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he New Jersey Economic Development Authority (EDA) announced that the City of Trenton will be one of the recipients of its Innovation Challenge grant initiative.

The Trenton Production and Knowledge Innovation Campus (TPKIC) will be created in the city’s creative, education, and transit districts. Anchored by a build-out of Mercer County Community College’s James Kerney Campus, the TPKIC will be a multi-university collaborative hub and research and commercialization nexus near Trenton Transit Center led by a consortium of all five institutions of higher education in Mercer County: Mercer County Community College, Princeton University, Rider University, the College of New Jersey, and Thomas Edison State University.

Other partners include Greater Trenton and New Jersey Future.

The vision behind TPKIC is to build a collaborative research-driven incubator and maker’s campus for existing and start-up innovation economy business- Pharmacists Tatyana Orlova and Elina Elkind of Mill HIll Pharmacy. es, local creators, students, and faculty at partner colleges and universities, and ber of local small businesses; providing he NJEDA also unveiled a package Trenton Public Schools students and re- better access to STEM jobs and ladders of economic incentives to help three cent graduates. of opportunity; attracting top talent and local Trenton businesses.

The NJEDA Innovation Challenge employers increase commercial activLocally owned Mill Hill Pharmacy; a initiative is designed to drive inclusive ity in under-developed metro areas; and Dunkin Donuts; and the owner of 302 economic growth and increase opportu- building an entrepreneurial culture.

East State Street, which houses East nities to build wealth, such as: improvThe NJEDA awarded $100,000 each State Deli and Deals, Deals, Deals, will ing supportive infrastructure, such as to nine communities to advance plans to each receive aid from either the EDA’s broadband capacity, walkability, or ac- strengthen local innovative ecosystems Business Lease Incentive or Business cess to public transit; growing the num- through a pilot Innovative Challenge.

Improvement Incentive programs.

Both programs are offered only to businesses trying to grow in EDA-designated Garden State Growth Zones, which lie in Atlantic City, Camden, Trenton, Passaic, and Paterson.

The BLI program reimburses 15 percent of annual lease payments for two years to for-profit businesses and nonPhone: (609) 396-1511 Fax: (609) 844-0180 Website: communitynews.org profit organizations that plan to lease beMETRO Editor Co-Publishers tween 500 and 5,000 square feet of space Dan Aubrey Jamie Griswold and Tom Valeri for at least five years.

The BII program subsidizes up to 50 Senior Assistant Editor Editorial Director percent of total project costs for facility Sara Hastings Richard K. Rein improvements, with a $20,000 cap, for Calendar Editor Administrative COORDINATOR first-floor located small businesses in Samantha Sciarrotta Megan Durelli target commercial corridors. © 2018 by Community News Service, LLC. Photographers Mill Hill Pharmacy will receive up to All rights reserved.

Suzette J. Lucas $2,993 in rent subsidization per year for Letters to the Editor: two years. According to owners Elina CONTRIBUTING WRITERS dan@princetoninfo.com Elkind and Tatyana Orlova, the BLI aid Diccon Hyatt, Simon Saltzman will enable them to create 18 new full The Trenton Downtowner welcomes letters Production Manager to the editor of reasonable length and tone. and part-time jobs.

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Grant will help expand behavioral health services

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atholic Charities, Diocese of Trenton (CCDoT) is the recipient of a Federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration two-year grant to expand its Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) program in underserved areas of Mercer and Burlington counties.

The expansion grant, in the amount of $2 million each year, will enable the agency to expand access and provide more comprehensive, family-focused, outpatient mental health services for adults and children and rapid access to the full continuum of adolescent and adult addiction treatment in eastern Mercer County and provide access to critical services in Burlington County, especially for military veterans.

CCBHCs are a new provider type in Medicaid. Components of care include 24-hour crisis care, evidence-based practices, care coordination, and integration with physical health care.

CCDoT now serves nearly 600 people in several CCBHC programs targeting four populations: people with serious mental illness, struggling with substance abuse, veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, and children with serious emotional disturbance.

CCDoT’s CCBHC program focuses on mental health and substance abuse services, housing, crisis services, domestic violence services; supported employment and supported work programs, and El Centro, the CCDoT’s BIAaccredited immigration services and community resources for those whose primary language is Spanish.

Individuals looking for help or additional information, 800-360-7711.

Trenton’s YMCA rebrands

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he Trenton YMCA is now the Capital Area YMCA. Established in 1856, the Capital Area YMCA has a long history of promoting youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility in Trenton, but it has also served residents of neighboring communities like Ewing and Lawrence.

Last year’s addition of Camp YMCA at Rider University to the organization’s list of services further reinforced the need for a more accurate brand.

“The doors of the YMCA have been open to the entire community regardless of their address since our inception,” said CEO Sam Frisby. “The name ‘Capital Area YMCA’ better reflects the true diversity of our membership and scope of our service area.”

In addition to the new name, the organization is showing changes in signage and print publications and will use a new web address: www.capitalymca.org.

“I am very proud of where our organization has been in the last 160 years and where we are headed in the future,” Frisby said. “I welcome our neighbors in Ewing, Lawrence, and Trenton to find out more about how we are building a strong community here at the YMCA.” For more information, visit capitalymca.org.

A good start toward a multiyear budget strategy for New Jersey

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ditor’s Note: Although Gov. Phil Murphy recently announced a deal with state union leaders that will affect roughly 800,000 public employees and save the taxpayers nearly $500 million dollars in savings in fiscal year 2019, the state’s underfunded public pension system remains a serious threat to the state’s economic health.

In fact on the same day the deal was announced, the independent think tank Truth in Accounting cited New Jersey as having the worst taxpayer debt in the union. With political leaders and fiscal policy experts considering the next move, the following considerations help put some light on the current economic time bomb.

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here are no quick fixes for the state’s ongoing budget crisis, but the best place to begin is with the chronically underfunded pension system.

During the past seven months the Economic Policy Committee established

by Senate President Steve Sweeney (DGloucester) — with participation from Republican and Democratic leadership and a volunteer group of 35 policy and fiscal experts — considered the mounting fiscal gaps in the state budget. I was the chair of a group of six people who analyzed pension and health-benefit costs and explored actions that could be undertaken to reduce these costs.

The overall committee did not analyze the state’s tax structure or future tax policy but did develop 40 recommendations that focused specifically on reducing the cost of government and addressing the

The biggest burdens facing state spending are increasing pension and health-benefit commitments, as well as the continued rise in school aid based on the existing formula. state’s long-term fiscal problems. But first some background.

New Jersey passed a budget (appropriations act) for fiscal year 2019. It is balanced; it contains reasonable but cautionary revenue estimates; it funds basic needs; it provides an increase in funding for the severely underfunded pension system and for school aid; and it contains a minimum surplus. That is the good news.

However, the future is still bleak. New Jersey has the lowest credit rating of any state, except one — and we have the worst-funded pension system in the nation.

State of the STATE Based on reasonable projections of future revenue growth and future spending, the gap in the state budget will reach between $3.2 billion and $4 billion in the next few years — principally driven by increasing pension and health costs.

These numbers assume no economic slowdown, and they take as a given the continued use of revenues that were originally intended for other purposes (affordable housing, turnpike receipts, telephone assessments, and others). If the economy stumbles the situation is worse.

At the local level, the story is not much different. Most people agree property taxes are too high. They also assume that no matter what is done those taxes will increase each year, as they have for each of the past 40 years. Many argue we simply have too many local governments and school districts and most do not share services.

Anyone considering this situation would say: We need a plan to address this problem. Some argue, “economic growth will cover the shortfall.” Others say, “cut the bureaucracy.” Still others insist, “reduce taxes and don’t worry about the impact on programs.”

Each of those recommendations is a poor and incomplete prescription.

The biggest burdens facing state spending are increasing pension and health-benefit commitments, as well as the continued rise in school aid based on the existing formula. School funding is by far the single largest item in the budget (41 percent of all spending).

Pension and health benefits are the fastest-growing items in the budget — projected to increase by 56 percent in the next four years, from $7.7 billion to $12 billion. The latter two costs are now 19 percent of all spending and will increase to 26 percent of the budget. Consider how these rising costs will crowd out other demands, such as transportation, public safety, Medicaid, infrastructure, and the wide range of other critical state programs.

It is not possible to continue in this way. Reasonable people will disagree with the finer points of a desirable conclusion, but certain actions are obvious and need to be taken immediately.

The committee’s report addressed the need for K-12 consolidations, expansion of shared services among local governments, reduction of excessive payments for the accumulation of sick and vacation time, rethinking of property-tax assessment practices, and investigating other policy changes.

In my judgment, however, the three key recommendations are: • Shift all new employees of state and local government (municipal, county, and school districts), along with those employees not yet vested, from the current defined-benefit system to a so-called cash balance system (similar to a 401(k) but better for the employee). Such actions would be a major step toward addressing the long-term unfunded lia-

bility of these systems and also reduce local property taxes.

• Shift all state and local government employees and retirees from the platinum-level health coverage (the highest) to gold coverage (second highest), with other, smaller health-coverage adjustments.

• Examine the state’s assets to determine those best suited for dedication to the pension funds. The state has approximately $30 billion in assets (infrastructure, land, buildings, and so forth) — not counting assets of the various state authorities, such as the New Jersey Water Supply Authority, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, the South Jersey Port Corp. Perhaps those best suited for consideration are those assets that earn revenue.

Richard F. Keevey.

The foregoing actions will significantly bend the curve of future state able or doable. This is certainly a hard and local costs: that is critical and must message to deliver. Do I mean to say: We be undertaken. Additional analysis is make these difficult decisions and cost needed to determine the exact savings; reductions, but we still have a large budhowever, these recommendations alone get gap? A realistic analysis suggests it will not close the entire budget gap. The is true. More hard choices are needed by state leadership.

