Battling Food Insecurity with the Right Tools: How Trenton Health Team Is Doing Its Part

The Trenton Health Team, a nonprofit partnership focused on the health and wellbeing of Trenton residents, composed the following editorial. As Virginia Woolf wrote, “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” Food security – having reliable access to nutritious foods – is one of the most fundamental human […]

Community Notes & Community Losses

Hopewell Theater to Close Editor’s note: In a letter e-mailed to patrons, Hopewell Theater co-founder and executive director Sara Scully announced the theater’s closing. Dear Patron We are deeply saddened to announce that we must close Hopewell Theater. Rising costs and the inability to obtain a liquor license — a key income source for live […]

Duncraven Equestrian Center: Calling All Horse Lovers

This summer, Duncraven Equestrian Center is offering three weeks of beginner and novice horseback riding camp! Our camp is the perfect opportunity for kids ages 6-14 to experience the joys of working on and around horses. We pride ourselves on providing a safe, fun, and educational experience for our campers that focuses on horsemanship, barn […]

Go Inside This Week’s Issue of U.S. 1: January 31, 2024

The following stories were originally published in the January 31, 2024, issue of U.S. 1 Newspaper. Cover Stories Tulpehaking Exhibit Offers Two Views on Nature Between the Lines Community Notes & Community Losses Preview of the Arts Stories Train Wreck Story Set to Arrive in BordentownOpportunities Interchange Battling Food Insecurity with the Right Tools Survival […]

Youth Orchestra Starts a New Chapter on Westminster Campus

Much has been written about the power of place. For David DeFreese, board chair of the Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra (GPYO), the legacy of Westminster Choir College is palpable. After all, as the former home of the esteemed Westminster Choir, the campus has attracted top talent from around the globe, with major conductors and performing […]

George Street Playhouse Review: ‘Ibsen’s Ghost’

Although one can depend on Charles Busch plays for arch lines, grand gestures, offbeat characters, and sumptuous speeches, his latest, “Ibsen’s Ghost,” having its world premiere at New Brunswick’s George Street Playhouse before heading to New York for an off-Broadway run, never gains the comic or literary traction to create interest, insight, or laughs. Busch […]

Connecting Princeton & Mexico with Soccer & Song

Carlos Cortez straddles two worlds. His family is from Zináparo, a small rural village in Michoácan, Mexico, where few people have ever heard of Princeton University. He’s a senior at Princeton University, where few people have ever heard of Zináparo. But Carlos had an idea to bring these two worlds together. Last year, with the […]

NOFA NJ’s 34th Annual Winter Conference: Not Just for Farmers

The Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey, or NOFA NJ, hosts its 34th annual winter conference under the theme “Connecting Communities of Practice” on Saturday, January 27, at Rutgers University’s Douglass Student Center, 100 George Street, in New Brunswick from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. According to NOFA NJ’s website, nofanj.org, the Lambertville-based organization […]

Community Works Offers Nonprofits a Hopeful Outlook

Princeton Community Works, the annual conference for the nonprofit community, returns again in a virtual format for an evening of networking and learning on Monday, January 29, from 5 to 9 p.m. The theme for this year’s conference “Making Hope A Reality,” and the evening’s presentations designed for nonprofit boards, staff, and volunteers aim to […]

Princeton Pike Office Park Set for Redevelopment

After an 18-month process, Lawrence Township’s planning board and town council have approved plans from Paramus-based Reynolds Asset Management to transform the Princeton Pike Office Park into CANVAS, “a mixed-use ‘live, work, play’ property that will feature 204 rental residences and 17,000 square feet of community-centric retail space,” according to a December press release. Reynolds […]