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At 5-foot-8, 175 pounds, Mike Poinsett is often faced with much larger ball carriers barreling in his direction. His plan of attack is direct and logical. “Nobody can run without their legs,” the Bordentown High linebacker said. “If I’m tackling a big guy, I just go for the legs.” If it’s a bigger blocker getting in Poinsett’s way, he opts for quickness over power. “I know I can use my speed and my moves to get off the block to get the tackle,” he said. It is that kind of attitude that prompts Scotties football coach Skip Edwards to say “He is the backbone of our defense and doesn’t get the credit he deserves.” “Mike is basically the quarterback of our defense,” Edwards continued. “He just puts it all out on the field. The kids respect him, they like what he is, who is and how he is. You can’t ask for a better leader. Even though he’s not one of our captains he is a leader on the team.” Only a junior, Poinsett is already a grizzled veteran. In a winless 2019 season, when Edwards played a lot of freshSee POINSETT, Page 19

Left: the head of a life-sized Jersey Devil sculpture on display at the New Jersey Pinelands Preservation Alliance in Southampton. Right: A time-washed gravestone in the Church Street cemetery, mentioned in Albinus Alba’s 1905 article claiming that the Jersey Devil was born in Bordentown.

Time to welcome the Jersey Devil home — to Bordentown By DAn Aubrey

The Jersey Devil was born in Bordentown. So claims a 1905 newspaper article written by Alminus Alba. That early 20th story appears briefly in the 2018 book The Secret History of the Jersey Devil: How Quakers, Hucksters, and Benjamin Franklin Created a Monster. Written by Kean University history professors Brian Regal and Frank J. Esposito and published by John Hopkins Uni-

versity Press, it’s a good start for this overview that leads to the Bordentown connection. That’s because The Secret History authoritatively connects the myth of a demon child that still haunts New Jersey to a feud between two prominent 18th century Philadelphia almanac publishers. One, obviously, was Benjamin Franklin. The other was a member of the Leeds family. Together, they vied for business in New Jersey and in the communities along the Dela-

ware River — especially in the Quaker region of what is now Burlington County. Although Quaker, almanac founder Daniel Leeds used his publication to criticize the church’s hierarchy and its decisions. Fellow Quakers fought back by questioning the publisher’s spiritual leanings and began to consider him demonic. At the same time, Franklin was establishing his paper using tongue-in-cheek stories See DEVIL, Page 6

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Voters in Bordentown Township and Fieldsboro will see many familiar names in the municipal races on their ballots this fall. In the township, two-term incumbent Democrats Steve Benowitz and Eric Holliday, currently serving as mayor and deputy mayor, are running against GOP challengers Nicholas D’Angelo and Rob Delaney. D’Angelo is a first-timer on the ballot, but Delaney served a term on the committee from 2005-2008. In Fieldsboro, incumbent Democratic Mayor David Hansell is running unopposed, while incumbent Democrat council members Amy Telford and Andrew Weber have one Republican challenger, Timothy Tyler, who has served multiple terms as the Burlington County Clerk. Bordentown City holds its municipal elections in May, but city voters have a chance to vote in the Bordentown Regional School District Board of Education election, where incumbent Mike James is unopposed. In the township, incumbents Richard Carpenter and Katherine Clark are running against newcomer Ryan Cody. For more of our election coverage, turn to page 9.

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arOuNd TOWN Randy Now’s Man Cave reopens and marks musical history Randy Now’s Man Cave is back and producing musical events in its intimate space at 134 Farnsworth Ave. in Bordentown. Now, AKA Randy Ellis, points to an upcoming personal milestone with an October 13 concert featuring a musical guest from Liverpool, England. As Now says, “Back in 1981, I booked the first show ever in America of (England new wave band) A Flock Of Seagulls. I’ve kept in loose touch with Mike Score — the leader, writer, and singer and the guy with the ‘Seagull’ hairdo that inspired bands like Duran, Duran and many others. “I finally talked Mike into playing a show (two shows actually) for me in The Man Cave. It’ll be acoustic — but the only show of A Flock of Seagulls in a venue this type (a record store) and at 30 seats.” The two shows are 6:30 and 8 p.m. Tickets are $65, with all proceeds going to the band, Now says. “I thought it would be fun — 40 years later booking the same band (well, er, the same man),” says the prompter best known for his bookings at the fabled City Gardens in Trenton.” In addition, Now keeps rocking

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DEVIL continued from Page 1 to attract readers, such as the supernaturally charged “The Witch Trial at Mount Holly.” He eventually bated another member of the Leeds family, publisher Titan Leeds, into a series of published exchanges and eventually used them to suggest that Leeds was actually dead and animated by a malevolent spirit. That in helped create clouds over the Leeds family and gave credence to the potential that a Leeds woman cursed God when she discovered she was pregnant for the 13th time and gave birth to a demon. The historians have their facts down about the feud, but they have a devilish time with the birth of the myth. And while they lean on the most retold tale of the Leeds Devil being born at Leeds Point in Atlantic County in 1737, they also mention other stories that point to other places of the demon’s birth — including the one by Alba that, despite the author having a Newark Sunday Call byline listing, seems to have appeared simultaneously in several New Jersey newspapers. So what about the claim that the Leeds Devil had a Bordentown address? Contemporary New Jersey journalist Bill Sprouse shares some thoughts. He is the author of The Domestic History of the Jersey Devil: or BeBop’s Miscellany, a 2013 book that combines the author’s training as Yale University history graduate and his boots-on-the-ground journalist work to examine the Jersey

A stained glass depiction of the Jersey Devil by Kenneth Lear, on display at the New Jersey State House in Trenton. Devil’s history and social impact. He is also a member of the Leeds family and learned the tale of his infamous ancestor from his grandmother, AKA “BeBop.” Sprouse’s book connects his family to Leeds Point, but the writer considers the Bordentown birth and says in an email “multiple versions of what

amounted to this same (1905) story appeared around the same time. The one I reference in my book was headlined something like ‘Leeds Devil was Bordentown Born’ and was from the Trenton Times.” Along with the note, Sprouse forwarded a photocopy of Alba’s article. This one was on page five of the Tuesday, May 5, 1905, issue of the Camden Post-Telegram. The head line starts with “Story of the Leeds Devil” and continues with the subhead, “The Imp’s Physical Peculiarities Which Started Bordentown for Many Years.” Then the story opens with: “Who has not heard, especially if he be a Jerseyman, of Leeds’ devil? Though the name may be familiar to many, only a few doubtless are aware that there ever was such an individual, and, if so, that the sinister being was born in Bordentown, N.J.” After putting the town in context and reporting that “William Penn used to cross over from Penn’s Manor to attend the Friends’ meeting at the Farnsworth’s down,” Alba says the town has been associated with a number of historical names and that “among the numerous names which rise out of the misty past the Leeds monstrosity claims a prominent place.” He then tells the following tale. *** In Bordentown, N.J., many years ago on the northeastern corner of Farnsworth Avenue and McKnight Alley stood a quaint old house, which for a

