Palmer Square Christmas Tree Lighting

The annual Palmer Square Christmas Tree Lighting will be held on the Green on Friday, November 27, 2015, beginning at 5:00 pm. Santa Claus will be on hand to help light the tree, a 65-foot Norway spruce that holds over 32,000 lights. The event will feature music by Bob Denson's Blues and the Princeton High School Choir.

Thanksgiving Day Walk at Mapleton Preserve

Join Karen Linder, president of the Friends of Princeton Nursery Lands, for a walk in the woods on Thanksgiving morning. FPNL's annual Thanksgiving Day Nature Walk in the Mapleton Preserve takes place on Thursday, November 26, 2015, from 10 to 11:30 am. The program will begin at the main office for the D&R Canal State Park, 145 Mapleton Road, Kingston. Come work up a Thanksgiving appetite, search for wildlife and enjoy the abundance and subtle beauty of late fall.

This walk is free and all are welcome, but preregistration is requested. Please call 609-683-0483 to reserve a spot. For more information, visit the FPNL website.

Photo: Gary D. Tonhouse

B.D. Lenz at Small World on Saturday

Jazz guitarist B.D. Lenz brings his trio back to Princeton to perform at Small World Coffee on Saturday, November 14, at 8:30 pm.

Small World is located at 14 Witherspoon Street in Princeton.

Parcel 6 Alert

This evening residents in Parcel 6 received the following email from their Parcel Committee:

"Yesterday at about 9 pm, as a resident was pulling into her garage, she was approached by two young, thin, dark-skinned males on her driveway.

"They advised her that they were trying to contact her next door neighbor, but allegedly nobody answered his door. When she offered to call him from her car, they both ran off between the two houses, into the woods.

"The police were ultimately called. This occurs on the heels of the break-in in our parcel that took place a little more than two weeks ago.

"If you encounter any similar incident, you should immediately call the police."

Thank you to the Parcel 6 Committee for keeping us informed.

Shikantaza Trio at South Brunswick Jazz Café

Shikantaza (left to right): Bernhard Geiger, Brandon Lewin, Doug Miller. Photo by Jonathan Michalik.

Shikantaza, a jazz trio that makes music in the tradition of contemporary piano jazz trios like those of Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett, will make its third appearance at the South Brunswick Jazz Café on Friday, November 6, 2015. The program will feature expressive arrangements of classic and lesser-known material, along with original compositions from their forthcoming album entitled Retractions.

Shikantaza is Brandon Lewin on percussion, Bernhard Geiger on acoustic bass and Doug Miller on piano keyboard. Click here for more about the trio.

The performance will take place at the Herb Eckert Auditorium in the Senior Center, South Brunswick Municipal Complex, located at 540 Route 522, Monmouth Junction. Admission is $6 at the door. Doors open at 7:30 pm. For further information contact 732-329-4000, ext. 7635, email arts@sbtnj.net, or click here.