New Jersey’s budget problems did not develop overnight, but action is needed now. The state needs a new budget strategy for today and the future. Delay is not an option. Let’s start with the key reforms I’ve just outlined and determine what other revenues or fixes are needed.

New Jersey’s budget problems did not develop overnight, but action is needed now.

Delay is not an option.

first two points essentially “stop digging the hole deeper.” The third may possibly start filling that hole.

Unfortunately, additional revenues will be needed or sizable budget cuts will have to be made to important state programs. I neither subscribe to the latter approach, nor do I believe it reason-

Richard F. Keevey is the former budget director and comptroller for New Jersey appointed by two governors from each political party. He held two presidential appointments as CFO at HUD and deputy undersecretary for finance at DOD. He is currently an executive in residence at the Bloustein School of Planning and Policy, Rutgers University and lecturer at Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.

This originally appeared in New Jersey Spotlight.

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Former Trenton planner Allan Mallach documents ‘The Divided City’

ChWITH INTEREST and education, Mallach describes how low-wage work has become a trap rather than a way out of poverty. Drawing on his experience in Cleveland, Mallach notes that for a resident of the city’s central neighborhood to get to Ahuja Medical Center, a major employer, the worker would have to make a 25-minute car trip or to go by public transit, a 15 to 20-minute walk to the nearest bus stop, two different bus rides, and a 10-minute walk to the hospital — 90 minutes each way under ideal circumstances.

For readers in Trenton, the book has obvious relevance to Trenton. “The Divided City” gives a historical overview of the rise and fall of America’s industrial cities, with Trenton being a prime example. From the end of the Civil War through the 1920s, Trenton’s steel and ceramics-based businesses grew, employing armies of workers. The owners of these factories lived locally and invested some of their wealth back into the community, N amenities such as A funding TEEorchestras, and so on.

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“Realizing that their Trenton plant, a congeries of pieces built between the 1880s and 1960s, was woefully inefficient, the city, county, and state all approached Hill hoping to keep them, if

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not in the city of Trenton — where finding a suitable site for a new plant that size would be all but impossible — then at least in the area, so the workers could keep their jobs. The firm’s response implied some amusement at our naivete.

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‘The building isn’t the big issue. The big issue is how much we’re paying our workforce. None of our competitors are union, and to be competitive we need to start over with a non-union workforce.’

Tellingly, Hill did not offer any of its Trenton workers jobs at its new plant.”

Mallach, now a Roosevelt resident, is returning to Trenton as a member of Mayor Reed Gusciora’s transition team, on the housing committee. In an August interview, Mallach said he hadn’t delved deeply into the issue yet, but sees there are a lot of different issues the city needs to be tackling at the same time.

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f a city has a thriving downtown, hip neighborhoods, and new skyscrapers, that city might get credit as an urban revival success, perhaps with a caveat about gentrification displacing low income residents. But what about the town’s less prosperous districts, where “progress” consists of bulldozing abandoned homes, where crime terrorizes residents, and where furniture on the sidewalks is a common sight, as renters scramble from eviction to eviction?

In his new book on urban planning, “The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America,” former Trenton official Alan Mallach takes a hard look at the problems that dog every city in America, from the forgotten rust belt factory towns to the booming tech capitals, as everywhere, wealth fails to reach very far down the class ladder to the mostly nonwhite low-income population.

Mallach spent the 1990s working in Trenton as an urban planner and since then has consulted for other small to mid-sized cities. He has also met and spoken with people in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and other cities that have managed to partly recover from post-industrial slumps.

Having been hired to study gentrification in Detroit as a consultant, Mallach became skeptical of the widespread narrative that low income residents were being displaced by the arrival of wealthy newcomers in hot neighborhoods. (It turned out that low income residents have little stability no matter what neighborhood they live in.) He also turned his attention to the rest of the city, and found even more of a crisis in the neighborhoods that were not gentrifying, but were in fact in sharp decline.

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tant is doing something about housing and rebuilding neighborhoods. It isn’t something you can do through a set of one-shot initiatives.” He believes Trenton has very limited in-house capacity in city hall, and a very limited pool of nonprofit organizations dedicated to helping neighborhoods. “Trenton could really benefit if it had some strong, bigcapacity organization working on neighborhood revitalization,” he said.

On the redevelopment front, Mallach says getting rid of Route 29, which cuts through the heart of the city, and opening up the downtown to the river would give the business district a real boost.

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allach sees a few reasons to be hopeful about Trenton’s future.

He cites groups such as the East Trenton Collaborative and Isles, which are doing good work in neighborhoods. He says the government should find ways to help homeowners in neighborhoods like Chambersburg, which has seen an influx of Hispanic immigrants.

“When it comes to building Trenton’s economy, and this seems kind of counterintuitive, but I think the single most important thing the government can do to strengthen the economy and strengthen the fiscal picture is to focus on housing,” Mallach says. New housing in downtown Trenton could help turn the city into the major regional center that it ought to be.

Outside of downtown, houses are “outrageously undervaluded,” going for $25 to $40,000.

Ironically, the low price drives away homeowners and attracts irresponsible absentee investors. At such low prices, it becomes attractive for landlords to buy a property on the cheap, rent it out, and spend nothing on repairs or property taxes. After a few years, the government seizes the now-derelict property to pay for the tax arrears, but the landlord has come out ahead by collecting rent. Schemes like this bring down neighborhoods.

Mallach says the only way to reverse this pattern is to focus on improving properties. “Housing prices start going up, you start to see more tax compliance, more tax ratables, and more value in the community. This will change the economic picture. Housing done right could have a far more significant economic impact on the city than nearly any other strategy, and represents a realistic option for the city. Amazon’s HQ2 is not coming to Trenton. Large factories employing thousands of people aren’t gonna happen, and corporate headquarters aren’t gonna happen. Housing is the big point of the city.”

Mallach is not the first to notice that many low income earners have trouble

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The leftist/pro• Choirs for grades K–12 on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons gressive movement also propos• Drumming & Keyboard classes es various forms • Music Theory of social welfare 100% to remedy the • College Scholarships housing problem, of TCC choristers • SAT Preparation including the 100%high of TCC graduate school construction of • Van Transportation choristers graduate public housing. and attend college • Summer Camp Placement Mallach is skeptical of federal interhigh school and • Sliding Scale Tuition and vention in cities, pointing that the federally-funded attempts at urban renewal in Financial Assistance offered attend college the 1970s are now viewed as disastrous.

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Ghost writings: Trenton’s history of hauntings

By Dan Aubrey

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belief in ghosts and haunted houses is nearly as old as humankind and may be found in every part of our globe, so proclaimed Anton Niedermeier on the front page of the Trenton Sunday Advertiser in the early 1900s.

But the Trenton poet and essayist was not really interested in global ghostly happenings. He was recounting the “weird tales and beautiful apparitions” found in the small towns outside of the capital city.

Then, attempting to head off the skeptics, he added, “Too numerous are these stories and too trustworthy are the sources of a vast multitude of them to consider all of them the creations of hallucination or falsehood.”

Facts remain facts, he claimed, aiming to convince the reader that what he was about to report may be real.

And while the hope to convince is easier said than done, there is a simple fact: Trenton is haunted by ghost stories — found in newspapers, books, and online.

And it’s there that ghosts silently wait to make their presences known.

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hosts often make their appearance as a good news story. Take the August 7, 1912, State Gazette story

with the sensational headline: “House on Cass Street is said to be Haunted — Former Tenants Claim Sheets Were Pulled from Beds and Lamps Turned Down at Night — Mysterious Noise Heard.”

The story speaks for itself: The “House of Mysteries” is the name given to the twostory brick dwelling at 728 Cass Street, which is owned

by Warren A. Quinn, a well known liquor dealer at 708 Cass Street.

The house, it is said, has been infested with ghosts for many years and the spirits have caused considerable annoyance to the different occupants.

But the ghostly inhabitants of the house do not prevent Mr. Quinn from renting it and it was only idle but a few days when a new tenant came along and moved in.

There was a report that the spirit manifestations had determined the owner to raze the building. Mr. Quinn said yesterday that the building would be torn down next spring to make room for three or more modern dwellings.

John Nickold and his family recently moved from the house, after claiming that their slumbers were

disturbed by the ghosts. Mr. and Mrs. Nickold and daughter, Anna, lived in the house for about 12 years. They recently moved to 744 Cass Street.

Nickold declares that the manifestations were of almost nightly occurrences. Sheets would be pulled off the beds and the lamps left burning at night would be turned down mysteriously and then mysteriously would be turned up again.

Footsteps would be heard in the attic during the night and a silhouette of a human being could be seen walking around.

The house has a strange history.

Newspaper illustrations from a 1912 story of a haunted house on Cass Street.

Soon after it was built, and many years before it became the property of the present owner, it was operated as a grogshop and Hungarian boarding house.

During a fight in the house it was said that a man was stabbed to death and the murderer fled.

The superstitious declared that the ghost of the murdered man haunts the building and is responsible for all the ghostly outbursts.

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‘During a fight in the house [on Cass Street] it was said that a man was stabbed to death and the murderer fled. The superstitious declared that the ghost of the murdered man haunts the building.’

“We’ll talk about mysterious ghosts reported in newspapers of the 19th century,” Webster says (about his downtown tours). “We’ll stop at the intersection of State and Warren streets, where there were repeated sightings of a well-dressed military person on horseback.

Everyone told the same story. He rode down North Warren, stopped and turned at State, and motioned as if beckoning men to come forward. Then he took off back up North Warren. It was assumed he was a ghost from the First Battle of Trenton, since that’s where it happened.”