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long time was owned and occupied by Parmella Jolly. Years ago the house was demolished and on the site stands a modern villa. In the Baptist section of the desolate and desecrated graveyard at the foot of Church Street there is a yellow tombstone, whereon appears the name, Parmella Jolly. In the house in question during 1808 resided Captain Leeds, his wife and young daughter. The captain at times followed the sea, was highly respected and well known in the community. Though but a youth at the time, he served in the old Revolution, and as a mark of honor bore on his brow over the left eye an ugly scar. The scar was said to have been the result of a bout he had with a Hessian at the time the English invaded Bordentown and burned the residence of Joseph Borden. Mrs. Leeds was a Tarlton before she married the captain. She was of a reputable family, and the only reflection that was ever passed on her, if the expression can be considered in that light, was that she was “queer.” Gossip was rife in the old town, then as it is now, and the insinuations that were passed in reference to Mrs. Leeds associated her name with beings of the other world. There is no evidence to indicate that she did not possess a maternal love for her daughter, but she had no desire for another offspring, and repeatedly expressed herself corroborating this sentiment. She said, in case she should ever be so unfortunate as to have an additional offspring, she hoped it would be a devil.

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A year or so after Mrs. Leeds truly diabolical manner. One evening, just after the candles expressed herself in such a singular manner she gave birth to a child bear- were lit, when the mother and her ing a close resemblance to the ortho- demon child were seated by the liberal dox devil, and the monstrosity soon old hearth, the imp, as if impelled by a became known in the neighborhood sudden impulse, darted form its seat as “Leeds’ Devil.” In several respects into the huge fireplace, sprang upon it developed rapidly; it did not possess the lug pole, and, like a flash, flew up any of the characteristics of a human the chimney, and disappeared. The sinchild. It never cried — that is, as a child gular leave taking of the imp led to a cries — but instead would whine and search, and the neighbors joined with screech in such a tone as to suggest the parents in the movement. The old chimney received due attention. They something of an infernal nature. Soon following its birth it was able searched high and low, and, just about to walk, and had perfect control of its as the folk thought — or, at least, so expressed themselves — limbs. Its eyes were dark “the devil had called his and piercing, and when own,” the imp returned. any attempt was made to The event occurred the frustrate its action their third night following the brilliancy was intensidisappearance. fied, and the gleams The parents and a shot forth seemed the neighbor were seated concentrated flashes of by the hearth, discussdiabolism. The strength ing the whereabouts of the imp put forth at the imp, when he jumped times was remarkable. from the lug pole, to the Its long, claw-like fingers hearthstone. frantically tore the plain, This act of disappearstrong garment which for ance and returning was decency was required to repeated several times. tone down as far as posAlba Finally one night in the sible the imp’s repulsiveearly part of November, ness. In several respects it resembled a monkey; in fact, it sur- when the rude blasts were tearing passed the latter in mischievousness, over the hilltop the imp disappeared. and would chatter when it inflicted Following a more than usual display injury or pain to anyone who attempted of impish tricks, it darted into the fireplace, up the chimney, and away, and to control its action. Of course, the parents were more never since, from what I have been than pained from the infliction. They able to learn, has it appeared in the tried as far as possible to treat the imp neighborhood. For a number of years following as they would a natural offspring, and the neighbors curbed their curiosity the imp’s final disappearance from the old house on the hilltop, reports out of respect to parental feeling. As a general thing, the perverse came from the Pine Barrens touching being was kept indoors, and at times its marvelous visitations. The singular was manacled and chained, for its par- character, inferring from reports, conoxysms now and then wee of such fines its field of action to the State of a character as to terrify the parents. New Jersey and makes its appearance Night seemed to be the season when in the woodlands and desolate tracts in the imp was the most wakeful and the southern section of the state. A few years ago the engineer and firewhen its screeches and howls could be heard in the street. At such times lag- man on one of the Southern Railroad gard youths, and grown people who were the parties who, it was averred, chanced to be about, would accelerate witnessed the antics of the diabolical their steps, for they were impressed Jerseyman. The train was going at an with the idea that evil influences were ordinary speed, when the occupants in the air, associated with Leeds’ devil. of the cab were startled by the sudden In this sketch I have clung to the tradi- appearance of the thing of ill omen. It tion, and it is based upon the report of flew against the cab window, and clung one who knew Mrs. Leeds, was a fre- like a bat to the projection. It continued quent visitor to the house, and at such for a mile or so to cling to the cab, when times saw the demon child. In those it gave an unearthly screech and disprimitive days, the marvelous was appeared in the scrubland. When the probably magnified, but a great deal train arrived at Toms River a report of which we in a matter of fact age con- the singular visitant was given, and in circulating, came to the ear of “an old sider mythical had its origin in fact. It was said Mrs. Leeds had a moth- inhabitant.” He said that years before, erly affection for the strange offspring. he had met the imp and given it the full She, perhaps, was haunted with the sin- contents of his gun. Strange to say, the gular expression with which she was discharge was harmless, all of which accredited. A mother’s love is unfath- impressed the ancient inhabitant with omable, and what seems perversity, the idea that the strange creature, if it was not the devil himself, was one of sometimes is the most natural. From the time of its birth, until its his imps. Sometime following the adventure, final mysterious disappearance, the child was in the habit of scratching the hunter learned that the strange and striking its mother, and despite being was “Leeds’ Devil.” *** her endearing way to pacify the imp’s malevolent disposition, behaved in a See DEVIL, Page 8

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DEVIL continued from Page 7 Alba’s tale concludes by connecting the figure to European myths of entities that wander through time without changing and to an Arabian demon “that confines its visitations to haunts least frequented by human beings. To old Bordentown it has turned a cold shoulder and the present generation seems to know as little of its history.” So what’s to make with the story? Was the writer with the odd name part of a little joke the newspaper pulled on a slow news day (like Franklin would have done)? Or if he were real, how would Newark Call writer know about the Leeds’s Devil’s connection to Bordentown and the details of the town? A quick visit to the free Family Search genealogy site had the answers. Honestus Arminius Alba was not only and actual person born, he was born in Bordentown in 1883 and lived in Essex County during the time of the article’s publication. However, beyond the facts that the writer’s father was Francis Alba, his mother was Carrie T. Ellis (from Bordentown), and that he died in Manchester, Connecticut, in 1944, there is no further detail. Furthermore, there is no digital trace of Captain Leeds or Parmella Jolly, or any gravestone with Jolly’s name on in the cemetery mentioned in the story. However, there is the fact that many of the names on the old stones have been scrubbed away by time. There is also the reality that for some reason the author created a story that

argued a connection to Bordentown. While it would be easy to dismiss one Bordentown resident connecting the town to the Jersey Devil, another also did. According to Regal and Esposito, “The exiled king of Spain, Joseph Bonaparte, who was the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, found himself dragged into the Jersey Devil legend. While living in exile in the early 1800s at his estate, Point Breeze, in Bordentown, Joseph allegedly sighted the devil while hunting. No shots were fired at the monster, but the exiled king told local townspeople of the encounter. Like so many elements of the Jersey Devil story, no contemporary historical documentation can be found to substantiate this incident. “ Sprouse again weighs and agrees with the historians about the lack of documentation and puts the account and story in perspective. “The Bonaparte story is fun. Like a lot of Jersey Devil stuff it’s of dubious historicity but has been in circulation for a while, at least in print. “I don’t think, for instance, that there’s an entry in Bonaparte’s diary that says ‘Went for a walk today and saw the Jersey Devil. Think she winked at me.’” But thing brings up another consideration. Maybe Bonaparte and Alba were winking with the tales and are continuing to do so from the past. Then again, perhaps they were actually trying to share something and say that the devil really is in the details of their stories.

