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...

Profiles In Distance Education

From Underground To the Top of the World ...

From Virtual to Real — Education Goes the Distance

The classroom is packed with some of the most unusual-looking characters you have ever seen. Down in front there is a seat affording you...

To Farm Market to Farm Market To Get Some Fresh Food

Choose your favorite agricultural simile to complete this sentence: Over the last several years seasonal farmers markets in our area have (a) sprouted like...

U.S. 1 Celebrates 12 Years of Summer Fiction

U.S. 1's annual Summer Fiction issue, published July 23 this year, is an unusual publication. Containing a minimum amount of business and entertainment news,...

Princeton Becomes Climate Central

When the great European explorers first hit the North American continent, what they were looking for was a way to reach Asia. Even after...

Using Technology to Counter the Counterfeiters

Emanuel Ninger, a meticulous counterfeiter of American currency, painted each bill by hand. Wary of drawing attention to the dollars he created and circulated,...
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