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the lamented Captain Hunt, had been seen seated at one of the upper windows and also stalking with lighted candle in hand in the orchard as if in search of some lost treasure.

The Armstrong residence, the scene of ghost stories in the late 1890s, occupied a site on West State Street. It was a three-story landmark that set back some distance from the sidewalk.

Unoccupied for years this mansion with its beautiful front yard adorned with trees, luxuriant shrubbery, flowers, and high boxwood hedge, became a place of desolation. Its creepy aspect stirred the imagination of a local reporter who wrote a yarn published for the Philadelphia Press. That brought the old residence into prominence as a haunted house.

Aside from the Hunt and Armstrong residences, Trenton in years gone by had a number of lesser dwellings that had reputations as being haunted.

Two Pennington Avenue houses were the scenes of ghost scares. One was a three story brick dwelling near Reservoir Street and another a frame dwelling which occupied the site of the fire company house, corner of Pennington Avenue and Willow Street.

West Hanover, South Warren, Fall, and Bloomsbury Streets, each had a haunted house.

While more pressing and factual news stories eventually overshadowed ghost tales, they didn’t go away — as shown in 1996 when Times of Trenton writer Anne Levin wrote “Tracing the Footsteps of City’s Scares, Scandals.”

Her story focused on the Trenton Public Library’s Trentoniana director, Charles Webster, and his occasional

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reporter yesterday Mr. Quinn said that he had lived in that neighborhood for many years and that he never heard of the house being haunted.

He said that many years ago there was a murder committed on the opposite side of the street next door to where he now lives, but that he had never heard of any ghosts.

A few days ago Mr. Quinn received a letter from a woman spiritual medium in Baltimore. She wanted permission to occupy the house and communicate with the spirits and see what the trouble was.

Mr. Quinn says he will ignore the letter. Yesterday he received a letter from a contractor in Brooklyn who wants the job of razing the building.

In 1959 Trenton Sunday Times Advertiser writer Harry J. Podmore shared Trenton ghost history in his “Best Known of So-Called ‘Haunted Houses’ in Trenton in the Late 19th Century.”

In it he indicated the community’s ready willingness to accept ghosts as real: Two of Trenton’s famous haunted houses in the years that the town had ghost scares were the Hunt and Armstrong residences.

The former was a spacious frame dwelling in the Sixth Ward. It stood on a large tract with orchard and gardens, bounded on the south by Lalor Street and on the east by Second Street.

It had a setting of shade trees, shrubbery, flowers, and arbors with rambling vines, and was a show place that perhaps dated back to the time the ward was the flourishing village of Lamberton on the Delaware.

Captain Hunt was a U.S. naval officer who served in the Mexican War as commander of the brig Porpoise.

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Sometime after 1860, the family of the late Captain Hunt moved from the old residence which for several years remained unoccupied. It was during this period that the residence became known as a haunted house.

Its loneliness in a sparsely settled neighborhood gave it a weird atmosphere after sundown. Stories circulated around the town concerning the residence as the abiding place of a spook, that a ghostly form, supposed to be the spirit of

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The late Times of Trenton metro editor Harry Blaze also caught the spirit and in 2000 wrote “A Spirited Example of Journalism”: Mike Ratcliffe, a Times “police beat” reporter and inveterate volunteer firefighter, is forever browsing through microfilms of back editions of the Times in search of old fire stories.

In some of his recent browsing, he found a great story about a fire in Trenton published way back on Feb. 27, 1886 (and) a fire on South Warren Street that was started by a ghost.

Mike also found a slightly earlier report about the same ghost, printed on Feb. 25, 1886.

Our 1886 scribe did provide some vivid descriptions of happenings I’m sure he didn’t witness, but he left out key details, such as the house’s address and the names of the owners, so there’s no way of determining today where the house he wrote about was located.

The first article is about a ghost

moved in on Feb. 22 and, after the ghost’s latest spree that night, immediately moved out.”

On Feb. 27 the reporter informs us, “The South Warren Street ghost was on another rampage yesterday and by its antics nearly caused a serious conflagration.”

He said another family “moved into the mysterious house yesterday (Feb. 26). They had heard of the white-faced specter but made up their mind to stand the storm for a month at least. This morning they think differently and will move out.”

Just before dark, a fire was kindled in one of the rooms to warm up the house. This proved a foolish luxury, for the ghost, too, was warmed up, and when the family locked up the house securely and went out for an evening walk, it upset the stove and floated about the domicile in summer clothing, moaning, singThe final resting place of many prominent Trentonians, the Riverside ing plaintive songs occasionally and Cemetery actively promotes Trenton history with its graveyard tours of kept up a continual banging.

“The family next door smelled Victorian-era grave sculptures, such as the cover image of an angel writing smoke. An investigation was made in the Book of Life. One upcoming event is the Poe Walk: Morbid Curiosities and the door of the haunted house Tour on Friday and Saturday, October 19 and 20. The event takes its name bursted open.” (Yes, he wrote from a grave adorned with imagery from Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven.’ bursted!)

“The neighbors found the stove no avail.” going on a “painting expedition and overturned and live coals scattered He opined that a boarder who frightening the neighbors out of about the floor, which was ablaze in disappeared — believed murdered, their wits.” several places.” some years earlier — had come In the past, “Beds are disturbed, One last example of journalistic back as a ghost to haunt the house. dishes overturned, bells rung, reports is from Lisa Grunwald and her He claimed a family “unacquaintweird music played, and all efforts See GHOSTS, Page 10 ed with the history of the house to capture the ghost have been to

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GHOSTS, continued from page 8 article for the March, 1983, edition of Avenue magazine. It was about the Roebling family and featured an interview with Paul Roebling, an actor, son of banker Mary Roebling, and great-grandson of Washington Roebling.

According to this particular Roebling the family that owned several prominent homes on West State Street was haunted.

Paul’s grandfather

had

A ghost on South Warren Street dates to 1886, when reports said, ‘Beds are disturbed, dishes overturned, bells rung, weird music played, and all efforts to capture the ghost have been to no avail.’

childhood nurse who gradually went insane.

“Instead of consigning her, as was the custom, to the local bedlam,” he says, “the Roeblings set up a room for her under the eaves of the house and they would have a servant take up her meals and clean out the room.

“They took good care of her until she died. But it had been her habit when my grandfather was a child to come into his room at midnight and sit and rock.

“Well, after she died, that would happen anyway.” a

Paul pauses, smiles, and says in earnest. “This happened by the way. It’s true. I heard this story at my grandfather’s knee.”

He furrows his brow again and continues. “My grandfather would hear it. He would see it. He would sit bolt upright in his bed because he would feel this presence in the room and the chair would begin to rock. And one hour later, the chair would stop rocking. He would hear her footsteps over the door and the door would close.”

Paul turns several pages in the family album to find a photograph of a hallway with a ladder to the attic.

“This was where they put her,” he says with an echo of “Jane Eyre.”

“And it’s a funny thing. But after she died, she was so jealous of the female servants that whenever a woman went up on a ladder to dust the molding, the ladder would begin to shake. They had a great deal of trouble keeping female servants in the house.

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hile the ghosts found in newspaper and journal articles are coaxed into appearing by research, other Trenton ghost stories are easily conjured by just cracking open a book.

Take the 2013 “The Big Book of New Jersey Ghost Stories” and its tale “No Mercy: The Duck Island Killer.”

The story — one of a handful dealing with central New Jersey — connects a series of homicides on that marshy riverside area linking Trenton and Hamilton with the theory that ghosts are unsettled or traumatized spirits.

As authors Patricia Martinelli and Charles Stansfied Jr. write, “Duck Island was well known to local lovers who were looking for a place to hide from angry spouses or irate parents. Shortly after America went mobile in the 1920s, it became the local ‘lovers lane’ frequented over the years by both teenage and adult couples. For some, their search for love was consummated at this isolated spot.

But for others, that search came to an abrupt end when the Duck Island Killer struck.”

The killings started in 1938 and involved two forbidden trysts — a favorite convention in horror stories. The first involved a married man having a parked-car rendezvous with his 15-yearold girlfriend. The two were killed by a shotgun. He died immediately. She lived briefly and uttered a few clues to the police.

The next victims were a married woman and her younger male lover. Again a shotgun was the weapon.

As the police began a search and lovers found other places to meet, the killer expanded his territory to Bucks County, where he gunned down another couple, molested the woman, and stole personal belongings.

Then as lovers began to return to Duck Island, so did the killer — on April 7, 1942. But this time the shotgun blasted couple survived and provided the police with some vital details. And murderer Clarence Hill was soon under arrest and sent to prison, where he died of natural causes in 1973.

“To this day,” write the authors with questionable conviction, “residents no longer meet in secret on the peninsula.

It is believed that in death, the ghost of the Duck Island Killer has returned to haunting the spirits of his victims who linger there, still searching for a little love.”

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But “shortly after moving into the rundown Colonial-era house, he learned that it have been used as a hospital for soldiers wounded during the Revolutionary War. He and his roommates also discovered that there was an underground tunnel in the basement of the house that apparently had caved in many years before.”

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Jeffrey’s book includes a 1968 tale about a Mercer County College fraternity house in Trenton with shaking beds and footsteps pacing overhead as well as a tragic story from Rotary Island. their studies and forget their surroundings until one day when Tim entered the kitchen “and heard the sound of footsteps coming up the basement stairs.”

Then “a figure appeared at the head of the stairs: a barrel-chested man dressed in what Tim later learned was a Revolutionary War officer’s uniform. The man began to curse at him and demanded that he leave the house. Being a sensible young man, Tim did the smarted thing he could think of — he packed his bags and moved out that night.”

