmakers in the ...
Princeton, NJ – Election season has begun in Princeton municipal circles, and two things seem clear: 1.) Princeton Council will have at least one new member as of next year; and 2.) there will be a contest for the Council seats, if not in the general election in November, then at least in the ...