TOP LOCAL News
By RICHARD K. REIN
May 16, 2025
Princeton, NJ – Here are a few events that don’t often turn up on our weekend calendar.How about a costume sale? We have one, running Friday through Sunday, May 16 through 18. It’s McCarter Theatre’s chance to clear out its storage bins and offer the public an opportunity to own a piece of ...
Princeton, NJ – Twenty pages into this new John McPhee book, I came across something that I had not found even once in previously reading hundreds of pages in John McPhee books. That rare object that I came across was a typographical error.As I have written before in TAPinto Princeton, I have a ...
Montclair, NJ -- The Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University has named 11 winners – out of 80 submissions – of its annual Excellence in New Jersey Local News Awards. One of the winners is Carolyn Jones and TAPinto Princeton, for Jones’s article on Steve Waskow’s three-year ...
Princeton, NJ – In honor of Mother's Day, May 11, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO), the Westminster Symphonic Choir, and the accomplished pianist Natasha Paremski presented an inspiring concert that was both sensitive and powerful. The concert, with a full house, was held in Richardson ...
Princeton, NJ – A rebuttal to a paid advertisement by Historians in Defense of Historic Princeton, published in Town Topics on April 23 by the Ad Hoc Committee of Historians in Defense of Historic Princeton, 7 Edgehill Street, Princeton, NJ 08540:I write as a citizen and resident of Princeton to ...
Princeton, NJ – Not so long ago, it was science week in Princeton. Now it’s literary week. Some prominent authors and their work will be highlighted this week. The most visible of them is John McPhee, whose body of work will be celebrated in an event Thursday, May 15, at the Princeton Public ...
Princeton, NJ – Ask traffic planners and engineers what the keys are to safe streets, and they may tell you that it’s the three Es: Engineering, Enforcement, and Education. They may also tell you that they pretty much have engineering under control – roads and sidewalks have been planned to the ...
Princeton, NJ – Payments in lieu of taxes – or PILOTs, the bete noir of public school financing in the minds of some Princeton residents – are about to begin providing what may be a steady of revenue to, yes, the Princeton Public Schools. At its regular meeting on Monday, May 12, Princeton Council ...
Princeton, NJ – As in many aspects of life, it helps if we’re all on the same page. Which brings us to Princeton street and place names, and the garble oft-heard in passing. Let’s start with that well-traveled intersection on the west side of town, pictured above: Bayard Lane and Boudinot Street. I ...
Princeton, NJ — Bravo Princeton! For the first time since we began summarizing the police crash reports, last month saw zero Princeton crashes involving pedestrians, cyclists, or scooter riders. Following an especially tragic March, April’s absence of traffic violence against vulnerable road users ...
Princeton, NJ – Hang around town long enough, and you are likely to meet someone who might be called a grandstander – quick to take center stage, ready to take their full three minutes and more at a public meeting, etc. You know the type.Paul Budline is not one of those types. In fact, if you see ...
Trenton, NJ — Gov. Phil Murphy cannot run for a third term and the field to replace him is crowded as 11 candidates vie for their party’s nominations in the June 10 primary election.That has left voters across the state with a number of questions on their minds, including some of the most basic: ...
Princeton, NJ – Something for everyone – most everyone – on this weekend’s calendar:Marquand Park isn’t normally a venue for our event listings. But this Saturday, May 10, the Morven Museum & Garden will host an event that begins with an exhibit at 55 Stockton Street of maps and photographs ...
Princeton, NJ – With its strong finish at the online Texas Quiz Bowl Alliance, the quiz bowl team from the Chapin School on Princeton Pike has moved up to the national stage. On Friday, May 9, the team will represent Chapin, a private, pre-K through 8i school, in a 160-team national competition: ...
Princeton, NJ – May is the month for the national “Click It or Ticket” campaign. The “click it” refers to the sound of the seat belt being buckled. While the Princeton Police Department will be on the lookout for seat belt violations, the officers will alsop have their eyes open for other crimes ...
