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By LOUIE MOTHERBALL
March 29, 2025
Editor’s note: If you paid any attention to the contentious community discussions about allowing marijuana sales in Princeton back in 2021 and 2022, you heard lots of bad news about cannabis and its health effects. So we begin this sidebar with some sobering – note that word -- information about ...
Princeton, NJ – Back in 2021, when the state of New Jersey was deciding which towns and communities were going to welcome cannabis dispensaries and which would not, the Princeton Council took up the topic. Should we have pot shops in Princeton? (While such stores are properly called cannabis ...
Princeton, NJ – Everyone in Princeton knew Dorothea von Moltke, who died Monday, March 23. For nearly two decades, she co-owned -- with her husband Cliff Simms and her brother-in-law Peter Simms -- Labyrinth Books, at 122 Nassau Street, a bookstore that has become a joyful center of the community’s ...
Princeton, NJ – Hadassah Broughton, a sophomore from Stuart Country Day School, was named state champion at the 2025 New Jersey Poetry Out Loud State Finals, part of the National Poetry Out Loud recitation program. The competition was held on March 12 at Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red ...
Princeton, NJ – The Francophones and Francophiles will be out in force on Hinds Plaza this Saturday, March 29. As far as we know it has nothing to do with tariffs, foreign policy, or any attempts to reset international boundaries. Instead it’s a party – the Princeton FrancoFest: A Celebration of ...
Princeton, NJ -- Painter and illustrator Mary Lundquist will discuss her life as an artist and her journey to becoming a published children's book creator on Saturday, March 29, at 6:30 p.m., at Princeton Makes in the Princeton Shopping Center. Lundquist, the illustrator of nine picture books, ...
Princeton, NJ -- Stanley Pilshaw, 95, a former real estate developer, beloved father, stepfather, grandfather, uncle, and long-time resident of Princeton, died on March 18. Stanley was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Middleborough, Massachusetts as the second of two children. He graduated ...
NEWARK, NJ — CivicsNJ, a new, non-partisan coalition that describes itself as an organization “dedicated to advancing civic learning and engagement” launched earlier this month at a ceremony in Newark.“The purpose of CivicsNJ is to share information, connect teachers and other service leaders to ...
Princeton, NJ – As we have reported before, Princeton High School science teacher Mark Eastburn continues his run for America’s Favorite Teacher award, which is also a fundraiser for the Planetary Society. The next round may put him in the top five at the end of voting on Thursday, March 27, at 7 ...
Princeton, NJ – In a brief preview of McCarter’s new play, “Legacy of Light” by Karen Zacarias, published two days before it opened, we at TAPinto Princeton lamented that we couldn’t present a succinct synopsis of the play. We found some mostly favorable reviews of the play when it opened in 2011 ...
Princeton, NJ – What’s with the cars catching on fire? On March 12 Princeton Police were alerted to a 2010 Ford Ranger on fire in the parking lot in the 200 block of Nassau Street. Patrols attempted to extinguish the fire but it continued to grow. The vehicle was heavily damaged by the fire and ...
This story was produced in collaboration with CivicStory as part of the Ecology Civics Reporting Project.Princeton, NJ —Wyatt, 5, grabs his Spiderman backpack, clicks on his helmet, and jumps aboard his yellow scooter. He sails down the driveway alongside his sister Finley, 6. Behind them, Ashley ...
Princeton, NJ – Maybe we need some bigger meeting rooms in Princeton. Last Friday, Fintan O’Toole spoke to a full house at the Jimmy Stewart Theater at 185 Nassau Street. Looking ahead at our midweek calendar of events, we see more events that are already sold out – “sold” in quotation marks since ...
Princeton, NJ – Two elementary schools in Princeton, Community Park and Littlebrook, and the Princeton Middle School have been awarded $2,000 Sustainable Jersey for Schools grants funded by the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA). The sustainability initiative at Community Park Elementary ...
Princeton, NJ – They’re coming to take our kiosks away. They’re coming to take them away.That’s right. The two octagonal kiosks on Nassau Street – one at the corner of Witherspoon Street, the other at Vandeventer Avenue in front of the Garden movie theater – are once again on Princeton Council’s ...
