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Fall activities, sports return for Hopewell Valley schools

By ANDREW HARRISON

Staff Writer

Since Board of Education approval more than two weeks ago, a new normal has resumed at the school district secondary level in Hopewell Valley for fall activities and outdoor sports.

Official practices are already underway for outdoor fall sports such as cross country, field hockey, football, soccer and girls tennis at Hopewell Valley Central High School (HVCHS); the HVCHS Fall Play and Marching Band, including the color guard; as well as, the HVCHS SPIKE robotics team.

Sports games for fall competition scheduled to begin in early October will be different from previous years, as daily screen-

ing and temperature checks are to be conducted for home and away teams; equipment sanitized before, at halftime and after games; only two player passes are being allowed for each player home and away; and parents will be spaced out six feet apart in the bleachers are just some of the changes for the new normal.

The fall play initially was only allowed nine characters, but has since been double cast to have 18 characters and another 20 crew members.

“They are doing the auditions and film virtually. The crew will be in smaller pods. Practices will be outdoors,” Superintendent of Schools Thomas Smith said.

“They aren’t doing the filming on stage, each character will film off site and it will be edited all to-

gether.”

Students will need to be socially distanced and wear masks at all times during practices, while not sharing any props or rehearsal furniture.

The Marching Black and Gold has more than 35 students signed up to participate in the band this fall with Smith indicating that the marching band director expects the number to increase between 75-100 students.

Practices are to be spaced to limit the amount of participants in a pod, according to a district presentation.

When it comes to the robotics team at HVCHS, SPIKE is still working on their plan for this fall.

“Their big event has been cancelled so they are working to involve the students in some way,”

Thomas said.

For Timberlane Middle School (TMS), fall outdoor sports are set for official practice to resume on Sept. 29. The sports are soccer, field hockey and cross country.

District officials have stated that as long as Phase 1 and Phase 2 for sports goes well at TMS there could be a possibility for potential games with Montgomery Middle School.

Once the district has evaluated and gone through the phases with the HVCHS and TMS activities, district officials will then pivot to allow elementary activities such as the newspaper club at a later date.

If a confirmed case of COVID-19 does occur at HVCHS, TMS, Bear Tavern Elementary School, Hopewell Elementary

School, Stony Brook Elementary School or Toll Gate Grammar School, the district does have a plan in place.

“If we have a confirmed case, we will close for two to five days for deep cleaning and contact tracing. Depending on the situation, like if the student has siblings or a teacher is in multiple schools, we may expand the closure to include additional schools,” Smith said.

The school closure would not be indefinite. An indefinite closure would depend on the number of cases.

With athletics, if a confirmed case occurs regarding a studentathlete, the district will also conduct contact tracing and not have practice for the same time that the school is closed. If everything goes well the school in-person education, fall activities and sports will resume once again.

Hopewell Valley student’s environmental passion guides her to national competition in October

By ANDREW HARRISON

Staff Writer

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When the 10th annual Broadcom MASTERS national competition takes place virtually next month, there will be only one student representing New Jersey: Charlotte Michaluk.

Broadcom MASTERS (Math, Applied Science, Technology and Engineering for Rising Stars) is designed to inspire young scientists, innovators and engineers, according to the competition. The middle school competition tests critical thinking, communication, creativity and collaboration of the top students across the nation.

Charlotte, a 14-year-old freshman at Hopewell Valley Central High School, is one of the top 30 finalists who will compete in the national competition from Oct. 16-21.

“I was in complete disbelief and so excited when I got the call.

It was such an amazing surprise,” she said. “I cannot wait to meet everyone virtually. I think this is really significant right now, because we have to look to scientists and engineers while in the midst of a pandemic.”

Charlotte was selected as one of the 30 out of a pool of 300 finalists. She was previously named one of the top 300 competitors who qualified for the competition when she was an eighth grader at Timberlane Middle School.

According to competition information, each of the 30 finalists will be judged on their own science research project and participate in online team challenges.

Charlotte’s research project focuses on addressing biofouling which occurs on ship hulls, buoys and underwater pipes. Biofouling is invasive aquatic growth from algae, bacteria and barnacles on the bottom of ships or underwater structures.

“I developed a new hull coating using shortfin mako shark skin denticles (similar to scales).

This coating contributes to a better world by decreasing the frictional drag of ship hulls in the water, which contributes to 90% of our cargo fuel ship consumption,” she said. “It also slows invasive species transport which is great for the environment and the economy.”

Charlotte explained that the ship has to burn more fuel because of the additional friction on the hull.

“I use a biological model to test out different iterations of the coating and also do online modeling and use one-way ANOVA (statistical analysis) to verify results,” she said. “The main goal of the coating is for it to be a more efficient way for cargo ships to travel and have them be more environmental.”

The project is seen by Charlotte as part of a lifetime of work involving STEM, which she has been taking engineering classes in since she was in fourth grade.

“I got the idea for the project last year while stream team sampling in my community, where I saw the invasive species, and also as a certified SCUBA diver I observed animals in their natural habit underwater,” she said. “All

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Charlotte Michaluk will compete the 10th annual Broadcom MASTERS national competition from Oct. 16-21. She is a a certified SCUBA diver.

of that accumulated to this idea.”

Her passion for science, engineering, ocean, sailing and environment were all an inspiration for the research project.

“I think it is so important for the environment and humans that we do research like this, to make sure we keep together the bond of the human and nature relationship for years to come,” Charlotte added. “I hope for younger scientists they get inspiration to do their own research project and hope people realize there are issues such as biofouling. I do not think people realize it is such an issue.”

Innovation in science and engineering for the environment seems to be a family passion, as Charlotte joins her older sister Sonja Michaluk, who graduated from HVCHS, in achieving in the fields of science and national competitions.

Sonja, earlier this year, was named a top 40 finalist in the 79th Regeneron Science Talent Search competition, which is the nation’s oldest science and math competition for high school seniors, according to the competition.

“My sister and I both share a passion for the environment in

science and engineering. We even built a lab together in our basement,” Charlotte said.

She wants to go the science and engineering career route as her life and education continues, whether it be human factors design or other various forms of engineering.

“My family jokes that I leave a trail of crafting materials and wood shavings, because I just love making things out of refurbished materials and wood carving,” she said. “I once made my own pair of shoes out of old bicycle inner tubes.”

Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office to oversee internal affairs for Pennington police department

By ANDREW HARRISON

Staff Writer

The Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office will temporarily take over the Pennington Police Department’s Internal Affairs Unit, after Borough Council members approved the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the prosecutor’s office.

Through a resolution on Sept.

8 in a council meeting, council members voted unanimously to approve the measure.

“This is going to cover the police department for internal affairs. Prior to becoming chief, I was the internal affairs officer,” Police Chief Doug Pinelli said.

“As the officer in charge, I can no longer do that and I am the only officer certified in the police department to handle internal affairs.”

Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo Onofri has appointed Lt. Bryan Cottrell, a sworn officer of the prosecutor’s investigative staff, to serve as the monitor overseeing Pennington’s Internal Affairs Unit, according to the resolution.

“I have the prosecutor’s office in the interim, until I can get Officer Novin Thomas and Officer Daryl Burroughs certified in internal affairs. The monitor will come at no charge,” Pinelli said.

“They have agreed to oversee

anything of an internal affairs nature that we have.”

The passage of the resolution followed the authorization of Pinellis’ employment contract, ending a months-long process that began with his appointment as police chief in the spring.

Pinelli was named police chief following the retirement of longtime Public Safety Director William Meytrott.

For three years, borough officials had been examining the best structure for the police department in planning for Meytrott’s eventual retirement, which occurred on May 1.

Meytrott served for more than 20 years as the civilian head of

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Members of the Pennington Public Safety Committee, in conversations with Meytrott and outside advisers, determined that having a police chief would provide greater flexibility and operational efficiencies.

A police chief is a sworn officer who can perform duties a civilian public safety director cannot perform. For example, Meytrott was not permitted to oversee active investigations and Pinelli, as a sergeant, had to take on that responsibility.

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Thursdays, through January

Burlington County Health Department will offer seasonal flu vaccines to county residents every Thursday starting on Sept. 24 through January at clinics throughout the county.

Adult drive-thru clinics will be held for adults and teenagers 13 years or older. Children’s clinics will be for children age 6 months to 12 years old.

Signed consent forms will be required and residents are encouraged to print out and bring the completed form with them to the clinics. The form is available online at www. co.burlington.nj.us/355/Flu-Information.

The Health Department accepts Medicare Part “B” to cover the cost for the seasonal flu vaccines. A donation of $15 for seasonal flu vaccine is recommended by those not covered

by Medicare if residents can afford it.

For more information on the flu, contact the Burlington County Health Department at 609-265-5533 or at www. co.burlington.nj.us/health.

Additional information can be accessed online at www. cdc.gov/flu or www.flu.gov.

The Burlington County Health Department’s Raphael Meadow Health Center is located at 15 Pioneer Blvd. in Westampton within the county complex.

Saturdays through November

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While the stories of Francis Hopkinson, Clara Barton and Thomas Paine are some of the most well-known from this town, this latest initiative dives into dark passageways to expose Bordentown’s disreputable natives. This 90-minute storytelling showcase features the performance talents of Bordentown locals Ann Hay, Chris Campbell, James Parker and Stacy La Mell, along with Leann Testerman, Elyse Kiedaisch and Melissa L. E. Baker. Each performer brings their own talents to embody the persona of their 19th-century avatar.

Tickets are $20. In support of local Bordentown businesses, attendees can save $5 off their ticket purchase if they show a recent receipt at the performance from a Downtown Bordentown Association-member business in town.

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Sept. 19 to Nov. 1 for Fall Family Fun Weekends.

Enjoy live music by local bands from noon to 4 p.m. Find your way out of the cornstalk maze and hay bale maze. Take a family stroll through the farm trail and sunflower trail.

Children can enjoy pony rides, rubber duck races, the hippity hop corral, the barnyard, the tractor play area and the Adventure Barn.

At the main farm during Fall Family Weekends, visit the pick-your-own pumpkin patch. Free pumpkin painting with the purchase of a 5 pound pumpkin.

The fall food tent has picnic bags ready with BBQ chicken, mac & cheese, homemade soup and chili with sides, ready to grab-n-go.

General admission is required for the winery. Light fare of cheese plates and chips and salsa bags are available. Groups and tables are limited to six guests and have a 2-hour time limit. Masks required until seated at table.

The farm store or tented outdoor market are brimming with varieties of apples, fresh vegetables and herbs grown on the farm, as well as apple cider donuts, apple cider and an array of fresh baked goods and treats.

Admission to Fall Family Fun Weekends is $10, ages 3 and up. Pumpkins, food and pony rides are not included in admission.

All entry to the farm on Cold Soil Road, Princeton, including winery and farm store, must be purchased in advance with online timed admission tickets. Visit www.terhuneorchards. com Tickets are valid for three hours after entry. Mask are required on premise for all guests 3 year and older.

For more information, call 609-924-2310; or visit www. terhuneorchards.com or Facebook.com/terhuneorchards

Howell Farm’s 24th annual corn maze offers visitors an opportunity to search for map pieces and clues to complete a number of challenges throughout the 3-acre maze.

Other activities include a courtyard with food and games, a farm stand with pumpkins and fall decorations, and hayrides to the top of nearby Belle Mountain.

General admission is $10 for ages 10 and older, $8 for children ages 5-9 and free for children 4 and under.

In September, the hours of entry are noon to 4 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. In October, entry hours are from 5-8 p.m. on Fridays, noon to 8 p.m. on Saturdays and noon to 4 p.m. on Sundays.

The maze is also open on Columbus Day, Monday, Oct. 12, from noon to 4 p.m.

On all dates, the maze closes one hour after the latest entry time.

