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By RICHARD K. REIN
April 13, 2025
Princeton, NJ – The town plans to spend a little more next year, probably no surprise to anyone. But the details of that increased spending, and areas in which the town hopes to spend less than expected, may be of interest to some. A public hearing on those budget details is on the agenda of the ...
Princeton, NJ -- I have something in common with the mega stars in the original cast of Saturday Night Live, created by Lorne Michaels in 1975. If still alive, those Saturday Night Live stars share my trait of being old. I am the same age as Lorne Michaels. We also share one more characteristic.
Princeton, NJ – Mark Eastburn, the Princeton High School science teacher who has led many students into various national competitions, now finds himself in the middle of a national competition – to be named America's Favorite Teacher, appear in Reader's Digest, and win $25,000 and a trip to ...
Princeton, NJ – After reporting bad news for Princeton taxpayers from both the municipality and the Princeton Public Schools, we have a ray of sunshine from the third component of the property tax bill, Mercer County.At his 2025 budget address to the County Board of Commissioners, Mercer County ...
As a longtime Princeton resident and active volunteer with Princeton Community Housing (PCH), I’m proud to celebrate two significant milestones this year: the 50th anniversary of Princeton Community Village, PCH’s first affordable housing development, and the 40th anniversary of Elm Court, which ...
Princeton, NJ – For everyone who wants to see that spring has sprung, well, we’re almost there. For those who want to see the completion of the Paul Robeson House at 110 Witherspoon Street, well, we are inching closer to that as well.We have events this weekend that tease out both of those ...
Princeton, NJ – As TAPinto Princeton’s monthly crash reports make clear, there are any number of ways for you to launch your car into another car, a fixed along the road, or – worst case – a pedestrian in a crosswalk or a bicyclist taking their rightful place in the roadway.Those crash reports are ...
Princeton, NJ – The artists are out in force as this week draws to an end. We have two art events on Thursday, April 10, both at 5:30 p.m. And two artists share an opening reception on Friday, April 11, at 5 p.m. at the private (but open to the public for this event) Present Day Club.On view at ...
Princeton, NJ — The Princeton Public Schools has released another set of lead testing results, relating to tests conducted on the schools’ hundreds of water outlets in 2022 and 2017. This new information means parents can now trace the quality of their children’s drinking water over time.The good ...
Trenton, NJ — New Jerseyans soon might have an incentive to forget about their plastic reusable shopping totes, as some lawmakers are pushing for a return to paper bags in grocery stores.The state in 2022 banned paper and single-use plastic bags at large retailers in a step to combat climate ...
Princeton, NJ – The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) Junior Membership Committee, with sponsorship from the organization’s Princeton chapter, has awarded its 2025 Helen Pouch Memorial Fund (HPMF) Classroom Grant to the Princeton Charter School and one of its ...
Princeton, NJ — March was a tragic month for Princeton. Not only did one pedestrian – Hin Chin, 74 – die after being struck by a teenage driver on March 11, but another pedestrian, who had been struck on January 24, also died.This now brings Princeton’s pedestrian fatality count to seven since ...
Princeton, NJ – Everyone’s been to a concert, even a concert in a classical music venue, when some audience members have been moved to dance in the aisles. It happens.On Thursday, April 10, the Princeton University Concerts will take that energy to a new level. Its 7:30 concert at Alexander Hall ...
Princeton, NJ – Last May, 2024, Ron Berlin went to Princeton Town Council in-person and asked for the Princeton Planning Board to resume in-person meetings with a Zoom option -- or a hybrid meeting. Mr. Berlin later submitted the statement he presented to Council to TAPinto Princeton Community ...
Princeton, NJ – If we had to pick one municipal meeting to attend this week, it would be on Tuesday, April 8, at 3:30 p.m., when Council is scheduled to consider contract negotiations between the Municipality and the Princeton Public Schools, the Hinds Plaza outdoor dining license agreement, and ...
