TOP LOCAL News
By RICHARD K. REIN
July 11, 2024
Princeton, NJ – As a community, Princeton does far more than you might expect to welcome and to support immigrants coming into town. The municipality, local businesses, churches, social service agencies, and even the police department operate as a welcoming community. Immigrants living lawfully in ...
Princeton, NJ – With two-term School Board member Brian McDonald now running (unopposed) for Princeton Council, the Princeton Public Schools Board of Education needs to add at least one new face to its ranks. Ari Meisel, a resident of Princeton for the past four years and the father of five ...
Mercer County, NJ -- Mercer County and its partner, the SMBX marketplace, are teaming up in July to hold a pair of informative events about the County's Small Business Investment program. SMBX and the Mercer County Office of Economic Development work to market the program and provide technical ...
Camden, NJ – George E. Norcross III, pleading not guilty on July 9 to a grand jury indictment by the New Jersey Attorney General, was doing what he did, according to his attorney's claim in court, for the good of Camden and Cooper University Health Care. The South Jersey Democratic kingpin and ...
Princeton, NJ -- On Monday, July 8, Princeton Council approved a solution for dealing with the town’s over-population of deer: Surgical sterilization. If the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife agrees with the plan, this winter a crack team of scientists and wildlife biologists will stake ...
Princeton, NJ –In politics, they say, a month can sometimes feel like an eternity. Last month Steve Kornacki, national political correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, was scheduled to make one of his appearances – always standing room only events -- at the Princeton Public Library. The appearance, ...
Princeton, NJ – Matthew Halfacre, design and engineering teacher at Princeton Middle School, was recently named the New Jersey Middle School “Advisor of the Year” by the Technology Student Association. Halfacre serves as one of the advisors for the Technology Student Association club. “It is an ...
New Brunswick, NJ – The typical Rutgers undergraduate student will face a 4% tuition increase for the 2024-25 academic year, and mandatory student fees will also rise by 4%. Additionally, housing room rates and residents’ education fees will go up 6% and dining plan rates will increase by 8% for ...
Princeton, NJ – An important first step toward the development of a multi-family apartment complex at the former Princeton Theological Seminary property on Stockton Street at Hibben Road will take place Monday, July 8, when Princeton Council is expected to introduce an ordinance to adopt a ...
Princeton, NJ – The year that the Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) arrived on the Princeton scene, 1980, was coincidentally the same year I started working fulltime for the Princeton Packet. One of my very first assignments was to interview PSO’s founding director Portia Sonnenfeld, a pianist, ...
Norwalk, CT – I am a member of the Class of 1968 at Princeton University. I grew up in town and lived on Mercer Road just mile from 112 Mercer Street, where Einstein lived and where I once met him. Inspired by this meeting, I have been working for three years on a unique book about him. I have ...
Princeton, NJ – On Thursday, July 4th, our Fourth of July Jubilee theme was Civic Season, a national program of activities helping us to us better understand our past and shape the future. On behalf of Morven Museum & Garden, we thank the outstanding group of community partners who shared ...
Princeton, NJ – The long holiday weekend comes to an end on Sunday, July 7, but the commemoration of the Declaration of Independence continues one more day, Monday, July 8, when all the fireworks and parades and patriotic flag waving gets viewed in a slightly different. It’s the now annual ...
Princeton, NJ – Editor’s note: It really is possible to live in Princeton without a car. We did for about a year in the mid-1970s when we were a struggling freelance writer, damaged the car in an accident, and realized we couldn’t afford to get it fixed. We ditched the car and survived, largely ...
Princeton, NJ – If you are looking for fireworks to help commemorate the Fourth of July, then you will find your choices are limited, at least in Princeton and central New Jersey. Princeton gets its fireworks lust out of the way in late May, when Princeton University treats the community to an ...
Editor's Note: In the early 1900s, the cry of “Votes for Women!” was reverberating throughout the country. Suffragists determined to win the woman's vote dreamed up publicity stunts guaranteed to focus attention on the cause. In 1913, one such stunt was a three-week hike from New York City to ...
Princeton, NJ – Two recent Planning and Zoning Board decisions involving small lots cast some light on the bigger picture of land use in Princeton. One involved the subdivision of a lot on Jefferson Road to create two slightly undersized (according to zoning requirements) lots. The other was an ...
Eating disorders rank among the deadliest mental illnesses in the U.S., presenting a consistent public health issue that, unfortunately, has been met with insufficient access to treatment, underscoring the severe impact they have on individuals' lives and their contribution to high mortality rates.
Princeton, NJ – Some may already be familiar with The Last Five Years from the 2014 movie of that name starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan as the married – and soon to be unmarried – couple, Cathy Hiatt and Jamie Wellerstein. As a critic for the British publication, the Observer, wrote of ...
Social media has become an integral part of daily life in the digital age, especially for the younger generation. Platforms like Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and Facebook provide endless content streams, encouraging connectivity and creativity, but they also present significant mental health ...
Princeton, NJ – Girl Scout Ambassador Troop 79106 meets Wednesday afternoons during the school year at Stuart Country Day School. But for some of the Scouts, the experience extends far beyond the school campus. Maya Dev, a rising senior at Stuart, traveled from Princeton to India for a week in the ...
Princeton, NJ -- It’s an oppressively hot day and you head inside to crank up the air-conditioning. But your HVAC panel is dark. You flick the light switch. Nothing. Your neighbors have dead switches, too. What do you do? Likely, you call the PSE&G outage line (1-800-436-7734), report your ...
Princeton, NJ – Mozilla, the non-profit-backed tech company that created the free, open source web browser for Windows and Mac operating systems, has named Princeton University professor Arvind Narayanan one of 25 honorees for its second annual Rise25 awards. The honorees are people contributing to ...
Princeton, NJ – Death may still be in business this week but otherwise most municipal functions and even many road improvement projects will take a holiday this Fourth of July week. Other than a closed Council session on Tuesday, July 2, the municipal government is quiet – no Planning Board or ...
Princeton, NJ -- I really had no desire to see the movie Jaws on the evening of Wednesday, June 26th. All I cared about was the post-movie presentation, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the book’s publication in 2024, 50th anniversary of the completion of the screenplay in 2024, and the 50th ...
Princeton, NJ – For the past six or seven months, people have been wondering what would appear next at Dohm Alley, the 10-foot wide passageway off Nassau Street between Starbucks and Claridge Liquors. For the past six or seven years, people have also been wondering what was happening at the old ...
Princeton, NJ – The 101: Fund, the need-based college scholarship program for Princeton High School graduates, awarded $176,970 to 30 new graduates on June 10. The students are headed to American University, Boston University, Delaware State University, Delaware Valley University, Drexel ...
Princeton, NJ – The last we heard a report of a coyote sighting in Princeton was around 10 years ago, when some people reportedly mistook some coyotes for wolves and theorized that the town had brought in wolves to help cull the deer population – presumably as a cheaper way than hiring trappers, ...
Princeton, NJ – As June comes to a close, and summer moves into high gear, we can imagine events that would make your blood flow and others that rely on fireflies as part of the entertainment. But two events in each of those categories on the same days? Actually, yes. In terms of blood flowing, ...
Jersey Shore, NJ - Summer fun means different things to different people. Some prefer a day at the beach, others a walk through a quiet nature preserve, and for quite a few, a cocktail cruise on the bay. Diversity is the name of the game as you look for summer entertainment. If you're coming from ...