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ELECTION 2021: TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE 2 committee seats in play in township elections Voters in Bordentown Township school administrator. He has lived in will have a chance on Election Day to Bordentown since 1969. Benowitz, decide among two incumbent Demo- a Democrat, has been a member of crats and two Republican challengers the township committee from 1979 to for township committee this fall — 1971 and from 2013 to the present day. with one Republican challenger hav- He has served as mayor of Bordening served on the committee once town Township in 2014 and from 2017 to the present day. before, more than a decade ago. Benowitz and his Mayor Steve Benowwife, Ellen, raised two itz and Deputy Mayor children in Bordentown Eric Holliday are runTownship. He has also ning again for three-year been a planning board terms on the commitmember for a total of 11 tee, while Rob Delaney, years. a GOP candidate this Nicholas D’Angelo, year, is a familiar name 40, is an electrical conto long-term followers tractor and real estate of township politics, havinvestor. The Republiing servied on the comcan candidate has lived mittee from 2005-2008. in Bordentown TownDelaney is joined on the ship for most of his life. ticket by first-time candiA fourth generation Bordate Nick D’Angelo. dentown resident, he is Benowitz and HolliBenowitz married to wife Maria day also ran together on and has two sons, Nichthe Democratic ticket in 2018, when their Republican oppo- olas and Bryce. D’Angelo has served nents were Vanessa Meades and Kyle on the board of directors for Habitat Melendez, and in 2015, when Thomas For Humanity Burlington County, and Dalton and Mark Drew were the oppo- has been active in coaching in local athletics even prior to having children sition. Election Day is Nov. 2. Steve Benowitz, 75, is a retired of his own.

Republican Robert Delaney, 45, visors Association, where he served has lived in Bordentown Township as trustee, sergeant of arms and presifor more than 20 years. He works as dent before retiring. Holliday has been a member of the a director/client partner in IT consulting. From 2005 to 2008, he was a Bordentown Township Committee member of the Bordentown Township since 2016. He has served as deputy Committee. He lives with his wife, mayor in 2020 and 2021. He enjoys Anna, and their three children, Olivia, exercising, mountain biking, camping, skiing and softball, and Liam, and Keegan. belongs to the BordenDemocrat Eric Holtown Rotary Club. He liday, 53, retired as a has lived in Bordentown sergeant from the New for 21 years. Jersey Department of The Current emailed Corrections in Novemquestionnaires to the ber 2014 after 25 years candidates which they of service. He began filled out and returned. his tenure with correcTheir answers follow. tions at East Jersey State Responses have been Prison and then was prolightly edited for length moted to sergeant and and clarity. served at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Q. Tell us about Center. the moment when Later in his career, he D’Angelo you decided to run, was assigned to the speor run again, for the cial operations group, where he was a hostage negotiator committee. Benowitz: I left politics for over and the emergency management coordinator. He was also an instruc- 20 years, but believed that the towntor at the Correctional Officer Acad- ship committee was not serving their emy. Holliday was a member of the constituents. In 2012, I began attendNew Jersey Law Enforcement SuperSee COMMITTEE, Page 10

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COMMITTEE cont. from Page 9 ing meetings. It was obvious that the township was not bringing tax ratables and did not appear to be financially sound. There were no plans to upgrade infrastructure, recreational facilities, the Public Works Facility or government communication. Having a sense of community and understanding the importance of a master plan, I decided to run. D’Angelo: My family and I are proud residents of the Georgetown Estates section of Bordentown. After several years of watching the children’s playground at what was Terry Field rust and become a hazard, I decided to get involved and meet with our mayor and township administrator to address the problem before someone got hurt. Terry field’s playground was eventually replaced, however, the baseball field that I had very fond memories of as a child was removed. During this process I realized it was time to get involved. Delaney: After speaking to our neighbors, seniors, and local small business owners willing to invest into Bordentown, the overriding common theme was clea: our current leadership and administration have lost their way. Campaign promises were made and simply weren’t kept. When leadership and a vision was desperately needed, the current Township Committee remained quiet. My running mate, Nick D’Angelo,

and I will bring leadership and proactive engagement back to Bordentown Township Holliday: If I can offer my services and experience to guide the township forward and still feel like I have something positive to offer, I will pay back to this community by stepping up and serving. By voting for me, you will continue to make Bordentown a great place to live and work. Let’s continue the momentum toward unprecedented progress in our town to continue to make it a better community. Q. What, in your opinion, makes Bordentown Township a great place to live? What do you love about this town? D’Angelo: The people. When my wife and I decided to move back to Bordentown, our decision was 100% community based. Family and community are the root of all good things and Bordentown is blessed with people who care about each other. Delaney: Bordentown Township’s diversity as well as a community founded in a strong desire to make a positive impact locally for our families (many who have lived here for generations), neighbors, visitors, and anyone in need make our town a great place to live. Holliday: The location of the township is right in the middle of my love of the Eagles and my career. From here you can go anywhere, within 45

