TOP LOCAL News
By BROOKE HOLZHAUER - NJ STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
December 5, 2025
Trenton, NJ — Motorists soon may risk $45 traffic fines – triggered by automated cameras – for parking or idling in bus lanes and bus stops. Penalties outlined in Bill A5612, which passed the Assembly Science, Innovation and Technology Committee on Thursday, December 4, also would apply to drivers ...
Lawrenceville, NJ – Scot J. Wittman is an artist in constant evolution and motion, transforming life experiences into creative breakthroughs. A sudden health crisis years ago didn’t halt his trajectory; it accelerated it, inspiring a body of work that celebrates movement, resilience, and the human ...
Princeton, NJ – The Arts Council of Princeton is well represented this winter holiday season with its Winter Village arts kiosks on Hinds Plaza. But one of its warm weather events, the annual town-wide Porchfest music festival in the spring, is also in the holiday spotlight. On Saturday, December ...
Princeton, NJ – The Princeton Federal Credit Union (PFCU) has announced the appointment of Dana Caragine as its new president and chief executive officer, succeeding Samuel J. Paulicelli, who retires following an accomplished 21-year tenure. With more than two decades of experience in banking, ...
Princeton, NJ — This fall, the Princeton community both lost and gained something of consequence. In the winning category, the Princeton University Library acquired a trove of photos from the archives of the now defunct print version of the Trenton Times. The newspaper, which had operated in the ...
Princeton, NJ — It’s cold outside, but that’s not the only reason to dread these shorter days. The other is that night driving, which we are doing more of now that the sun sets early, can be tougher as we age.This week, the Princeton Police Department is encouraging older adults, their families, ...
Princeton, NJ — Princeton is a star-studded town, and that’s not only thanks to its campus luminaries. Despite our location between two bright cities, residents can still see stars at night. But that’s changing, and it’s changing fast.In the past 13 years, the brightness of Princeton’s night skies ...
Princeton, NJ — Harry’s Brook gets a bad rap when it floods, but this winter, it’s time to give the brook — or at least its source on Spring Street — some love. The Arts Council of Princeton, in partnership with the Princeton Environmental Film Festival and Princeton Public Library, announced an ...
Princeton, NJ – Thanksgiving, which came late this year, is over. Christmas is only about three weeks away. Is there any escape from this prolonged holiday season? A very small break appears this week, with a few decidedly non-holiday events showing up on our midweek calendar. Fans of Jane Austen, ...
Princeton, NJ — Governor Phil Murphy and First Lady Tammy Murphy are inviting New Jersey residents to attend the Holidays at Drumthwacket, continuing the tradition of open house tours at the Governor’s official residence in Princeton.This year’s theme is America’s 250th Anniversary, according to a ...
Princeton, NJ – The municipality has announced a deadline for public voting in the design competition for a sidewalk kiosk that will replace at least one of the two existing kiosks on Nassau Street. The deadline is Wednesday, December 3. Here’s the link to the voting portal and to more detailed ...
Princeton, NJ – If deadlines are our friends, then we have two showing up in town on the same day: Wednesday, December 3.That’s the deadline the town has set for final voting in the design competition for a new kiosk to replace the existing one at the corner of Nassau Street and Vandeventer Avenue, ...
Princeton, NJ — “Take Deep Breaths and Keep Smiling” — those were the words of wisdom (analogous to “Keep Calm and Carry On”) that JaZams’ co-owner Dean Smith repeated to himself on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, as he navigated through the traffic. The congestion he faced was caused by ...
Princeton, NJ – On Monday, December 1, you might be looking for a change of pace after a long weekend of Thanksgiving and winter holiday events. There's a good one on the calendar on December 1 at 7 p.m. – a public event at the Princeton High School Performing Arts Center featuring a presentation ...
Princeton, NJ — Any dancer knows that the show must go on, and it’s going on this weekend as the American Repertory Ballet (ARB) kicks off another Nutcracker season with its beloved Thanksgiving holiday weekend of performances at McCarter, with performances Saturday and Sunday, November 29 and ...
