• EAST WINDSOR: Township Council discusses acquiring Cedarville Farms

    EAST WINDSOR: Township Council discusses acquiring Cedarville Farms

    Joseph VanHandel is a fourth generation farmer of East Windsor. (By Photo by Amy Batista)

  • PLAINSBORO: Dance for Parkinson’s

       DanceVision and The Parkinson Alliance have announced a pre-holidays series of special dance classes: Princeton Dance for Parkinson’s.    People with Parkinson’s disease, their caregivers, partners and friends will get a chance to participate in a specialized Princeton Dance for Parkinson’s for six Wednesdays from Nov. 16 through Dec. 21 from 1 to 2:15 p.m. at…

  • Two Assembly seats up for grabs in District 14
  • Debate

    Debate

    Staff photos by Charles W. Kim

  • Vote Kohn, Zohn and Maher

    Christine Bator, Princeton Junction While Governor Christie can reduce state spending by weeding out ineffective and costly state programs, unless the West Windsor and Mercer County governments learn to reduce their spending no one will see real tax reductions.    West Windsor residents understand this all too well. In the last 10 years the municipal tax…

  • PACKET PICKS: Nov. 4

    PACKET PICKS: Nov. 4

    Wed., Nov. 9 Symphony speaks    In anticipation of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra’s Nov. 13 Classical Series concert, Dreams, Memories, and Truth, PSO Music Director Rossen Milanov, above, will give a PSO Soundtracks lecture at the Princeton Public Library on Wednesday, November 9 at 4:30 p.m.    The concert and lecture represent the PSO’s participation in Princeton…

  • ‘No good reason to stay’

    Janice Rykowski Lambertville     I am all for the Kum By Ya preached by many of my liberal friends. They advocate diversity and inclusiveness, which are principles I can agree with. And we all find common ground in agreeing that Lambertville is a special place to live.    However, Marcia O’Connell in last week’s Beacon was…

  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: First snow brings widespread power outages

    HOPEWELL VALLEY: First snow brings widespread power outages

    Above, a 100-year-old tree rests on a Burton Avenue house in Hopewell Borough. The tree fell across one driveway and over three cars, before it came to rest on a neighbor’s house.

  • Transition costs underestimated?

    Phyllis Teitelbaum, Princeton I am wondering whether the information in the Consolidation Commission’s report is accurate. I began to wonder when a startling thing happened at the Joint Borough-Township Meeting on Consolidation on Oct. 26.    David Goldfarb, a Borough Council member who also serves on the Consolidation Commission, asked Anton Lahnston, the chair of the…

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