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minutes you can be in New York City rate. Prudent financial strategies have or Philadelphia. I am proud to put the resulted in our continued high bond effort in to make this town an enjoy- ratings. My goal would be to increase able place to live with great public commercial/business ratables. Additionally, highway commercial works, police, parks, and a sense of community. All this with an affordable projects need to be developed. As we increase highway communicipal tax rate. mercial projects, we Benowitz: Bordenmust improve our traftown Township is a great fic flow. We are in the place to live. As a result process of improving the of our police departU.S. 130 – Farnsworth ment’s community Avenue intersection and involvement, we enjoy building a new conneca safe place to raise our tor road between Dunns families. Due to approMill Road and Rising priate planning, we are Sun Road in an effort to continuing to upgrade keep truck traffic off our and increase recrelocal roads. Of course, it ational facilities. We is important to continue have increased commuto increase recreational nity events. Increased facilities. services are provided Delaney D’Angelo: Transparthrough Public Works. ency and services. As Maintaining a flat municipal tax rate over the past 9 years has I mentioned, Bordentown is a great permitted residents affordability to place to live and a small enough town to get its residents involved. While continue to live here. I understand that meetings can be Q. What are two issues of vital attended, I feel with all of the social importance in the township right media and exposure available in 2021, now? How will you as a member of we can do more to engage forums and the council for the next four years encourage fellow residents to offer input when impactful decisions are address these issues? Delaney: Smart Growth and devel- upon us. As for services, our trash pick-up opment are vital to the future of Bordentown Township. Our township changes are a perfect example of committee and administrator (who things that can’t happen. It is unreaserved as the director of community sonable to cut services while adding development) constantly ignore the fees to our friends and neighbors. importance of this issue. We will proQ. How would you like to see actively engage large and small busiBordentown Township grow and nesses to invest into our town. The overall degradation of the change in terms of future developservices we provide our residents ment and redevelopment? Lay out is a huge issue. For example, we’ve your vision for the next 15 years. Holliday: I am anxiously awaiting decreased the frequency of trash collection and decided to penalize our our newly expanded parks of Joseph residents for having an average-sized Lawrence Park and Northern Comfamily by charging for an additional munity Park. Terry Field is nearly trash can. However, there’s never a done and an amazing improvement week where our residents/taxpayers from its recent past. The new 65-acre are not burdened with an issue related park can have great potential if managed and planned properly. to trash collection. Investments in our employees, My running mate and I are committed to resolving these important infrastructure and parks will allow issues and holding our service provid- the township to continue to be a great place to live and work. We look forers accountable. Holliday: Taxes are always at the ward to further shifting the tax burtop of everyone’s minds. We have den on to our business and off our maintained stable taxes during my residents. We want Bordentown Township to time on the committee due to sound financial practices. We have an out- be a safe, enjoyable and affordable standing bond rating and that allows place to live. Benowitz: I have 2 important goals: us to borrow at reduced rates which saves our residents an unwieldy tax One is to increase highway commerburden. This allows us to maintain our cial along corridors and eliminate roads and other long-term purchases any present zoning that permits wareto keep the township moving forward. houses. The second is that I would like Maintaining open spaces that offer to have a Town Center in the Southern our residents a place to unwind or play Gateway Redevelopment area. This is very important. We always try to area would house businesses and improve the quality of life of our resi- many amenities for our residents. I would work diligently to increase dents. We do this through expanded public works services, a recycling our services including recreational yard, parks, and youth sport expan- opportunities and open space such sions. New fields allow our children to as the development of the 65-acre learn about sportsmanship and gives open-space project that the township recently purchased. them a sense of belonging. I am proud to say that we have fulBenowitz: The first issue is to maintain fiscally sound budgets. Finan- filled our affordable housing comcial planning has resulted in a flat tax mitment without overstretching our

that I believe makes me best suited for the role. I believe in listening to others, learning from others and making the best possible decisions after gathering all the data. Again, I am a 4th generation resident, who believes in our ability as a community to always prosper. My running mate, Robert Delaney, and I are confident we can provide the best leadership for our community moving forward. Delaney: I have previously served on township committee, the planning board, and Burlington County Work-

force Investment Board. I currently serve on the BFC/BCSA Board (soccer), Philadelphia Union Advisory Council, and as chairman of a local credit union. As a client partner for a large IT consulting firm, the success of my job is solely dependent on my ability to bring people together to make decisions that benefit my clients as well as the company I represent. I believe all of these roles provide me with a unique ability to provide thought leadership focused on positive outcomes for Bordentown Township.

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economics from from Temple Uuniversity, and a masters in applied economics from the University of North Dakota. He works as an economist and data analyst. Carpenter has two children attending Peter Muschal Elementary School, one in 4th grade and one in kindergarten. He enjoys fishing and hiking and is a licensed amateur radio operator. He has served on the school board only since Sept. 1, when he was voted onto the board to fill the seat left vacant by Sal Schiano. Carpenter says he has attended all but one school board meeting in the past 12 months. Katherine Taylor Clark, 59, is an educational consultant and retired school administrator. She and her husband, Julius, have resided in Bordentown for 8 years. Clark has a bachelors degree in speech and communication disorders from Douglass College of Rutgers University, and masters degrees in human services administration and educational leadership/ supervision from Rider University. Clark was appointed to the board in February to serve the remainder of a vacant term. She says she has

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Cody: The pandemic has revealed attended between 90 and 99% of the how broken our public education sysmeetings held in the past 12 months. Ryan Cody, 39, has lived in Bor- tem in New Jersey is. In particular it dentown for 9 years. He works as a has uncovered the extreme power the senior technology advisor. He has a New Jersey Education Association bachelors degree in political science (the teachers union) has over public from the State University of New York education and our district. Under the influence of the NJEA at Buffalo. Bordentown children Cody has two children and families have been in the district: daughter put last. I am the chilFaith, who is a sophodren and family candimore at the high school, date who will stand up to and son Joshua (JJ), who the powerful union and is in first grade at Peter put children first. Muschal Elementary James: I have two School. He also has a core beliefs that proson, Ezekiel, who is not vide insight: first, educaof school age. Cody is a tion is the great equalfirst-time candidate and izer — quite simply, a says he has attended solid prek-12 education between 90 and 99% of opens doors to so many board meetings held in opportunities. Second, it the past 12 months. Carpenter is vital that citizens give Michael James, 40, their time, energy, and is a high school social studies teacher and lifelong resident thought to shaping our public instituof Bordentown. The Bordentown tions as a service to the community. Regional High School grad has an It is key that these individuals work associates degree in humanities and with the community they serve in a social sciences from Mercer County respectful and collaborative nature to Community College, a bachelors ensure these public institutions can degree in history and secondary edu- thrive. cation from The College of New JerQ. What are the two most vital sey, and a masters degree in world hisissues facing the school board tory from Monmouth University. James has two children in the dis- today, and what will you do as a trict, one in 6th grade and one in 5th. member of the school board to He is completing his first term on address them? Clark: The COVID-19 pandemic the board this year and says he has attended between 90 and 99% of board and its impact on student achievement, attendance and budgetary meetings held in the past year. Carpenter, Clark and Cody are run- impact. By engaging parents, teachning for two Bordentown Township ers, students and community partners seats available this November. James in meaningful conversations to collabis running unopposed for the Borden- orate on creating a vision and setting town City seat he currently occupies goals.. All voices are needed at the table. on the board. The social and emotional learning The Current emailed questionnaires to all four candidates. Their and well-being of all students and staff responses are below. They have been in light of the current pandemic and numerous losses which our schools lightly edited for clarity and length. and community have experienced. As a board member, I would supQ. Why are you running, or runport the superintendent to assess the ning again, for the school board? Carpenter: I am running for the needs within the schools and advocate BRSD Board of Education to repre- for professional development, trainsent Township families who currently ing and student programs to support have children in the school district, as these areas. Cody: The radical sex education well as to represent the community as and identity-based curriculum that a whole, to the best of my ability. Clark: I believe that as citizens, is being instituted in our district and each of us has a responsibility to give the board’s lack of fiscal responsibilback to our communities. I have a ity. The new curriculum passed by the genuine concern and passion for pub- Murphy administration and rubber lic education. The slogan for my cam- stamped by our board will be teaching radical sex education curriculum paign is #AdvocatingForEducation. I have 30 years of experience as an starting in first grade. Additionally, educator and school administrator in under the guise of “equity education” various educational settings, including they are pushing a worldview on stuelementary, high school and post sec- dents that classifies everyone in only ondary. I can provide valuable input two categories: oppressed or oppressor. The curriculum should empower on educational issues.