The maze is the annual fundraiser of the all-volunteer Friends of Howell Farm. Proceeds support the farm’s historic preservation projects and its educational programs for schools.

Purchase tickets in advance at www.howellfarm.org. Tickets are available at the door, but attendance capacities are limited and a wait is possible on peak days and times.

Masks will be required in the courtyard and inside the maze when social distancing isn’t possible. All Mercer County Park Commission rules and regulations apply, as well as state requirements regarding COVID-19.

Howell Farm is owned by the County of Mercer and operated by the Mercer County Park Commission. Its corn maze is located on Valley Road one mile west of the farm, adjacent to the former Belle Mountain Ski Area (GPS address: 17 Valley Road, Hopewell Township).

The farm’s Visitor Center and historic site are located at 70 Woodens Lane, Hopewell Township.

Public hours are listed on the farm’s website at www.howellfarm.org.

For more information, call the farm office at 609-7373299 or visit www.howellfarm.org or www.mercercountyparks.org. On weekends, call 609-397-2555.

Fri., September 25

A virtual Victorian Pressed Flower Wreath Workshop will be held at noon on Sept. 25 at Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton St., Princeton.

Cost is $35, or $25 for Friends of Morven.

To register, visit www.morven.org For more information, visit www.facebook.com/morven. museum.garden; Instagram @morvenmuseum; or Twitter @ MorvenMuseum

Sat., September 26

The Hopewell Harvest Fair (HHF) will be offered virtually this fall.

Live music and many of the fair’s traditional contests will be offered through Facebook Live on the Hopewell Harvest Fair Facebook Page. Community members are encouraged to watch these performances live, though they will also be re-

corded and watched at a later date.

The current schedule is: Mike & Laura at noon, Bad Hombres at 12:50 p.m., Teddy K at 1:40 p.m., Na’ Bodock at 2:30 p.m. and Gold Rush at 3:20 p.m.

In addition, members of the Hopewell Valley community near and far will be able to submit original work via the HHF website for any of the following contests: Photography, Kids’ Art; Kids’ Lego, Find Freddy Takes Out the Trash, and Doggy Dress-Up. Submissions will be judged and winners will be announced during the festival on the HHF website and via social media. Winners will receive a digital certificate and earn bragging rights.

The HHF Board of Trustees will also run a poetry exhibition; submissions of poetry will not be judged. The poetry exhibition will also be published on the website.

For more information, visit www.hopewellharvestfair.org For the full music schedule, visit www.hopewellharvestfair.org/music-schedule

The Kidsbridge All-Star Celebration 2020 will be held on Sept. 26 at Arm & Hammer Park, 1 Thunder Road, Trenton. Rain date is Oct. 3.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. “Frozen II” starts at 7 p.m.

Tickets are $20 each, or $75 for a family of four. Proceeds benefit efforts to eradicate bullying and bias.

Pizza, popcorn and other refreshments will be available for sale.

Social distancing guidelines will be followed. Masks are required. Groups will sit 6 feet apart.

For tickets, corporate sponsorship or advertising opportunities, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kidsbridge-all-star-celebration-featuring-frozen-ii-tickets114442805512?aff=ebdssbeac For more information, contact Lynee Anarchy at lynne@ kidsbridgecenter.org or call 609-771-0377.

Through Sun., September 27

The weekly Sunday Farmers Market at Duke Farms is open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. through Sept. 27.

Social distancing and safety precautions will apply.

Only the farmers market will be open to the public. Duke Farms park and trails remain closed.

Duke Farms is located at 1112 Dukes Parkway West, Hillsborough.

For more information, visit the Duke Farms Market Facebook page or www.dukefarms.org

Through Monday, Sept. 28

The West Windsor Arts Council and the African American Parent Support Group invite the community to participate in a community art project.

Inspired by Tibetan prayer flags, participants will create a community flag installation at the West Windsor Arts Center, setting intentions for an anti-racist society and marking the art center as an anti-racist institution.

All community members are invited to participate and make squares for the flags. No art experience is necessary.

Messages of hate will not be tolerated.

Through Sept. 28, pick up flags to decorate and drop off flags when finished.

On Sept. 29 and 30 and Oct. 1, flags will be sown.

Visit westwindsorarts.org/volunteer/

Mon., September 28 to Fri., October 9

Hillsborough Parks and Recreation will accept old/gently used Halloween costumes from Sept. 28 to Oct. 9.

Donation boxes will be available in the Municipal Building, 379 S. Branch Road, near the Recreation Department; costumes can be dropped off from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays.

Oct. 15 is the special pickup day for those who donated a costume and want a new one. All others can pick up a new-toyou costume on Oct. 16.

Tues., September 29

Innovation Forum is an annual competition and networking event showcasing Princeton research with the potential to be commercialized. Each participant will present a short pitch followed by Q&A from a feedback panel. Audience members will have the opportunity to interact with the presenters through on-screen demo stations.

Since 2005, this event has showcased innovations in engineering and the natural sciences in conjunction with the Office of Technology Licensing. This year, the Keller Center and the Humanities Council at Princeton are adding a track focused on innovations in the humanities and social sciences.

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Remediation of contaminated land will fulfill a dream for Liberty State Park

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iberty State Park in Jersey City – the state’s most popular park, with more than five million annual visitors – has been called New Jersey’s Central Park.

But it has something Central Park doesn’t have: spectacular views of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, the Manhattan skyline, New York Harbor and the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge.

This state we’re in got good news recently when the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced it will move ahead with long-discussed plans to improve Liberty State Park by cleaning up contaminated land in its interior section and opening it to the public.

The restoration will expand the park’s usable acreage by 40%, with over 7 miles of new trails.

Two of the plan’s most enthusiastic supporters are Sam Pesin, son of park founder Morris Pesin and president of the Friends of Liberty State Park; and Greg Remaud, head of the New York-New Jersey Baykeeper advocacy group.

As the state prepares to introduce park restoration plans at a public meeting this fall, Sam and Greg spoke with the New Jersey Conservation Foundation about the park, its history, their hopes for its future and why New Jerseyans should support the restoration. Here are some highlights: Q: Why is Liberty State Park so important to all of New Jersey?

Sam: Liberty State Park is priceless and sacred public land – a very scarce urban open space in a densely populated area. The park has been shown, especially during the pandemic, to be essential for emotional health, physical health, mental health and spiritual health. It’s so crucial to

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the quality of life of urban people, and it certainly uplifts the spirits of all who visit.

Greg: Hudson County is among the most densely populated counties in the country and there’s not a lot of green spaces, especially large green spaces. You come to Liberty State Park and there are natural treasures, cultural treasures, historical treasures, recreational treasures. There’s something for everyone, with great iconic symbols that people from around the world enjoy.

Q: Sam, is it true the effort to create Liberty State Park began with a canoe ride taken by your father in 1958?

Sam: I was 7 years old when my parents took my sister and me to see the Statue of Liberty. We got to the statue and my father looked toward Jersey City and saw an eyesore, junk-strewn, desolate waterfront.

He got the vision of creating a beautiful park on the waterfront to honor the Statue of Liberty, provide open space for the people of our city and state, and provide access from New Jersey to the Statue of Liberty.

A year later, he went to the local newspaper to see what he could do to dramatize the idea. The editor said “Why don’t you go out in a rowboat?” He ended up going out in a canoe and it was a seven-minute canoe ride with a reporter to show the close proximity of the neglected shoreline of Jersey City to Lady Liberty.

Q: The first section of Liberty State Park opened in 1976 during the nation’s Bicentennial. What was its impact on the area?

Sam: My father always said the park would be a catalyst for economic development of the waterfront and he was right. The area is now filled with condos and towers.

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Flu Shots Especially Important This Year

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etting a flu shot has always been an important health precaution, but today, with coronavirus — more commonly known as COVID-19 — continuing to spread throughout the country and the world, it is even more critical.

Everyone six months of age and older, unless their doctor says otherwise, should get vaccinated against the flu annually.

If you have never had the flu shot before, talk to your doctor first, but don’t wait. With flu season approaching and a second COVID-19 wave expected this fall, the time to protect yourself is now.

The COVID-19 Connection It is important to remember that the flu shot will not protect you from COVID-19.

What it will do is protect you from the flu, or at least lessen its severity should you contract it. If you are 65 or older or have a chronic lung condition, a pneumonia shot is also recommended.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that between 39 million and 56 million Americans became ill with the flu last year. While the vast majority recovered, as many as 740,000 people were hospitalized and between 24,000 and 62,000 died.

This year’s flu season is complicated by the coronavirus.

Consider that if you get the flu and then are later exposed to the COVID-19 or contract them both at once, an already bad situation can become far worse. Your body is already weakened by fighting one illness and adding another serious illness on top of it can increase the risk for complications.

Recognizing Symptoms It can be challenging to distinguish the signs of the flu from coronavirus, but getting a flu shot potentially takes out some of the guesswork, making it more likely that you will recognize the symptoms of COVID-19 should you contract the virus.

Common symptoms that COVID-19 and flu share include: • Fever or feeling feverish/chills • Cough • Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing • Fatigue (tiredness) • Sore throat • Runny or stuffy nose • Muscle pain or body aches • Headache • Some people may have vomiting and diarrhea, though this is more common in children than adults Other signs and symptoms of COVID-19, different from flu, may include change in or loss of taste or smell.

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The Best Time for a Flu Shot is Now Flu season generally begins in the fall and runs into spring, peaking between December and February.

It takes about two weeks for your body to build up antibodies to protect you from the flu, so now is a good time to get the vaccine.

The most common form of the vaccine is a standarddose flu shot, which is typically administered with a needle into the muscle in your arm. Some seasons, the vaccine is available in a nasal spray as an option for children and people who cannot tolerate needles. Older adults may receive a high-dose flu shot, which contains four times the antigen — the part of the vaccine that helps your body build up protection against flu viruses. This increased dose offers older people a better immune response, and therefore, better protection against flu.

It is important to note that the flu vaccine is not an active virus, meaning you cannot get the flu from the vaccine. Side effects of the vaccine are typically mild and may include soreness or redness at the site of the shot, low-grade fever, and aches.

It is also important to note that the flu vaccine does not make you more susceptible to the coronavirus.

In addition to the vaccine, you can protect against the flu – and COVID-19 – by taking the following precautions, as advised by the CDC: • Avoid close contact with people who are sick. When you are sick, keep your distance from others to protect them from getting sick too.

• If possible, stay home from work, school, and errands when you are sick. This will help prevent spreading your illness to others.

• Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. It may prevent those around you from getting sick.

• Wash your hands often with soap and water. If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.

• Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands.

• Practice other good health habits. Clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces at home, work or school, especially when someone is ill. Get plenty of sleep, be physically active, manage your stress, drink plenty of fluids, and eat nutritious food.

The CDC also recommends these additional measures to protect against COVID-19: • Cover your mouth and nose with a mask when around others. Everyone should wear a mask in public settings and when around people who don’t live in your household.

• Stay at least six feet away from other people who do not live in your household.

• Monitor your health daily and be alert for symptoms.

Take your temperature and call your doctor if symptoms develop.

While there is not yet a vaccine for COVID-19, you can effectively protect yourself against the flu and reduce your risk for serious complications, by getting a flu shot today.

For more information or to find a physician with Penn Medicine Princeton Health, call 1-888-742-7496 or visit www.princetonhcs.org.

Sean Naini, D.O., is board certified in internal medicine and is a member of the medical staff at Penn Medicine Princeton Health.

Greg: It’s now known as New Jersey’s “Gold Coast.”

It’s some of the state’s most valuable land.

Q: The Friends of Liberty State Park and the NYNJ Baykeeper have been fighting for 25 years to get the interior of the park – once the site of railroad yards – cleaned up and opened to the public. What needs to be done?