This story was produced in collaboration with CivicStory as part of the Ecology Civics Reporting Project.Princeton, NJ — Memories of the night Hurricane Sandy swept into town still give some Princeton residents the shivers. It was October 29, 2012, and meteorologists had warned this could be the ...
Princeton, NJ – There was no better way to celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month than to spend May 4 at the Princeton Public Library listening to best selling Jewish American author Jennifer Coburn discuss how Nazi propaganda, in today's parlance "fake news," inspired her to write the book "The ...
Evanston, Il – Eight high school students from Princeton have been named winners of the National Merit Scholarship Program’s $2500 scholarship awards. National Merit $2500 scholarship winners are the finalists in each state judged to have the strongest combination of accomplishments, skills, and ...
To the community:After learning this past Friday, May 2, of plans to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts, McCarter was notified that our approved grant for the current season had been withdrawn. Sadly, McCarter is far from alone in feeling the pain of this loss—artistic institutions ...
Princeton, NJ – Let’s call this Science Week in Princeton, and let’s make Thursday, May 8, Princeton Science Day.The science content shows up first on Tuesday, May 6, with an event at the Princeton Public Library titled “Introduction to Amazon Braket -- A Quantum Cloud Service.” Got it?Then on ...
Princeton, NJ – If you’re a meeting junkie, and there are a few of them (or should we say us?) in town, you might go into withdrawal this week. In terms of boards, committees, and commissions (BCCs), there is a Board of Education meeting on Tuesday, May 6 – the annual staff appointments meeting.
MONTCLAIR, NJ – In about 13 months, the first games of the FIFA World Cup 2026™ will kick off. Canada, Mexico and the United States are hosting the biggest World Cup ever, with a total of eight games to be played at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ, including the final match of the ...
Princeton, NJ -- Jim McCloskey, the founder of Centurion, the renowned Princeton-based prisoner innocence project, has spent three quarters of his 83 years selflessly helping others. He created in 1983 the nation’s first inmate exoneration program, freeing to date 71 unjustly convicted men and ...
Princeton, NJ – In the Zoom world of Princeton’s municipal operations, few officials are as dedicated to “the facts, just the facts,” as Zoning Officer Derek Bridger. Tune into a meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment and almost every application is preceded by a summary of the application, ...
Bridgewater, NJ - Westfield teen Sophia Gandhi, the leader of the New Jersey GSA Coalition, has announced the upcoming LGBTQ Prom, to be held in Bridgewater. The second annual prom is set for Saturday, May 10, at the Somerville Elks Lodge, on Union Avenue, from 6 to 10 p.m.The New Jersey GSA ...
Princeton, NJ – How’s the traffic going to be on Saturday, May 3? Pretty slow moving, we hope, maybe even congested.We’re hoping that the town will be hopping on Saturday, particularly during the hours of 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., when the Arts Council of Princeton takes over Paul Robeson Place for its ...
Princeton, NJ – An alert went out on the Princeton Police Department’s Facebook page on Thursday afternoon, May 1, requesting the public’s help in identifying the driver and vehicle involved in a hit-and-run collision that occurred on South Harrison Street near the marked crosswalk at the D&R ...
Princeton, NJ – We have heard many nationally known authorities challenge the wild and sometimes wacky opinions of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services in the Trump administration. But we haven’t heard anyone as assertive and authentic as the Princeton resident speaking ...
Princeton, NJ -- If the closest thing to a national 'green' policy is colonizing Greenland, then we have little to cheer on the environmental front right now. But here in Princeton, there is some reason for optimism when it comes to the issue of food waste.The town has launched a new and improved ...
No community or neighborhood doesn’t benefit from bulletin boards of some sort where students, teachers, small businesses, etc. can communicate with their neighbors. One unfortunate consequence of the digital age is the decline of shared printed materials. We need more—not fewer—places where yoga ...