TOP LOCAL News
By TAPINTO PRINCETON STAFF
September 6, 2025
Princeton, NJ — Nancy Hackett, a lifelong Princeton resident, aspiring ecologist, and queer artist, whose resume includes such varied experiences as working at Ben Spoon Ice Cream and participating in a Buddhist retreat center in the Colorado Rockies, has been appointed as the new Anne Reeves ...
Princeton, NJ -- When I ran into 52-year-old Jon Solomon Labor Day weekend at the Garden Theatre, he was about to address a sold-out crowd -- 200 people in one of the theater’s two screening rooms. The Garden asked Solomon, the longtime WPRB (103.3 FM) disc jockey and also the station’s operations ...
New Brunswick, NJ – Long before the September 4 groundbreaking ceremony for the future Nokia Bell Labs headquarters, Matt Corliss and his crew visited the patch of New Brunswick terra firma.They installed small seismic monitors around the site, and then revved up a couple of snow plows.Corliss, the ...
Princeton, NJ — Between Labor Day and the first day of fall, summer is leaving us — I can feel the air changing, a bit cooler, the crickets seem a bit louder, but the markets are still overflowing with ripe, sweet delicious treats. This is the moment to savor every bite, to hold onto the season ...
Princeton, NJ – We have some garden-related events this weekend. Sustainable Princeton, with a little help from Triumph Brewery, hosts its first ever Beer & Garden Festival on Saturday, September 6, at 4 p.m. at the Princeton Shopping Center. The local brews are secondary to some other goals – ...
Princeton is a special place to live, not just for its rich history, lively walkable town center, and ample green spaces, but also for the way we care for one another and for the environment we share. One of the easiest ways we can all play a part in keeping our town clean, safe, and welcoming is ...
Cherry Hill, NJ -- According to Fair Share Housing Center’s review, a record 423 towns adopted and filed Housing Element and Fair Share Plans (HEFSPs) earlier this summer — and many of New Jersey’s largest suburbs have filed plans that are likely to receive final approval in the near future. “What ...
Princeton, NJ – Several more instances of anti-Israel/pro-Palestinian graffiti – characterized by police as bias intimidation incidents – have been reported at various locations around town.Princeton police report that August 29 patrols responded to Quarry Park near Spruce Street for the report of ...
Princeton, NJ – Thanks to the energetic Friends of the Herrontown Woods, a nearly 100-acre preserve on the east side of the Princeton Ridge, lots of Princeton people today appreciate the role that Oswald and Elizabeth Veblen played in the creation of this preserve.The Veblens began acquiring ...
Princeton, NJ – At first glance, the proposal for 85 housing units on Thanet Circle, with 17 units set aside to meet affordable housing obligations, might look like it’s located on the fringes of town. The plot plan included with an upcoming Master Plan review by the Planning Board might suggest ...
Thank you so much for publicizing the new Princeton adopt-a-drain program in the August 5 posting to TAPinto Princeton Community News. As you know, Princeton, with the able assistance of Sustainable Princeton, recently started the adopt-a-drain-program with the intent of allowing residents to adopt ...
A microforest is coming to Princeton in October and we are inviting residents to sign up to participate in planting it.What is a microforest? It is a small, densely planted forest of native trees, following the Miyawaki Method, which grows rapidly and can provide significant environmental benefits ...
Editor’s note: This Labor Day, Monday, September 1, is the day chosen by Resistencia en Accion NJ to hold a “Workers Over Profit” vigil from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in Hinds Plaza, next to the Princeton Public Library. The group, the same one that advocated for support of the Immigrant Trust Act this summer ...
Princeton, NJ – My recent retrospective on 60 years in professional journalism covered a lot of ground – at least I thought it did. But it also shortchanged a few subjects. One subject that could have used more discussion is artificial intelligence, and what its consequences may be for the ...
Princeton, NJ -- Princetonian Patrick Henry Ryan, a passionate advocate for freedom and democracy, is waging a war to save our nation -- with words. Two hundred and fifty years after Founding Father Patrick Henry gave his famous “Liberty or Death” speech to the Second Virginia Convention, ...