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Both sessions run 7 p.m. to midnight. Participation is $40 per person. Also on the schedule is the Friday, October 8, “Witchy Moon” party. The BYO wine welcome Halloween celebration runs from 7 to 9 p.m. and includes snacks and refreshments. $40. White Hill Mansion is located at 217 Burlington Street, Fieldsboro. Learn more at whitehillmansion.org. * * * Bordentown Walking Tours is resuming its popular “Haunted History Tour.” As organizer and company owner Mark Neurohr-Pierpaoli says in his promotional materials, “Hear the stories of Bordentown’s ghostly activity and haunted happenings as you make your way through the dark and mysterious alleys of historic Bordentown City. The full-time English teacher also adds, “We strive to tell the true history of what happened at each stop to help explain the mysterious encounters that real people have described.” He is also quick to point out that it’s family friendly and that “nothing will jump out or touch you. Our ghost stories and paranormal experiences are a retelling of legends and historical events that have been reported in Bordentown throughout the centuries.” Prices for the one-hour tour range from $10 to $15. Meeting directions follow after reserving the tickets.

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tor. “During COVID-19, we’ve seen the interruption of schooling and social isolation has compounded the trauma of becoming homeless for our kids, setting them back even further academically, behaviorally, and emotionally.” This year Homefront is adding family fun events for young children. There will be live musical performances, pumpkin decorating and photo opportunities. Other features are trick or treat bag decorating and a “Trunk or Treat” time where people will be giving out candy from their festively accented vehicles. The Halloween Run/Walk and Family Day is an extension of HomeFront’s regular services that have continued even during the pandemic. “Our Joy, Hopes & Dreams kids receive tutoring three times a week, weekly classes with the Arts Council in Princeton, a host of field trips to broaden our kids’ horizons, STEM and academic enrichment, sports, college preparation, mentoring, and summer camp. Our programming has, for the past 30 years, helped children heal from the trauma they’ve experienced, feel joy, receive the support, skills, and develop the dreams needed to break the cycle of

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from the cover Annual Lighthouse Challenge spotlights N.J. wonders By Dan Aubrey The New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge — set for Saturday and Sunday, October 16 and 17 — is an annual event that mixes history and fundraising with a contest. Created by the New Jersey Lighthouse Society to draw attention to the state’s substantial lighthouse history and maybe get some financial support in the process, the event features two days of 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. lighthouse tours, with some remaining open for evening visits. Participation in the contest portion of the Lighthouse Challenge is simple. Visitors choosing to play can go to a self-selected lighthouse, purchase a challenge souvenir, and then attempt to visit ten land-based lighthouses, three lifesaving stations, one museum, one virtual site, and the Lighthouse Society of NJ site over the two-day weekend. The registration fee is $4 and includes participation in a $500 raffle. Those only interested in visiting lighthouses can just show up or wait until another time. After all, many of them are open to visitors throughout the year. Additionally, since many of the lighthouses offer a winter day’s diversion and a good family destination — as I discovered taking my son to all of the lighthouses and some of the stations — they’re worth considering as a day trip. But just remember that the pandemic still lingers, and check websites for schedule changes. So let’s do a tour of the state’s lighthouses, moving from north to south down the New Jersey coast: * * * The Sandy Hook Lighthouse in Monmouth County is the oldest operating lighthouse in the United States. Located in the Gateway National Recreation Area in Atlantic Highlands and maintained by the U.S. Coast Guard, the 103-foot-tall structure has been in service since 1764. A witness to history — including a takeover by the British during the Revolutionary War — the lighthouse takes visitors into another era. That includes climbing a ladder to the lens room. As indicated by the ladder, the lighthouse works best for older children and spry adults. The lighthouse is generally open all year and tours are free. But there is a $15 entrance fee to the park between Memorial Day and Labor Day. nps.gov/gate/planyourvisit/sandy-hookhours.html * * * Twin Lights in Atlantic Highlands, also in Monmouth County, is a brownstone double lighthouse structure built in 1862 on the site of a former one built in 1828. Located at the top of a hill, the lighthouse’s two medieval-style towers

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East Point Lighthouse in Cumberland County is an active navigational aid. Built in 1849, it is the only remaining land-based lighthouse on the Delaware Bay. treat visitors with a commanding view of the Atlantic Ocean to one side and an opportunity to see New York City across New York Harbor from the other. Although it was decommissioned in 1948 the lighthouse has a secure place in history. It was the first U.S. lighthouse to install the famous Frenchmade Fresnel lens, and it was the first U.S. lighthouse to use electricity. A small museum area provides ongoing exhibitions. Operated by the Twin Lights Historical Society, the site is open all year and a $5 adult or $2 child tickets allows visitors to climb both towers. It is an easy visit in just about every way. And since designers used the hill for height, it is a short stair walk to the top of the tower. Visitors in December may also get a glimpse of a Christmas tree in one of the towers. www.twinlightslighthouse.com * * * Sea Girt Lighthouse in Sea Girt, again in Monmouth County, is a Victorian house-like structure with a revolving Fresnel lens at the top. It began operating in 1896 as a navigation point between Twin Lights and Barnegat Light on Long Beach Island. Decommissioned in 1945, the lighthouse is operated by the Sea Girt Lighthouse Citizens Committee and provides free entrance mid-April through midNovember. While traffic and parking may be problematic during the summer, an off-season visit makes for an easier visit to this museum-like recreation of a bygone era. www.seagirtlighthouse.com * * * Squan Beach Life Saving Station in Manasquan is the Dutch-styled station built in 1902 to house equipment

and staff to rescue shipwreck victims. Later a U.S. Coast Guard Station, it was decommissioned in 1999 and sold for $1 to Manasquan Borough. It opened as a museum in 2012. manasquanlifesavingstation.wordpress.com * * * Tucker’s Island Lighthouse at the Tuckerton Seaport in Tuckerton, Ocean County, is the recreation of the lighthouse that fell to sea in 1927. It is one of the main attractions of this maritime village in what was once an important New Jersey port town. In addition to the lighthouse and its display galleries, 14 other buildings and stations offer exhibitions and the opportunity to watch decoy carvers and boat builders. Admission is $5. It’s an easy and engaging way to connect with the state’s maritime history. www.tuckertonseaport.org * * * Barnegat Lighthouse, located at Barnegat Light on Long Beach Island in Ocean County, was lit in 1859 to help shippers navigate past dangerous shoals and sandbars. One of the three federally built cylindrical lighthouses engineered by George Meade, “Old Barney” has 217 steps to the top. An interpretive center provides visitors with information about the building’s history and to get a view from the top of the tower via camera. Decommissioned in 1944, it is operated by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Operations are supported by the Barnegat Lighthouse Historical Society and Friends of Barnegat Lighthouse. The lighthouse is open all year and free, except between Memorial and