Greg: For a whole generation, that site has been off limits to the public, about 235 acres. Our understanding of the contamination that remains in the interior is a linear pipeline that was backfilled with chromium-laced soil that will be remediated by the responsible party, and the majority of the site is what is known as “historic fill,” contamination that the DEP will remediate and cover with a soil cap.

The area would then be restored to a mosaic of habitats, including grasslands, woodlands, freshwater wetlands and a salt marsh. Unfortunately, most of the vegetation that’s there now will be lost. But the public’s safety comes first and we are supportive of the remediation.

The area is going to get so much use, we want people to feel safe going there and not have to worry about their children touching the dirt. Trails will connect the Liberty Science Center with the park’s Nature Center for the first time.

Sam: This will be an international model for turning brownfields into a really special, exciting and extraordinary natural wonderland for enjoyment, education and ecotourism – and, of course, for wildlife.

Q: Is using state Natural Resource Damage funds the best way to make sure this restoration project becomes a reality?

Greg: This is really a once in a lifetime funding opportunity. The project will cost tens of millions of dollars, which will come from the Exxon natural resource damage settlement. These are not taxpayer dollars – this is truly a “polluter pays” project. It offsets the damages to natural resources that occurred.

Q: What can the public do to learn more about and support this restoration?

Greg: The DEP will be holding a virtual public information meeting this fall and after that there will be a public comment period. The public can help out by attending the public information meeting and then writing in support of the project.

Anyone who wants more information can see the state’s press release at https://www.nj.gov/dep/newsrel/2020/20_0037.htm or read more on the website https:// nj.gov/dep/nrr/restoration/liberty-state-park.html Deep thanks and appreciation to Sam and Greg for their long-term commitment to ensuring that Liberty State Park is truly a people’s park, and for their diligence in evaluating and responding to the multitude of proposals for park property over the years. Never doubt the power of dedicated individuals to make a huge difference.

Thanks also to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection for its commitment to using Natural Resource Damage funds to fulfill the vision of this public open space gem in the midst of New Jersey’s most densely populated region.

As the pandemic has shown, open space and access to nature are critically important to public health and wellbeing. With people relying on parks more than ever for outdoor recreation and spiritual nourishment, this project will make more of Liberty State Park available for the public to enjoy.

Be sure to get out this fall and enjoy the beauty of Liberty State Park. In addition to the amazing views from the waterfront, there is the Richard Sullivan Natural Area, a 36-acre salt marsh named in honor of New Jersey’s first Department of Environmental Protection commissioner.

Michele S. Byers is the executive director of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation, Far Hills. She may be reached at info@njconservation.org

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By Huck Fairman

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Fires have been raging not only in our northwest and in California (following record heat and an extended drought), but in Argentina, Indonesia, Brazil, Siberia, the Arctic and Australia. Hurricanes have been ravaging the Gulf states (as well as other coastal nations.)

Last week, five separate storms appeared in the Atlantic and Caribbean – something that had happened only once before. Hurricane trackers are running out of names for the storms.

Political disunity and turmoil have prevented nations from coming together to take meaningful corrective steps.

Our president does not acknowledge the climate crisis and has begun the procedures to pull us out of the Paris Climate Accord. But while most nations have yet to live up to their promised emissions reductions, there is little debate among those who have studied the situations that concerted, global responses are needed for the survival of the world as we have known it. Before this administration, this nation frequently led the world in a range of corrective policies, going back to the Marshall Plan after World War II. But our current president shows little understanding or interest in formulating such ameliorative collaboration.

His narcissistic, egocentric, corrupt approach to governing has intensified our political disunity. Many of his closest former department or cabinet appointees, his

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The Jewish Center of Princeton’s Rosh Hashanah service

Cheryl Mintz, right, and Rabbi Schoenberg preparing the Zoom presentation of the Jewish Center of Princeton’s Rosh Hashanah service.

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death of the Supreme Court legend Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the first night of Rosh Hashanah.

What could possibly inspire me and break through the cloud of hopelessness that had enveloped me? A rabbi’s sermon? A prayer? A song?

For me, the mood transformation occurred when the curtain went up, actually the Zoom camera was activated, on an incredible production from a group of McCarter Theatre entertainment professionals led by Resident Stage Manager Cheryl Mintz.

With McCarter dark because of COVID-19, a talented McCarter team including Cheryl, plus Stage Manager Alison Cote, Video Producer Seth Mellman, and IT Manager Perry Jones (all Princeton residents) approached the High Holidays services at the Jewish Center of Princeton as a theatrical production.

Cheryl, who has worked at McCarter for 29 seasons, served as virtual event line producer, director, production stage manager and calling the show for five events: Rosh Hashanah First Day, Rosh Hashanah Second Day, Kol Nidre, Yom Kippur and Neila.

Working with her team, she coordinated and directed the filming of Torah services and service excerpts involving over 80 individual participants filmed in a socially distant manner and edited together to create the segments.

Zoomed-in participants from the community created the virtual moments of being together during the holidays. For this High Holy Days production, Seth Mellman served as director of photography/editor/videographer, Alison Cote was floor manager/production coordinator, and Perry Jones was the information technology manager.

“We are approaching this artistically like a production, while we meet the religious needs of The Jewish Center of Princeton’s leaders, board and committee. It’s been a fascinating experience,” Cheryl said. “With the theater industry shuttered, this project has been a most surprising pivot, stretch, and deeply fulfilling experience.”

Cheryl has been a member of The Jewish Center of Princeton for 11 years, with her involvement centering on her son’s religious-education journey. The Jewish Center Board and High Holiday Committee reached out to her in late June to see if she would work with them on creating a virtual High Holidays experience that would connect with the Jewish community in a meaningful and memorable way.

“The committee of 12, led by Judi Fleitman, brought to the table a deep history with the organization and superb religious knowledge to shape the content. I looked at them as the ‘playwrights and dramaturgs’ of the content we were presenting,” Cheryl said. She recently had the invaluable experience of producing an emotionally gratifying virtual event, when she served as the virtual line producer and director for McCarter Theatre’s celebration of Emily Mann’s 30 years as McCarter’s artistic director. “I was able to envision a way to make the goals of The Jewish Center happen and raise them up artistically using techniques similar to what I had used for the Emily Mann celebration,” she said.

The live-streamed events artfully combined professional live shots of the religious leaders of the services and live Zoomed-in participation from community members with pre-recorded segments and pre-recorded montages, and music. Cheryl coordinated and directed the filming of Torah services and service excerpts that involved over 85 individual participants filmed in a socially distant manner and then edited together the different parts to create the whole. The goal was to create the virtual moment as close to the reality of praying next to one another during the holidays.

Cheryl had no problem attracting such a talented and nationally renowned professional team because she has worked with all of them for decades at McCarter. “We have found we have an emerging cottage industry here in Princeton! We are pushing the limits of Zoom webinar in creative ways … we are not a television network,” she said.

Every Zoom participant had a one-hour “virtual rehearsal” with Cheryl and her teammate Allison to make sure the individuals would present in the best possible way from their home stages. The production team lost numerous days of filming because of a power outage in August.

“Things will happen that are unplanned, but we hope that we brought the services into our community’s homes in a way that is uniquely Princeton Jewish Center,” she said.

Contemplating the future of a virtual religious outreach events post pandemic, Cheryl acknowledged she had mixed feelings. “I am on the fence here. As a theater maker I want to see the return of audiences, gathering together to experience a live performance. The uniqueness of the experience is only happening for them in that moment of time. And I feel the same way with services. A religious organization is not a building or website, but the community when it comes together to create the moment.”

Having declared her bias in favor of in-person religious celebration, however, Cheryl acknowledged that she would like to see the streaming of weekly services lifted in presentation. “They are valuable for those who are unable to come to the synagogue, congregants who are traveling, and students who are away at university and want to stay connected to TJC, and to widen the reach of our services beyond our community.”

For me, the appreciation of this virtual religious production goes beyond the personal and communal religious experience. Just the fact that Cheryl and her colleagues managed to put the experience on stage via Zoom with such commitment was enough to give me hope that in the upcoming year, I should persevere and work towards a more joyful next act.

As Rabbi Elliot Schoenberg spoke about on Rosh Hashana, “We chose Tikva, Hope, there is always hope. Shanah Tovah. May we all be inscribed for a better year, a sweet year. A Year of Hope.”

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By Krystal Nurse Staff Writer

A drug tied to many euphemisms and pop culture references reaches New Jersey ballots this November, as voters decide the state’s future with marijuana.

Since 2018, when he was sworn in, Gov. Phil Murphy has advocated for marijuana legalization, broadly understood simply as “legalization.” Several failed bills from both the state Assembly and Senate prompted the following public question to be added to the Nov. 3 General Election ballot: “Do you approve amending the (state) Constitution to legalize a controlled form of marijuana called ‘cannabis?’ Only adults at least 21 years of age could use cannabis.”

The Cannabis Regulatory Commission, established in 2019 for medical cannabis, would oversee the market and its subsequent mandates if the voters say yes on their ballots.

“The use of cannabis would be legalized,” Attorney Steve Raymond Jr. stated. “It wouldn’t mean the next day you can go out and smoke it. The commission would be charged with implementing the rules for the sale, production and cultivation in the state.

“There is going to be some time between when the ballot passes.”

Raymond, of Raymond Coleman Heinold LLC in Moorestown, worked at the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office, and later in criminal defense, where he handled marijuana cases at the state superior and municipal court levels.

He is the public defender in Tabernacle and Woodland townships and frequently deals with marijuana-related charges. Municipal courts typically try marijuana offenders and those accused are entitled to a public defender.

Raymond said the cannabis commission would apply similar licensing protocols used for medical cultivators and distributors to recreational marijuana.

According to the attorney, if the ballot question passes, it will further restrict black-market sales. People who want to buy cannabis are to visit a licensed distributor. A new maximum is likely to be imposed on how much a person can carry on them.

“You couldn’t decide to grow in your own home; you would need a license to cultivate,” Raymond explained. “Any person could not decide to open. You would need a license to open a dispensary.”

Municipalities will have to pause development of their own marijuana ordinances and resolutions until the commission, the legislature and Murphy agree on new laws.

Opening a cannabis business will create challenges seen by other business owners in states like California and Colorado, where credit loans cannot be processed. Raymond said financial institutions are hesitant to offer loans to a business engaging in activities deemed illegal at the federal level. But the legality of marijuana at that level can be a gray area, the attorney cautioned.

Marijuana is illegal at the federal level as a Schedule One Narcotic, but the U.S. Attorney General’s Office permitted a moratorium on seeking or pressing charges. Prosecution is left up to individual states, but Raymond said that could change with a different governor.

To date, 11 states; Washington, D.C.; the Northern Mariana Islands; and Guam have legalized marijuana. An additional 16 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands have decriminalized the substance.

Murphy signed legislation on Dec. 18 of last year requiring low-level marijuana convictions to be sealed following a disposition that would prevent the charges from being used against a person.

“I think there was legislation in the (U.S.) House (of Representatives) to remove the drug from the schedule,” Raymond recalled. “I don’t know if that did pass the House or (if it) is at the (U.S.) Senate. It’s a unique issue and I don’t know of any other circumstances where something is illegal federally, and the federal government will essentially turn a blind eye to the states.”

New Jersey’s ballot public question does not cover how

legalization will affect those in jail or facing other penal consequences. Raymond suspects the legislature will create a bill shortly after voter choice on addressing offenders.

Support for legalizing marijuana has been ignited since Murphy’s inauguration, but lawmakers have issues regarding how much cannabis a person can have on them. Some lawmakers wanted a restriction, while others objected.

Lawyers and attorneys have dealt with the defense of offenders cited for possession and difficulties it can pose for both involved parties.

“It can run the gamut on what the difficulty is,” Raymond admitted. “The largest is if someone is stopped with marijuana on them; they’re essentially guilty. The only way to defend the

case is to try and argue the initial stop was improper to get it suppressed and get the evidence out of court.

