Cover Stories

Hopewell Valley Stage reopens after summer hiatus

Hopewell Valley Stage has resumed programming after a six-week summer hiatus, returning with a new website, improvements to its venue and an expanded schedule of events. The theater began programming...

Helping Seeing Eye puppies find their way

Before a Seeing Eye dog ever guides someone through a busy intersection or safely across a street, countless...

Karly C and Rebel Y’all find their stride

Perhaps in the not-too-distant future, Mercer County folks can say they knew Mike Matisa and Karly C. “when.”...

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...

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...

Imagination Runs Wild in Long-Vacant Lot

‘I’m an advocate of the temporary. It allows people to take risks. Temporary averts the collision of people holding out for their full solution....

The Library As Life

Virginia Baeckler, director of the Plainsboro Public Library, was happily working as an arts and education lobbyist for the New Jersey State Council on...

A Poet In Princeton’s Service

As Princeton University evolves in the next decade, the arts are likely to play a highly visible role. The new Lewis Center for the...

Best Little Big Town in New Jersey

So what is Princeton? A big suburb that enjoys some of the accouterments of a big city but still is rooted in large houses...

Cornel West: Making Afro-American Studies Profoundly Human, Profoundly American

"Afro-American studies was never meant to be solely for Afro-Americans,” Cornel West has said. Not many people at Princeton University would make that assumption,...

Building a New Hospital by Assuming the Best in People

We are surrounded by cynicism and disrespect. Almost daily, people argue that our public institutions are “inept and inefficient” our leaders are “narrow minded,...
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