TOP LOCAL News
By TAPINTO PRINCETON STAFF
April 28, 2026
Princeton, NJ — The Princeton community is grieving the loss of Abraham Abed, a Princeton Middle School student involved in a fatal weekend crash.According to the initial police report—which did not identify the boy— on Sunday, April 26, Abed had been riding an e-bike northbound on Ewing Street ...
Princeton, NJ — In a week of upsetting news for the Princeton community, the latest issue of the police blotter brings more. Police reported three incidents of violent threats against local Jewish organizations.The first emerged on Tuesday, April 21, at 12:54 p.m., when officers responded to Nassau ...
Princeton, NJ — Editor’s note: TAPinto Princeton Community News invites residents to offer their views and comments on the candidates for Princeton Council. Please include the name of the street you live on. E-mail your letter to rrein@tapinto.net. Letters will be posted at periodic intervals – not ...
Princeton, NJ – The serious crash between a sixth-grade student on an e-moto and a motorist that occurred on Sunday, April 26, has become a fatal crash.Just before 6 a.m. on Tuesday, April 28, Princeton Public Schools Superintendent Mike LaSusa sent an e-mail to the school community:“I am sorry ...
Princeton, NJ – The battle of the budget between the municipality of Princeton and the Princeton Public Library was over before it was scheduled to begin at Council’s public hearing on its 2026 budget at its April 27 meeting. But even after the joint statement from the municipality and the Public ...
Editor's note: The letter below was submitted before Princeton Council and the Princeton Public Library resolved their differences over the 2026 library budget. Princeton, NJ – When my husband and I first moved to Princeton from Mexico with our two young daughters, then three and seven years old, ...
Princeton, NJ – The cordial man greeting a large number of attendees at the recent opening reception for a students' art exhibition was not anyone we normally associate with the visual arts. It was the genial Marc Uys, executive director of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra. Uys was in attendance at ...
Princeton, NJ – Municipal and public school budget hearings are scheduled this week on both Monday and Tuesday, April 27 and 28. Between the two budgets, taxpayers are expected to be handed a combined increase that’s equivalent to a little more than $600 annually on a house of average assessed ...
Princeton, NJ – E-bicycles – and concerns about their safety — have been in the news a lot this year. In January, outgoing governor Phil Murphy signed a new law regulating e-bicycles, which beginning this summer will ban kids under 15 from riding e-bikes and require riders 15 years and older to ...
Princeton, NJ — "Salt of the earth" is a phrase applied to people who are exceptionally honest, reliable, kind, and down-to-earth — a positive affirmation of the worth of a person whose purpose is to influence the world for good. Its roots are from ancient times when salt was a precious commodity, ...
Trenton, NJ — From betting on elections to controversial wagers on life-and-death events, prediction markets have exploded in popularity. Now, New Jersey lawmakers want to shut some of them down.Lawmakers have introduced two pieces of legislation aimed at regulating prediction markets, platforms ...
Princeton, NJ – What would have been the fifth annual Princeton Porchfest celebration, with dozens of musical events scheduled at 18 locations around town, was canceled late in the afternoon on Friday, April 24, the day before its scheduled start. The Arts Council of Princeton had billed the event ...
Princeton, NJ — Thomas Jefferson wrote that "all men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence, condemned slavery in other writings, and yet enslaved more than 600 people in the course of his lifetime.How do we reconcile these truths? That question sits at the heart of one of American ...
Your article in TAPinto Princeton did a good job going back in history (2007-2008) to report on the Township/Borough/Library tussle over changes to the free parking commitment for Library users. Allow me to go back a bit further (1999-2001) to remind us of the reason for free parking in the first ...
Princeton, NJ – Princeton Porchfest, town’s largest music festival, will return for its fifth year on Saturday, April 25, from noon to 6 p.m. This festival of local talent is coordinated by the Arts Council of Princeton (ACP), and brings friends, neighbors, and visitors together to listen, dance, ...
