TOP LOCAL News
By JOHN MOONEY
June 26, 2024
East Rutherford, NJ — The New Jersey Hall of Fame unveiled its Entertainment and Learning Center at American Dream on Tuesday, June 18, before a crowd of supporters, elected officials, and inductees, including singer Tommy James, comedian Joe Piscopo (who gave us the famed Jersey joke "What exit?") ...
NEW JERSEY - Tourist season in New Jersey brings life to our beaches. The Parkway becomes an automotive chess game with license plates reflecting exotic, far-off places like Michigan, Ohio, and Montreal. Most importantly, the season brings important dollars and employment to half a million New ...
Princeton, NJ – Technology and education have never been more intertwined. A wealth of information now sits at a student’s fingertips. Artificial intelligence can help sift through that information. Welcome, Todd MacDonald, to the Princeton Public Schools, where he will begin serving as the ...
Princeton, NJ – “Save Our Streetscape” always seemed like a hollow plea for a group protesting a request for a zoning change. In Princeton that was the slogan used by a group of unnamed residents in the Jefferson - Cuyler Road neighborhood arguing that the Planning Board should reject a request to ...
Princeton, NJ – Peace and Blessings to All, On Saturday, June 29, between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m., there will be, for all the good citizens of Princeton, the opportunity to build community and to save lives through the giving of blood. The event will be held at the Paul Robeson Arts Council of ...
Princeton, NJ – Anyone who spends a little time walking around downtown Princeton knows that there are plenty of buses cruising the streets. There’s the little Muni bus, the slightly bigger and sometimes totally quiet, all electric Tiger Transit buses run by Princeton University, and then there are ...
Lambertville, NJ -- When Sesame Street first premiered on PBS in 1969, the combination of the Muppets, a friendly street, and human personalities taught kids math, science, good manners, and civics in an entertaining and engaging way. But for some reason, the subject matters of porn, puppet sex, ...
Princeton, NJ – The alerts have been issued for the morning of Saturday, June 22, on Witherspoon Street. From the Princeton Police we learn that Witherspoon between Paul Robeson Place and Valley Road will be closed to all traffic from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. From the Recreation Department we learn ...
Princeton, NJ -- Miguel Centeno, a native of Cuba, Princeton University scholar, and renowned worldwide in the fields of international relations and sociology, has written dozens of papers and several books that have been read by tens of thousands. Two of Miguel’s most treasured written works, ...
Princeton, NJ – With a heat wave ripping through Princeton and the eastern seaboard, this may not be the easiest time to consider getting outdoors this weekend. But there are a plethora of outdoor activities included in the listings below. There’s dancing under the stars on Hinds Plaza Friday ...
Princeton, NJ – Without much fanfare, Princeton Summer Theater opened its 55th (or possibly 56th) season last week at the Hamilton Murray Theater on the Princeton University campus. The season-opening play, Kate Hamill’s adaptation of the classic Bram Stoker novel with an intriguing title, Dracula: ...
Princeton, NJ -- Food is a lifestyle choice. What you eat every day, every morning, noon and night affects your health and your general sense of wellbeing. I write about food and often about emotions and connection because the two go together for me. I’ve always felt that my lifestyle in Princeton ...
Princeton, NJ – It’s not just Wednesday, June 19, it’s also Wednesday, Juneteenth, a federal holiday that commemorates the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the American Civil War on June 19, 1865. In Princeton it’s a day of both commemoration and ...
Princeton, NJ – If you have a house or an office with reliably good air conditioning, along with an air-conditioned car, of course, you probably don’t need to pay attention to this advisory about the cooling stations established by the municipality throughout the duration of this current ...
Camden, NJ – Democratic Party kingpin George E. Norcross III was on a conference call negotiating with the developer of the Victor Lofts condos, which held an easement on the view of the Camden waterfront that was impeding a Norcross development. In this remarkable business conversation, ...