Labor Day when the admission free ranges from $1 to $3. Children and adults will rise to the challenge of climbing to the top, where the reward is a sky-high panoramic view of the region. www.state.nj.us/ dep/parksandforests/parks/barnlig. html#barnlight * * * Absecon Lighthouse in Atlantic City, Atlantic County, began operating in 1857. It is the state’s tallest lighthouse at 171 feet tall, and its original Fresnel lens remains. Absecon Light is open all year and climbing fees range from $3 to $8, with the last climb a half-hour before closing. It is a beautifully restored building and interpretive center. Its 228 steps provide visitors with one of the best views of one of New Jersey’s most famous seaside cities. www.abseconlighthouse.org * * * U.S. Life Saving Station 30 in Ocean City is a newer addition to the lighthouse challenge and the state. The 1883 Carpenter Gothic Style building designed by architect James Lake Parkinson, who created similar structures at Cape Hatteras and Cape Fear in North Carolina, is one of the few remaining examples in the county. Now a museum, it features free exhibitions of artifacts and images. Mainly open during the summer, winter appointments are also available. uslifesavingstation30.com * * * The Tatham Lifesaving Station, located in Stone Harbor, is an 1895 structure featuring murals and displays recognizing life saving services and a tower that overlooks the ocean and Hereford Inlet. Operated by the Stephen C. Ludlam Post 331 of the American Legion, it offers free guided tours mainly in the summer. stephencludlampost331.org * * * Hereford Inlet Lighthouse in North Wildwood, Cape May County, is a working lighthouse and museum. Built in 1874, the lighthouse is maintained by the United States Coast Guard as an active navigational aid. With the light on the upper floor, the house was also a home, and visitors can walk through its decorated rooms and imagine how its former occupants lived. A visit to the house’s Victorian-style garden with more than 200 varieties of plants helps set the mood further. It is open year round and admission is free. Overall it is an easy and pleasant trip to the past. www.herefordinletlighthouse. com * * * Cape May Lighthouse is located in the southernmost tip of the state in Cape May town and county and over-

looks the Atlantic Ocean and the Delaware Bay. Another of Meade’s federally funded trio of cylindrical lighthouses, it was built in 1859 on the site of two other former lighthouses. Located in Cape May Point State Park, it is part of several attractions and has a visitors’ center. But the main attraction is the 199 steps to the top of the tower to take in the sights. Originally operated by the United States Coast Guard, it became the property of the State of New Jersey in 1992. It is now leased to the Mid Atlantic Center for the Arts, which raises funds to preserve and maintain the building and in 1994 had the tower painted to its original coloring: light beige with a red top. The park is generally open sunrise to sunset. Lighthouse hours for climbing vary with the season and are posted on the lighthouse website. Climbing fees range from $5 to $10. It is a fun stop that includes both a major lighthouse as well as the opportunity to see a World War II lookout tower and visit a nature museum. www.capemaymac.org/cape-may-lighthouse * * * Now heading north along the Delaware Bay and River: East Point Lighthouse in Heislerville in Cumberland County is an active navigational aid. Built in 1849, the twostory brick Cape Cod-styled building is the second oldest New Jersey lighthouse and the only remaining landbased lighthouse on the Delaware Bay. The lighthouse was operated by various entities including the U.S. Coast Guard, which extinguished the light in 1941. In 1956 the property was transferred to the State of New Jersey. The building suffered from neglect until the community-run Maurice River Historical Society formed and saved the structure through local fundraising efforts. The group also worked with the U.S. Coast Guard to reinstall the beacon light and return the lighthouse to an active lighthouse. The lighthouse is open throughout the year, but it is best to check its Facebook page before venturing out. Admission ranges from $2 to $5. With rooms fully furnished and cared for, it is a pleasurable trip to the past. However, the bay area is home of both greenhead flies and swarms of mosquitoes — so be ready to run. www.facebook.com/eastpointlight * * * Finns Point Lighthouse in Pennsville, Salem County, and Tinicum Island Lighthouse in Paulsboro, Gloucester County, are two Delaware River “range” lights: inland structures used to guide ships along the river. Initiated by the federal government and opened for operation respectively in 1877 and 1880, both structures use a black metal cylindrical casing that holds a spiral metal staircase and painted tongue-in-groove wood walls that lead to the light tower and provide panoramic views of the region. Both were decommissioned and eventually saved by community groups that continue to support them.

The Sandy Hook Lighthouse is the oldest operating lighthouse in the U.S. The 115-foot-tall Finns Point is open every third Sunday from March through May and September through November, weather permitting. Part of the Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, the lighthouse offers free admission but requests donations. www. njlhs.org/njlight/finnpoint.html or www. friendsofsupawnarefuge.org * * * Tinicum Lighthouse, an 85-foottall structure owned by the U.S. Coast Guard, is open April through October on the third full weekend of each month from noon to 4 p.m. The Tinicum Rear Range Lighthouse Society at Paulsboro operates the structure and requests donations for visitors to climb. These bulky metal towers are markedly different from the usual brick or wood lighthouse, but their intriguing mixture of 19th-century engineering and interior design makes one think of Victorian-era science fiction — best reflected in the term Steampunk — and the structures must have been daringly modern for their time. While the recently restored Tinicum is bright, Finns Point shows its wear and tear. But both provide expansive views, with Tinicum giving visitors the opportunity to gaze at the Philadelphia skyline. The trip to the remote Finns Point can be enhanced by a stop at nearby the state owned Fort Mott, built to protect the river during the Spanish-American War. www.tinicumrearrangelighthouse. org As noted at the start, it advisable to check the New Jersey Lighthouse Society website as well as each for changes. Currently, the State of New Jerseyowned Barnegat Light is closed for some minor interior repairs, and the National Park Service owned Sandy Hook and Finns Point lighthouses will only have their grounds open. But that could change. But Lighthouse Challenge or not, the state’s lighthouses are worth a visit and offer a quick day trip to both the New Jersey coast as well as a chance to slip into another era. For more information on the New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge or the state’s lighthouses: www.lhchallengenj.org or www.njlhs.org.

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Blend Bar and Bistro in Hamilton will host its annual Central Jersey Beer Fest on Saturday, Oct. 9, in Mercer County Park (1638 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor Township) from noon to 6 p.m. The Beer Fest is celebrating its ninth year and is always a success, with an average of 3,500 attendees each year. Antonio Carannante, owner of Blend, says it started off in 2013 as a much smaller pig roast and beer garden event and has grown each year into what it is today. For Carannante, working in the restaurant industry runs in the family: they’ve owned Brothers Pizza on Route 33 since the 1970s, and they acquired New Jersey Weddings and Events Catering in 2019. The Central Jersey Beer Fest is a tast-

ing festival that serves more than 100 different types of beer, cider, seltzer, wine and spirits for attendees to sample. “Our emphasis is local craft products, especially beer,” says Carannante. River Horse Brewing Company, Heavy Seas Beer, Old Hights Brewing Co., Ship Bottom Brewery, Flying Embers and many more breweries have registered and will provide samples at the Beer Fest. To accompany the drinks, refreshments will be available from a variety of food trucks and vendors including The Fry Guy, Master Asador Barbeque and Elisa’s Catering. Small businesses such as Dee’s Handmade Artisan Soap, Harry and Beck Custom Designs and Randazzo Cigars will sell their merchandise. Live music will be provided by country artist Lauren Davidson and Deep Release, a rock and roll band. The Central Jersey Beer Fest attracts patrons from far and wide, “from Maine to the Carolinas” and throughout the Tri-State area, Carannante says. It’s a “great middle ground for friends to reunite, with many transportation options nearby.” Carannante says that he and the team at Blend hand-select the beers, which

is part of the reason the festival is so successful. Rather than choosing the drinks based only on what is popular, they work closely with the breweries to bring rare and exclusive items to the festival. A lot of what attendees can sample is not readily available at the local liquor store and is limited in quantity. Carannante and the rest of the team are busy preparing for the festival and are looking forward to it. “It’s fun seeing friends and family gather together in groups, seeing them laugh and have fun while they’re learning about new beers,” he says. Central Jersey Beer Fest tickets are $40 to $50. General admission for food trucks and live music is available for anyone not interested in alcohol tasting for $15. The event’s title sponsors are Blend Bar and Bistro and Smires and Associates. For more information , visit cjbeerfest.com.