Princeton, NJ – The rain gods, casting dark shadows over Princeton in the days leading up to Saturday, April 5, decided to take a “hands off” approach on the actual day of the big anti-Trump, anti-Musk rally, organized by Indivisible Princeton and Indivisible Cranbury and part of a nationwide ...
Princeton, NJ -- I am neither a musician nor a soccer player. Nor is my last name Sutcliffe. But I really enjoy listening to music, watching soccer, and talking to two gentlemen – both affiliated with Princeton High School and both with the last name of Sutcliffe.When interviewing Wayne Sutcliffe ...
Princeton, NJ – Our March 29 report on how pot shops are faring outside of Princeton – in the several years after Princeton declined to allow pot shops – has generated several types of responses.A number of people appreciated our informal consumer’s guide to pot shops. In hundreds of places around ...
Princeton, NJ – What was your takeaway from your trip to India, my friend Susan asked after I returned. Peaceful chaos, I told her. Crowded roads, drivers on bicycles pulling rickshaws coming from all directions, a shepherd herding his goats on the road inches from our bus, motorcycles weaving ...
Princeton, NJ – If you are going to consider the pluses and minuses of a public space, which is what the nonprofit Princeton Future is going to do Saturday morning, April 5, one obvious factor would be the number of people using the space. Princeton Future will begin its informal evaluation ...
Westfield, NJ — Westfield High School student Francesca Mani was in the room on Wednesday, April 2, when Governor Phil Murphy signed into law legislation establishing civil and criminal penalties for the production and dissemination of deceptive audio or visual media, also known as ...
Princeton, NJ – With a window literally looking out on Hinds Plaza, XiBei Cuisine is using its prime location in the heart of town to introduce Princeton to the bold and hearty flavors of Northwestern Chinese cuisine. Unlike the Americanized Chinese dishes many diners are familiar with—such as ...
Princeton, NJ – Events hosted by the Princeton University Library and the Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Theater are always top-notch. The March 31 discussion in the Chancellor Green Rotunda on the campus, the kick-off for a series focused on bringing notable books to life through adaptation ...
Princeton, NJ – If it’s coffee with a cop, then it might also be coffee and a donut with a cop. But not necessarily. Squad 1 of the Princeton Police Department is teaming up with Bagel Nook for a community policing event – coffee and bagels with the police – on Friday, April 4, from 8 to 10 a.m. at ...
Princeton, NJ – Who would end up with ownership of the 23-acre Westminster Choir College campus in the heart of Princeton has been a protracted guessing game for most of the last decade. Now that the municipality owns it outright, with a $42 million acquisition announced in a release dated April 2, ...
Princeton, NJ – If you ask a longtime Princeton resident to name 10 public places in town, chances are the resident would have a hard time coming up with more than four or five. There are plenty, actually, and many of them are hiding in plain sight. Some of them are publicly owned and maintained by ...
Princeton, NJ — Parents of Princeton Public Schools recently learned that several school water fountains registered high levels of lead contamination. Seven water outlets at four elementary schools were found to be in excess of the regulatory threshold, which the US Environment Protection Agency ...
Princeton, NJ – Get ready for Gatsby. It’s April, 2025, and it’s pretty easy to calculate the anniversary celebration of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” first published in April of 1925. Take note of the event on Thursday, April 3. It is a professionally staged verbatim adaptation of the ...
Somerset, NJ - A small aircraft crash in Franklin Township claimed the life of a Lawrenceville man on Sunday, March 30, prompting a multi-agency investigation led by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), according to a statement from the Franklin Township Police Department.According to ...
Princeton, NJ – An application that dates back at least three years is returning to the municipal spotlight – or least an obscure corner of the municipal spotlight. On Tuesday morning at 10 a.m. the Planning Board’s Landscape Subcommittee will review – via Zoom – the CRX Associates/Momo Brothers’ ...