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By TAPINTO PRINCETON STAFF
March 19, 2026
Princeton, NJ — Celebrate the first weekend of spring with a spring in your step – and some tapping of your toes.The Princeton Folk Music Society concert hosts Lily Neill and Clive Carroll on Friday, March 20, in an event that will surely inspire toe tapping and hand clapping, thanks to this harp ...
Princeton, NJ — A crosswalk is a risky place for Princeton’s pedestrians. Our town’s cyclists are vulnerable on crosswalks, too, as well as at intersections and in unprotected bike lanes. Despite a road system built in theory for all road users, those traversing it by foot or pedal sometimes get ...
Princeton – The Washington Post published a story this week with a provocative headline: “An Ivy League town faces bitter battle over effort to stamp out segregation.” Wow, I thought when the words first registered in my brain. What Ivy League town in this day and age could possibly be segregated? ...
Princeton, NJ — In what is beginning to sound like a stuck record, the latest issue of the Princeton Police blotter once again reports a package theft from Herrontown Road. This compounds previous reported thefts from an apartment complex on that same road, which, by our count, now brings the ...
Princeton, NJ — Continuing with a 2026 lucky streak for Princeton’s walkers and bikers, in February there were no motor vehicle crashes involving pedestrians or bicyclists. However, February did see one ownership dispute between a man on foot and a driver over who had access rights to an empty ...
Princeton, NJ — Ask any parent in Princeton how their child gets to school, and you will likely open a Pandora’s box of opinions. They mostly center around safety. Concerns about the speed and volume of traffic abound, as do the number of crossing guards, and the availability, or not, of protected ...
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 day after the Princeton Community Democratic Organization held its endorsement meeting reviewing the four Democratic candidates competing for two open seats on Princeton Council, the endorsement process continued. On Monday, March 16, the Princeton Democratic Municipal Committee ...
Princeton, NJ – Even though we are already halfway through it, the time has come to take notice of Women’s History Month. An annual lecture in honor of a former Princeton Township mayor, the late Phyllis Marchand, celebrates Women’s History Month and reflects Marchand’s interest in inspiring women ...
Princeton, NJ – Presentations on esoteric subjects are commonplace on the Princeton University calendar of public events. Many are held in spacious lecture halls with free public access offered by the university – last minute attendees are welcomed. Not so with events hosted by the Fund for Irish ...
Princeton, NJ – If you read even a few of our weekly “agenda update” stories, when we highlight upcoming meetings of boards, committees, and commissions, and related civic organizations, you will quickly realize that public service at this level isn’t exactly “The West Wing” or “Madame ...
Princeton, NJ — Thank you for your recent article [on leaf collection and the gas-powered leaf blower ban] in TAPinto Princeton Community News.My industry has changed from little cleanup of our landscapes to leafless, pristine gardens.I watch contractors blow for minutes to get every last leaf from ...
Princeton, NJ – Ten years ago the editor of U.S. 1 Newspaper, the self-proclaimed business and entertainment journal of Princeton, heard a story idea from a young staffer that seemed far afield from either business or entertainment in Princeton.Sara Hastings, then the “special projects” editor at ...
Princeton, NJ – Mayor and Council of Princeton met Thursday, March 12, for three hours of serious goal setting. The fast-paced meeting covered the waterfront of municipal issues, from social equity in procurement issues, review of parking rates, internal and external communications, and 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 – Artificial intelligence and our future may dominate the headlines, but old-fashioned natural intelligence (hopefully there’s nothing artificial about Albert Einstein’s intelligence) and our nation’s past are in the spotlight this weekend.First take note of the date: Saturday, March ...
Princeton, NJ – At the Princeton Council meeting on Monday, March 23, Princeton University President Chris Eisgruber is expected to present his annual report on town-gown relations, including ways in which the university contributes financially and otherwise to the municipality.By that time some ...
Princeton, NJ — It perplexes me and many other townspeople that a practice so pernicious and patently unhealthful as the use of gas-powered leaf blowers could be condoned by Council, year after year. I do not question for a moment the good intentions of Council. But for the sake of the workers who ...
Editor’s note: Four Democrats have announced their candidacies for two open seats on the Princeton Council. The Democrats will appear Sunday, March 15, at a meeting of the Princeton Community Democratic Organization, when two of them will win the endorsement of the party. The candidates will then ...
Princeton, NJ — Even the briefest of glances at the national headlines has most of us wringing our hands. In a world more turbulent than ever, what’s an individual to do? It was with this tension in mind that Sustainable Princeton, the environmental nonprofit, designed the program for its annual ...
Princeton, NJ – TAPinto Princeton published a wonderful two-part set of articles about property tax assessments, including a useful commentary by Neal Snyder and Marina Rubina. It should be must-read material for anyone who complains about their property taxes and the system in general. The ...
Princeton, NJ — Last week, the Princeton Public Schools stymied a fraudster's attempt to cash an altered check, according to the latest issue of the Princeton Police blotter. On Friday, March 6, at 8.40 a.m., police responded to the school district office on Valley Road for a report of a forged ...
Editor’s note: Four Democrats have announced their candidacies for two open seats on the Princeton Council. The Democrats will appear Sunday, March 15, at a meeting of the Princeton Community Democratic Organization, when two of them will win the endorsement of the party. The candidates will then ...
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 capacity audience attending the Princeton Symphony Orchestra's concert on Sunday, March 8, might be partly attributed to the close Princeton connection of two of the evening's artists. Viet Cuong, who composed “Extra(ordinarily) Fancy”, studied music composition at Princeton ...
Princeton, NJ – We have some celebrities on our short list of intriguing events this week. On Friday, March 13, the delightful classical music performer and commentator Rob Kapilow appears at the Institute for Advanced Study – see details in the listings. On Wednesday, March 11, the Princeton ...
Princeton, NJ – Mayor and Council of Princeton will hear a presentation on Monday, March 9, on the winning entries in the kiosk design competition that began last year. Then it will hold a work session on streetscape enhancements in the Central Business District. Careful readers may recall that ...
Princeton, NJ – “I am a failed retiree,” Jim Levine told TAPinto Princeton’s Pam Hersh in 2021, shortly after he launched Princeton Makes, the artists’ cooperative and work space at the Princeton Shopping Center.After retiring from a corporate career in human resources at Church & Dwight, he ...
Princeton, NJ — This season’s snowpocalypse/snowmageddon/snowami inspires many of us to close our eyes and picture outdoor recreation – basketball, soccer, baseball, swimming, fun in the sun activities, amplified by the sounds of a Good Humor truck (or whatever brand delivers frozen treats these ...
Princeton, NJ – A fifth candidate – a Republican – has filed to seek one of the two Princeton Council seats up for election this November. And we also have another statement of introduction from one of the Democratic candidates.On Tuesday, March 3, at the Mercer County Republican Committee's ...