The story continues a few years later when three young women rent the same house. The story now focuses on “Amy” who was getting ready to go out on a date one night, looked at herself in her vanity mirror, and “realized the glass was not reflecting her face. Instead, she was confronted by the horrible sight of a man dressed in Victorian-style clothing cradling the body of a young woman in his arms. Since the woman’s dress was badly bloodstained, Amy could only assume the worst. She lowered her gaze, and when she looked up again, the frightening vision was gone. Badly shaken, Amy shared the incident with her roommates, and all three of them agreed they needed to move as quickly as possible.”

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hosts and students also appear in the story “The Haunted Fraternity House.” It is in the 1971 book “More Ghosts in the Valley” by the late AdiKent Thomas Jeffrey, a Bucks County resident whose series of Delaware Valley ghost books helped give her the title “Mistress of the Macabre.”

For this particular story, the year was 1968. The place was a Mercer County Community College fraternity house in an old row home on a side street in downtown Trenton. And the story focuses on “Criss” being inexplicably “roused in the night by his bed suddenly shak-

ing” in his third floor room and hearing the sound of footsteps pacing overhead, even though the attic floors had been removed.

Like the students in the previous story, Criss forgot about the eerie occurrences when he got more involved with fraternity and school events. But one night he “awoke to see a black dove flying from corner to corner in his room” and said, “I could only think someone was sending me a message from the Other Side that night.”

After several such reoccurrences, he told a friend whose “Old World” parents believed that there was a supernatural reason and offered solutions — accepted only after several more episodes of shaking beds, footsteps, moved belongings and clothing, and ghostly appearances, including “the shadowy form of a man hanging. His neck was twisted sideways, the way it is thrown when a noose breaks the neck form a sudden drop.”

Jeffrey says all of this caused Criss to take some supernatural action. He got “some salt and threw it behind the door and hung a cross up right where you can see it now,” she reports from the scene.

The young man then held seances conducted by area mediums and gained the testimony of two spirits. One was “a young girl named Martha who described the house as she had known it centuries ago and the Trenton streets with sights and sounds as they had been to her. The other was named Frederick. He was responsible for beating his sister to death in the early years of this century. But to make things even, she was able to slip a little poison into him somehow, so that he died too.”

Despite a few other manifestations of ghostly activity, the occurrences eventually diminished and “most of the life in the fraternity house in Trenton seems to have returned to normal.”

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effrey’s “The Big Wind of ’50” in the same book connects to Trenton’s Rotary Island and the final moments of caretaker Arthur Pope.

As noted in previous Downtowner story on the Trenton’s islands on the Delaware River, Rotary Island was a summer camp for city children. While a caretaker lived there all year and attended to the camp needs in the summer, he would also take a winter job on

the mainland and travel to and from the island via a cable boat.

But, as Jeffrey’s story notes, on this fateful night of December 5, 1950, things would never be the same.

As usual Pope called his wife, Grace, to say he would soon be at the mainland side and ask her to put on the light for him to navigate across the water.

When she told him that river was too wild. He said he was determined to come home and to turn on the spotlight.

Grace then went down to the “large, empty community hall and switched on the spotlight, which bathed the steps outside in a white glow.” Then after watching for some time, “her eyes picked up the outline of the barge, lifting and plunging through crashing waves of water as it surged forward towards the island.”

Grace soon “made out the figure of Arthur, straining against the force of the wind, pulling like mad at the tow rope.”

And “then she saw it happen, quick as a whip strike. The cable rope plucked out of the rope eye holding it and smashed into her husband’s head, sending him spinning off the raft and into the swirling black waters around him. Grace stifled a scream and ran to the phone to call the Trenton Police and Rescue Squad.”

The story then recounts Grace’s wait for help, her hope that Arthur had somehow survived, and her recollection of another tragedy when “only five years ago when the Popes’ baby boy was lost in a fire. A fire that destroyed their Trenton home, upholstery shop, and all their belongings, taking the life of their precious Jimmy.”

A neighbor saw Grace was distraught and took her to St. Francis Hospital where she lay on an emergency room table, alone, waiting for a doctor. Then there were the footsteps.

As Jeffrey notes, “It was Arthur. He was dressed in his khaki army jacket with his much-used paratrooper boots

neatly laced over his ankles. His wavychestnut-toned hair fell softly over his forehead and his blue eyes looked straight at his wife. “‘Oh,’ exclaimed Grace, “you made it!

Oh Arthur, I’m so glad! I was so worried.

You know you had me scared to death!’

“Arthur stood beside her and smiled down at her. Grace wondered but didn’t wish to take the time then to ask how he could be bone dry. There wasn’t a drop of moisture on his clothes.

“Arthur’s voice, easy-going as usual, came to her like a casual spring breeze.

‘You should know I’m always all right.

Can’t imagine why you’d be worried over me. I’m happy as can be. Why wouldn’t I be? I’m with Jimmy and everything’s wonderful!’”

The story ends with Arthur Pope leaving and closing the door

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race Pope — also known as Grace Walker — eventually became a well known Bucks County and Trenton area medium and appears in at least three tales in Jeffrey’s “Ghosts in the Valley” book series.

That includes the ghost story “The Man at the Stairway.” It takes place in 1945 when “Grace and Arthur Pope moved into the brick house on North Stockton Street in Trenton and reopened their shop — right after the fire that killed their child” (Jimmy in the previous story).

One day Grace was working in the shop and heard her two-year-old daughter’s footsteps upstairs.

She then spotted a man at the bottom of the steps looking up. Then a few seconds later, the man was gone.

At first Grace shrugged it off as a customer who had come and gone or perhaps someone playing a joke. But, as Jeffrey notes, “Grace Pope was a woman of acute sensitivity in the world of the sixth sense, and she felt deeply that the person she had just seen was no ordi-

One day Grace was working in the shop and heard her twoyear-old daughter’s footsteps upstairs. She then spotted a man at the bottom of the steps looking up. Then a few seconds later, the man was gone.

Trenton-based tales include the Duck Island killer and a College of New Jersey student’s ghostly roommates. nary man” — one seemingly searching for something.

The story continues to describe similar situations: Grace working in the downstairs shop, the girl upstairs, and an elderly man with “thin, parchmentpale face” and “soulful, deep-set eyes” appearing at the bottom of the steps.

Eventually Grace had a realization.

“That man appeared every time her little girl was near the top of the steps! He was afraid for the child’s life — afraid that she might fall down the stairs.”

The Popes installed a gate at the top of the stairs, and the ghost sightings subsided, unless the gate was left open.

Then “one day Grace Pope began to ask around the neighborhood about the family who had lived there before them. One neighbor had known them well. The father of one of the spouses lived there with the family. He was a kindly old gentleman of whom everyone was fond. Then a tragedy occurred.

One night when the old father got up he must have lost his bearings in the dark.

He fell down the flight of steps and was killed.”

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Ghosts on the web

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hile Trenton ghost tales used to be only shared by word of mouth — going from neighbor to neighbor or barstool to barstool — today’s tales are going digital.

Among several websites containing information regarding Trenton spirits is ghostlyactivities.com. Among its numerous tales from all over the nation is the 2015 “Ghost Story: Family Terrorized by Haunted Object in Trenton, NJ.” Written by the site’s Chicago-based co-founder and ghost investigator, Jacob Rice, the story focuses on a Trenton single mother of a special needs child terrorized by a haunted object.

While Rice changes the mother’s name to protect her identity, he openly mentions Boston-raised folklorist and researcher Christopher Balzano, author of the book “Haunted Objects.”

According to Balzano, haunted objects include “mirrors, dolls, jewelry, and furniture — things used by the previous owner. But any household item could be cursed or used in black magic rituals” — or just something that holds the energy of its former owner.

Rice says haunted objects can lie dormant for weeks, months, and longer. If there’s no disturbance, the owner will never know about its paranormal nature.

Many times, moving the object to a new place will be the trigger.

This particular story starts in early November, 2014, when a family friend gives the woman’s son a Civil War-era bell.

“In our case, the first supernatural activity started about two weeks after my son got it,” says the mother, called Megan. “At first, chairs started to move around our den. Even more — and stronger — activity started to happen as time went on.”

Then after a month, the spirit became more dangerous. “Whatever the spirit was, it shoved my son and knocked him down. It also smashed the wooden chairs in the den and threw cutlery around the kitchen,” said Megan.

Saying that she originally thought that the activities were related to a poltergeist or a disruptive spirit sometimes connected with the energies of an adolescent. She also reached out to websites claiming expertise and contacted Rice.

“We put together a timeline of events as well as the characteristics of the poltergeist,” said Rice. “At first, it did look like a poltergeist haunting, but the activity builds slowly with a poltergeist. The spirit’s activity was too intense and fast.

That made me believe the family had a haunted object in the house.”

He said they traced the events and discovered their timing related to the arrival of the bell.

Rice then asked Megan to use a compass to test the bell for magnetic energy and use a digital recorder to detect electronic voice phenomenon (EVP).

“The compass’ needle spun out of control when Megan touched it to the bell, a clear sign of a haunted object. She also captured an EVP saying, ‘Need home,’” writes Rice.

Notorious Trenton psychiatrist Henry Cotton and an illustration from Cotton’s book about the removal of body parts to cure mental illness.

Rice directed Megan to the Ghostly Activities link for haunted objects and remedies. There she found instructions on how to use salt to make a “spiritual cleansing” to neutralize the bell and then took the bell to a cemetery where she buried it.

The result, writes Rice, “Megan and her family have not experienced any haunting activity since that time.”

While Ghostly Activities features stories written by co-founders, other websites are a type of community bulletin boards for paranormal experiences — several from Trenton.