“It can be costly to go through that process,” he added, “and a lot of individuals do not have the money to pursue with that.”

Different state departments and agencies will need to amend their respective regulations and mandates on marijuana if the ballot question passes.

Raymond offered no opinion on what would happen if the question doesn’t pass. The ultimate decision on marijuana will be made by voters on mail-in or provisional ballots. All votes cast must be delivered to the board of elections in a person’s respective county by Nov. 3. Visit NJ.gov/state/elections/ to learn more.

Rider announces measures to reduce tuition ‘sticker shock’ and strengthen educational value Rider University announced a series of new measures intended to strengthen the overall value of a Rider education, including a 22% reduction of annual undergraduate tuition, as well as support for career preparation and academic success.

Beginning in the fall of 2021 for all new students, Rider will reduce its base undergraduate tuition from $45,120 to $35,000.

The new initiative, called Lifting Barriers, is designed to help students break through significant obstacles they face in obtaining a college education and a successful career, including understanding the true cost of college and the ability to adapt, both socially and academically, in a college environment and beyond, according to information provided by Rider on Sept. 14.

“These new measures continue our bold action to provide an exceptional educational value for our students,” Rider President Gregory G. Dell’Omo, Ph.D, said in the statement. “Because a college education remains one of the most important investments individuals can make in their lifetimes, our goal is to help lift any barrier that prevents a student from thriving at Rider University, including those who assume a private education is out of reach based solely on the sticker price.”

Like many universities, Rider currently follows a complex pricing model that provides substantial discounts through scholarships and financial aid.

“While we’re very proud of our ongoing commitment to providing financial aid, which will not change, the current model creates a significant hurdle for students and families who believe the sticker price immediately puts a Rider education financially out of reach,” Vice President of Enrollment Management Drew Aromando said in the statement. “The new tuition rate also aims to keep more New Jersey students from leaving the state to attend public or private institutions at out-of-state tuition rates that are similar. After careful analysis, we determined that providing more immediate clarity to the actual final cost of a Rider education would serve prospective students, the institution and the state of New Jersey better.”

Along with changes to tuition, Rider is also announcing adjustments to its signature Engaged Learning Program.

The changes are designed to bolster the university’s already strong record of preparing students for successful careers, according to the statement.

Rider has set a new target that 95% of all students, beginning with the Class of 2025, will participate in enriched career preparation experiences such as internships, fieldwork and coops across all disciplines, including the arts, sciences, business and more.

Although the current Engaged Learning Program, which launched in 2017, already requires students to participate in meaningful co-curricular experiences in order to graduate, the new measures double down on those experiences most likely to lead to career success.

“More than ever, students want to know that their education will directly lead to a positive outcome upon graduation,” Kim Barberich, the executive director of Rider’s Office of Career Development and Success, said in the statement. “Launching our Engaged Learning Program confirmed that experiences like internships are directly correlated with career preparedness. Our priority is to build on this knowledge so that we are doing everything within our power to help ensure Rider students are prepared to succeed professionally immediately following graduation.”

To make this possible, Rider is investing heavily in Career Development and Success with new staff, enhanced technologies and other additional resources so students have the support they need to develop on-the-job skills, build their resumes and make valuable connections, according to the statement.

The move continues Rider’s ongoing investment in infrastructure to provide more support so students understand and take advantage of Rider’s outstanding academic, social and career resources. For example, this July, Rider launched the new Student Navigation Office, which is designed to provide students with a proactive approach to success coaching that consists of a robust support system connecting them to their academic, social, career-oriented needs and resources. This September, Rider

is scheduled to open the new space for its Center For Diversity and Inclusion, a cornerstone in promoting a safe and welcoming physical environment and campus climate that garners a sense of belonging for the University’s diverse community, according to the statement.

Under the new tuition model, Rider will continue to generously award financial aid and scholarships. Ninetynine percent of all students currently receive Rider-funded scholarships and financial aid — a percentage that is not expected to change under the new model, according to the statement. But for new students who receive the new, lower advertised tuition, the need for financial aid will also be lower. Rider will adjust these awards according to the reduced need, which means that out of pocket costs to students will remain similar.

“This strategy reduces the trajectory of Rider’s high tuition, high discount pricing model, which was ballooning to unrealistic levels, but it does not change our commitment to generously awarding financial aid and scholarships,” Aromando said in the statement.

Because the net price is remaining stable, applying the new tuition rate to current students would have no effect on their cost of attendance, which is why Rider chose not to apply the new rates to current students, according to the statement. The university will continue to honor financial awards promised to current students at the time of admission, assuming all student requirements continue to be met.

“We’re committed to full transparency in comparing how the two models would affect every individual and will work one-on-one with them until they share our confidence that they are receiving the best and most fair deal,” Aromando said in the statement.

“Taken as a whole, these changes should send a clear message that Rider stands very competitively alongside our peers, including public colleges and universities,” Dell’Omo said in the statement. “I’m extremely confident in the unique strengths Rider possesses to support students on their journey of achieving their personal and professional goals.”

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t’s September. Fall is upon us. Time Included in the premium package is: for new beginnings, right? navigation with a 10.25 inch screen; Bose So, we here at On The Road have premium sound system; power seats; heated an all new car to review for steering wheel; and a lot of adyou this week – our first 2021 vanced safety equipment. model, as well.

The overall outside look South Korean auto maker of this newly designed vehicle Kia – a fast growing brand in is a winner. This sedan has an the United States – has introaggressive and sporty sculpted duced an all new model – the stance that is capable of turn2021 Kia K5, a mid-sized rathing heads. er upscale sedan that replaces “Gorgeous, outside and in,” its former Optima model. is what the editors at Car and I recently had the pleasure Driver boasted about the new of driving this vehicle for one K5. week and came away with an I’d have to agree. overall positive impression, Powering the new K5 is a Peter Perrotta although there are some things 1.6 liter turbo charged 4 cylinI will nitpick. The K5 model der engine that is coupled with I drove for the week was the a smooth shifting 8-speed autoEX model that carries a base sticker price of matic transmission. This engine produces an impressive 180 horsepower and 195 pound $27,990.

My tester added a $3,400 premium pack- feet of torque.

The K5 drives like a more expensive age and $995 for destination and delivery, bringing the grand total sticker price to sleek European luxury car, without carrying the high price tag. It’s athletic-able to $32,365.

complete lane changes and passing maneuvers without a hitch. It has enough power to cruise nicely at the higher speeds on the interstate.

In fact, this mid-sized sedan sometimes is going a lot faster than the driver – namely me – realizes at times.

Witness the one afternoon when I was hurrying back from lunch and got pulled over for doing 53 in a 35 mph speed zone.

When I explained to the officer that I write car reviews, he let me go with just a warning.

The interior of the K5 is well appointed with a lot of upscale and ergonomically friendly buttons and switches and a fairly responsive touch screen command system.

However, I found the navigation system a bit troublesome. When you attempt to enter a destination address manually, it is very frustrating. There are very few addresses this navigation system seemed to be able to find easily.

The best way around this glitch was for me to enter the general zip code of the destination I was headed to, rather than the exact address.

Once I did that, I then was able to enter the exact address as a midway point along the route and the system was then able to find it. This is way too cumbersome and time consuming.

It probably can be corrected with a simple software upgrade.

This Kia K5 is pretty miserly when it comes to drinking gas, too. It has an EPA fuel consumption rating of 31 miles per gallon overall – 27 in city driving and 37 on the highway.

The EPA estimates that the K5 will cost about on average $1,300 a year for gas as it uses about 3.2 gallons of gas per every 100 miles driven.

This 2021 K5 is too new and hasn’t been tested for the government’s 5 star safety crash test yet.

The new K5 comes with a lot of impressive standard equipment, including: an 8 inch touchscreen with Android Auto and Apple Car play; rear view camera with dynamic guidelines; Sirius Satellite radio free for three months; leatherette seat trim; heated and ventilated front seats; and a whole lot more.

As far as comfort and roominess go, the K5 passes the test. While it’s not an overly expansive mid-sized sedan it is designed well enough to get in and out of with ease even with its low stance to the ground.

The front and rear leg room is sufficient and the rear seat is fairly roomy as well.

The first 2021 EX comes in front wheel drive only. A four wheel drive version is to be added later this year.

Moreover, later this year, Kia will offer a significantly sportier GT version of the K5 featuring a more powerful engine, a panoramic sunroof and an added all wheel drive option.

As is the case with all Kias, their standard warranty that comes with all of their models is one of the best available on the car market.

The bumper to bumper limited warranty covers five years or 60,000 miles, whichever comes first. The powertrain warranty covers 10 years or 100,000 miles.

While the mid-sized sedan market is fastly shrinking – consumers are more and more going for the crossover and SUV models – if you are in the market for a mid-sized sedan at a reasonable price, the K5 is one to consider.

Peter Perrotta’s On The Road column appears weekly. If you have questions or comments he can be contacted at peter@ capitalmotorcars.com

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r g With the graying of oAmerica, more of us are eat risk for Alzheimer’s, the cruel disease which robs us -of our loved ones not once, but twice. t We knew long before Athe doctors knew that some-thing terribly wrong was ehappening to our beloved wife and mother before neurologists diagnosed her twith Alzheimer’s, the terminal disease that takes her away from us not only once but again in the months or yyears ahead.

It all began innocently -enough eight years ago 8when she could no longer dhandle her computer and -checkbook. Slowly it proegressed to the point where -our beloved wife and mothter would come home to the wrong apartment and be lead to her own door yby a kind neighbor. The ddisease played tricks on eher. She became afraid to undress for bed before the TV, afraid that newscasters were spying on her. lShe lost our portable home ophone which we found in her lingerie drawer. Our rprized ivy plant she stuffed 5down the kitchen disposal -unit. e Ever present was her frustration when she dcouldn’t finish a sentence sor remember a word. . This accomplished ywoman whose poetry was rpublished, who sold her oil spaintings, and whose songs were broadcast – all while sraising four children and dtraveling around the world -with her journalist husband d– now could no longer reomember his name or even her own. n It was not her fault. In ryounger, healthy people, all sensations, movements, thoughts, memories and

feelings are the result of signals that pass through billions of nerve cells, or neurons in the brain. Toxic chemicals cause plaques and tangles of neurons which lose their ability to communicate. And as neurons die, the brain shrinks, starting with the part most important to learning and memory. People begin to experience that memory loss, impaired decision making and language problems. As more neurons die, the patient loses the ability to think, make decisions, remember and function independently.

While deaths from other major causes have decreased dramatically, deaths from Alzheimer’s has increased 71% since 2000, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. It is the only cause of death in the top ten in America that cannot be prevented, cured or even slowed down.

The disease has no favorites. It attacks young and old, men or women, people of any ethnicity. Every 67 seconds, someone in the United States develops the disease.

Parkinson’s more often accompanies Alzheimer’s and now this beautiful woman, who taught our four children their first steps, can no longer walk herself or even stand. And if all that wasn’t enough, she also contracted coronavirus, thanks to the rehab home which failed to properly quarantine 45 other patients with the disease.

Happily, she recovered from this within a month, but her husband, who visited her daily, has still been prohibited from entering the home for the past six months.

I grieved for Venera (Vinnie) as she struggled with test after test by a litany of neurologists and endured clinical trial medications for months to no avail as she gradually slipped away from me.

I can’t begin to express the love and empathy I had for her when she fell and broke her hip one Easter morning. That operation was not to be her last. She came home on a walker but soon abandoned it for our bed. She also began eating less of her meals until she lost 49 of her 138 pounds.

An ambulance transported her to the emergency room of a local hospital for the bad news. Not only was my dear wife losing her speech but doctors diagnosed her with a fistula.

Her colon had invaded her bladder, causing a huge infection that took days of heavy doses of antibiotics to cure.

