TOWNSHIP OF EWING COUNTY OF MERCER

PUBLIC NOTICE – NOTICE OF CONTRACT AWARDS FOR 2023

Notice is hereby given that the Township of Ewing has awarded contracts without competitive bidding as professional services pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40A:11-5(1)(a)(i). The contracts and the resolutions authorizing them are on file and available for public inspection at the office of the Municipal Clerk.

Awarded To: Maeve Cannon, Esq. of Stevens & Lee

Duration: 12 Months

Nature and Type of Contract: Township Attorney

Awarded To: Antonio Martinez, Esq.

Duration: 12 Months

Nature and Type of Contract: Public Defender

Awarded To: Connie Bentley, Esq.

Duration: 12 Months

Nature and Type of Contract: Municipal Prosecutor

Awarded To: David J. Truelove, Esq. of Hill Wallack

Duration: 12 Months

Nature and Type of Contract: Attorney – Labor Negotiator

Awarded To: Paul M. Bishop, Esq.

Duration: 12 Months

Nature and Type of Contract: Attorney – Special Tax Counsel

Awarded To: Alaimo Group Consulting Engineers

Duration: 12 Months

Nature and Type of Contract: Township Conflict Engineer

Awarded To: Peter Sockler and Sockler Realty Services Group

Duration: 12 Months

Nature and Type of Contract: Real Estate Conflict Appraisals

Awarded To: Robert P. Esposti and Post Appraisal Group

Duration: 12 Months

Nature and Type of Contract: Real Estate Conflict Appraisals

Awarded To: Charles Ciolino and Garden State Appraisers and Consultants

Duration: 12 Months

Nature and Type of Contract: Real Estate Conflict Appraisals

Awarded To: Pamela J. Brodowski and BRB Valuation & Consulting Services

Duration: 12 Months

Nature and Type of Contract: Real Estate Appraisals

Awarded To: Charles W. Latini and L & G Planning, LLC

Duration: 12 Months

Nature and Type of Contract: Township Planner

Awarded To: K. Wendell Bibbs and Remington & Vernick Engineers

Duration: 12 Months

Nature and Type of Contract: Township Engineer

Awarded To: Charles P. Allen, Jr., Esq.

Duration: 12 Months

Nature and Type of Contract: Special Litigation Attorney/Condemnation Board

Awarded To: Edward McManimon, III, Esq. of McManimon, Scotland and Baumann, LLC

Duration: 12 Months

Nature and Type of Contract: Bond Counsel/Special Legal Counsel

Awarded To: Edwin W. Schmierer, Esq. of Mason, Griffin & Pierson, PC

Duration: 12 Months

Nature and Type of Contract: Rent Control Attorney/Special Litigation Attorney

Awarded To: Digesh B. Patel of Mercadien, P.C.

Duration: 12 Months

Nature and Type of Contract: Auditing Services

Awarded To: Wesley Bridges, Esq. of Bridges & Snell, LLC

Duration: 12 Months

Nature and Type of Contract: Special Litigation Conflict Attorney/Labor Negotiator

Awarded To: Frank Piazza, Jr. of Piazza & Associates, Inc.

Duration: 12 Months

Nature and Type of Contract: Administrative Agent Services - COAH

Kim J. Macellaro, CMC

Toddlers Create! Tuesdays, March 7, 14, 21, 28 at 11-11:45 a.m. Toddlers will create projects with a Spring theme! Children, ages 5 and under with adult.

Messy Crafts. Tuesdays, March 7, 14, 21, 28 at 2:30 – 3:15 p.m. Join us for messy crafts, with different projects each week. Please dress down for messy play. Children ages 5 and under with adult.

Music and Movement. Wednesdays, March 1, 8, 15, 23, 30 at 11–11:45 a.m. Join Miss Susan for music and movement action rhymes! Children 5 and under with adult.

Baby Time. Thursdays, March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 at 10:30 -10:45 a.m. Join Miss Chetna for rhymes and songs! Children ages birth to 18 months with adult.

Playdough Creations. Thursdays, March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 at 11-11:45 a.m. Also Fridays, March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 at 10:30- 11 a.m. Playdough creations based on a storytime theme. Children ages 5 and under. Preschool Storytime. Fridays, March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 at 10:30- 11 a.m. Songs, rhymes, stories and craft. For children ages 2-5 with adult.

