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The Trentonian was known as a feisty, gritty tabloid from its start in 1945 when 40 members of the International Typographical Union broke away from the Trenton Times to start their paper. [4] [5] When The Washington Post Company bought the Times in 1975, Katharine Graham vowed to make Trenton a one-paper town. She reportedly would later admit ...
Brant Alyea (born 1940), baseball player who hit a home run on the first pitch he saw in the majors. [57] and grew up in Rutherford [58] Jim Blumenstock (1918–1963), fullback who played for the New York Giants in the 1947 season [59] Deedy Crosson (1898–1973), Negro league shortstop in the 1920s [60] Crowbar (born 1974), former professional ...
By 1982, the Trentonian had pulled ahead of The Times in daily circulation, and held a 67,000 to 62,000 edge in daily papers as of 1987. Area newspaper readers never adopted the Post's approach of turning The Times into a paper with a serious national and international focus, preferring the tabloid Trentonian and its local focus on "cheerful ...
Jean Acker (1893–1978), film actress who was the estranged wife of silent film star Rudolph Valentino [9]; Betty Bronson (1907–1971), actress [10]; Roxanne Hart (born 1952), actress who appeared in the film Highlander and on television in Chicago Hope [11]
Laura Wooten (December 19, 1920 - March 24, 2019) was the longest-serving poll worker in Mercer County and the state of New Jersey.She was also believed to be the longest-serving poll worker in the United States with a record of 79 continuous years of volunteering at the polls on Election Day.
DJ Unk, the Atlanta rapper behind the hits “Walk It Out” and “2 Step,” died at the age of 43. Unk, born Anthony Platt, was one of the key figures in snap music, a subgenre of crunk that ...
Lynn Ban, a renowned jewelry designer and star of Netflix’s Bling Empire: New York, has died weeks after undergoing emergency surgery following a ski accident. She was 52. Her son Sebastian ...
The Trentoniana Local History and Genealogy Collection is a library-based special collection of historic memorabilia in Trenton, New Jersey.Held by the Trenton Free Public Library Board of Trustees, the collection contains books, manuscripts, ephemera, visual and audio media, and artifacts, with particular focus on local history and genealogical materials.