“I’m glad there is someone out there that I can tell my story to. I don’t know what is going on, if it is a spirit of my loved one or a haunting,” says a writer identified only as stweety105 on the website The Shadowlands.

That is a 23-year-old site “devoted to informing and enlightening visitors on such topics as ghosts and haunting, mysterious creatures . . . and many other unsolved mysteries.”

The writer reports about moving into a house and having “this eerie feeling someone was watching me,” lights flickering, footsteps without a physical presence, a cat refusing to go in the basement, items disappearing and reappearing, and her son having sightings of “a white haired man with a white body.”

The posted message ends with, “I can’t explain what all of this means. My godfather died in 1992, so I thought I was him. This all happened in Trenton in 1998. I don’t understand why he would wait until then. If you could give me any information as to what this may be, I would appreciate it.” There was no indication of a response.

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he website Ghosts of America has several short postings regarding contemporary Trenton ghost stories — although there are no dates, website information indicates that its ghost postings started around 2000.

According to the site’s owner, StratusPikpuk Inc., it is one of the company’s most popular, and input is judged very strictly on quality or a type of plausibility.

And the current crop of Trenton ghostly activity seems consistent with past ones.

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“I work on Jersey Street behind Lalor Plaza,” writes Bridget, “I sometimes stay after 5 p.m. to get things done or come in on a Saturday.”

That, however, is when things get odd.

That includes the sound of men talking down the hall, a man singing songs from another era, and books dropping near her workstation.

And while she has only experienced the sounds and lights coming on, she says coworkers have seen apparitions appearing in offices and then disappearing.

Another poster, Rich, says he lives in Chambersburg and was seemingly roughed up his sleep and woke up to find “my pinky and ring fingers of my right hand were somehow bound together with a white hair.” He adds his brother hears voices around the house and recently the kitchen light popped and went out while the basement door began to shake. He concludes his post with, “My Uncle Billy and my Aunt Judy lived at 951 Genesee Street between the early 1980s and 1986 and that house was extremely haunted. The stories that he tells to this day! Hand prints all over the walls, a knife that was stuck into their bed underneath.

As kids we would dare each other to go upstairs and stay in the bathroom for 30 seconds. It was a very scary house.”

Then there are other short postings about a haunted house on Anderson Street, the ghost of a murder victim muttering and wandering beneath the bridge on Bridge Street, a mirror showing a violent act, and a Hamilton Avenue corner where a ghostly scream can be heard at night.

The whopper among whoppers

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o matter how they appear Trenton ghost stories seem to show several patterns or commonalities. That includes ghosts chasing renters, murder victims looking for peace, Revolutionary War figures still engaged in battle, and mirrors holding violent images.

Yet a recurrent story in newsprint, books, and websites indicates another pattern. And the repeated mentioning of a specific place points to Trenton’s biggest hot spot for ghosts: the Trenton

Psychiatric Hospital.

The reason? Dr. Henry Cotton.

As a reported in a New York Times article about the 2005 book on Cotton, “Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine,” the doctor, “who presided over Trenton State Hospital from 1907 to 1930, was obsessed with what seems today an utterly bizarre theory of insanity — so obsessed that in applying it, he managed to kill hundreds of his patients and permanently maim thousands more.”

Furthermore, says the NYT, “Many poor souls, it later emerged, had to be ‘dragged, resisting and screaming,’ into the operating theater. Informed consent did not, apparently, come into play.”

Although there is a growing number of newspaper articles and books about Cotton and TPH, there are also a good number of online postings about TPH haunting.

But it’s Rice, of the Ghostly Activities website, who again weighs in on this very Trenton matter.

Since TPH is an active care center with security guards patrolling the grounds during the day and night, Rice says it is difficult to run a ghost hunt at the facility.

However, he reports, “Most paranormal researchers have captured or glimpsed the following ghostly activities: Doctor Cotton’s apparition (by sight, not photographed); ghosts of patients with missing limbs (by sight, not photographed); disembodied voices, but no clear EVP; and orbs.”

Rice reports that only disembodied voices and orbs happen often, but investigators “need to be skeptical. The buildings are old and decaying. That creates a lot of dust and bugs fly by all the time.

Ghost orbs should have a solid white, gray, light blue, green or pink color. If they are semi-transparent and seem to have texture, then they are pollen, dust, or a bug.”

Since it is an active center that contains houses some of New Jersey’s most criminally and violently insane, Rice says EVP evidence can be elusive and may pick up ambient sounds.

“Most ghost hunters have had subjective experiences on site,” writes Rice about TPH.”This includes cold spots, paranoia, uneasy feelings, and phantom touches.”

Where to look? Rice says, “It’s better to focus on the abandoned buildings on the site. If we had to pick, focus on the Forst Building, the lab, and buildings in the Women’s Ward. The lab is a nobrainer. This is where Cotton committed his evil malpractice and that trauma would imprint on the space. The Women’s Ward may also be a good spot because of the disproportionate number of women operated upon.”

With its legacy of evil practices, physical and spiritual pain, and reports of ghostly phenomena, it is no wonder the site gained New Jersey’s top spot in Cosmopolitan Magazine’s 2017 list of the each state’s most haunted spaces. “Victims can still be heard screaming in the halls,” the editor wrote about the site.

And they weren’t screaming about ghosts — just something factual, frightening, and truly haunting.

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As a hepato-bilio-pancreatic surgeon focused on treating benign digestive conditions and cancers in the liver, pancreas and bile duct, Dr. Doria has pioneered new techniques for conditions that were once considered untreatable.

In addition to his cutting-edge clinical work, Dr. Doria has held faculty positions at hospitals in Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Temple University in Philadelphia, PA and the Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center and the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, PA. His research has appeared in numerous publications and presentations.

NEW MEDICAL DIRECTOR FOR CANCER CENTER DR. CATALDO DORIA has been named medical director of the Capital Health Cancer Center at Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell. Dr. Doria is an internationally renowned surgeon who specializes in the treatment of patients with benign conditions and cancer of the liver, pancreas, and bile duct.

He comes to Capital Health from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA, where he served as the surgical director of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center–Jefferson Liver Tumor Center at Jefferson Medical College and director of the Jefferson Transplant Institute.

As director of the Capital Health Cancer Center, Dr. Doria will oversee clinical operations including disease-specific clinical performance groups, clinical research, and cancer

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Dr. Doria received his medical degree at University of Perugia School of Medicine, where he also completed his internship and residency. He completed a research fellowship and a clinical fellowship at the Pittsburgh Transplantation Institute, part of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Doria also completed a clinical fellowship in living donor liver transplantation at the Organ Transplantation Center, part of Asan Medical Center in Seoul, South Korea.

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LIVER AUTO-TRANSPLANTATION: In cases where patients have liver cancer that is too extensive to be removed while the liver is in the body, Dr. Doria and his team can remove the liver, remove the cancer, and reimplant the healthy portion of the organ.

ROBOTIC-ASSISTED HEPATOBILIARY SURGERY: With the minimally invasive da Vinci® Surgery System, Dr. Doria uses miniaturized wristed instruments and a high-definition 3D camera that are inserted through small incisions (roughly the size of a dime). Working at the da Vinci® console, Dr. Doria’s hand movements are translated into precise actions that remove cancer in the liver, pancreas and bile duct. These procedures also require less anesthesia than major, open surgery, which means patients are at even less risk for complications.

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Opioid Recovery Program for Pregnant Women Addresses Issues Highlighted in CDC Report According to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of pregnant women with opioid use disorder (OUD) at labor and delivery increased significantly over a 15-year span covering 1999 to 2014. Based on information from 28 reporting states, the national rate increased from 1.5 per 1,000 in 1994 to 6.5 per 1,000 over the course of the 15-year span.

Although New Jersey’s increase (4.1 per 1,000 in 1999 to 5.6 per 1,000 in 2014) was lower than the national rate, the study shows an increasing need to address this destructive epidemic.

In the past year, Capital Health and longtime partners at the Trenton Health Team, the Rescue Mission, HomeFront, and Catholic Charities Diocese of Trenton have offered For My Baby and Me, a grant-based program that provides specialized care for pregnant women and new mothers who are struggling with opioid use disorder. Funded by the New Jersey Department of Health, the program promotes long-term recovery as well as ongoing medical care and support for women and their children.

“Opioid use disorder during pregnancy opens the door for many possible negative health outcomes for mothers and their babies,” said Dr. Eric Schwartz, executive director of the Capital Health

Institute for Urban Care. “Our program’s community-based, collaborative approach helps ensure that pregnant women and new mothers with OUD receive the care they need to improve the likelihood of a sustained recovery.”

In order to more effectively address OUD in pregnant women, the CDC made several recommendations including: … Implementing universal substance use screening at the first prenatal visit … Ensuring pregnant women with OUD have access to medication-assisted therapy and related addiction services … Making sure mothers with OUD receive adequate patient-centered postpartum care, including mental health and

substance use treatment, relapseprevention programs and family planning services.

For My Baby and Me employs a threestep process: … Identify women and children at risk. … Connect them with care providers, including a licensed clinical alcohol and drug counselor, and partners to provide opioid recovery treatment, safe housing, legal services, child care and other support as needed. … Treat patients by providing prenatal care and pediatric care for their children.

Call 609.256.7801 to speak with peer support staff from the program 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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Recognized as Top Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery by U.S. News & World Report in Central and Southern New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania

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Capital Health Regional Medical Center (RMC) was recently recognized as the best hospital for neurology and neurosurgery in the region in U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals for 2018– 19. With millions of patients in the United States facing surgery or requiring special care each year, U.S. News ranks hospital performance in 16 areas of specialty care and nine more commonly performed procedures to help people find the best hospitals in the nation that provide the services they need and have the highest scores for quality and safety.