They wanted to perform a colostomy operation. A specialist convinced us she was strong enough to endure such a procedure and so we sweated out a fourhour operation and four hours more in the recovery room. When they returned her to her bed by nightfall she was burdened with a colostomy bag and a feeding tube into her stomach.

Oh how we prayed for her. This genteel lady never complained. She was never angry with me or our children but only with herself.

I believe she was aware of her erratic behavior but was unable to say what was wrong.

We selected a living care center that would tend to Vinnie’s specific needs.

My precious wife has long since forgotten my name

but knew who I was. Sometimes she had moments of clarity and would greet me with open arms and say “I love you.” Other times she would state clearly, “I have something to tell you” but again couldn’t tell me what it was. Otherwise she spoke gibberish.

It is heartbreaking when she cries and holds onto me when I must leave for my bus. I can’t sleep in my own bed without her in it. I get up nightly to sit in her favorite chair and read her poetry or speak to her portraits. Yes, and sometimes I cry.

Perhaps the thing I miss most is sharing our memories together. When I lost my birth family, I missed sharing our memories with See YOUR TURN, Page 10A

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Homestead Princeton announced the company’s new home at 300 Witherspoon St. in Princeton, the former site of the Princeton Packet newspaper production.

Home furnishings and design destination, Homestead Princeton, announced the company’s new home at 300 Witherspoon St. in Princeton.

Homestead Princeton held its grand re-opening on Sept.

20 with giveaways, raffles and participation from local businesses.

“We’re excited to open the doors in our new location and feel it celebrates our aesthetic, our vision and the customers we serve. I am delighted to take this opportunity to announce Homestead Princeton’s new gift and design studio,” Homestead Princeton co-owner Ron Menapace said in a prepared statement.

“The move to 300 Witherspoon St. is the natural evolution for our brand,” Homestead Princeton co-owner Kristin Menapace said in the statement. “Homestead Princeton has earned a reputation for a beautiful, yet affordable, design aesthetic and superior customer service. At Homestead Princeton, we plan to build on these distinctions as we look towards our future” Homestead Princeton’s new store is located in the former Princeton Packet newspaper building. The building has

been rehabbed and reimagined to reflect Homestead Princeton’s design-forward aesthetic, according to the statement.

The Princeton Packet traces its lineage to 1786 and is New Jersey’s oldest weekly newspaper.

“Repurposing this building celebrates Homestead Princeton’s legacy of salvaging lumber from historic structures to make our signature barnwood furniture”, Kristin Menapace said in the statement. “As Princetonians, we are proud to revive this storied building and we’re elated to call in our new home”.

Since 2012, Homestead Princeton has celebrated the legacy of old barns, preserving their legacy to give the precious natural resource – barnwood – a second life. Due, in part, to their socially responsible and sustainable practices, Homestead Princeton is the only furniture store in New Jersey recognized as a “Sustainable Business” by the New Jersey Sustainable Business Initiative. Homestead Princeton is owned and operated by Princeton residents Kristin and Ron Menapace. Visit www.homesteadprinceton.com for more information.

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Your Turn Continued from Page 9A them. When I told this to Vinnie before her illness, she said “That’s alright, we’ll make new memories together.”

We did indeed over our 69 years together, but now I am alone to re-live them.

No man has loved a woman more than I love my wife, not Romeo for Juliet, not Marc Antony for Cleopatra, nobody. I recently collaborated with Elizabeth Browning to tell Vinnie how much I love her. She can no longer read so I read this to her on her last birthday: “How do I love you? Let me count the ways. I love you to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. I love you to the level of every day’s heartache when I must leave you. I love you freely, in sickness and in health, as I vowed to you when we were wed. I love you purely, from your 19th birthday to this special day, your 91st birthday.

I love you with the breadth, smiles and tears of all of my life, and if God so chooses, I shall love you even more when he calls us home.”

I don’t know when we will lose her for the second and final time so I am spending as much time with her as I can.

I don’t know what I will do when she passes. I can’t live very long without her. I can’t live without my soul. When I told this to my doctor at the Veterans Administration, she put me on suicide watch and gave me depression medication. I told her that wasn’t necessary for my religion prohibits such behavior. I also have the children I love and I’ll probably die of a broken heart anyway.

I already suffer from PTSD, thanks to the Japanese suicide planes attacking our ships in Admiral Halsey’s Third Fleet. I also suffer from asbestosis from my time on two battleships and a cruiser as a Petty Officer-Radarman in World War II. But I am resilient and almost immune to pain after seeing my shipmates die, after the mysterious death of my 42-year-old sister, and the death of my brother when he went down with the USS Arizona during the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Nearly 3,000 sailors, Marines and airmen were killed on that one day.

But that’s nothing compared to the millions of Alzheimer’s patients earmarked for death by this dreaded disease. Will the government fund enough money for researchers to finally discover some medicines and treatments that actually work?

We are in a crisis mode with this disease. We must find a cure for our parents, sons and daughters. Let us call our representatives and senators to learn what they are doing about this crisis. Let us tell our stories, shout out the urgent need for funding and focused research to provide meaningful options. And let’s not forget the caregivers suffering with their patients, providing the thankless work, sweat and tears to give their patients meaningful lives.

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Former Princeton High School teacher set to release espionage thriller Former Princeton High School English teacher S. Lee Manning is fulfilling a lifetime dream with publication of her espionage thriller “Trojan Horse” by Encircle Publications, available on Oct. 16.

“The long road to publication presented unexpected hurdles, including the death of an agent, and a previous publisher who pulled out of the mystery genre months before the book was scheduled to debut, now finally achieving the goal of publication this October,” Manning said.

The novel features Kolya Petrov, a Russian Jewish immigrant working for American intelligence, who is betrayed by his own agency in a devious plot to thwart possible terrorism by an anti-Semitic neoFascist Romanian.

“Trojan Horse” questions how far an American agency should go to fight terrorism, and also whether unspoken and unacknowledged bias can be as problematic as open and violent prejudice.

While the novel takes place in Washington D.C., New York, and Romania, Trenton residents might notice two subtle references to the area: Teo Lorenzo, one of the novel’s major characters, worked at his uncle’s pizza restaurant, although exactly which Lorenzo pizzeria is left to the reader’s imagination. And, the bad guys take off

Former Princeton High School English teacher S. Lee Manning is fulfilling a lifetime dream with publication of her espionage thriller “Trojan Horse” by Encircle Publications, available on Oct. 16.

in a private jet from an unnamed airfield, which is in fact the Trenton Airport, Manning said.

Manning moved to Hiltonia, Trenton, in 1989 with her husband and then 2-year-old daughter, Jenny. Her legal career ranged

from the New York firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore to the State of New Jersey as a deputy attorney general, to public defender at the Office of Parental representation, to solo practice.

In 2001, Manning agreed to chair New

Jerseyans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (NJADP), writing articles on the risk of wrongful execution and arguing against the death penalty on radio and television. She helped draft the legislation that was eventually adopted, abolishing the death penalty in New Jersey in 2007.

Manning took a break from law from 2005-09, when she taught English at Princeton High School.

Now retired from law, Manning and her husband Jim spend most of their time in Elmore, Vermont, where they became residents in 2014. While she spends the bulk of her time writing thrillers, Manning occasionally takes a break to perform standup. In 2019 after a course in comedy from the Vermont Comedy Club, Manning was a semi-finalist in the Vermont’s Funniest Comic contest.

Manning is currently working on her second book in the series, working title “Nerve Attack,” which is scheduled for release next summer.

The first chapter is available on Manning’s website, https://bit.ly/2Z2Ja92 and “Trojan Horse” is available for preorder from Amazon, https://amzn.to/3i004wy from Encircle Publications, https://encirclepub. com/product/trojanhorse/, or from independent book stores.

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Solutions Continued from Page 4A former personal lawyer, and even his sister have all warned that he is not up to the job, and that he is a danger to the nation and the world. And yet the Republican Senate, and “his base” support, is stumbling on, thereby threatening, by inattention or misguided policies, a world facing the climate crisis.

But our country is not alone in being divided politically. Hong Kong, Byelorussia (Belarus,) and Russia, the UK, Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil, as well as in several Southern Asian states are either reeling from or paralyzed by division – all in a time when the nations of the world need to come together to address the climate crisis.

Additionally, India and China have been fighting in the Himalayas. Taiwan,

China, North Korea and the U.S. have been jockeying for control of Western Pacific, sending military units into or over seas and land. Protestors and anti-protestors have been clashing in Kenosha and Portland.

The struggles in Yemen and Libya go on, and on, supported by Saudia Arabia, Iran, the U.S. and Russia.

And yet the greatest threat to civilization, the climate crisis, deepens and widens as efforts to deal with it are distracted by these political struggles, by ignorance, and/or outright warfare.

Evidence of the threats that the globe faces can be found no farther away than California, Oregon, Washington and along our Gulf Coast. Our West Coast’s wildfires

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ricanes, powerful or record rain events, which have been moving more slowly than their predecessors, can also flood and destroy infrastructure as they linger over locations. Sarah Kapnick of Princeton’s NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics lab warns that climate change has increased the likelihood of such slow-moving storms by 40% since 1900. Why? Because warmer temperatures permit the atmosphere to hold more water, from evaporation drawn up by that increasing warmth. Thus, today’s storms have the potential to dump huge volumes of water as they linger over the cooler land masses.

We as a nation, and the world, face a number of related and very serious climate changes. Many people recognize this, but others, and the political division fomented by differing, but in many cases, uninformed, and misguided political views, threaten nations, and indeed civilization, as it has been, in relative quiet, since the end of the Cold War. Can the term “misguided” be objectively applied to our situation? If it is used to characterize policies that overlook or reject the warnings that science provides about the climate crisis, or the virus, then yes, the term is appropriate. An alternative term might simply be blind – to the threats enveloping the world.

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have devastated numerous towns and parts of the states. One response by California has been to establish new rules making home insurance more affordable. But insurance companies have begun refusing to write new coverage for homes in fireprone areas. This hurts home values and makes homes harder to sell. While the state responded by prohibiting insurance companies from dropping customers in or near fire-prone areas, this ban lasts only to December, and cannot be renewed.

To offset the continuing exodus of insurance companies, the state will also develop standards for how homeowners and communities can reduce their wildfire risks, after which the state will direct insurance companies to cut premiums for those that comply.

But the insurance companies contend that no one can accurately calculate the reduction of risk. And so, presumably, unless another solution is found, the companies will continue their exodus. This will in turn have a ripple effect through the state and regional (if not national) economies.

Similar issues will be raised along the Gulf Coast communities facing flooding, and similarly along other coasts around the world.

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OBITUARY Virginia Van Doren Age 98, died Monday, September 21, 2020 peacefully at her home surrounded by her family.

Born in Lambertville, NJ, Mrs. Van Doren was a resident of Hopewell Borough for 73 years. She was most known for being called Ginney, Babie, or Babum.

She was retired from E.T.S. after several years of service and helped raise many children in the community with her childcare services from her home. She was a 53 year member of the New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs, and president of the local Hopewell Club. She was a lifelong member of The Calvary Baptist Church in Hopewell.

She was known for her love of Christmas and numerous Christmas trees and holiday decor that adorned her house all year long. She made custom knit and crochet baby blankets for every new member of her family and many friends across the country. Her famous baked beans were made with love and present at every holiday and family event.

Preceded in death by her husband of 51 years, George H. Van Doren of the J.C. Van Doren and Sons Lumber Yard, her first husband Donald R. Higgins, her companion Louis Stefani, her sons-inlaw Daniel C. Ciesielski, Guy E. Thompson, and Benjamin F. Good.