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For a more intimate and traditional Oktoberfest experience, consider the Friends of Princeton Open Space (FOPOS) Oktoberfest on Sunday, Oct. 17, at the Mountain Lakes House (57

Mountain Ave., Princeton). The event is celebrating its second year after debuting in 2019 and skipping 2020 because of the pandemic. FOPOS president Wendy Mager says the events and development committee planned the first festival as a way to honor the volunteers who have given their time to the organization. This year it has been especially important to recognize the volunteers who have remained steadfast through COVID-19. The FOPOS Oktoberfest, which will take place from 5 to 7 p.m., will feature a selection of craft beers as well as “big pretzels and other things you might associate with a traditional Oktoberfest,” says Mager. In 2019 between 50 and 75 people attended, and this year, they have increased advertisement of the event. Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves, an electro-country performer, will provide live music; Owen Lake, also known as Jeff Snyder, is Princeton University’s director of electronic music and director of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra. At the FOPOS Oktoberfest, they’ll be “channeling a happy spirit in a beautiful setting,” as Mager puts it. Attendees can enjoy a craft beer on the terrace

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Visitors in lederhosen raise their steins at Morey’s Pier Oktoberfest, which is set to take place this year on weekends from Oct. 1 through 10. overlooking the lake and admire the colors of autumn. For tickets, $50, visit fopos.org/events-programs.

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For a uniquely thrilling festival experience, there is Witchcraft NJ, which describes itself as “a mystical encounter with broos and spirits.” The name itself plays on craft beverages, but it evolved into much more than a mystical drinking experience. Jon Henderson, producer and CEO at Good Time Tricycle Productions, the organizer of the event, calls it a “multilayered beer experience. There’s nothing on the East Coast that exists like it.” The event is in its second year; it should be the third, but Witchcraft NJ was cancelled last year due to COVID19. Taking place on Saturday, Oct. 16, in the middle of the woods at Paradise Lakes Campground in Hammonton (which Henderson likens to Camp Crystal Lake: the perfect location for a spooky evening), Witchcraft NJ is a sampling experience that will feature craft beers and distilled spirits from breweries like Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales, Bolero Snort, Armageddon Brewing, Little Water Distillery and Pinelands Brewing Company. Good Time Tricycle works with a lot of different beverage partners, and they’ve selected a handful that work well with the festival’s Halloween theme. Mystical Moon Creations, Indigo Sol Enchanting Goods and Gifts, Witchy Woods Apothecary and other merchants will sell their wares. In addition to drinking, eating and shopping, Witchcraft NJ will feature additional enchanting entertainment including fortune telling, a pumpkin pie eating contest, seances, professional pumpkin carvers, a horror makeup seminar and more. According to the event website, “the most iconic old school monsters” will be in attendance. Attendees are also highly encouraged

to come in costume; there is a contest with a cash prize for the best-dressed. Witchcraft NJ, Henderson says, is “not anything remotely close to a traditional Oktoberfest.” For more information on Witchcraft NJ or to purchase tickets, $65, visit their website, witchcraftnj.com.

Stafford Fall Wine Festival For those who prefer wine over beer and spirits, try the Stafford Fall Wine Festival on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 9 and 10, in Heritage Train Park (49 West Bay Avenue, Manahawkin). The event takes place from noon to 5 p.m. both days and will feature fine wines from New Jersey wineries such as White Horse Winery, Chestnut Run Farm and Cream Ridge Winery for sampling. On Saturday, patrons can enjoy a costume contest, hayrides, a Halloween parade and more, and on both days food trucks and various vendors will be available, as well as live music (on Saturday, The Impulsives and Sunday, Acoustic NRG). Tickets, $20 and up, can be purchased at eventbrite. com/e/2021-staf ford-fall-wine-festival-tickets-165336843951.

Moery’s Pier Oktoberfest

Finally, for some old-fashioned fun on the boardwalk at Wildwood, visit Morey’s Pier Oktoberfest from Friday through Sunday, Oct. 1 to 3 and Oct. 8 to 10. This event features a special menu at Jumbo’s Pub and Grub including pretzels, bratwurst and a wide selection of beer to be enjoyed in an outdoor beer garden. They’ll have live music and entertainment, and this event is kid-friendly, as the rides will be open. For more details or to purchase tickets, visit moreyspiers.com/event/ oktoberfest. Prost!

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“Polypharmacy” is a huge problem. This occurs when patients are prescribed too many medications by different doctors. Not only can this cause drug interactions, which can lead to side effects like falls and confusion, but

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children and teach them to judge each Bordentown families in an extremely other based on the content of their difficult position. Our schools were not open for one full in-person day the character not the color of their skin. In my 20 months of keeping a close entire 2020-2021 school year. Even when the district had the eye on this board, I’ve seen nothing that resembles fiscal responsibility. option to make masks optional, They spend taxpayer dollars reck- remove masks outdoors, and remove lessly and have regularly increased plexiglass barriers from kindergarproperty taxes in the Township year tener’s desks they refused to do so. I over year. Their irresponsible spend- would have never allowed the schools to be closed and I would have loosing must be reined in. James: First, it is necessary for ened all Covid restrictions the second BRSD to continue to address the many the state granted the district authority issues that have come out of the pan- to do so. James: In March demic; primary among 2020, our world was these are mental health turned upside down as and academic growth. COVID-19 spread globWe must continue to ally. Our school district rely on the consensus responded to this criof public health experts sis in admirable and to ensure the safety and important ways -- teachwellbeing of our students ers, students, parents, and staff. We also must administrators, and staff continue to rely on the shifted to electronic educators and adminismeans to provide and trators in our district to support educational ensure academic growth instruction, and also, to for all children. ensure that the same Second, in order to caring and nurturing achieve the first goal, we Clark classroom would be must maintain our fiscal present to the greatest responsibility. The relationship between taxpayer supported degree possible. BRSD wasn’t perfect — no district schools and academic success always requires a balanced approach to was — but what I saw was a continensure the greatest return on invest- ual effort to improve and meet our ment. These two issues require BOE childrens’ needs. In this relationship, members’ constant attention, and will the BOE supported, questioned, and worked with district staff to adapt to always be how I make my decisions. Carpenter: Two issues I believe to ever changing circumstances. Carpenter: I believe that the board be vital are ensuring that the students are prepared for life after they gradu- has done a fair job with its response to ate, and effectively communicating the COVID-19 pandemic over the past 18 months. It has prowith the Bordentown vided policy guidance community. Part of my to the Superintendent platform is to improve and the school district the way the school disand responded to the trict provides for the questions and concerns future success of its of parents and the comstudents, regardless of munity. However, I also whether they go to colbelieve that the Board lege, directly into the could have done a better labor force, or into the job of communicating its military. role and the limits upon I also want to improve it regarding the requirethe communication ments to abide by Fedbetween the Board and eral, State, and local the community – both laws and guidelines. I the parents of students Cody also believe that some of and the community at its responses appeared large. Some of my ideas include making the information on the to be late and reactive instead of Board website more accessible and proactive. Clark: The board did a good job making the public Board meetings in listening to the recommendations available online in some fashion. from staff and community. The board Q. How would you assess the supported the superintendent to job the board and the district have address recommendations regarding done in response to the ongoing the delivery of instruction through coronavirus pandemic? What has hybrid and/or virtual remote learnthe board done well? What could ing. Administration, teachers and staff should be acknowledged for their have been done better? Cody: The board and district’s hard work and resilience in executing response to the pandemic has been a the educational plan. The district was faced with many travesty. The mishandling began right before the opening of the 2020 school challenges. They were able to be flexyear when the district informed par- ible and responsive. We have learned ents that instruction for all grades was that there is a need for some changes going to be entirely virtual the first in the traditional classroom, particufive weeks of the school year. This put See BOE, Page 14

