Princeton Junction News

Two years ago, Rich Hayes of Princeton Junction had eight, maybe 12, weeks to live.

To celebrate the May Day online release of its fifth studio album, Supernova , Atlanta-based folk-rock-pop quartet Girlyman is offering an exclusive free download of "Empire of Our State," the album's first single that is making its premiere on my blog at The Huffington Post.

Lorene Asay, 92, stands with Gloucester County College President Fred Keating and the school's provost John Henzy.

Celia Lidz, left, of West Windsor, New Jersey gets ready to learn how to ride a bicycle with instructor Silvia Ascarelli at a class for adults held in a commuter parking lot in the Princeton Junction train station on Sunday, April 29, 2012, by the West Windsor Bicycle and Pedestrian Alliance.

In the final week of August last year, after receiving my housing assignment for my first year of college, I indulged myself in a short trip down Route 1 South with a high school friend in tow to check out Whitman College, where I would be living a few weeks later.