Little Scientist STEM Program. Mondays, March 6, 13, 20, 27 at 10 -10:30 a.m. Learn by doing fun experiments! Children ages 5 and under with adult.

Think Like a Scientist! Thursdays, March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 at 4:30-5 p.m. Fun science projects and experiments for schoolage children ages 6-10.

Homeschool Meet-up. Thursdays, March 2, 9, 16, 23, March 30, at 9:30 am10:20 a.m. All are invited to join Homeschool Meet-up. Some sessions will be play based, others more educational in nature. For all ages and abilities.

Chess Program for School-age Children, Ages 5-12. Sundays, March 5, 12, 19, 26 at 3-4 p.m. Join us for a game of chess! No experience necessary, and all skill levels welcome!

Celebrate Holi with Storytime and Crafts. Sunday, March 5, 1-2 p.m. The Hindi Holi Festival is celebrated as a way to welcome in Spring. Listen to a story and make a Holi Festival craft! For all ages!

Drop-in Mario Craft. March 10, 10 a.m.4 p.m. Celebrate Mario Day with a special craft!

Leprechaun Scavenger Hunts. Monday, March 13, Tuesday, March 14, Wednesday, March 15, Thursday, March 16, and Friday, March 17, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Stop by the children’s desk to make a paper tube binocular and find the Leprechaun that is hiding in the book shelves in the children’s section. Return the sheet that shows where you found the leprechaun and receive a chocolate golden coin.

Leprechaun Snack. Tuesday. March 14, 10 a.m., ages 5 and under with adult. Make a delicious snack for leprechauns.

Drop-in Pi Day Craft. Tuesday, March

14, 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. Celebrate Pi Day with a special mathematical craft!

St. Patrick’s Day. Thursday, March 16, 4:30-5 p.m. Make green slime! All Ages! Paper Circuits. Sunday, March 19, 1-2 p.m. Join Miss Chetna in making paper circuits, for school-age children, ages 5-10.

New Jersey Makers Day. Visit the Ewing Branch from March 24- March 26 to pick up your catapult kit! Materials and instructions are included.

She Persisted Book Talk for SchoolAge Children, Ages 5-9. The librarians will book talk several books from the awardwinning series She Persisted, Tuesday, March 21 and Tuesday, March 28 at 4 p.m. Light Refreshments!

Programs for Adults. Registration required. Call 609-882-3148 or sign up at www.mcl.org.

Women’s History Month Movie Series at 2:30 p.m. on Saturdays. March 4: Frida (R), March 11: On the Basis of Sex (PG13); March 18: Hidden Figures (PG), 25: Suffragette (PG-13).

Chess Club. Monday, March 6, 6 p.m. and Wednesday, March 22, 2:30 p.m. All skill levels welcome.

Create a Red-Hot Resume. Thursday, March 9, 10 a.m. A one-on-one workshop for building a resume and conducting an effective job search. Four 30-minute individual appointments. Presented by volunteer Paul Martinetti, MD who has led numerous workshops at TCNJ’s career center.

Adult Craft: Acrylic Pouring. Thursday, March 9, 3 p.m. Acrylic pouring is a technique in which acrylic paints are mixed in a liquid medium and poured onto a canvas. This technique creates an unpredictable, vibrant, and flowing marble-like pattern.

Sons of Erin: The Irish in the American Civil War. Thursday, March 16, 7 p.m. The American Civil War is Ireland’s forgotten conflict. In 1860, about 1.5 million Irish were living in the United States. During the American Civil War, some 150,000 Irish men fought in the Union Army and about 20,000 joined and fought with the Confederacy. Join historical reenactor and lecturer Michael Jesberger for a presentation on these “Sons of Erin.”

Adult Book Discussion. Tuesday, March 28, 7 p.m. Join us to discuss Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk.

Women’s History Month Non-Fiction Book Group. Wednesday, March 30, 7 p.m. Join us to discuss 10 Women who Changed Science and the World by Catherine Whitlock and Evans Rhodri. Feel free to attend even if you have not read or finished the book.

Sunday Movie Series for ages 18 and up at 2 p.m. March 5: The Menu (R), March 12: Till (R), March 19: The Woman King (PG-13), March 26: The Fablemans (PG-13).

