Town Topics

t The Arts Council of Princeton hosted its first The Big Sit community picnic on a hot Saturday afternoon in Community Park South. Participants share what brought them to the event in this week’s Town Talk on page 5. (Photo by Pat McCarron)

By Anne Levin

Rider University announced on Monday that it is moving the piano, voice, recorder, honors music, and Opera Outings programs of Westminster Conservatory of Music from Princeton to Rider’s Lawrence Township campus. Also included is the Westminster Community Orchestra. But left behind are the...

By Anne Levin

Among the highlights of late summer in New Jersey are the rows of big, juicy peaches that appear at local farm stands and farmers markets, followed by apples in early fall.

Not this year. Thanks to an April heat wave followed by a cold snap, crops were s...

By Matthew Hersh

With New Jersey’s new e-bike law set to take effect July 19, Princeton officials and police are preparing for significant changes to how electric bicycles are regulated, while continuing to grapple with safety concerns highlighted by a fatal crash earlier this year and growing complaint...

COLLABORATIVE MEMORY PROJECT: Princeton artist Ryan Lilienthal led a project in Germany that involved some 150 elementary and secondary school students in a collaborative memory sculpture. The result, the translucent bricks with words of belonging, formed a large-scale installation exhibited in the state archive in Darmstadt, Germany. (Photo courtesy of Ryan Lilienthal)