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...

Dirty Jobs: A Landscaper Hits the Bigtime

"It happens only about two days a year, but if you’re lucky the iris are in full bloom,” says David Fierabend of Monet’s gardens...

Hospital Reality Show: Extreme Fundraising

How do you raise $550 million? Furthermore how do you raise money like that in an economic climate that has made corporations re-evaluate their...

Capital Health: Arline Stephan

Arline Stephan, executive director of the Capital Health Foundation, says one question that she gets all the time is: “how can you always ask...

Princeton HealthCare System: Linda Bonnell

Linda Bonnell, senior director of development for Princeton HealthCare System Foundation, started her fundraising career without even knowing it. With two daughters at Stuart...

Harnessing The Giving Power of Women

‘Women have always given back to their communities through their service,” says Arline Stephan, executive director of Capital Health Foundation, “but it is a...

Just Jazz: Cultivating the Next Thelonious Monk

On a recent afternoon, as Princeton High School jazz band director Joe Bongiovi walks through the school’s state of the art performing arts annex,...
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