Princeton, NJ – The public tussle between the Princeton Public Library and the municipality regarding the closure of the library's funding gap continues. Like many Princeton dramas, this one relates to parking – specifically, whether the two-hours of free parking validation available to library ...
Princeton, NJ — Imagine having authority over hundreds of residents at their most vulnerable time of day. Those residents may be in a rush. Their child may have just announced that they left their trumpet at home. Maybe the resident hasn’t even had their coffee yet. But for Princeton’s school ...
Princeton, NJ — Princeton, it’s time to dig out those old Doc Martens. This Friday, April 24, from 7-10 p.m., the Arts Council of Princeton’s (ACP) signature fundraising fest, Art People Party, gets a gritty, unforgettable makeover with a ‘90s grunge theme. The ACP promises it will be a night where ...
Princeton, NJ – In a college town like Princeton, we are all used to town-gown discussions, even sometimes contentious discussions. Now we have a different set of institutions gently sparring with each other, but without a rhyming phrase to encapsulate it. It’s the library and the municipality, ...
Princeton, NJ — In yet another sign that the countless fraud warnings issued by banks, the police, and nervous adult children aren’t reaching everyone, last week, two more Princeton residents became victims of fraud.According to the latest police blotter, the fraudsters met the victims in person to ...
“Some men are born posthumously.”–Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1888).Princeton, NJ — Courtesy of Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies, Merlin Holland spoke to a full house at the James Stewart Theater earlier this month to promote his latest work, “After Oscar: The Legacy of a ...
Princeton, NJ – It’s budget time in Princeton and officials at the municipality are looking for ways to rein in expenses — either by cutting budgets or by holding them at the current level. And it’s crunch time – the budget hearing will be next Monday, April 27.One institution already feeling the ...
Princeton, NJ — Editor’s note: TAPinto Princeton Community News invites residents to offer their views and comments on the candidates for Princeton Council. Please include the name of the street you live on. E-mail your letter to rrein@tapinto.net. Letters will be posted at periodic intervals – not ...
Princeton, NJ – Elric Endersby, the architectural historian and preservation expert who died last October at the age of 79, has a legacy that can be seen in restored historic homes and barns in Princeton and throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. Now his legacy contains another element -- a fund that ...
Princeton, NJ – The 23-acre campus of the Westminster Choir College is on its way to becoming an area in need of redevelopment (ANR). At the Princeton Planning Board meeting on April 16, the municipality’s planning consultant, Topology LLC, presented its report on the campus and its buildings and ...
Princeton, NJ — For the past year, I have been getting emails from Princeton Police Sergeant Luis Navas. Thankfully, the emails have nothing to do with any unintentionally unpaid parking tickets. The information in his emails includes fascinating police blotter reports and press releases, such as a ...
Princeton, NJ – Friends Of Princeton Open Space will host a community hike on Monday, April 20, from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. to commemorate the induction of Witherspoon Woods and 153-Acre Wood Old-Growth Areas into the Old-Growth Forest Network. The event will begin at Mountain Lakes House, 57 Mountain ...
New Brunswick, NJ – When you’re born, there are caregivers to help bring you into this world. And when you die, Diana Griebell believes, there should be caregivers to help you leave it.Griebell, 57, a Princeton resident who is graduating in May from Rutgers-New Brunswick School of Social Work with ...
PRINCETON, NJ – Last week on the Princeton University campus, nine cadets from West Point were among attendees gathered in Arthur Lewis Auditorium in Robertson Hall. All were there to hear a lecture by Josiah Ober, professor of classics and political science at Stanford University and senior fellow ...
Princeton, NJ – In a town where the most complicated issues can end up reduced to a simple lawn sign, we may now have a new medium introduced to the mix – a cartoon caricature.A next-door neighbor to the proposed inclusionary housing development at 86–88 and 92-94 Spruce Street, which would provide ...