RMC earned a High Performing rating for neurology and neurosurgery; scoring the highest in the region; tenth hospital overall in New Jersey. Capital Health was the highest scoring hospital in New Jersey that is also a Comprehensive Stroke Center certified by The Joint Commission.

“The annual hospital ranking by U.S. News & World Report is a well-known resource for patients and health care providers when selecting a hospital,” said DR. MICHAEL F. STIEFEL, director of Capital

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“We are the only neuroscience hospital in the region and one of the most advanced in the country. We are extremely pleased to have our program listed among the best in the country.”

“It’s a compliment to the entire Capital Health team to be recognized by U.S. News and World Report. This recognition validates our commitment and quality of care to the people and community we serve. It should hopefully provide an extra level of comfort and reassurance for patients and their families when choosing Capital Health, knowing that it has been ranked among the best in the country.”

A hospital’s overall neurology and neurosurgery score is based on various data categories, including patient volume and survival, intensivist staffing, advanced technologies, and patient services.

Capital Health’s scores in these areas had RMC earn the top score in the region and the second highest score in New Jersey.

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in New Jersey to Offer FDA-Approved EMBOTRAP II STENT RETRIEVER for Ischemic Stroke Patients

Capital Health is the first hospital in New Jersey, and among the first in the United States, to use the new EMBOTRAP II Revascularization Device since its recent approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this summer. As part of its Comprehensive Stroke Center, certified

by The Joint Commission, neurosurgeons from Capital Health’s Capital Institute for Neurosciences use this next generation stent-retriever to safely remove a blood clot from an artery in the brain that is causing a stroke.

“EMBOTRAP II is the latest advance in mechanical thrombectomy for restoring blood flow to the brain and improving outcomes for patients who are suffering an ischemic stroke as a result of a large blood vessel blockage,” said Dr. Vernard Fennell, a fellowship trained cerebrovascular and endovascular neurosurgeon at Capital Institute for Neurosciences’ Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center. Dr. Fennell was also

involved in some of the initial research on the device’s design.

“As one of the tools that we use to treat ischemic stroke, EMBOTRAP II has a design that has been shown to trap clots that are causing the blockage of blood flow in the brain while retaining its shape, making it faster and more effective at retrieving the clot, restoring blood flow to the brain, and ultimately providing a better outcome,” he said.

Stroke is a leading cause of disability and the fifth leading cause of death in the United States. Neurosurgeons from the Capital Institute for Neuroscience’s Stroke & Cerebrovascular Center are trained to use state-of-the-art devices such as EMBOTRAP II to provide the most advanced, comprehensive stroke care to patients in Central New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. Capital Institute for Neurosciences is committed to being a

DR. VERNARD FENNELL is a dual fellowship trained neurosurgeon specializing in cerebrovascular and endovascular neurosurgery, with additional expertise in microsurgery, skull base surgery, brain and spine tumors, spine trauma and reconstruction as well as epilepsy surgery. He received his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine and completed his cerebrovascular and skull base surgery fellowship at the internally renowned Barrow Neurological Institute. leader in innovation and technology in all aspects of neuroscience and stroke care.

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HAVE YOU HAD THE CONVERSATION? Discussing End-of-Life Wishes With Your Doctors & Loved Ones Wednesday, October 17, 2018 | 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Capital Health Regional Medical Center ICU/CCU Conference Rooms A & B Led by members of our Palliative & Supportive Care Program — DR. CAROLYN GAUKLER [Director], KAREN GIQUINTO [Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner] and RACHEL HUGHES [Coordinator].

TREATING GERD (Acid Reflux) and BARRETT’S ESOPHAGUS Monday, October 22, 2018 | 6 p.m.

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ON THE VERGE OF VERTIGO Monday, November 5, 2018 | 6 p.m.

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CANCER IN FAMILIES: A Look at Genetic Risks Wednesday, November 7, 2018 | 6 p.m.

Capital Health – Hamilton Led by DR. ERICA LINDEN from Mercer Bucks Hematology Oncology, and genetic counselors from the Capital Health Cancer Center as they discuss the important relationship between cancer and genetics.

PANCREATIC CANCER: Managing Risk, Making and Understanding a Diagnosis Tuesday, November 13, 2018 | 6 p.m.

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CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE: Understanding Risk Factors and Treatment Options Thursday, November 15, 2018 | 6 p.m.

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Passage Theater’s new director opens new season

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assage Theater Artistic Director Ryanne Domingues — who also co-founded and served as former producing artistic director of Simpatico Theater in Philadelphia — has a clear vision about staying fresh and connected to the audience and the community she serves. “I think it’s important for people to understand that going to theater is truly a conversation. All of the shows chosen for this season are my reaction to something happening in our community, and our programming is shifting as we see what people are looking for.”

Staying fresh can mean a lot of things as it does in the first main stage production of the season, “Salt Pepper Ketchup.” In this play by Philadelphia-born Josh Wilder, a layer of bulletproof glass won’t protect Superstar Chinese Take-Out from the gentrification consuming the Point Breeze neighborhood in South Philly. When a trendy food co-op opens nearby, the Wus and their customers initially see it as a hipster annoyance, but as tensions mount they begin to recognize the intrusion as an act of war. It is currently on stage at the Mill Hill Playhouse through Sunday, October 14.

“We have a lot of competition nowadays with television and the internet.

People want to stay home, tune out, and turn on Netflix. A major part of what I do every day is to try to gently remind people that interaction and engagement with their community is not only healthy, but the only way things will change our society. We have to talk to each other face-to-face.”

That face-to-face is considered in the other main stage production of the season: “Morir Sonyando,” from May 2 through 19. In Erlina Ortiz’ play a mother and daughter confront longburied pain when the mother is released from prison.

“At Passage, we are doing our best to make that face-to-face interaction an exciting one.

We are doing shows that we think will both challenge and entertain our community,” says Domingues, who is excited about introducing “Theater for Young Audiences.” It will be inaugurated Friday and Saturday, November 2 and 3, with a staged reading of “The Real Life Adventures of Jimmy de las Rosas,” about a telekinetic 13-year-old as he struggles to save his neighborhood from a rash of disappearances.

‘Going to theater is truly a conversation. All of the shows chosen for this season are my reaction to something happening in our community.’

Reflecting on the growing number of social issues and a desire to address them on the stage, Domingues says “I feel like there is so much happening right now that many people have a tendency to want to fight or hide their head in the sand. How do we keep the stamina we need to have the tough conversations that enable progress?

Addressing that are the other plays “To My Unborn Child: A Letter from Fred Hampton” by Richard Bradford about a Black Panther murdered by the Chicago police (February 8 through 10) and “Bicycle Face” by Hannah Van Sciver, about a feminist theory class taught 150 years in the future (February 15 to 17).

Of special interest are free events such as community dialogues and talk back sessions. “All of our Sunday matinee performances this season will be followed by a talkback conversation. We really want the experience to be a dialogue,” says Domingues.

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“My challenge,” she continues, “has been to find work that can provide our audiences with opportunities to both laugh and reflect. We want people to leave the theatre inspired, not drained. In a country that is incredibly divided, it can be hard to find shows that will speak to everyone.

My hope is that whether a person likes a show or not, they find ways to discuss and dissect why they felt that way. That is where the conversation begins.”

Salt Pepper Ketchup, Passage Theater, Mill Hill Playhouse, 205 East Front Street. Fridays at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays at 3 and 7:30 p.m., and Sundays at 3 p.m. Through October 14. $13 to $33.

609-392-0766. www.passagetheatre.org — Simon Saltzman

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Greenwood Avenue Farmers Market, Greenwood Avenue, 427 Greenwood Avenue, Trenton, 609-278-9677. www.facebook. com/greenwoodavefarmersmarket. Fresh produce, vegetables, juice, bread, meat, and seafood, plus free health screenings, nutrition education, live music, and games. 1 p.m.

West Trenton Garden Club, Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, 137 West Upper Ferry Road, West Trenton, 609-883-5804. www. westtrentongc.org. Pat Bowker presents a hands-on design workshop on fall arrangements. Containers, flowers, greens, and oasis provided. Guests welcome. $10. 7 p.m.  Art Chill Night, Championship Bar, 931 Chambers Street, Trenton. www.championshipbartrenton.com. Crayons and drinks. Art supplies provided. Free. 8 p.m.

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Open Mic Night, Trenton Social, 449 South Broad Street, Trenton. www.facebook.com/ trentonsocial. 8 p.m.

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Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End, Bristol Riverside Theatre, 120 Radcliffe Street, Bristol, 215785-6664. www.brtstage.org. One-woman show about America’s favorite housewife. $10-$50. Through October 7. 2 p.m.  Artist’s Talk, Rider Art Gallery, Bart Luedeke Center, 2083 Lawrenceville Road. www. rider.edu. “Mel Leipzig: Octogenarian.” Exhibition runs through Friday, October 26. 7 p.m.

The History of Trenton’s Famous Cadwalader Park, Hopewell Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell. www.redlibrary. org. Historian Jack Koeppel presents the history of Cadwalader Park. Part of the Hopewell Public Library’s Wednesday Night Out lecture series. Free. 7 p.m.

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 Bob Drury, David Library of the American Revolution, 1201 River Road, Washington Crossing, 215-493-6776. www.dlar.org. The author discusses how George Washington and his closest advisers spent six months fighting a war on two fronts. Free. Register. 7:30 p.m.

Princeton Area Community Foundation Community Forum, Brower Student Center, The College of New Jersey, 2000 Pennington Road, Ewing, 609-219-1800. www.pacf.org.

The state of grantmaking and community impact grants. Register. 9 a.m.