Virginia is survived by her children: daughters and sons in-law: Carole Ann Thompson (Byron Taylor) of New Egypt, NJ; Jeanne Lynn Ciesielski-Good, of Pennington, NJ; Kimberly Rene Howarth (Charles), of Ewing, NJ. Her Son, Edgar E Van Doren and wife Julie of Flemington, NJ : Her sister, Dorothy Franklin of Doylestown. PA, and leaves fourteen grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, nine great great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

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The Princeton Festival announced that Richard Tang Yuk, executive and artistic director and one of the organization’s founders, has decided to leave the festival.

“After 16 wonderful years with the Princeton Festival, I am excited to pass the reins to its next leaders and watch the Festival continue to thrive and move to the next level,” Tang Yuk said in a statement released on Sept. 18. “I will forever cherish the great experiences I enjoyed at the festival, which is so dear to my heart. They would not have been possible without the support and commitment of our Board of Trustees.”

Gregory Jon Geehern, the festival’s associate conductor and assistant to the artistic director, has been appointed acting artistic director. Geehern, a conductor, pianist, singer, and scholar, prepared and led many festival choruses.

“Everyone associated with the Princeton Festival is sorry to see Richard leave,” Benedikt von Schröder, chair of the Board of Trustees, said in the statement.

“He was instrumental in building the Festival into a major presence in the cultural life of our community and our region.

We hope to honor him with a special celebration in the near future.

“Part of Richard’s legacy is an outstand-

ing staff, including Gregory Geehern. We are confident that they will maintain the Festival’s high artistic standards and provide the basis for future growth,” he said.

Under Tang Yuk’s leadership, the Princeton Festival grew from two events and four performances in 2004 to 22 performances of eight events plus 20 free lectures and workshops in 2019, according to the statement.

Its offerings, acclaimed by such publications as Opera News and The New York Times, include opera, musicals, Baroque music, jazz, dance, and multi-media.

This past June, when the pandemic made live performance impossible, it launched “Virtually Yours,” a highly successful online season with 50 separate events.

The next event in the Princeton Festival’s 2020 calendar is the finals of its annual piano competition, which this year will be presented online at 6 p.m. Sept. 23.

It features performances from competition finalists from around the world. Tickets and information are available at https:// theprincetonfestival.secure.force.com/ ticket#/.

For information, visit www.princetonfestival.org or call 609-759-1979.

Calendar Continued from Page 10A Kim Carlos, founder of the Urban Mental Health Alliance, founder of Kimme Carlos Motivational Consulting, and cofounder and lead facilitator of Sister Wellness Retreats: Healing Spaces for Black Women, will speak during a workshop titled “COVID-19, Youth of Color and Suicide Risk Indicators” at 10 a.m. Sept. 30.

The Mercer County Division of Mental Health, in partnership with the state Traumatic Loss Coalition and NJ Hope and Healing, will present the 90-minute presentation addressing the impact of systemic injustices on risk factors for suicide in youth of color, and will include topics such as trauma associated with structural racism, generational poverty and disparities related to COVID-19.

The program will be presented live via WebEx. Registration is required. Visit www.mercercounty.org/Home/Components/Calendar/ Event/5892/20

East Windsor invites proposals for an art installation.

Mayor Janice S. Mironov and council members are seeking ideas for the potential creation of a visible outdoor landmark on township-owned property at the southern township intersection of routes 130 and 33.

Concept proposals should include installation of an original work of art that provides an attractive and memorable entry point into the township, which is sufficiently sized to be visible to vehicle traffic on both Route 130 and Route 33, and is durable to last at least 10 years outdoors.

Proposals should be submitted to the Township Clerk’s office by Sept. 30.

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The Friends for Abbott Marshlands announce a community call for artistic impressions for a new online showcase, entitled “The Delaware is My River!”

The Abbott Marshlands showcase committee encourages the community to first visit the river. Submissions will be accepted electronically throughout September on the Abbott Marshlands website at https://abbottmarshlands.org/ Submissions may consist of paintings, sketches, mixed media, photography, sculpture, poetry or prose of 300 words or less in keeping with the family-friendly theme.

Entry will be limited to one per person per theme.

The showcase entry form will include an optional personal statement by finishing the sentence, “When I spend time at the river, I feel …” and including their name, email and where the (photo, art or general impression) was taken.

Each contributor is encouraged to also post their work on their own social media site using the hashtags #AbbottMarshlandsImpressions #theDelawareIsMyRiver The Abbott Marshlands include more than 3,000 acres of open space in central New Jersey between Trenton and Bordentown and include the northernmost freshwater tidal marsh on the Delaware River and surrounding uplands. Marshlands ecosystems provide water purification and flood control, as well as shelter for a diverse array of plants and animals. Designated an important birding area by the New Jersey Audubon Society, over 240 species of birds have been observed in the marshlands as well as over 900 species of plants.

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A Packet Publication Legal Notices NOTICE OF MEETING HILLSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Hillsborough Township Board of Adjustment will hold its regularly scheduled October 7, 2020 meeting via virtual means only, commencing at 7:00 pm. Due to the Governorʼs Executive Orders and pursuant to P.L. 2020, c.11, the public may only participate in this meeting remotely as outlined below: Application documents will be available for inspection at https://hillsboroughnj.civicclerk.com/ at least 10 calendar days prior to the scheduled meeting date. If you are unable to access the application material online at https://hillsboroughnj.civicclerk.com/ or prefer to inspect the application file in person, please contact the Planning & Zoning Department at (908) 369-8382 or ehewitt@hillsborough-nj.org to make arrangements.

At the time of the meeting the public will be given an opportunity to participate as follows: Remote Participation through Zoom When: October 7, 2020, 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time (US and Canada) https://zoom.us/j/94315297757?pwd=b2V4YWhHSEhsTE9OYXU4a0lEY29rUT09 Passcode: LRW7ur Or iPhone one-tap : US: +13126266799,,94315297757#,,,,,,0#,,150553# or +19292056099,,94315297757#,,,,,,0#,,150553# Or Telephone: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 312 626 6799 or +1 929 205 6099 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 669 900 6833 or +1 253 215 8782 Webinar ID: 943 1529 7757 Passcode: 150553 International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/afReVJ6X AGENDA ITEMS TO DATE: APPLICATIONS: • Timko Family Associates, LP – File BA-20-01 – (TOD 10/30/20) - Block 183.05, Lot 36; Block 183.06, Lot 1; Block 198, Lot 2.01, intersection of Hamilton Road and Millstone River Road. Applicant seeking a Subdivision (Major) to create three lots with three ʻdʼ(1) use variances (2 single family and one 2-family use), and the required ʻcʼ variances for relief from minimum lot size, minimum front yard setbacks, and any other variances, waivers, and approvals for the existing 2-family parcel in the 0-5 Zone. (EC Review: 7/27/20). Carried without notice from the September 2, 2020 meeting.

• Pilgrim River, LLC – File BA-20-03 – (TOD 10/8/20) – Block 199, Lots 44.01, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50.01, Amwell Road. Applicant is seeking Preliminary and Final Major Site Plan Approval, ʻdʼ (6) height variance, and other variances and waivers required for an expansion of the existing Avalon facility along with related improvements. Property is located in the GA Zone. (EC Review: 9/28/20).

Patrick Gorman Board of Adjustment Secretary

LEGAL NOTICE

SYNOPSIS OF AUDIT REPORT FOR PUBLICATION

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: In compliance with the Municipal Land Use Law of the State of New Jersey, as amended and supplemented, notice is hereby served upon you to the effect that for properties located at 1 Byara Court, 381 Brower Lane, 385 Amwell Road, 387 Amwell Road, and 395 Amwell Road, Hillsborough, New Jersey, otherwise known on the Hillsborough Tax Map as Block 199, Lots 44.01, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49 & 50.01, the applicant, Pilgrim River, LLC operating as the “The Avalon at Hillsborough and Bridgeway Care and Rehabilitation Center at Hillsborough”, does hereby seek preliminary and final site plan approval with “Cʼ and “D” variances within the Gateway ʻAʼ District for the purpose of construction of an additional 23 units and 25 beds onto the existing Avalon Assisted Living Building and associated infrastructure. This application also proposes creating Lot 47.01 by merging lots 47, 48, & 49 (creating a 7.428 acre lot). The existing Bridgeway Care and Rehabilitation Center at Hillsborough facility use on Block 199 Lot 50.01 shall remain unchanged as a result of this application; however, this application includes minor changes to Lot 50.01 in order to connect the new rear parking area on the Avalon Assisted Living at Hillsborough facility site (Lot 49) with the existing rear parking on the Bridgeway site (Lot 50.01).

The following Variances are necessitated by this application: (1) FRONT-YARD SETBACKS: the existing Avalon at Hillsborough has a front yard setback of 159 feet which exceeds the maximum allowable front yard setback of 20 feet and will require a C bulk variance (variance previously granted in prior application) and the applicant seeks to reaffirm relief for maximum front yard setback for Lots 44.01, 45, 46, and 50.01; (2) HEIGHT VARIANCES: The height of the existing Avalon at Hillsborough is a 3 story building with a height of 42.5 feet, therefore number of stories exceeds the maximum allowable 2½ stories and 35 feet and will require a D(6) height variance for the 42.5 foot structure and a C bulk variance for the extra 1/2 story, (3) PARKING: Existing and proposed parking access isle width 25 feet vs 30 feet required and will necessitate a C bulk variance for not only existing but for new improvements proposed and for parking space length of 18 feet vs. 20 feet required, (4) PARKING LOT LANDSCAPING: Two C bulk variances are required for deviations from the parking lot landscaping under § 113.1.F(4)(a) and (d) for double sided parking lot with more than 20 cars (30 proposed), (5) MINIMUM LOT WIDTH: Lots 44.01, 46 and 50.01 are all deficient for minimum lot width as set forth on the revised site plans; and, (6) USES: There are pre-existing dwelling units on lots 46, 45, and 44.01, which are intended to remain. Single-family dwellings are not listed as a permitted use in the GA zone and the Township has indicated that this application will necessitate a variance to reaffirm the pre-existing, non-conforming uses/structures. The application proposes construction of a wet pond basin on Lots 44.01 and 45, with drainage access through Lot 46 and the Township has indicated that this will necessitate d(2) variances.

There are also waivers necessitated by this application, as follows: (1) ASD Overlay Zone standard regarding lite light 188-175 Section G for light pole spacing up to 80 feet is proposed and 60 feet maximum is permitted, (2) site light pole mounting height of 15 feet is proposed and 12 feet is permitted and LED site lights are proposed rather than metal halide lights, (3) Concrete walks shall be standard concrete color to match existing throughout site not pigmented color per 188-175I (1)(h) and crosswalks shall be stripped with white stripping in accordance with current MUTCD; and, (4) relief from section 188-175J (12 and 13) where a maximum of 10 parking spaces in a row are permitted and 15 are proposed.

The applicant is requesting a submission waiver for the Community Impact Statement per Section 188-32E as this is an existing facility. An economic hardship waiver is requested for tree mitigation.

The Township has required notice pursuant to the Municipal Land Use Law. We hereby provide said notice that we have made application to the Hillsborough Township Board of Adjustment for an approval to permit the conditions outlined above and any such other variances, waivers or other relief as determined by the Board and their professionals not mentioned herein and the application is more technically described in the site plan documents on file with the municipality. The details of the proposal are more particularly described in the Application and Plans on file with the Board and are subject to change.

