TOP LOCAL News
By RICHARD K. REIN
April 2, 2026
Princeton, NJ – The intersection of Linden Lane and Hamilton Avenue has been in the news lately, and this month’s announcement of the police department’s Traffic Safety and Patrol bureaus’ “directed enforcement” may reflect the concerns voiced by residents about traffic accidents and stop sign ...
Princeton, NJ – Sam Wang, Princeton neuroscience professor and analyst of the electoral process, and Sue Altman, progressive activist and aide to Senator Andy Kim, are competing for the Democratic nomination in the 12th District Congressional race. They faced off in a candidates’ forum in February ...
Princeton, NJ – The large Robertson Hall classroom on the Princeton University campus was full to capacity on March 30 for the lively and informative discussion between Adam Bodnar, the former Polish minister of justice (2023-2025) and ombudsman (2015-2021), and Kim Scheppele, professor of ...
Princeton, NJ – I am writing this letter in my personal capacity as a concerned citizen and constitutional law scholar. As the leader of Indivisible Princeton, I also have experience organizing large public assemblies in Princeton, including political events that have required coordination with the ...
Princeton, NJ – When you are opposed to a development project in your town, and when your opposition has failed to sway the municipal boards overseeing that project, and then when your appeal is rejected by the state judiciary, is that the time to quit? When does persistent opposition become ...
Princeton, NJ – Walk Bike Princeton thanks Princeton Future for organizing a Community Walk on Saturday, March 21, in the downtown area. More than 40 participants walked on Nassau Street, Moore Street, Wiggins Street, and Witherspoon Street, on the way exchanging their experiences of traffic safety ...
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 – What better way to escape than to visit the neighborhood movie house. The Garden Theatre has two upcoming events this week that might just transport you to another place and time and engage your mind as well as your visual senses.On Wednesday, April 1, at 7:30 p.m., in one of its ...
Princeton, NJ – If you see something, say something, the security experts advise. And surely that same advice would apply if you hear something out of the ordinary.Someone heard a suspicious sound coming from a trash can in the Palmer Square area at around midnight on Sunday and that prompted a ...
Princeton, NJ – In a week that spans the end of one month, the beginning of another month, and one in which the public schools are closed for spring break, the current agenda of public meetings is pretty sparse.So it is a good time to shine the spotlight on a volunteer committee that isn’t often ...
Trenton, NJ – At the beginning of last week, after Princeton officials presented the municipality’s new budget at the March 23 Council meeting, residents began to get a picture of what their property taxes would look like in the coming year. The Princeton Public Schools on March 17 introduced a ...
Princeton, NJ — My 94-year-old friend Leonore is reading Marcel Proust’s seven-volume novel “In Search of Lost Time” for the third time.Although several years younger than Leonore, I have been around a long time with ample time to read Proust but never made the time to do so. My admission of such a ...
Princeton, NJ – On Monday of this week, March 23, a resident expressed his concerns to Princeton Council about the safety of the intersection of Hamilton Avenue and Linden Lane. George Cohen, who lives nearby on Hawthorne Avenue, said that he had had extensive conversations with town officials ...
Sea Girt, NJ — What began as a story of community generosity has ended in a stark reminder of accountability.Last fall, when a Florida sailor’s boat ran aground along the Sea Girt shoreline, residents didn’t hesitate. They showed up. They brought food, tools, and time. They opened their homes. What ...
Princeton, NJ — If you thrive on resistance and the spoken word, Princeton is the place to be on Saturday, March 28. Walk — don’t drive — to Monument Park at 10 a.m. to join the No Kings rally to hear an hour and a half of spoken words from community and government leaders on the state of the U.S.
Princeton, NJ – You can waste your money for a lottery ticket, or – if your income falls within the qualifying range — you can spend a little bit of your time filling out an application for one of the nine affordable apartments included in the 45-unit building now nearing completion at 195 Nassau ...
Princeton, NJ — At the tail end of the March 23 Council meeting, a Hawthorne Avenue resident came forward with a warning. “I don’t want us to look back … two years from now, saying too bad that kid got killed. Maybe we could have done something about it.”The resident was George Cohen, and the ...
Princeton, NJ — Among the eyebrow-raising items in the week's police blotter was an incident involving large amounts of cash and a mystery SUV. On March 19 at 2:23 p.m., Princeton Police investigated a reported theft by deception. The victim told police they had been contacted by an unknown male ...
Princeton, NJ — The Arts Council of Princeton’s opening reception was focused on the remarkable exhibit entitled "Wild Clay”, featuring works made from non-commercial clay that has been personally sourced from the earth. However, the real buzz for some of the many attendees on Saturday, March 21, ...
Princeton, NJ – Given that even the deep-pocketed Princeton University has taken steps to shift its direction from “growth to focus” in light of gathering economic clouds, this was no time to be bullish about the town’s annual budgeting process.In advance of Princeton Council’s annual budget ...
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 – If you need an example of a low-tech, possibly even zero-tech, communication medium in town, you can just walk up to Nassau Street to see the two hexagonal kiosks, usually cluttered with posters and flyers and post-it notes, some even handwritten. If you need an example of high-tech ...
In Hunterdon County north of New Jersey’s capital — where more than 130,000 people live, work, and send their kids to school — not a single full-time journalist is covering the news. New Jersey as a whole has just 5.1 local journalists per 100,000 residents, ranking 49th out of 50 states, according ...
Princeton, NJ — As the leader of Indivisible Princeton, I want to thank our neighbors for their peaceful and sustained participation in protests throughout 2025. Over the past year, Indivisible Princeton has been proud to serve as the lead organizer for the Hands Off rally and both No Kings events ...
Princeton, NJ – It’s budget time in Princeton, and taxpayers already know part of the equation. The Princeton Public Schools, which introduced its budget last week, will probably seek as much of a tax increase as is permitted under state caps.As presented at its meeting on March 17, the new budget ...
Princeton, NJ –One important component of the municipal budget is the amount of funding provided by Princeton University. President Chris Eisgruber, who is scheduled to present his annual update to Council at the Monday, March 23, meeting, has already given notice in his 2026 “State of the ...
Princeton, NJ – If you weren’t glued to college basketball on your television on Friday night, March 20, then you might have noticed a flurry of Nixle alerts on your computer. The alerts began to arrive at 8:49 p.m., with the notification of an emergency road closure of Great Road between Mountain ...
Princeton, NJ — Alain Kornhauser, professor of Operations Research & Financial Engineering at Princeton University, realized early on in his academic career that his dream of going to Mars was unrealistic in his lifetime.“So, I had to pivot,” says Alain, who has been on Princeton University’s ...
Princeton, NJ – One of the most lurid and – not coincidentally – most highly publicized crime events in Princeton history came to a quiet ending in a Trenton courtroom on March 18.In a bench trial before Judge Robert Lytle, both the defense and prosecution agreed that Matthew Hertgen, 32, was ...
Princeton, NJ -- "Reflections from a Vibrant Past," splendidly illustrated by Aaron C. Fisher, is a superb title for the new book by talented local poets Reverend Gregory S. Smith and Evelyn Turner Counts.The book, introduced to a capacity crowd on March 15 at the Arts Council of Princeton, ...