Cover Stories

Farm to Fork: Allentown farmers market finds room to grow

By R.H. Schmitt Jr. Central Jersey, particularly Mercer and Monmouth counties, remain home to a rich network of family farms that continue to shape the region’s landscape, economy and identity.  In...

At the crossroads of war and independence

By R. H. Schmitt Jr. Trenton, Princeton and Mercer County have long commanded much of New Jersey’s Revolutionary War...

History takes the center stage for America’s 250th

Before there was a country, there was a a river crossing in the dark, a capital city waiting...

Foundation gives a future to retired Standardbred racehorses

By Jane Meggitt A horse once headed for slaughter surged through traffic, scaffolding and parked cars on a Manhattan...

Strategic Plan Rethinks Modern Library Space In Plainsboro

The Plainsboro Public Library is asking residents to help shape the next phase of one of the township’s...

Go Inside This Week’s Issue of U.S. 1: October 30, 2019

Cover Stories Mercer’s Voting Machines: Old, Hackable, and...

Mercer’s Voting Machines: Old, Hackable, and Not Going Anywhere

In 2004 Hopewell resident Stephanie Harris went to her polling place for the presidential primary, never expecting what was about to happen would alter...

Go Inside This Week’s Issue of U.S. 1: October 23, 2019

Cover Stories A View from the Top of...

A View from the Top of the Mercer County Market

When the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (AKA the Trump Tax Cuts) was passed in 2017, common wisdom was that it was bad news...

Go Inside This Week’s Issue of U.S. 1: October 16, 2019

Cover Stories It’s Alive! The Dramatic Rise of...

It’s Alive! The Dramatic Rise of Frankenstein

It was 1823 and a monster appeared in London — just as it will in Princeton as McCarter Theater presents the Lookingglass Theater’s production...
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