HB. 1x, 9/25/2020, Fee: $53.94

LEGAL NOTICE TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: In compliance with the Municipal Land Use Law of the State of New Jersey, as amended and supplemented, notice is hereby served upon you to the effect that for properties located at 420 and 430 Amwell Road, Hillsborough, New Jersey, otherwise known on the Hillsborough Tax Map as Block 178, Lots 2 and 3.01, the applicant, C.P. East Brunswick, Inc., does hereby seek preliminary and final site plan approval with “c” bulk variances within the Town Center (TC) District for the purpose of construction of a mixed use development on Lot 2 consisting of two, two-story mixed use buildings for anticipated permitted uses of retail, business services, medical offices, personal services and restaurant(s). The property has frontage on both Amwell Road and Route 206 south and is located behind the Shell station and adjacent to the Bank of America. The development is proposed on Lot 2 and also proposed an access easement on Lot 3.01 that would permit site circulation to the signalized intersection at Amwell Road. The development also proposes a stand-alone clock tower (42ʼ high and 12ʼx12ʼ at the base) with signage covering 84 SF on the right and front elevations. The development of Lot 2 proposes 45 parking spaces and there are 31 spaces on the Bank of America lot.

The following “c” bulk variances are necessitated by this application for Lot 2 (mixed use lot): (1) minimum lot area (2 acres required and .965 acres proposed/existing), (2) minimum lot width (150ʼ required and 125.04ʼ proposed/existing), (3) noncompliance with TC design standard at 188-113.5.G.(5)(d), which requires the front facades of all building to be oriented to the street and neither the existing or proposed building are so oriented, (4) variances may be necessary under Section 188-113.5.G,(8) and (9) for design standards of the right of way, (5) signage variances include: excessive number of façade signs that exceed 10% of the façade or 20 SF (22 proposed), (6) for signs located on the clock-tower, which are above the sills for the second-story windows where none are permitted, (7) for three freestanding signs (2 at each entrance and the clock-tower), where none are permitted, (8) tree mitigation relief; whereas, 100% of the trees are proposed to be removed and 60% removal is permitted (an economic hardship waiver is requested for tree mitigation, in the event that cannot be met a variance is required for not meeting the tree replacement requirement (160 are required and 19 are proposed); and, (9) a variance is requested for noncompliance with 188-113.G.I for green technology requirements. Variances may be sought for parking spaces based upon potential uses of restaurant and medical offices, which may exceed the minimum required spaces. The following variances as determined by the Township Planner for this application for Lot 3.01 (Bank Lot) for existing non-conformities, as follows: (1) maximum front yard (5ʼ required and 149.8ʼ to Route 206 and 176.6ʼ to Amwell Road proposed/existing); and, (2) minimum building height (2 stories required, 1 story proposed/existing).

There are also waivers necessitated by this application, as follows: (1) proposed parking spaces of 18ʼxʼ20ʼ; whereas, 20ʼx20ʼ are required. The ASDO also requires that a driveway and side parking occupy no more than 30% of the lot frontage; whereas, 53% is proposed for both Route 206 and Amwell Road frontage. Section 188-68.C requires all parking lots with 10 or spaces have a 30ʼ wide buffer from adjoining property lines; whereas, the proposed parking area is 3ʼ from northern property line and 0ʼ from southern property line. The applicant also seeks waivers for 188-175.I.(1)(h) for concrete sidewalk colors and 188-175.I.(1)(k) for crosswalk textures. Waivers may be requested for Architectural and Site Design Overlay Zone standards as outlines in the review memo. The applicant is requesting a submission waiver for the Community Impact Statement per Section 188-32E. The Township has required notice pursuant to the Municipal Land Use Law. We hereby provide said notice that we have made application to the Hillsborough Township Board of Adjustment for an approval to permit the conditions outlined above and any such other variances, waivers or other relief as determined by the Board and their professionals not mentioned herein and the application is more technically described in the site plan documents on file with the municipality. The details of the proposal are more particularly described in the Application and Plans on file with the Board and are subject to change.

Due to the Governorʼs Executive Orders and pursuant to P.L. 2020,c.11, the public may only participate in this meeting remotely as outlined below.

The application documents will be available for inspection at https://hillsboroughnj.civicclerk.com/ at least 10 calendar days before the scheduled meeting date.

At the time of the meeting the public will be given an opportunity to participate as follows: Remote Participation through Zoom When: Thursday, October 08, 2020 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time (US and Canada) Please click or enter the link below to join the meeting: https://zoom.us/j/92127732720?pwd=U2MzOXZVaUhTalJPb0Yya09zTjRSdz09 Passcode: 19xNph Or iPhone one-tap: US: +13017158592,,92127732720#,,,,,,0#,,257574# OR +13126266799,,92127732720#,,,,,,0#,,257574## Or Telephone: Dial (for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 301 715 8592 OR +1 312 626 6799 OR +1 929 205 6099 OR +1 253 215 8782 OR +1 346 248 7799 OR +1 669 900 6833 Webinar ID: 921 2773 2720 Passcode: 257574 To help ensure everyone has an opportunity to participate, members of the public are encouraged to notify the Hillsborough Township Planning and Zoning Department no later than noon on the date of the meeting if they intend to ask questions or conduct any crossexamination, by contacting the Planning Board Clerk at dpadgett@hillsborough-nj.org.

If you are unable to access the application material online at https://hillsboroughnj.civicclerk.com/ or prefer to inspect the application file in person, please contact the Planning and Zoning Department at (908) 369-8382 or dpadgett@hillsborough-nj.org to make arrangements Any person or persons affected by said project will have an opportunity to be heard at the Public Hearing on the application to be held on Wednesday, October 8, 2020, at 7:30 p.m.

Michael P. OʼGrodnick, Esq., Attorney for Applicant Savo, Schalk, Gillespie, OʼGrodnick & Fisher, P.A. 56 East Main St., Suite 301 Somerville, NJ 08876 908.526.0707 HB, 1x, 9/25/2020 Fee: $104.16 Affidavit: $15.00

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING HILLSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP PLANNING BOARD PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Hillsborough Township Planning Board will hold its regularly scheduled October 08, 2020 meeting via virtual means only, commencing at 7:30 p.m. Due to the Governorʼs Executive Orders and pursuant to P.L. 2020,c.11, the public may only participate in this meeting remotely as outlined below.

Application documents will be available for inspection at https://hillsboroughnj.civicclerk.com/ at least 10 calendar days prior to the scheduled meeting date. If you are unable to access the application material online or prefer to inspect the application file in person, please contact the Planning & Zoning Department at (908) 369-8382 or dpadgett@hillsborough-nj.org to make arrangements.

Any person or persons affected by said project will have an opportunity to be heard at the Public Hearing on the application to be held on Wednesday, October 7, 2020, at 7:00 p.m.

Due to the Governorʼs Executive Orders and pursuant to P.L. 2020,c.11, the public may only participate in this meeting remotely as outlined below.

The application documents will be available for inspection at https://hillsboroughnj.civicclerk.com/ at least 10 calendar days before the scheduled meeting date.

At the time of the meeting the public will be given an opportunity to participate as follows: Remote Participation through Zoom When: October 7, 2020 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time (US and Canada) To join the Board of Adjustment meeting, please click the link below: Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://zoom.us/j/94315297757?pwd=b2V4YWhHSEhsTE9OYXU4a0lEY29rUT09 Passcode: LRW7ur Or iPhone one-tap : US: +13126266799,,94315297757#,,,,,,0#,,150553# or +19292056099,,94315297757#,,,,,,0#,,150553# Or Telephone: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 312 626 6799 or +1 929 205 6099 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 669 900 6833 or +1 253 215 8782 Webinar ID: 943 1529 7757 Passcode: 150553 International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/afReVJ6X To help ensure everyone has an opportunity to participate, members of the public are encouraged to notify the Hillsborough Township Planning & Zoning Department no later than noon on the date of the meeting if they intend to ask questions or conduct any cross-examination by contacting the Planning & Zoning Clerk at ehewitt@hillsborough-nj.org.

If you are unable to access the application material online at https://hillsboroughnj.civicclerk.com/ please contact the Planning & Zoning Department at (908) 369-8382 or ehewitt@hillsborough-nj.org to make arrangements to review the documents.

Michael P. OʼGrodnick, Esq., Attorney for Applicant Savo, Schalk, Gillespie, OʼGrodnick & Fisher, P.A. 56 East Main St., Suite 301 Somerville, NJ 08876 908.526.0707 HB, 1x, 9/25/2020 Fee: $102.30 Affidavit: $15.00 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a Public Hearing will be held at 7:00 p.m. on October 7, 2020, at a Regular Meeting of the Board of Adjustment of the Township of Hillsborough.

Due to the Governorʼs Executive Orders and pursuant to P.L. 2020, c.11, the hearing will be held remotely and conducted virtually via Zoom webinar.

The subject of the hearing will be the application of Timko Family Associates, LP, in File #BA-20-01, for subdivision approval to create 3 lots. In 1997, the County of Somerset undertook the “Amwell Road Realignment Project” and acquired portions of the subject property in order to construct the realigned Amwell Road including Millstone River Road and Hamilton Road. However, no application to formalize the subdivision was presented to Hillsborough Township; the purpose of this subdivision is to formally subdivide the 3 lots.

Since 1997, Hillsborough Township has taxed the property as 3 separate tax lots that currently exist. No construction or improvements are proposed with this application. Applicant also seeks D1 use variances for Block 183.05, Lot 35 (consisting of 11.711 acres) and Block 198, Lot 2.01 (consisting of 19.799 acres) to permit those lots to be used as single family dwelling lots. These lots are currently being farmed with no structures located on these lots. The third lot, Block 183.06, Lot 1, is improved with a 2-family dwelling which was built on the property in 1964-1965 when the property was in the R-1 zone and part of a 40.39 acre lot formerly known as Block 198, Lot 2A. The property is currently zoned O-5.

At the time, the 2-family dwelling was constructed, the zoning permitted 2-family uses. The creation of this tax lot in 1997 reduced the lot size. For this lot, applicant also seeks either a D2 use variance for expansion of a nonconforming use or, in the alternative, a D1 use variance to permit the continued use of this lot as a legal 2-family dwelling lot. Applicant is also seeking variances for the existing nonconforming conditions of the pre-existing 2-family dwelling located on Block 183.06, Lot 1 for (a) minimum lot area (5 Ac required; 4.208 Ac existing & proposed) and (b) minimum front yard (125 ft required; 94.4 ft existing & proposed).The property affected is known as Block 183.05, Lot 35; Block 183.06, Lot 1 and Block 198, Lot 2.01, located at Hamilton Road, 1324 Millstone River Road & Millstone River Road, Hillsborough, NJ. Applicant also intends to request at the hearing that the application be deemed amended to include, and the Board grant, any additional approvals, interpretations, variances, waivers from design standards and/or submission requirements, or exceptions from the Hillsborough Township Land Development Ordinance determined to be necessary or which may develop during the review, processing and hearing of this application as are required to develop the premises in the manner indicated in the application materials.

A copy of the application, plans and all supporting documents are on file in the Board of Adjustment Office at the Hillsborough Township Municipal Building, 379 South Branch Road, Hillsborough, NJ, and are available for public inspection during usual business hours Monday through Friday between 8:30 am and 4:30 pm.

In addition to the above, a copy of the application, plans and all supporting documents are available on line at https://hillsboroughnj.civicclerk.com/ at least 10 calendar days prior to the scheduled hearing date for public inspection.

Due to the Governorʼs Executive Orders and pursuant to P.L. 20, c.11, the public may only participate in this meeting remotely as outlined below. At the time of the meeting, the public will be given an opportunity to participate as follows: Remote Participation through Zoom When – October 7, 2020, 7:00 pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) To join the Board of Adjustment meeting, please click the link below to join the webinar: https://zoom.us/j/94315297757?pwd=b2V4YWhHSEhsTE9OYXU4a0lEY29rUT09 Passcode: LRW7ur Or iPhone one-tap : US: +13126266799,,94315297757#,,,,,,0#,,150553# or +19292056099,,94315297757#,,,,,,0#,,150553# Or Telephone: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 312 626 6799 or +1 929 205 6099 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 669 900 6833 or +1 253 215 8782 Webinar ID: 943 1529 7757 Passcode: 150553 International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/afReVJ6X To help ensure everyone has an opportunity to participate, members of the public are encouraged to notify the Hillsborough Township Planning & Zoning Department no later than noon on the date of the meeting if they intend to ask questions or conduct any cross-examination by contacting the Planning & Zoning Clerk at ehewitt@hillsborough-nj.org.