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BOE continued from Page 13 involvement on various issues that practices. Cody: Prior to the pandemic I larly with technology. Now is the time address the needs of the students as to reimagine education as we move a whole and for specific needs, as well. would say they did a fair job living up forward. Part of my campaign platform is to to the mission statement. During the address the areas that I believe need pandemic they have not lived up to it Q. In its mission statement, improvement: use of technology in at all. Last year the district imposed the district asserts that “the mis- education, such as STEM activities; nine schedule changes on our chilsion of the Bordentown Regional providing opportunities for students dren between all virtual, hybrid learning, and half days with School District, in collaboration who are not the tradiindependent work at with the community, is to provide tional college-bound; home. Our children and a safe, nurturing learning envi- and, working with stufamilies deserve consisronment that is conducive to suc- dents and their parents tent schedules. Because cess for each student regardless to identify their interests of the changes our stuof diverse background, learning and goals in their postdents experienced a style, prior experience, and edu- BRSD lives. high level of learning cational need.” How well does the Clark: The district loss. school board live up to this part of has successfully proThe families who its mission? vided a safe, nurturing were impacted the most James: The current school board is learning environment by the district’s schedulsuch a wonderful and dynamic collec- conducive to success as ing inconsistency were tion of community members; and we illustrated by the gradualow income, African deeply value collaboration, respectful tion rate and other data. American, and Latino discussion, and our responsibility to The elementary and families. The schedule our community in ensuring that tax middle school students’ James should have been condollars are spent appropriately and outcomes have been parsistent throughout the with student success in mind. It is my ticularly positive. As the belief that we generally live up to this district moves forward, the new super- year. I would have made it that way. mission, but also, that we continually intendent and administration can now Q. For incumbents: What question whether we meet our mis- focus on other areas, including the accomplishments would you point sion statement. high school program. As board members, we don’t always The district could benefit by includ- to from your tenure on the board agree on the issues, but we listen to ing the following areas in their long to convince voters that they should one another, ask tough questions, term strategic plan: updating technol- vote for you again this election? Carpenter: At the time of respondhave difficult conversations, and vote ogy for all students and staff strengthwith our constituents in mind. ening vocational/technical training ing to this questionnaire, I have only Carpenter: I believe that the Board options for high school students; fully participated in one board meettries to live up to its mission statement ensure that district policies, staffing ing as a member of the board. Clark: I was appointed to serve for all the students within the school and school culture are reflective of district. I have witnessed the Board’s diversity, equity and inclusion best on the board for the remainder of an unfinished term, for one year. I had the opportunity to serve on the board during the recruitment, interviewing and hiring of the new superintendent. This is one of the most important responsibilities of the school board. Currently, the board is working to develop a district wide strategic plan. This process will ultimately include the community. The strategic plan will help the district create a vision and establish goals. The district can create a plan that will result in a school district in which all children succeed. James: During my first term, I was part of a team that identified the best usage of grant funds from Burlington County for improving school safety. I was also part of an effort to examine BRHS schedule and identify ways

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to better support district academic needs. Additionally, I participated in an effort to ensure the diversity of our community was reflected in our curriculum. We live in a small, tight-knit community and, as board of education members, we must always maintain the highest degree of respect. This is very much teamwork and I ask voters in Bordentown CIty to support me so that I can continue this collaborative effort. Q. For nonincumbents: What experiences in your life or professional career make you qualified to ser ve on the school board? Carpenter: I believe that my professional experience will be a benefit to my participation on the Board. Over many years, I have developed a combination of “soft” skills such as listening and being empathetic, the ability to respect different opinions, and to be able to negotiate with others to achieve common goals. I also have developed the “hard” skills involved with critical thinking and analysis to address the various situations that the board may face and come to conclusions that will benefit the school district and the community. Cody: I am a testament to the power education has to transform a child’s life and to the failures of our public education system. I was headed down a bleak path at my public high school. There was no guarantee I was even going to graduate. Once I moved to private school (Blair Academy), I thrived. Education at Blair was more engaging, practical, and personalized. I wasn’t a cog in a wheel at Blair. I was an individual whose talents were brought out of me by dedicated educators who recognized my talents. My life was changed by education. I want to make sure children in our district have the same transformative experience I had without having to attend private school. Voters in the Nov. 2 election must be registered by Oct. 13. Active, registered voters who have requested them began receiving mail-in ballots the week of Sept. 28. If you do not receive a ballot by Oct. 13, contact the Burlington County Clerk’s office at (609) 265-5229.

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Fellowship Trained Urologist Joins Capital Health – Urology Specialists DR. CHARLES POLOTTI recently joined Capital Health – Urology Specialists, a team of skilled physicians and other medical providers who are highly trained in diagnosing and treating issues related to the urinary tract and men’s health issues.

University of Southern California’s Institute of Urology at Keck Medicine of USC, Dr. Polotti completed his fellowship training in advanced robotics and laparoscopy. During his training, Dr. Polotti earned the Resident Achievement Award for Outstanding Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) Resident from the Society of Laparoscopic & Robotic Surgeons.

Dr. Polotti will join Dr. Brad Rogers, Dr. Eric Mayer, Dr. Kaveh Kousari, nurse practitioner Kathie Olson, and physician assistant Thy Pham. The team sees patients at Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell (Two Capital Way, Suite 407, Pennington, NJ 08534) and Capital Health Specialty Practices – Newtown (3 Penns Trail, 2nd Floor, Newtown, PA 18940).

The Capital Health – Urology Specialists team is dedicated to providing residents throughout the greater Bucks, Burlington, and Mercer county region with advanced health care in a compassionate and relaxed setting. