Letter to the Editor: Reparations? ….Hmmm
To the Editor:
The impact of slavery, over the 400 years of the African American experience in America, cannot in any way be measured in...
The State We’re In 8/9: Blue-green algae blooms taking the splash out of summer
By Michele S. Byers
At New Jersey’s freshwater lakes and reservoirs, summer usually means long days of swimming, kayaking, canoeing, fishing, wading, water-skiing, rafting and...
Health Matters 8/2: Injuries throw athletes a curve ball
By Barbara Kutch, P.T.
Throwing a ball may look fairly easy to the average person, but there is more involved in the action than just...
The State We’re In 8/2: 60 years of farming left?
By Michele S. Byers
The Dust Bowl of the 1930s was one of the worst man-made disasters in our history.
Due to poor farming practices and...
Solutions 7/26: Our future and our responses
By Huck Fairman
As many Americans look back 50 years at the extraordinary national effort to send men to the Moon, we find ourselves facing...
The State We’re In 7/26: Saving rare Pickering’s morning glories
By Michele S. Byers
Anyone who has planted “garden variety” morning glories knows how easily they grow. These showy annuals climb like crazy and produce...
Solutions 7/19: Record heat – Hottest month in human history
By Huck Fairman
This June was the hottest month ever recorded in human history. The previous record was set in June 2016. Every month this...
The State We’re In 7/19: Gas pipelines carry hidden costs: ‘a tale of two...
By Michele S. Byers
Someone once said “the best things in life are free.” But even “free” things like air, water and the quiet enjoyment...
Letter to the Editor: Whither Westminster
To the Editor:
Four score and 14 years ago, a marginally wacky music director at a Presbyterian Church in Dayton, Ohio founded the Westminster Choir...
Letter to the Editor: Summer Bridge Program offered at Christina Seix Academy
To the Editor:
Many of us welcome the good weather, more relaxed attitudes and less crowded commutes that summer in the tri-state area brings. However,...
The State We’re In 7/12: Fish in hot water
By Michele S. Byers
Around the globe, climate change is leading to increased ocean temperatures and more acidic water.
The impact on fish and the fishing...
Solutions 7/5: Warnings from scientists and writers
By Huck Fairman
Facing changing climates, historians, scientists and writers urge action.
It has happened before. Approximately 55 million years ago, heating up over thousands of...
The State We’re In 7/5: Highway beautification – New Jersey style
By Michele S. Byers
Driving through a garden usually isn’t a commuter experience, but drivers on the Atlantic City Expressway will see colorful patches of...
The State We’re In 6/28: Great news for New Jersey’s streams and rivers
By Michele S. Byers
Placed end to end, the New Jersey rivers and streams proposed for higher environmental protections would stretch from High Point to...
Solutions 6/28: The accelerating change around us
By Huck Fairman
If some of what follows is familiar, it is because recognized trends and programs are continuing only at an accelerating pace.
This applies...
Continued commitment needed in fight against Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States for which there is no cure nor a definitive way to...
The State We’re In 6/21: UN report sounds alarm on nature’s decline
By Michele S. Byers
Would you care if northeastern beach tiger beetles and arogos skipper butterflies disappeared?
How about blue-spotted salamanders and southern gray tree frogs,...
Solutions 6/21: Preserving natural resources and fighting climate change
By Huck Fairman
What can and what should a community do to help save life as we know it locally and around the world?
The threats...
Trenton Punk Rock Flea Market: Halloween Edition!
Sun, Oct 20 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Trail and Treat Bike Ride
Sun, Oct 20 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Haunted River Walk
Thu, Oct 24 - Sat, Oct 26 7:00 pm - 9:15 pm
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Thu, Oct 24 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Halloween Ghost Tour & Cemetery Visit
Fri, Oct 25 12:00 am