Princeton, NJ -- At a May 2022 Witherspoon-Jackson Neighborhood Association meeting, the host warned his invited speaker he would be overrun. The subject: free trees. The speaker: municipal arborist, Taylor Sapudar. And the host: Leighton Newlin, council member and third-generation resident of the ...
Princeton, NJ – The most interesting (if not the most compelling) meeting of the week may be the Planning Board meeting on Thursday, June 20, when a hearing is continued for an application to subdivide an existing lot at 469 Ewing Street into two lots, with each new lot to include an 1,882 square ...
Princeton, NJ – At a recent gathering of Leighton Listens, the weekly informal community gatherings hosted by Council member Leighton Newlin, a resident asked what questions were most frequently asked. Newlin rattled off a list: infrastructure improvements, air bnbs, taxes, and what’s happening at ...
Princeton, NJ – Tuesday, June 4, Primary Election Day in New Jersey, was a big expletive-deleted deal for Princeton resident Julia Sass Rubin, whose name appeared nowhere on any ballot. Rubin, associate dean of Academic Programs at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning, Rutgers University, ...
Princeton, NJ – How about a little dancing this weekend? The Princeton Festival, which has already brought us classical and classic music of all kinds, from Mozart to Tina Turner, follows up Saturday, June 15, with a program of dance works presented with the American Repertory Ballet. The ...
Princeton, NJ – Has anyone actually read the full text of the lawsuit filed by the Hibben Road-based Princeton Coalition for Responsible Development demanding that Princeton’s new Community Master Plan be overturned? Almost no one would be a good guess. This was the lawsuit filed in January ...
Princeton, NJ -- Father’s Day on Sunday, June 16, might make for a lighter list of events this weekend. But dads, moms, and everyone in between can appreciate the weekend’s offerings: Princeton Summer Theater’s Dracula performance; live music at the Nassau Inn, Small World Coffee, and Terhune ...
Princeton, NJ – It was described as an “incident” by the Princeton Police Department – but it must have been one remarkable incident. Police report that on June 4 at around 4:21 p.m., they responded to a report of an “incident” on Moore Street. Following that incident, for which no further ...
Princeton, NJ – Three plays with classic stories presented in a different perspective highlight Princeton Summer Theater’s new season opening Thursday, June 13, in Princeton University’s Hamilton Murray Theater. The three mainstage productions are Dracula, Kate Hamill’s inventive re-vamping of the ...
Princeton, NJ – Generations of Princetonians have known the legend of Hobey Baker, Class of 1914 at Princeton, where he was a star in both football and hockey. After graduation, Baker then fought in World War I and died at age 26 in a tragic plane crash after his combat tour was over. The hockey ...
Princeton, NJ – Two seats on Princeton Council will be open at the end of this year. Two candidates are running: Current School Board member Brian McDonald and incumbent Council member Leighton Newlin. Newlin outlines his vision for another term in office in the following letter to the ...
Princeton, NJ – The vaunted Studio Band of Princeton High School is back in the news these days. But the photos released with the band’s most recent success don’t show the students in their classic blue blazers and crisp white trousers when they are performing on stage. Instead they are decked out ...
Suicide rates in the U.S. are on the rise, and it is an issue that faces people of all socio-economic classes, ages, and backgrounds. On May 25, PGA golfer Grayson Murray died by suicide at age 30 after being vocal on social media about this mental health struggles. “Grayson was a remarkable ...
Princeton, NJ – When you hear that a regional planning commission is initiating another “corridor study,” you might first assume it’s going to look at the flow of cars or buses or trains from one area to another. That’s not the case on Wednesday, June 12, when Mercer County and the Delaware Valley ...
New Brunswick, NJ – The zoning is the problem, Newark Mayor and gubernatorial candidate Ras J. Baraka said at the New Jersey Planning and Redevelopment Conference on Friday, June 7. “The zoning laws are what is prohibiting us from developing the way we need to develop,” Baraka, 54, said. “The ...