Town Topics is a free weekly newspaper distributed to every household of the New Jersey municipalities of Princeton Borough and Princeton Township, and parts of Hopewell Borough, Hopewell Township, West Windsor Township, Lawrence Township, Pennington, Montgomery Township, and South Brunswick Township, with an estimated readership of 14,000.
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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Lynn Adams Smith |
| Publisher | Lynn Adams Smith |
| Editor | Lynn Adams Smith |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Princeton, New Jersey, USA |
| Circulation | Weekly |
| Website | www.towntopics.com |
Town Topics is known for its coverage of its two primary municipalities, Princeton Borough and Princeton Township, as well as its coverage of Princeton's largest institution, Princeton University. While news coverage is mostly local, the paper's arts and entertainment coverage is more regional, with a coverage area that covers roughly the Trenton to New Brunswick portion of the Northeast Corridor.
Advertisers also take advantage of Town Topics availability, and the back pages of the newspaper are largely occupied with real estate advertisements.
Emily Stuart helped her husband and other relatives establish a weekly newspaper called Town Topics that has been published in Princeton since 1946. On April 4, 1989, Stuart, 74, was found stabbed to death in the basement of her Mercer Street home in a quiet neighborhood near Princeton University.[1] A relative found Stuart's fully clothed body lying face down in a garden tool storage area of the basement. A rear kitchen door was ajar in Stuart's home, nothing appeared to have been stolen, and Stuart had been stabbed about five times between the shoulder blades.[2]
Town Topics was purchased from the Stuart family by a consortium led by Lynn Adams Smith, a staff advertising sales manager for Town Topics and her former husband as majority owners, together with minority investors, architect J. Robert Hillier and two former Town Topics employees. Editor and publisher Smith, originally from Columbus, Ohio, attended Kent State University and received a degree in interior design from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
In 2006, Town Topics celebrated its 60th anniversary.
References
- ^ Johnson, Christine M. United Press International as reprinted in The Philadelphia Inquirer. (April 6, 1989) Princeton Murder Case is First There in 11 Years. Pg. B05
- ^ Johnson, Christine M. United Press International as reprinted in The Philadelphia Inquirer. (April 6, 1989) Princeton Murder Case is First There in 11 Years. Pg. B05
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