By Matthew Hersh The Joint Effort Princeton Witherspoon-Jackson Community Safe Streets Summer Program returns July 31 through August 9 and will once again celebrate the people, history, and traditions of Princeton’s historic Black neighborhood. This year’s program, however, carries added significance as it commemorates the 10th anniversary of the designation of the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood as […]

MORE THAN A RESTORATION: Ben Colbert, board chair of the nonprofit Paul Robeson House of Princeton, center, discusses building plans with residents who attended an open house on Saturday, July 4. Once complete, the restored house will expand the organization’s existing programming, which includes concerts, lectures, poetry readings, and educational events celebrating Robeson’s life and […]

By Anne Levin Considering the roof collapse at a BJ’s store in Ocean County and flash flooding inundating Camden’s streets —to name just a few weather-related catastrophes plaguing New Jersey in recent days — Princeton emerged relatively unscathed by the extreme heat and heavy downpours that dominated the July 4 weekend. “We had no significant […]

Award-winning poet David Mills read Frederick Douglass’ 1852 speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” at the Fourth of July Festival at Morven Museum & Garden on Saturday afternoon. The event also featured live music, games, arts and crafts, community partner activities, tours, food, and more. Attendees share what brought them to […]

By Stuart Mitchner “’Then, what is life? I cried.’” —from The Triumph of Life The sequence of literary events that began on July 2, 1961, with the suicide of Ernest Hemingway ended on July 8, 1822, with the drowning of Percy Bysshe Shelley. As my wife just pointed out, I can’t begin in 1961 and […]

By Anne Levin Following an extensive national search, the Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey (CPNJ) has named Kyle Ritenauer as its new music director. The 37-year-old conductor will begin his tenure with the Trenton orchestra in the coming fall season. “I’m thrilled,” Ritenauer said during a phone interview this week. “Trenton has an undiscovered orchestra. […]

By Wendy Greenberg When Caleb Eckstein’s Boptet jazz group plays on the stage at Princeton High School July 18, it will be a personal homecoming. The jazz trombonist, who graduated Princeton High School in 2016, spent a lot of time on the high school stage during his formative years in Studio Band. “It’s going to […]

THE BARRACKS REOPENS: Cutting the ribbon at the reopening of The Old Barracks Museum in Trenton on July 4 were, from left: Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora, Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell, Mercer County Executive Dan Benson, Old Barracks Executive Director Michelle Doherty, Assemblyman Anthony Verrelli, vocalist Stacy Roth, and Old Barracks Museum Trustee John O’Sullivan. By […]

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