Princeton, NJ – If you scored a ticket to Fintan O'Toole's lecture at the James Stewart Film theater at 185 Nassau Street on March 21, you were one of the lucky ones. O'Toole's riveting and illuminating presentation was entitled "Unmasking Conspiracy: Philip Graves and the Protocols of Zion." ...
Princeton, NJ – Jenny Greene, Princeton University professor of astrophysical sciences, sees stars, lots of them. In addition to the stars in the sky, she waxes eloquently about the stars within her many intersecting universes, including: her family; Princeton University; Community Park School; New ...
Princeton, NJ -- Before you get the wrong impression, I want to voice my wholehearted support for talking intersections traffic signals that help blind people negotiate lanes of traffic, cars, trucks, and bicycles. Talking traffic signals is a good idea. Instead of just showing lights -- green, ...
Princeton, NJ – Mark Eastburn, the Princeton High School science teacher who has mentored many of the school’s award-winning students, is also in the running for an award of his own: America’s Favorite Teacher award, which is also a fundraiser for the Planetary Society.We reported earlier this ...
Newark, NJ — The New Jersey Hall of Fame (NJHOF) has released its list of 60 nominees for the 2025 public vote, which is open through Tuesday, April 15. Two prominent members of the Princeton community are among those nominated: Greg Olsen is an entrepreneur, engineer, and scientist who in 2005 ...
Princeton, NJ – As always, our weekend events calendar offers plenty of choices for adults of all ages. There’s a serious lecture on a fascinating piece of Irish history by Fintan O’Toole on Friday, March 21. A recital by the La Fiocco period instrument ensemble on Saturday. And even a speed dating ...
Princeton, NJ – The name of Princeton University President Chris Eisgruber has been in the news in the last day or two. It’s because he has done something that not too many leaders of high-profile institutions have done – he has publicly criticized President Donald Trump.Eisgruber’s measured ...
Princeton, NJ – If you own a home of average value in Princeton, roughly $850,000 according to the assessments on which property taxes are based, you can expect to pay an additional $567 in school and municipal taxes. That could bring the total bill for the year to more than $23,000.That’s the ...
Princeton, NJ – There was jubilation – along with some joyous tears -- at the Princeton Public Schools Board of Education meeting on March 18 when Margarita Baldeo was appointed as assistant superintendent of student services.To understand why, you needed to know a bit of “inside baseball,” as ...
Princeton, NJ – We don't normally preview out-of-town college sports events in our calendar, but – what can we say? – we have become part of the growing fan base for women's basketball. Princeton's women, despite losing to Harvard in the semifinals of the Ivy League championship, nevertheless won ...
Princeton, NJ – We are beginning to run out of catchy phrases to lead off our stories about Princeton residents getting fleeced by scam artists. At the end of February, after we learned of residents being targeted by Bitcoin scammers two weeks in a row, we observed that “those who do not learn from ...
NEW JERSEY - Endometriosis Awareness Month, observed in March, was created to shine a light on this widely misunderstood complex hormonal and immune chronic disease that causes multiple symptoms, including pain that disrupts the lives of an estimated 89 million women and girls ...
Princeton, NJ -- You now need two hands to keep track of the number of pedestrians killed by motorists on Princeton streets.On March 14, three days after being struck by a car while walking on the sidewalk near the Princeton Public Library, Hin Chin, 74, died of his injuries – the sixth pedestrian ...
Princeton, NJ – The highlight event of this week may well be something that we can’t fully describe. That’s the new play opening at McCarter on Wednesday, March 19: “Legacy of Light” by Karen Zacarias.One of the casualties of the loss of print media is that it’s no longer easy to find a succinct ...
Princeton, NJ – By now, most Americans know that Donald Trump became the second man to serve non-consecutive terms. But how many can name the first man ever to win the presidency back after leaving office? Stephen Grover Cleveland served as the 22nd (1885–1889) and 24th (1893–1897) president. He ...