TOP LOCAL News
By KATE BECKER
August 8, 2024
Princeton, NJ – How would you like to kick off this weekend with some flashes of brilliant colors, bursts of dazzling light? Your view might be a little gray and dismal when you step out on Friday evening, August 9, but you can brighten it considerably by stopping by Small World Coffee at 14 ...
Princeton, NJ – Tune into a Princeton Planning Board hearing and you’re likely to hear some rhetoric like this during the public comment: We’ve already had so much growth, we can’t handle any more. The new people will ruin our infrastructure, overwhelm our schools, drive up property taxes. It’s ...
Princeton, NJ – Now arrives The Princeton University Trivia Book by Helene Van Rossum and Daniel J. Linke (Lyons Press, 2024, 178 pages). Amid these days of monumental change on the Princeton campus, this fun, succinct, and informative book couldn’t be more timely -- recalling names, dates, and ...
Princeton, NJ – While the management at the new Graduate Princeton hotel hasn’t made it official yet, the new, 180-room college-themed hotel at Nassau and Chambers streets is now open for business. We dropped by on Monday evening, August 5, chatted with a traveler from California signing in at ...
Princeton, NJ – Host J. Robert Hillier's welcoming charm and the delectable refreshments were not the only aspects of the August 2 opening reception for Princeton's annual Safe Streets Summer Program that made the event memorable. Meeting old friends and making new ones was also rewarding. But ...
Princeton, NJ – There are only a handful of municipal meetings scheduled this week, but there will still be plenty of opportunities to engage with elected and appointed officials – thanks to the annual Joint Effort Witherspoon Jackson Community Princeton Safe Streets program. The event, ...
Princeton, NJ – Public school teacher Brian Levinson’s recent TAPinto Princeton article on the adverse effects of smartphones in the hands of students was aimed partly at the Princeton Public Schools administration. But it also struck a chord with some parents and teachers. One Princeton Middle ...
Princeton, NJ – If you are in the neighborhood of the Arts Council of Princeton at Paul Robeson Place and Witherspoon Street on Saturday morning, August 3, you might first check out the “yART Sale,” a flea market style event with vendors selling seconds, misprints, discontinued designs, and ...
A reader's comment has been posted at the end of this article. Princeton, NJ -- Thanks to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, “weird” is the political word of the week and a good Wordle word, by the way. What would Ingrid Reed, my friend, mentor, role model, and New Jersey political guru, think about ...
Princeton, NJ – A drum roll, please, for the first weekend in August. Though there is still a lot of summer left, this weekend marks the end of several staples on the summer arts calendar. Princeton Summer Theater, for example, closes out its celebrated 2024 season with the final performances of ...
Princeton, NJ – During the long ordeal of Evan Gershkovich’s detention in Russia, the Gershkovich family was represented on many occasions by Danielle Gershkovich, Evan’s older sister by two years. From Princeton Danielle studied fine art at the School of Visual Arts in New York, graduating in ...
Princeton, NJ – Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, the 2010 graduate of Princeton High School, has been released from a Russian prison in a multi-prisoner exchange. Gershkovich was an accredited journalist working inside Russia for the Wall Street Journal when he was arrested in March, ...
Princeton, NJ – A July 30 posting at TAPinto Princeton by Princeton resident and public school teacher Brian Levinson raised some serious questions about the deleterious effects of addictive technology, especially smartphones, on school students. Levinson is not alone in expressing his ...
Princeton, NJ – For the third time in as many productions, the troupe of young, professional and soon-to-be professional actors and directors at Princeton Summer Theater have staged another critical success. Emergency, a one-actor show that runs through Saturday, August 3, culminates the 2024 ...
Princeton, NJ – One day ago TAPinto Princeton was telling you that four candidates had filed for three open seats on the Princeton Board of Education. Now we are telling you that six candidates are running for those same three seats. Why should you believe us now? Two reasons. First we hedged ...
Princeton, NJ -- Let’s start with a little game: I’m going to tell you about a school. See if you can guess where it’s located. According to the website, educators at this school “believe it is far more important for students to interact with one another and their teachers, and work with real ...
Princeton, NJ – Who knew that a bank in Princeton is actually open on Sunday afternoons? We do now, after receiving a report from Princeton Police that on Sunday, July 28, the police responded to TD Bank at 883 State Road on the report of a panic alarm activation. Shortly afterward, a bank teller ...
Princeton, NJ – There will be a contested race in November to fill the three expiring seats on the Princeton Public Schools Board of Education. As of Monday, July 29, at least four candidates had filed to run: Mara Franceschi, an incumbent, and Ari Meisel, Chris Santarpio, and Erica Snyder. The ...
Princeton, NJ – Ingrid W. Reed, an advocate of civic values and public engagement at the state, county, and – especially – the local level, died July 27 at the age of 88. A longtime Princeton resident, Reed served as a dean at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs. In ...
Mercer County, NJ – Mercer County artists, 60 years old and older, have until Monday, August 5, to register to submit their works for consideration for the 2024 Mercer County Senior Art Show. The Senior Art show is jointly organized by the Mercer County Office on Aging and the Mercer County ...
Princeton, NJ – This is the week that wasn’t – or this is the week that isn’t – in Princeton municipal circles. It’s the last week in July and the beginning of August. Almost everyone has figured out how to take the week off. Almost. Except for the good guys from Mercer County Improvement ...
Princeton, NJ -- Without a primary or political convention, I would like to cast my vote for a soon to be vacant political position for Ms. Penney Edwards-Carter - my upstairs neighbor in the Waxwood apartment building, my BFFPA (Best Friend For Productive Angsting), and lifelong member of the ...
New Jersey -- The Olympic flame is officially lit in Paris, France, and the 33rd Summer Olympic Games have begun. New Jersey is well represented: 23 of the state's finest athletes are among the almost 600 athletes representing Team USA. And Princeton University is represented by 26 former and ...
Princeton, NJ – Things are looking up: The heat wave has passed, at least temporarily. The forecast is for temperatures “only” in the mid-80s for the next week or so. And we have had our needed rain storm. Biden has dropped out and we have a whole new contest. That heavy humid cloud that was in ...
Princeton, NJ – Live music performances are always worth a special mention in our weekend events calendar. We have plenty coming up this weekend, with two local groups bookending the weekend with outdoor performances. On Friday, July 26, the Princeton-based quintet, Prisms, performs at a pop-up ...
Jersey Shore, NJ - With only six weeks left until the start of school, and the weather at the shore is looking great, there's no time to waste in enjoying these last remaining weeks of summer. From fairs and festivals to summer sidewalk sales and water sports, there's plenty to do. Here are some ...
Princeton, NJ – After two productions that earned solid and even rave reviews from central New Jersey critics, Princeton Summer Theater concludes its season with a production of Daniel Beaty’s dynamic one-man show: “Emergency.” On one chaotic day in New York City, a 400-year-old slave ship ...
Princeton, NJ – For a bicyclist riding down a street without a separate bike lane, there is often little comfort in those “sharrows” insignia stenciled on the pavement. The sharrows are supposed to tell motorists that they should “share” the roadway with those bicyclists. It’s an easy concept to ...
Princeton, NJ – Theft by deception or its evil twin, theft of identity, is getting to be a commonplace entry in our reports from the Princeton Police blotter. Last month we had two reports: On June 21 a Great Road resident reported that someone had stolen two business checks from her mailbox ...
Trenton, NJ -- New Jersey residents will soon be able to utilize IRS Direct File, which will let them submit their federal tax returns for free. Gov. Phil Murphy and U.S. Department of the Treasury Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo announced July 24 that more than 1.3 million New Jerseyans will be ...