TOP LOCAL News
By RICHARD K. REIN
August 3, 2025
Princeton, NJ – If your government is going full blast in the first week of August, then there’s probably something wrong. Our town isn’t perfect, but it apparently has enough under control that there are practically no official meetings or events scheduled in the upcoming week. But some government ...
Princeton, NJ -- The August 1 opening reception for the Joint Effort Safe Streets summer program was not to be missed. Held in Studio Hillier on Witherspoon Street and hosted by the genial architect Robert Hillier, the event provided Princeton Mayor Mark Freda and Council members Michelle Pirone ...
Princeton, NJ – So why is it that New Jersey gets part of its drinking water from the Delaware River, and why should we care?The answer to the first part of that question takes us back to a 1954 agreement among four states with claims to the Delaware River – New York City got access to 800 million ...
Princeton, NJ – It's one thing to meet the artists and view their work. It's another thing to see a piece of art you like and take it home with you. The Arts Council of Princeton hopes you will do some of the former and the latter at its annual “yART” sale Saturday, August 2, at the Arts Council at ...
Princeton, NJ – We seem to have had a rash of bicycle thefts lately – a pleasant change from the days when cars, sometimes very expensive cars, were being heisted from driveways all over Princeton – sometimes with very tragic results.But the reality can’t be pleasant for the bike owners, who ...
Princeton, NJ – Anyone who didn’t take the ark out of town on Thursday afternoon, when both the public library and the town hall shut down early in advance of possible flooding (where did all that rain go?), may now be awarded with what is forecast to be a dry and sunny staycation right here in ...
Princeton, NJ – As it closes out its annual season, a Princeton tradition for more than 50 years, Princeton Summer Theater can bask in the glow of another favorable review. Writing in Town Topics, Donald H. Sanborn III calls the current production of “Frankenstein,” directed by Princeton ...
Princeton, NJ – Back in the beginning of July, commuters traveling between Princeton and Princeton Junction on the Dinky line had a five-minute commute turn into a three-hour ordeal. One of the people on that ill-fated train was Isaac Kremer, executive director of Experience Princeton, the town’s ...
Princeton, NJ -- Allison Spann didn’t set out to become a solo act. But when the usual paths to theater stopped working, she built her own – creating a one-woman cabaret show that blends music, dance, and story.Spann grew up in a household where a love for the arts wasn’t inherited – her mom was a ...
Princeton, NJ – Council’s regular meeting on July 28 ended at about 10:30 p.m., three and a half hours after it was gaveled into session by Mark Freda, and more than two and a half hours after the meeting was opened to public comment. But in another sense the outline for the meeting may have been ...
Princeton, NJ – What if they held a school board election and no candidates showed up? The Princeton Public Schools district doesn’t have that problem, but it does have the unusual situation of three candidates running for three seats. For once, no one will have to say, “Well, they’re all good ...
Princeton, NJ – Consider this the midsummer week in Princeton. We already have a few productions closing up for the season. Princeton Summer Theater presents the last performance of its children’s show, “The Odyssey,” on Wednesday, July 30. And the campus-based troupe closes out its final ...
Princeton, NJ -- The stained-glass windows of Trinity Church – illuminated by the afternoon sunlight and the uplifting choral music of singers from the Westminster Choir College Choral Festival – provided joy on July 26 as well as a welcome respite to the capacity crowd of music lovers who were fed ...
Princeton, NJ – Even as an out-of-town consulting firm is beginning its work contemplating uses for the former campus of the Westminster Choir College, recently acquired by the municipality, a major nonprofit arts organization in Princeton has stepped forward with a proposal for a small portion of ...
Princeton, NJ -- I would like to make a point.I see no point in the celebration of Christmas in July (Friday. July 25), a recent pop-culture “thing” that conjures up the Grinch and Scrooge in me. The only way I would want to celebrate Christmas in July would be on pointe, as in dance. And a New ...
New Jersey -- Ahead of the approaching July 28th deadline, both major-party gubernatorial candidates have announced their pick for Lieutenant Governor.Earlier this week, at a press conference in Boonton, Republican nominee Jack Ciattarelli announced his selection of Morris County Sheriff James ...
Princeton, NJ – With the last day to register for the November Board of Education election fast approaching – it’s Monday, July 28 – the race in Princeton is not a race at all, a least not for now.Speaking to a reporter at the end of the July 15 meeting, three-term Board of Education member Debbie ...
Princeton, NJ – Mike LaSusa, the new superintendent of Princeton Public Schools, is off to a running start in his new job, appropriate for an administrator whose passion is long-distance running.At his first official Board of Education meeting in Princeton, the Board took notice of his fast start.
Princeton, NJ -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents visited Princeton at least once this week, and possibly twice, with at least 15 immigrants being apprehended and detained by the federal authorities.News of the ICE presence in Princeton was released by the municipality in an ...
Princeton, NJ -- So, the upbeat entertainment happening in Princeton this weekend is just Sō spectacular – more specifically Sō Percussion, Princeton University’s Grammy-winning performers-in-residence, which will present performances on Friday evening, July 25, and throughout the day on Saturday, ...
Princeton, NJ – Here’s one Tesla showing up in the police blotter that might not get “stickered” with an anti-Elon Musk political statement but instead might get some other attention – from law enforcement. On July 20, shortly after 3 p.m., according to Princeton police, the store manager of a ...
Princeton, NJ – Now’s the time for stories about kids doing great things in summer camp. Here’s a story about a Princeton High School student who started his own camp. Arvind Krishnan, a rising senior at Princeton High School with a special interest in STEM subjects, designed the Chemistry Science ...
Princeton, NJ – If you have been following Princeton Summer Theater this summer, you may have noticed the casting progression of Lana Gaige. In the season-opening production of “The Bridges of Madison County,” Gaige played the somewhat clumsy son of an Iowa farmer whose wife is having an affair ...
Princeton, NJ – Here’s another chance for our Princeton readers, living as they do in the heart of the most densely populated state in the nation, to go into the wild. In this case, it’s not a literal trip, it’s virtual – thanks to the return of the Princeton University Art Museum’s Summer Film ...
Princeton, NJ -- A comment on Pam Hersh’s article about the Residences at Herrontown, particularly with regard to the idea of providing some affordable housing specifically for employees serving in valued public service jobs, such as positions with the municipality and school district. This idea is ...
Princeton, NJ – The Planning Board had a chance to choose between people and parking last week. It chose people, specifically those people who now frequent the outdoor dining space that was created during Covid on a rectangular piece of asphalt in front of the Ivy Inn at 248 Nassau Street.The ...
Princeton, NJ – Joshua Zinder’s plan to construct a two-and-a-half story addition to his current office at 254 Witherspoon Street will be reviewed on Wednesday, July 23, at 7:30 p.m. at the Zoning Board of Adjustment. The plan has already won a recommendation for approval from the Historic ...
Princeton, NJ -- I vowed to write a column that included no rants, only raves for those responsible for some really good news in the Princeton affordable housing arena – the opening of Residences at Herrontown (900 Herrontown Road), an all-affordable apartment complex on a three-acre site at the ...
Princeton, NJ – When you’re too hot or too tired to cook but still want something that feels like home, Princeton has a handful of standout spots that deliver comfort, convenience, and quality in equal measure. These aren’t your standard takeout joints; they’re markets that double as meal saviors, ...
Princeton, NJ – Maybe this is the weekend to take a walk – if not exactly on the wild side then at least though the picturesque landscapes that surround our town center.You can begin your local “walkation” this Friday, July 18, at 10:30 a.m. with a “pop-up” walk along the D&R Canal. State ...