Bordentown house tour opens doors to historic homes

Six private homes and six historic sites in Bordentown City will open their doors to visitors Saturday, Nov....

Ritenauer leads Capital Philharmonic into a new chapter

The Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey will launch its 2026-27 season on Saturday, Oct. 24, introducing the audience to not one, but two premieres: composer Vincent DiMura’s “Harmony Villa”...

Arts & Entertainment

Unearthing stories of slavery and freedom

By Sue Kozel As we age, sometimes we may reflect, “What could I have done differently?” For me, these questions drive my continuing research and writing....

Business

County funding keeps Route 130 Connection rolling

Mercer County has secured an additional $60,000 from NJ Transit to keep the Route 130 Connection bus service running into Middlesex County after federal...

Former Trenton Marriott moves closer to redevelopment

Trenton is moving closer to taking control of the long-vacant former Marriott hotel downtown, nearly two years after the state committed $4 million to...

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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,...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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