This month we reflect upon and express gratitude for people like Patricia Whitehead, who share their experiences to bring the past alive to us all these years later.

The first step to growing old gracefully is to readily admit that you’re getting old.

A year apart means we are meeting our close friends again for the first time.

Dog park in Hamnett Park to be named in honor of World War II hero canine.

The newly formed Outdoor Equity Alliance, fiscally sponsored by FoHVOS, was invited to join in the planning of what became a Mercer County-wide weekend festival that took place on June 18-20

Lifestyle Creep is a concept, not a person—it refers to the idea of becoming accustomed, over time, to more expensive living

“That was the strangest thing,” my son said. “As if a vein was opened, and the words just kept coming out of her.”

There simply would not be enough space in this publication to accurately portray what Vince Calcagno has meant to the Township of Robbinsville

“I don’t believe that there is any grass that is greener anywhere else. Vast plains of it as well.”

Hopewell Township is an official Tree City USA, having just earned this distinction again for 2020

Throughout the month of May, poet Colby Cedar Smith has worked with every Hopewell Elementary fourth-grader as part of the Artists in Residency Grant Program, a co-sponsored project of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and Young Audiences for Learning. In June, the students will parti…

Thomas Kelly: photographer Jack Kosowsky is drawn to light and color

So….masks. There are those who don’t wear them. There are those who wear them. There are those who forget them in the car and have to run back and get them. There are those who have to wear them while they work. There are TV and movie superheroes who wear them because their costume requires it.

On Feb. 22, Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law P.L. 2021, C 16, known as the “New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization Act.”

“Hershey mascots seem like the tossed-off products of a marketing department’s lunchtime brainstorm session.”

This month we reminisce one last time with Patricia Whitehead Stoner and her reflections on Ewing’s past, as recorded by her in 1940.

From time to time Ewing Mayor Bert Steinmann answers questions posed by readers or members of the Ewing Observer’s staff.

I’m asking nicely here. I’m not begging. But I am strongly requesting that people stop changing the English language on us senior citizens.

Since April is Distracted Driver Awareness Month, I decided to write a topical article in combination with a community issue.

Who or what is Xerces, and why are we dedicating a full column to them?

“Looking at soothing images of nature evokes serenity, relieves stress, and stimulates positive feelings.”

New outreach coordinator Horacio Hernandez has been working with the Hopewell Township Health Department for two months now

Michael Franz is a Hamilton videographer. He makes historical videos of local and regional events and venues

Television spies were a dime a dozen during the Cold War. ‘The Prisoner’ was trying to be much more than just a spy show

Right now the WW-P Board of Education is deciding how much they will raise our taxes this year. They should consider lowering our taxes this year. The budget will be voted on around April 25.

The story of Penns Neck begins with the icon after whom it was named—William Penn, famed Quaker founder of Pennsylvania.

Around the 1860’s, in the limited vicinity of Ewingville, Ewing [Presbyterian] Church and Shabbakonk Road, which he considers his ‘neighborhood,’ John Hendrickson recalls that there were from 20 to 30 houses

There’s a big old gnarled tree on Broad Avenue. It sits outside our neighbor’s fence, with a grassy area between it and the street.

Mary Yess has a long and distinguished list of arts leadership and accomplishments in the Mercer County area

An unshaven beard is like a blank canvas, or perhaps more appropriately, an ideal piece of marble or clay, ready to be carved and shaped

With warmer weather on the horizon, the Hopewell Township Recreation Department’s goal this spring and summer is to bring the community together

Twitter offers a dizzying race for attention from a gazillion opinions

We can now fight this virus with more than just social distancing, mask-wearing and keeping our hands clean and away from our faces.

Let’s get outside and enjoy our parks with spring in bloom.

An update on the progress the Suppers community has made in the past year

During this Covid epidemic, a lot of us are experiencing what it’s like to be someone who is hearing impaired

I mean no disrespect to moms with girls. That’s a whole other article, for which I am not qualified to write. I’d be interested to hear the stories, though.

The Township Historic Society started the year off for this column in January with a request for folks to consider recording their memories of life in Ewing in 2020, in their “Voices of Ewing” project.

Children are the forensic anthropologists of their parents’ inner moods.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Friends of West Windsor Open Space. FOWWOS has contributed to the preservation of over 50 percent of West Windsor Township.

I am certain that since last March all of us have been challenged in some way by the world health pandemic known as COVIS-19.

We are finally seeing progress on the utility front, as our constant pressure on both Optimum/Altice USA and First Energy/JCP&L is showing some signs of progress.

You see, there are times a writer might find himself short on ideas. Not this time, of course, but it could theoretically happen

On Feb. 4, 5 and 6, the Hopewell Valley health care team vaccinated close to 900 individuals from Phase 1A and 1B Priority Groups in Hopewell Valley and Mercer County

On Feb. 9, 1797, West Windsor was formed by an act of State Legislature. At 224 years old, the municipality contains a rich, well-documented history.