Princeton, NJ--Are those reindeer bells we hear in the distance? Maybe, but right here in Palmer Square this weekend we are hearing a wide variety of joyful holiday sounds accompanying the incredible light show right on the Nassau Inn’s front lawn. The Princeton holiday season kicks off in earnest ...
Princeton, NJ – Blackout Wednesday, the night before Thanksgiving when returning college students swarm into Princeton bars to reconnect with old friends, was preceded this year by an implicit warning from Police Chief Matthew Solovay. In his monthly report to Princeton Council on the Monday before ...
Princeton, NJ — When I woke up the other morning I had some anxiety. Maybe it was a world disorder, maybe my niece having fertility problems, just a general angst. I got up, went downstairs, made coffee, fed my dog Benny, and when I sat down, I scrolled through Pandora and found the cellist Yo Yo ...
Governing New Jersey isn’t a job—it’s an extreme sport. Twenty-one counties, each with its own unique personality. Five hundred and sixty-five municipalities, each convinced they’re doing things the right way while everyone else has lost their minds. Nine and a half million people with opinions so ...
Princeton, NJ — There are many ways to make towns friendlier to walkers and cyclists. On Sunday, November 23, Princeton’s pedestrians and bikers came up with a few more.Ideas bubbled up at the first annual general meeting of Walk Bike Princeton—a nonprofit formed in 2024 to support walking and ...
Princeton, NJ – How better to kick off the long holiday weekend than with a night of revelry on Thanksgiving eve followed by a morning of atonement on Thanksgiving Day, choosing either a 5K run or a leisurely nature walk?We have two 5K “turkey trots” on the events calendar. One starts out at ...
Princeton, NJ – It’s the beginning of a holiday week in Princeton, so many of the regular events around town are not on the calendar. But there are plenty of holiday events going on, beginning with the annual Trinity Church 5K Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving Day, and the annual tree lighting and return ...
I read the following in a safety manual for a “backpack blower,” seen and heard from morning to night across town these days, during one of Princeton’s allowable periods for gas-powered leaf blowers (GLBs):“as the engine is running, this product generates toxic exhaust fumes containing chemicals, ...
Princeton, NJ – Redevelopment of the former campus of the Westminster Choir College. Reductions in speed limits. Shade tree protections. Regulation of Air BnBs.Pick a subject, any subject, to create some interest at a meeting of Mayor and Council of Princeton. Or pick all of the above and check ...
Princeton, NJ — I was hoping that the five Princeton High School students who attended an October 8 Princeton Council meeting – Carina He, Ash Nieman, James Huang, Alex DeQuadras, and Sonya Allee — were going to do a big reveal about the meaning of the internet slang term “6-7.” Why else would they ...
Princeton, NJ – It’s been more than two weeks since the municipality announced six finalists in its design competition for a sidewalk kiosk that will replace at least one of the two existing kiosks on Nassau Street. The designs have been posted in the lobby of the Princeton Public Library, and the ...
Princeton, NJ — Looking for a mental stress escape as well as a way to get in shape for holiday shopping and Thanksgiving dinner? Perhaps, as the Bee Gees once reminded us, you should be dancing. There’s lots of dancing around town to enjoy this weekend, starting with the Lewis Center for the Arts’ ...
Princeton, NJ – For what could be investigative reasons, police sometimes do not release video surveillance images when they first obtain them. But at a certain point, the police make the images widely available and ask the public to weigh in with any possible new information based on the visual ...
Princeton, NJ –If you are out and about in downtown Princeton this holiday season, you are likely to run into the Princeton High School Choir. Members of that choral group will be on hand for the Palmer Square tree lighting ceremony on Friday, November 28. The PHS Choir will be on stage at ...
Princeton, NJ — A hot topic in Princeton has always been the cost of housing. Those discussions, which can invoke misery in anyone trying to enter the market, include both rentals and sales.To ground these discussions, Walkable Princeton, the town's go-to blog about zoning and the built ...