Princeton, NJ -- It's Labor Day weekend after all, so why not a little love for labor?Resistencia en Accion NJ, the same group that organized the “speak-ins” this summer at Princeton Council meetings to advocate for support of the Immigrant Trust Act, is planning a “Workers Over Profit” vigil for ...
Princeton, NJ – Twenty years ago, on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans, Louisiana. Marking that anniversary, Linda Poon in Bloomberg CityLab interviewed the director of disaster relief at a Louisiana coalition of religious and civic organizations aimed at responding to ...
New Brunswick, NJ – New Orleans had been battered by the 127-mph winds and soaking rains of Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall as a Category 3 storm in the early morning hours of August 29, 2005.Even more catastrophic news came the next day, when officials realized the levees built by the U.S.
Princeton, NJ -- We can’t think of a more appropriate way to wave goodbye to summer than taking a last-minute trip to the ocean shore -- right here on Nassau Street. The Garden Theatre hosts its third annual “Jaws Fest” on the 50th anniversary 1975 film classic. On Friday night, August 29, at 7 ...
Princeton, NJ – To the readers: This is Part 3 of a three-part retrospective on my career in journalism. Part 1 covers my first job in Binghamton, New York, where I worked after I graduated from high school in 1965, through my time at the Daily Princetonian and Time magazine. Part 2 recounts my 12 ...
Princeton, NJ – The editor reflects on his 60 years as a professional journalist, in hopes that understanding the past will offer some clues about the future. In Part 1, posted August 26, he traces his career from his first summer job after high school in 1965 to his decision to leave Time magazine ...
A 56-year-old Princeton resident, a medical doctor with an office in East Brunswick, was killed Sunday, August 24, in a boating accident in Barneget Bay. Karl Chen died in the 10 a.m. incident when he and another passenger in his 27-foot boat were thrown overboard after it was rocked by a large ...
To the readers: This is Part 1 of a three-part series. Part 2, covering my freelance years leading up to the founding of U.S. 1 newspaper, was posted on August 27. Part 3, posted on August 28, covers the change from desktop publishing to online publishing and the launch of TAPinto Princeton ...
Princeton, NJ – It’s billed as a “sneak peek” at McCarter Theatre's upcoming season – a 90-minute event scheduled for Wednesday, August 27, at the Princeton Public Library. It’s a generous amount of time for a library event, but sensible given the season's lineup of music, theater, dance, comedy, ...
Princeton, NJ – If you read Pam Hersh’s Loose Ends column posted August 16 at TAPinto Princeton, you would have learned a lot about Justin Lesko, the young Princeton planning director, who has been at the helm through multiple planning challenges and the completion of a Master Plan revision, the ...
Princeton, NJ -- On a 100-degree day a few weeks ago, I posed the most mundane question of the summer season to Princeton’s Mayor Mark Freda, a friend of mine for the past 40 years.“Where are you going for your summer getaway?”The response I received was akin to diving into a cold lake on a ...
Princeton, NJ – We have to admit that we don’t read Mansion Global magazine as carefully as we should. But fortunately for us, our former U.S. 1 colleague Barbara Fox keeps up with Princeton references in highbrow places.Fox put us on to two recent articles in the all-digital Mansion Global (part ...
Editor's note: The story below was updated after it was initially posted on August 22 to reflect new information about “lead pedestrian intervals” recently instituted by Princeton at two intersections in town.Princeton, NJ – At its August 11 meeting, Princeton Council passed an ordinance ...
Princeton, NJ – It’s an old-fashioned family-run circus with a French flair and a woman’s artistic touch. Producer Anouchka Bouglione, the seventh generation of an esteemed French circus family, brings her Cirque de Paris, an ensemble of Europe's best circus artists, to MarketFair on Route 1. The ...
Princeton, NJ -- Why is it that some of the best food in Europe is found not in five-star restaurants, but in train stations? A train station is supposed to be a place of transition —somewhere you pass through on your way to something else. Not where you expect to eat the perfect slice of ...