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 the current issue: April 18, 2018

The following stories were originally published in the April 18, 2018 U.S. 1 Newspaper. ...

Is a Bigger Campus a Better Campus?

‘Expansion and the Automobile raise grave problems.” That ominous headline runs above a lengthy article in the Princeton Alumni Weekly about Princeton University’s plans...

History, Education Center, and May Event in Bloom

It was a particularly lingering winter. After a Vernal Equinox snow storm, many gardeners wondered whether they would ever get to dig their hands...

A Little Literary Festival

Morven Museum & Garden and the Center of Theological Inquiry (CTI) join forces for the third annual Salon on Stockton: A Little Literary Festival...

Fair Winds Blow for Offshore Turbine Power

From shores all around the British isles, you can see them rising from the misty horizon: ranks of colossal wind turbines, giants standing in...

Adventures in Light and Color: Piecing Together Stained Glass History

I’m blaming Abbot Suger of St. Denis. He’s the 12th-century French church leader who championed heightening spirituality through the use of stained glass. ...
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