If you are unable to access the application material on line at https://hillsboroughnj.civicclerk.com/, please contact the Planning & Zoning Department at (908) 369-8382 or ehewitt@hillsborough-nj.org to make arrangements to review the documents.

FRANCIS P. LINNUS Attorney for Applicant

Please click or enter the link below to join the meeting: https://zoom.us/j/92127732720?pwd=U2MzOXZVaUhTalJPb0Yya09zTjRSdz09 Passcode: 19xNph Or iPhone one-tap: US: +13017158592,,92127732720#,,,,,,0#,,257574# OR +13126266799,,92127732720#,,,,,,0#,,257574## Or Telephone: Dial (for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 301 715 8592 OR +1 312 626 6799 OR +1 929 205 6099 OR +1 253 215 8782 OR +1 346 248 7799 OR +1 669 900 6833 Webinar ID: 921 2773 2720 Passcode: 257574 Agenda to Date: APPLICATIONS: • CP East Brunswick, Inc. (Cyzner) – File 20-PB-05-MSPV - Block 178, Lots 2 and 3.01 (formerly Lot 3.A) – 420 and 430 Amwell Road. Applicant seeking preliminary and final major site plan approval; ʻcʼ bulk variances; and waivers, to construct two 2-story mixed-use buildings, a clock tower, parking, and site improvements, with an access driveways connecting to Lot 3.01, on Property in the TC Zone and ASD Overlay District.

Formal action may be taken. The public is invited to participate remotely as outlined above.

Debora Padgett Planning Board Clerk

FRANCIS P. LINNUS Attorney for Applicant

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the below titled ordinance was adopted on second reading by the Board of Health of Hillsborough Township, Somerset County at the meeting held on September 14, 2020: BOARD OF HEALTH TOWNSHIP OF HILLSBOROUGH ORDINANCE NO. 2020-15 ISOLATION AND QUARANTINE HB. 1x, 9/25/2020, Fee: $12.09

December 31, 2019

2018

ASSETS Cash and Investments Taxes, Liens and Utility Charges Receivable Accounts Receivable Fixed Assets Fixed Capital - Utility Fixed Capital Authorized and Uncompleted Utility Deferred Charges to Future Taxation General Capital Deferred Charges to Future Taxation Succeeding Years Deferred Charges to Future Taxation Emergency Authorizations Total Assets LIABILITIES, RESERVES AND FUND BALANCE Bonds and Notes Payable Improvement Authorizations Other Liabilities and Special Funds Investment in General Fixed Assets Amortization of Debt from Fixed Capital Acquired or Authorized Reserve for Certain Assets Receivable Fund Balance Total Liabilities, Reserves and Fund Balance

$

31,818,737.43 $ 4,781,569.89 17,298.19 66,348,580.00 3,661,875.72

29,907,640.57 1,110,283.50 2,784,431.15 64,399,856.00 3,611,967.22

1,206,688.09

1,026,688.09

59,016,512.70

59,396,436.16 1,065.32

120,000.00 $ 166,851,262.02 $ 162,358,368.01 $

60,175,882.70 $ 7,731,972.03 16,812,015.14 66,348,580.00

60,698,055.74 4,693,112.77 16,712.947.69 64,399,856.00

3,419,193.81 3,337,035.31 1,261,300.73 1,134,677.44 11,102,317.61 11,382,683.06 $ 166,851,262.02 $ 162,358,368.01

There were bonds and notes authorized but not issued of $290,000.00 at December 31, 2019 and $0.00 at December 31, 2018.

Comparative Statement of Operations and Changes in Fund Balance - Current Fund 2019 REVENUE AND OTHER INCOME REALIZED Fund Balance Utilized Miscellaneous - From Other Than Local Purpose Tax Levies Collection of Delinquent Taxes Collection of Current Tax Levy Other Revenues Total Revenue EXPENDITURES Budget Expenditures - Municipal Purposes County Taxes Regional School Taxes Fire District Tax Municipal Open Space Tax Other Expenditures Total Expenditures Excess (Deficit) in Revenue Adjustments to Income before Surplus: Expenditures included above which are by Statute Deferred Charges to Budget of Succeeding Year Statutory Excess to Surplus Fund Balance January 1 Total Less Utilization as Anticipated Revenue Fund Balance December 31

2018

$ 1,360,000.00 $ 1,900,000.00 5,247,924.30 821,556.79 114,461,077.74 934,754.43 122,825,310.26

5,542,776.47 667,127.04 112,786,407.96 907,947.99 121,804,259.46

22,032,283.34 28,452,549.13 66,199,927.00 3,865,089.00 1,190,719.65 13,734.25 121,754,302.37 1,071,007.89

22,274,968.94 29,238,212.66 64,304,828.00 3,633,352.00 1,193,843.52 1,621.24 120,646,826.36 1,157,433.10

120,000.00 1,071,007.89 1,277,433.10 10,163,523.01 10,786,089.91 11,234,530.90 12,063,523.01 1,360,000.00 1,900,000.00 $ 9,874,530.90 $ 10,163,523.01

Comparative Statement of Operations and Changes in Fund Balance - Water Utility Operating Fund REVENUE AND OTHER INCOME REALIZED Fund Balance Utilized $ Collection of Water Rents Miscellaneous from Other than Rents Total Income EXPENDITURES Budget Expenditures Operating Deferred Charges and Statutory Expenditures Capital Improvements Debt Service Total Expenditures Excess in Revenue Adjustments to Income before Surplus: Expenditures included above which are by Statute Deferred Charges to Budget of Succeeding Year Statutor Excess to Surplus Fund Balance January 1 Total Less Utilization as Anticipated Revenue Fund Balance December 31 $

2019

2018

- $ 75,389.86 23,356.43 98,746.29

7,085.07 67,535.85 17,702.38 92,323.30

47,345.00 1,000.00 13,331.01 6,322.50 67,998.51 30,747.78

50,150.00 13,110.00 1,896.25 16,535.11 81,691.36 10,631.94

30,747.78 160,995.41 191,743.19 191,743.19 $

10,631.94 157,448.54 168,080.48 7,085.07 160,995.41

Comparative Statement of Operations and Changes in Fund Balance - ESLA Sewer Utility Operating Fund 2019 2018 REVENUE AND OTHER INCOME REALIZED Fund Balance Utilized $ 132,308.90 $ 130,828.05 Collection of Sewer Rents 926,146.85 866,841.80 Miscellaneous from Other than Rents 75,584.20 94,464.54 Total Income 1,134,039.95 1,092,134.39 EXPENDITURES Budget Expenditures Operating 957,907.60 919,027.60 Deferred Charges and Statutory Expenditures 1,850.00 1,650.00 Debt Service 45,905.39 48,936.44 Total Expenditures 1,005,662.99 969,614.04 Excess (Deficit) in Revenue 128,376.96 122,520.35 Adjustments to Income before Surplus: Expenditures included above which are by Statute Deferred Charges to Budget of Succeeding Year Statutor Excess to Surplus 128,376.96 122,520.35 Fund Balance January 1 697,710.10 706,017.80 Total 826,087.06 828,538.15 Less Utilization as Anticipated Revenue 132,308.90 130,828.05 Fund Balance December 31 $ 693,778.16 $ 697,710.10 Comparative Statement of Operations and Changes in Fund Balance - SBRSA Sewer Utility Operating Fund REVENUE AND OTHER INCOME REALIZED Fund Balance Utilized $ Collection of Sewer Rents Miscellaneous from Other than Rents Total Income EXPENDITURES Budget Expenditures Operating Deferred Charges and Statutory Expenditures Debt Service Total Expenditures Excess (Deficit) in Revenue Adjustments to Income before Surplus: Expenditures included above which are by Statute Deferred Charges to Budget of Succeeding Year Statutor Excess to Surplus Fund Balance January 1 Total Less Utilization as Anticipated Revenue Fund Balance December 31 $

2019

2018

26,096.14 $ 328,513.09 18,221.66 372,830.89

36,954.20 335,091.48 62,882.86 434,928.54

291,248.84 2,245.32 71,429.77 364,923.93 7,906,96

270,947.00 700.00 76,508.72 348,155.72 86,772.82

7,906.96 360,454.54 368,361.50 26,096.14 342,265.36 $

1,065.32 87,838.14 309,570.60 397,408.74 36,954.20 360,454.54

RECOMMENDATIONS None.

Status of Prior Year’s Audit Findings and Recommendations Corrective action was taken on the prior year recommendation.

The above synopsis was prepared from the Report of Audit of the Township of Hopewell, County of Mercer, for the year ended December 31, 2019. The Report of Audit, submitted by Robert P. Inverso, Registered Municipal Accountant, acting for Inverso & Stewart, LLC is on file with the Municipal Clerk and may be inspected by any interested person.

Laurie E. Gompf Municipal Clerk HVN, 1x, 9/25/2020, Fee: $182.28

HB, 1x, 9/25/20 Fee: $79.05 Affidavit: $15.00 NOTICE OF DECISION HILLSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT The Hillsborough Township Board of Adjustment held a public meeting on Wednesday September 16, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. via virtual Zoom, at which time the following Resolutions were memorialized: Bilkoo Construction, Inc. – File BA-19-21 – Applicant Granted preliminary and final major site plan approval; ʻdʼ use variance; and ʻcʼ bulk variances, to demolish the existing gas station and convenience store, to construct a new 2,963 square foot convenience store and gasoline station, on Property known as Block 180.01, Lot 1 on the Hillsborough Township Tax Maps, located at 866 Route 206, in the C-1, Neighborhood Shopping Center Zoning District, with conditions.

The above-referenced Resolution has been filed in the Planning and Zoning Department of the Hillsborough Township Municipal Complex, The Peter J. Biondi Building, 379 South Branch Road, Hillsborough, NJ, and are available for public inspection during the regular business hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Patrick Gorman Board of Adjustment Secretary HB. 1x, 9/25/2020, Fee: $23.25 BOROUGH OF JAMESBURG NOTICE OF PENDING ORDINANCES

HB. 1x, 9/25/2020, Fee: $52.08

COMBINED COMPARATIVE BALANCE SHEET

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At the time of the meeting the public will be given an opportunity to participate as follows: Remote Participation through Zoom When: Thursday, October 08, 2020 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Synopsis of 2019 Audit Report of Township of Hopewell, Mercer County, as required by NJS 40A:5-7.

The ordinances published by title herewith were introduced and passed upon first reading at a meeting of the Governing Body of the Borough of Jamesburg, County of Middlesex, State of New Jersey, held on September 16, 2020. This will be further considered for final passage, after public hearing thereon, at a meeting of the Governing Body to be held in the Borough Hall, 131 Perrineville Road, Jamesburg, on October 21, 2020 at 7:00PM, and during the week prior to and up to and including the date of such meeting, copies of said ordinances will be made available at the Municipal Clerkʼs office, in the Borough Hall, to the members of the general public who shall request same.

ORDINANCE #11-20 AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOROUGH OF JAMESBURG AMENDING AND SUPPLEMENTING CHAPTER XII, ENTITLED “FIRE PREVENTION,” OF THE “CODE OF THE BOROUGH OF JAMESBURG,” IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH A NEW SECTION THEREOF, TO BE KNOWN AS SECTION 12-5, ENTTILED “BURNING, OUTDOOR” CP/WHH, 1x, 9/25/2020 Fee: $21.39

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Individuals: Kimberly Storcella has been recognized for Listings. Storcella, Relocation certified, has been licensed since 2007. She is a recipient of the Five Star Agent Award and is a longtime resident of Hopewell.

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