KAUFFMAN continued from Page 1 grew up in Lawrence Township. His father worked at U.S. Steel, and his mother was a clerical worker. He graduated from Lawrence High School in 1971, took classes at Mercer County Community College, and received a degree in broadcast production from Jersey City State College.

Kauffman says that it was the broadcast curriculum that connected him to the art form for which he is known. “Photography was required, and it was a way to express myself. I had never taken any art. It was a new experience.”

Kauffman credits Mercer County Community College instructor and veteran photographer William Barksdale for opening a world to him. “He had a great influence. He was like one of the old masters. He had been teaching for years so he knew how to get a student to understand what good photography was.”

Asked to define “a good photograph,” Kauffman, in his well-known soft voice, says, “It’s a (technically) well executed print, with a well rounded idea, one that helps you see your feelings and ideas and intuitions come across in what you’re try- ing to portray. You can look at a certain artist’s work and know it’s by that artist.”

Kauffman says that after graduating from Jersey City he attended Philadelphia College of Art, now the University of the Arts, and met Ron Walker, the eventual chairman of the photo/film department.

“He introduced me to the work of others who had accomplished what I was trying to do. In a sense, he helped me find my voice. I consider Ron my biggest influence as both a friend and teacher. We’ve kept in touch over the years. He’s now a vice president at Rider. One of my photographs is hanging in his office.”

For years Kauffman— who lives in Ewing with his wife, Michele, and has a studio in Trenton—labored to create crisp black-andwhite images that frequently celebrate structures found along New Jersey highways and roads. Recently he has carefully introduced color into his arrangement and—through the use of a Nikon D800 and its ability to capture large files—he is experimenting with print scale.

“When I came (to Mason Gross) I had access to printers 40 inches by 60 inches. You almost feel like you’re walking into the photograph. It brings out the visual elements that I emphasize: a sense of architecture, straight line, and minimalist.”

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Other artists participating in the TAWA exhibition are listed below.

Ricardo Barros is an arts contributing writer to Icon magazine, Bucks County PA, and an internationally known photographer and has done artwork commissioned by Fortune 500 companies. Barros has work in the permanent collections of several museums including the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. Barros lives in Princeton.

Ilene Dube is a producer for the PBS series “State of the Arts” and a contributor to tristate media including Princeton Magazine, JerseyArts Features, and Hyperallergic. Her independently produced short documentaries have been screened at the New Jersey Film Festival, Nassau Film Festival, Trenton Film Festival, Princeton Environmental Film Festival, and at arts centers and libraries. Her art, which she considers play, has been exhibited in the Hopewell Tour des Arts, Phillips Mill, Hobart Art in the Native Landscape, Ellarslie Not Quite Open and Salon des Refuses, West Windsor Arts Council, and others. Dube lives in West Windsor.

John Gummere is an arts reviewer for The Trenton Journal. He is an award-winning artist and has exhibited at the d’Art Centre in Norfolk, Virginia, Alfa Art Gallery in New Brunswick, and Marblehead Art Association in Massachusets and is currently exhibiting in several venues in the greater Trenton area. His oil paintings on canvas use a representational style, with an emphasis on city scenes, landscapes, and interior compositions. Some of his favorite painters include Edward Hopper, John Sloan, and landscape painters of the 1800s. Gummere lives in Morrisville.

Thomas Kelly writes reviews for the Community News Service and is an awardwinning painter. Widely collected, his work has a signature style, which has its roots in Expressionism. His colorful, narrative, acrylic paintings on canvas often create a dialogue with the viewer. Kelly’s work can be seen at Walter Wickiser Gallery NYC; Bethlehem House Gallery in Pennsylvania; The Artful Deposit Gallery in Bordentown; and Beauregard Fine Art in Rumson. Kelly lives in Hamilton Township.

Janet Purcell has been an arts writer for The Times of Trenton for more than 25 years. She also contributes to Woman’s Day, Design NJ Magazine, and freelances for various magazine publications. She has written several fiction publications, including “Singer Lane,” “The Long Way Home,” and “Rooster Street-Legacy of a Runaway Slave.” She works primarily in oils and pastels. Purcell has shown her work in several venues, including Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie; Brodsky Gallery, Chauncey Conference Center; RF Gallery at Prallsville Mill, Stockton; and Jewish Community Center, Trenton. Purcell lives in Hopewell Township.

Trenton Free Public Library, 120 Academy Street. Mondays through Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Friday and Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 609-392-7188.