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American Idiot, Kelsey Theatre, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609-570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net. Friends try to break out of their post-9/11, aimless, suburban existence. Featuring the music of Green Day. $20. Through October 14. 8 p.m.  New Jersey Disability Pride Parade and Celebration, New Jersey State House Annex, 131 West State Street, Trenton. www. adacil.org. March and roll to Lafayette Street with people and organizations representing a variety of disabilities. Performers including Black Cat Habitat, activities, and more.

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Irish Festival, Hibernian Club, 2419 Kuser Road, Hamilton. www.facebook.com/hamiltonirishfest. Fish fry, live music, and more. $5. 11 a.m.

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he SEED Male Mentoring Program, in conjunction with Heal The City, is hosting “Together We Can Do This” at Mercer County Community College’s James Kerney Campus in Trenton on Saturday, October 6, at 11:30 a.m. Admission is free.

Coordinators cite Mayor Reed Gusciora’s vision for Trenton as the catalyst for the event.

Joining Gusciora at the event as keynote speaker is Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka, who will share strate-

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Salt Pepper Ketchup, Passage Theater, 205 East Front Street, Trenton, 609-392-0766. www.passagetheatre.org. A layer of bulletproof glass won’t protect Superstar Chinese Take-Out from the gentrification consuming Philly’s Point Breeze neighborhood. $13 to $38. 3 and 7:30 p.m.

American Idiot, Kelsey Theatre, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609-570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net. Friends try to break out of their post-9/11, aimless, suburban existence. Featuring the music of Green Day. $20. 8 p.m.  Philly POPS, St. Lawrence Rehabilitation Center, Patriots Theater at the Trenton War Memorial, Memorial Drive, Trenton, 215893-1999. phillypops.org. Benefit concert for St. Lawrence Rehabilitation Center in Lawrence features Broadway vocalist and pianist Michael Cavanaugh presenting “The Music of Elton John.” $35 to $90. 7:30 p.m.

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Latarsha Burke and the African American Cultural Collaborative of Mercer County and Mark Gibson and the House Music Festival will be recognized for their work in bringing the community together through entertainment. There will also be a special dramatic presentation by the young men of the SEED Male Mentoring Program.

The event takes place at 102 North Broad Street. For information, contact Stacy Heading at 267-528-5781.

State Museum, 205 West State Street, Trenton, 609-292-6464. Exhibition opening. See items ranging from an Ice Age-period caribou antler to a 1930s flight suit and more that tell the story of New Jersey. 9 a.m.

Canal Walk, Black Rock Road Picnic Area, Black Rock Road, Yardley, 212-862-2021. www. fodc.org. Bring a light lunch and beverage.

Free. 9 a.m.

Oktoberfest, River Horse Brewing Company, 2 Graphics Drive, Ewing. www.riverhorse.com.

A variety of beers, entertainment, and more.

21 and up. $20. Register. 7 p.m.

Central New Jersey Heart Walk, Arm & Hammer Park, 1 Thunder Road, Trenton, 609223-3784. www.centralnjheartwalk.org.

Walk plus health screenings, Kids’ Zone, demonstrations, nutritional information, NJ, live entertainment, and free giveaways. Register. 8 a.m.

First Day 5K, Veterans Park, Kuser Road, Hamilton. www.firstdayofschoolfoundation.org.

Free refreshments following the race, plus prizes and trophies for top finishers. Proceeds benefit the First Day of School Foundation. $10-$20. Register. 9 a.m.

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Play by Josh Wilder of Philadelphia. $13 to $38. 3 p.m.

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Greenwood Avenue Farmers Market, Greenwood Avenue, 427 Greenwood Avenue, Trenton, 609-278-9677. www.facebook. com/greenwoodavefarmersmarket.

Free health screenings, nutrition education, live music, and games. 1 p.m.

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Square Dance, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 1620 Prospect Street, Ewing, 609-844-1140.

For dancers of all skills levels. Learn new material each week. 7:30 Open Mic Night, Trenton Social, 449 South Broad Street, Trenton. www.facebook.com/ trentonsocial. 8 p.m.

Detroit ‘67, McCarter Theater, 91 University Place, Princeton, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. Chelle and her brother, Lank, are running an unlicensed after-hours joint out of their basement during a brutal police crackdown that has set o riots throughout the city. When Lank oers refuge to a mysterious stranger, he and Chelle clash. Through October 28. 7:30 p.m.

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Oklahoma!, Rider University, Yvonne Theater, 2083 Lawrenceville Road, 609-896-7775. www.rider.edu. The classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. $20-$25. Through October 14. 7:30 p.m.

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Friends try to break out of their post-9/11, aimless, suburban existence. Featuring the music of Green Day. $20. 8 p.m.

Rummage Sale, Slackwood Presbyterian Church, 2020 Brunswick Avenue, Lawrence, 609-392-3258. Call for questions or donations. 9 a.m.

Uncle Skunk + Paper Geese + MrE + More TBA, Championship Sports Bar, 931 Chambers Street, Trenton. $10. 7 to 11 p.m.

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Women Poets. $20. Tickets on eventbrite. com. 7 to 10 p.m.

Oktoberfest, Trenton Cyrus #5 Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, 131 Burd Street, Pennington. www.trentoncyrus5.org. Pig roast, German food and dessert, drinks, and live music. $40. 4 p.m.

Rummage Sale, Slackwood Presbyterian Church, 2020 Brunswick Avenue, Lawrence, 609-392-3258. $5 per bag, plus half-priced items outside. 8:30 a.m.

Central Jersey Beer Festival, Festival Grounds, Mercer County Park. www.cjbeerfest.com.

Beer tasting, cash bar, food trucks, and music. $60. 1 p.m.

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American Idiot, Kelsey Theatre, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609-570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net. Friends try to break out of their post-9/11, aimless, suburban existence. Featuring the music of Green Day. $20. 2 p.m.

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Under the direction of conductor Dan Spalding, the concert commemorates the 100th birthday of the celebrated American conductor and composer of some of America’s best known stage and concert works. Featured on the program are the ballet “Fancy Free,” “Symphonic Dances from ‘West Side Story,’” and “Symphonic Suite from ‘On the Waterfront,’” Bernstein’s only film score.

Coming up are two concerts featuring guest artist Carla Maffioletti, a soprano and classical guitarist known as the “Brazilian Song Bird.” She will be appearing in an intimate concert in the War Memorial’s George Washington Ballroom on Friday, December 28, at 7:30 p.m.

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Anniversary Celebration (Stiftungsfest), Donauschwaben of Trenton, 127 Route 156, Hamilton, 609-586-6109. www.trentondonauschwaben.com. Anniversary dinner, entertainment, door prizes, and more. $25.

Register. 1 p.m.

Journey through Foster Care, CASA of Mercer and Burlington Counties, Trenton County Club, 201 Sullivan Way, Trenton, 609-4340050. www.casamb.org. Former foster child and author Shenandoah Chefalo shares her journey through foster care. $55. Benefits CASA. 11 a.m.

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Greenwood Avenue Farmers Market, Greenwood Avenue, 427 Greenwood Avenue, Trenton, 609-278-9677. www.facebook. com/greenwoodavefarmersmarket. Fresh produce, vegetables, juice, bread, meat, and seafood, plus free health screenings, nutrition education, live music, and games. 1 p.m.  Art Chill Night, Championship Bar, 931 Chambers Street, Trenton. www.championshipbartrenton.com. Crayons and drinks. Art supplies provided. Free. 8 p.m.

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Square Dance, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 1620 Prospect Street, Ewing, 609-844-1140.

For dancers of all skills levels. Learn new material each week. 7:30 Open Mic Night, Trenton Social, 449 South Broad Street, Trenton. www.facebook.com/ trentonsocial. 8 p.m.

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End of Pipe, Mill Hill Basement, 300 South Broad Street, Trenton, 609-989-1600. $10.

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An Evening with Nathaniel Philbrick, David Library of the American Revolution, 1201 River Road, Washington Crossing, 215-4936776. The author discusses and signs his newest book, “In the Hurricane’s Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown.” $50. Register. 7:30 p.m.

Off The Chain, Orchid House, 143 East Hanover Street, Trenton, 609-610-0824. Workshops on bicycle repairs, arts, and related bicyclethemed projects. Free. 6 p.m.

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Pop-Up Poetry Cafe, Studio B Bistro, 439 South Broad Street, Suite 106, Trenton. www.taacf.com. Open mic even for all ages, plus music by DJ Say Whaat. Light snacks and beverages provided. Todd Evans and Giovanni Williams host. Free. 5 p.m.

CASA Information Session, CASA of Mercer and Burlington Counties, 1450 Parkside Avenue, Suite 22, Ewing. www.casamb.org.

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for its annual New Year’s Eve concert on Monday, December 31, at 8 p.m.

The New Year’s program includes film scores by John Williams and George Gershwin, stage works by Richard Rodgers, Leonard Bernstein, and Viction that recruits, trains and supervises community volunteers who speak up in family court for the best interests of children who have been removed from their families due to abuse and/or neglect. 10 a.m.  Capital City Farmers Market, Mill Hill Park, 165 East Front Street, Trenton. www.destinationtrenton.com. Every Thursday through October. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.  The Fight Goes On, Stakeholders ACT, City Hall. www.stakeholders-act.org. Rally to continue its fight against former Chris Christie’s plan to use outdated practices to build new state offices away from the heart of the city and outside Trenton’s master plan.

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A Raisin in the Sun, Kelsey Theatre, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609-570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net. Lorraine Hansberry’s classic work about a black working class family struggling to achieve the American Dream. $18. Through October 28. 8 p.m.

