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A youth observes an award-winning chicken at the 107th Annual Mercer County 4-H Fair, held last Saturday and Sunday at Howell Living History Farm in Hopewell Township. Attendees share their favorite part of the fair in this week’s Town Talk on page 6. (Photo by Sarah Teo)

By Matthew Hersh

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill will join residents, elected officials, and community leaders in Princeton’s historic Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood as the Joint Effort Princeton Witherspoon-Jackson Community Safe Streets Summer Program returns for its annual celebration, a nine-day series of events that founde...

By Anne Levin

The introduction of ordinances related to parking, and resolutions for improvements for the Terhune Road Safe Streets to Transit Pedestrian Improvement project, as well as the design of two replacement steam boilers in historic buildings on the Westminster Choir College campus, were among the actions taken at a mee...

By Wendy Greenberg

Summer construction projects at area schools may necessitate changes in fall routines, such as pick up or drop off procedures, said Princeton Public Schools (PPS) Superintendent Michael LaSusa at the July 21 Board of Education (BOE) meeting. Parents will be informed later this summer, he said, before the first...

BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS: Lawrenceville School student Rohan Madhok with children in Punjab, India, for whom he has created tools to help bridge a language gap that was affecting their learning.

By Anne Levin

Rohan Madhok was tutoring young, Spanish-speaking students in Trenton when he realized that their problems with math stem...