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...

Between the Lines

Unlike other jobs in finance, the field of venture capital hasn’t had a very long time to be an all-male club. The concept of...

SteriFleet Gambles on Universal Toxin Testing

Tim Henry, president of Princeton-based bioscreening startup SteriFleet, sees lethal biological weapons such as anthrax and ricin as a good news, bad news proposition....

Man’s Best Friend; Mold’s Worst Enemy

Jason Earle was miserably sick as a child – and he blames his basement. He suffered itchy eyes, headaches, asthma attacks, and a pneumonia/asthma...

Between The Lines

The February page of our 20th anniversary calendar, appropriate to the theme "U.S. 1 – 20 Years Young," shows people puckering up for U.S....

NRG Raises an Egalitarian Flag in Princeton

As guests assembled in the glass-walled entrance to the new Carnegie Center headquarters for New Jersey’s newest power company, NRG Energy, snowy weather was...

Progress 2005 Edition

This past year U.S. 1 reported on 695 separate companies – many of them had more than one article. ...
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