Art Auction/Silent Auction, Nottingham Ballroom, 200 Mercer Street, Hamilton. www. rhrotary.org. Framed fine art and silent auction gift baskets, plus hors d’oeuvres, beer, and wine. $10. 6:30 p.m.

tor Herbert, and orchestral pieces by Johan Strauss, Gioacchino Rossini, and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Trenton War Memorial, 1 Memorial Drive, Trenton, $30 to $65. 215-8931999. www.capitalphilharmonic.org.

Walking Tour: Poe Walk: Morbid Curiosities 2018, Riverview Cemetery, 870 Centre Street, Trenton. www.facebook.com/ events/291214411694869. Stroll to the grave with a “door” featuring several references to Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” also look inside the historic receiving vault, and more. Arrive 15 minutes early, wear comfortable shoes, and bring a flashlight. $15. 6 and 7 p.m.

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A Raisin in the Sun, Kelsey Theatre, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609-5703333. www.kelseytheatre.net. $18. 8 p.m.

Opening Night, Capital Philharmonic Orchestra, Patriots Theater at the War Memorial, 1 Memorial Drive, Trenton, 215-893-1999. www.capitalphilharmonic.org. Celebrating the legacy of Leonard Bernstein. $30-$65.

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Reach for the Stars Masquerade Ball, Stone Terrace, 2275 Kuser Road, Hamilton. www. theasstarofhope.org. Cocktail reception, open bar, silent auctions, and raffles benefitting Thea’s Star of Hope. $125. 7 p.m.

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EvEnTS, continued from page 21 Walk for Freedom, Edinburg Road Chapel, 380 Edinburg Road, Hamilton. www.a21.org/ walk. Benefiting the A21 Campaign against human trafficking. Register. 9 a.m.

Bucks/Mercer Take Steps for Crohn’s and Colitis, Arm & Hammer Park, 1 Thunder Road, Trenton, 732-786-9960 ext. 2. www. cctakesteps.org/bucksmercer.

Benefiting the Take Steps for Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation. Register. 10 a.m.

Walking Tour: Poe Walk: Morbid Curiosities 2018, Riverview Cemetery, 870 Centre Street, Trenton. www.facebook.com/ events/291214411694869. Stroll to the grave with a “door” featuring several references to Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” also look inside the historic receiving vault, and more. Arrive 15 minutes early and bring a flashlight. $15. 6 and 7 p.m.

Trenton Punk Rock Flea Market, Historic Roebling Wire Works, 675 South Clinton Avenue. www.trentonpunkrockfleamarket.com.

More than 200 vendors, food trucks, and music. $5. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.  TPRFM After Party, Championship Bar, 931 Chambers Street. www.championshipbartrenton.com/events. With Molly Rhythm, Lost Love (from Montreal), and Guerilla Poubelle (from France). $8. 8 to 11 p.m.

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A Raisin in the Sun, Kelsey Theatre, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609-5703333. Lorraine Hansberry’s classic work about a black working class family struggling to achieve the American Dream. $18. 2 p.m.

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CASA Information Session, CASA of Mercer and Burlington Counties, 1450 Parkside Av-

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CASA for Children is a non-profit organization that recruits, trains and supervises community volunteers who speak up in family court for the best interests of children who have been removed from their families due to abuse and/or neglect. 5:30 p.m.

Greenwood Avenue Farmers Market, Greenwood Avenue, 427 Greenwood Avenue, Trenton, 609-278-9677. www.facebook. com/greenwoodavefarmersmarket. Fresh produce, vegetables, juice, bread, meat, and seafood, plus free health screenings, nutrition education, live music, and games. 1 p.m.  Art Chill Night, Championship Bar, 931 Chambers Street, Trenton. www.championshipbartrenton.com. Crayons and drinks. Art supplies provided. Free. 8 p.m.

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Open Mic Night, Trenton Social, 449 South Broad Street, Trenton. www.facebook.com/ trentonsocial. 8 p.m.

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Behind the Scenes of Paranormal Investigations, Ewing Library, 61 Scotch Road, Ewing, 609-882-3130. www.mcl.org. Learn what Joanne Emmons, founder of Paranormal Consulting and Investigations of New Jersey, does when she and her staff get called on a case. Register. 7 p.m.

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‘Changing Face/Changing Place: A Look at the Architectural History of the Trenton Area’ is on view at Ellarslie through January 13, 2019, celebrating firm FVHD’s 100 years of architecture. Above is FVHD’s design for the New Jersey Firemen’s Association, which is under construction in Wall Township.

Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609-570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net. Lorraine Hansberry’s classic work about a black working class family struggling to achieve the American Dream. $18. 8 p.m.

Acid Dad, Mill Hill Basement, 300 South Broad Street. 609-989-1600. With alpha rabbit and The Tide Bends. 10 p.m.

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A Raisin in the Sun, Kelsey Theatre, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609-5703333. Lorraine Hansberry’s classic work about a black working class family struggling to achieve the American Dream. $18. 8 p.m.

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A Raisin in the Sun, Kelsey Theatre, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609-570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net. Lorraine Hansberry’s classic work about a black working class family struggling to achieve the American Dream. $18. 2 p.m.

Trouble in Tahiti, Boheme Opera NJ, Mayo Concert Hall, The College of New Jersey, Ewing. www.bohemeopera.com. One-act op-

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era followed by a selection of other works by Leonard Bernstein. 3 p.m.

Out of the Darkness Community Walk, Veterans Park, Kuser Road, Hamilton, 888-3332377. www.afsp.org/hamilton. Two-mile walk benefiting the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Register. 8:30 a.m.

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Greenwood Avenue Farmers Market, Greenwood Avenue, 427 Greenwood Avenue, Trenton, 609-278-9677. www.facebook. com/greenwoodavefarmersmarket. Fresh produce, vegetables, juice, bread, meat, and seafood, plus free health screenings, nutrition education, live music, and games. 1 p.m.  Art Chill Night, Championship Bar, 931 Chambers Street, Trenton. www.championshipbartrenton.com. Crayons and drinks. Art supplies provided. Free. 8 p.m.

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The Rivals, Bristol Riverside Theatre, 120 Radcliffe Street, Bristol, 215-785-6664. www. brtstage.org. A new musical based on the play. $10-$53. Through November 18. 7:30 p.m.

Square Dance, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 1620 Prospect Street, Ewing, 609-844-1140.

For dancers of all skills levels. Learn new material each week. 7:30 Open Mic Night, Trenton Social, 449 South Broad Street, Trenton. www.facebook.com/ trentonsocial. 8 p.m.

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The Rivals, Bristol Riverside Theatre, 120 Radcliffe Street, Bristol, 215-785-6664. www. brtstage.org. A new musical based on the play. $10-$53. 7:30 p.m.

Opening Reception, Rider Art Gallery, Bart Luedeke Center, 2083 Lawrenceville Road. www.rider.edu. Watercolors by Harry I. Narr. Exhibition runs through Friday, November 30. 5 to 7 p.m.

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WEST WINDSOR SMALL BUSINESS SCAVENGER HUNT:

To celebrate the 80th Anniversary of "War of the Worlds" 1938-2018

A SCAVENGER HUNT GAME It's easy: - Get a Game Card (at any participating business listed below) -Visit each business (no purchase necessary) -Have them stamp your card - Drop off card at Grover's Mill Coffee by October 29th, 2018 - WIN amazing prizes! Drawing on October 30th at Grover's Mill Coffeehouse *For every stamp on your card, your name will be entered that many times to win a prize from participating businesses. See rules and regulations on back of game card. IT'S EASY! IT'S FUN!

PARTICIPATING WEST WINDSOR SMALL BUSINESSES: Appelget Farms - 135 Conover Road Classico Pies - 358 Princeton Hightstown Road First Wok Chinese Food - 295 Princeton Hightstown Road Grover's Mill Coffee - 295 Princeton Hightstown Road Princeton Pong - 745 Alexander Road Signature Cleaners - 295 Princeton Hightstown Road Smile Dentistry - 295 Princeton Hightstown Road- opening Oct 2018 *West Windsor Arts Center - 952 Alexander Road Young's Nail Salon - 295 Princeton Hightstown Road

THE PRIZES: Signature Cleaners- 25% off cleaning service Princeton Pong- 4 guest passes, t-shirt, new paddle & ping pong balls ($70 value) Young’s Nail Salon- $50 gift card Grover’s Mill Coffee - $75 gift card Appelget Farms - $50 gift card Smile Dentistry- $200 towards any dental treatment, plus whitening kit First Wok - Free Lunch Special *WWAC- will donate a Household Membership for a prize (value $75) *WW Arts Center is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.

Classico Pies - $50 gift card

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What you’ll earn with the Credit Union of New Jersey: Account Balance $500

APY

Earned Dividend at CU of NJ

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$37.50

Compared to the national average interest at banks:** Account Balance $500

APY

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Open an account at any of our branches or by calling (609) 789-0790. * APY=Annual Percentage Yield. 7.5% APY will be paid on the daily balance in your account up to the first $500.00. A dividend rate of 0.05% will be paid only on the portion of your daily balance

between $500.01 to $9,999.99 with an APY range for this tier of 7.500% APY to 0.423% APY depending on the balance in the account. A dividend rate of 0.10% will be paid only on the portion of your daily balance between $10,000 and $250,000 with an APY range for this tier of 0.423% APY to 0.113% APY depending on the balance in the account. All rates are subject to change, after account opening, without notice. Maximum deposit amount is $250,000. Membership in good standing and a Regular Share account with a $5 minimum deposit is required. Requires a $50.00 minimum balance. Fees could reduce earnings. Additional savings accounts established under the same member name, and related tax identification number, are not eligible for these special terms. APY is effective as of June 1, 2018. One 7.5% Savings account per member.

** National average bank savings rate of 0.09% annually derived from Bank Rate: https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/rates/

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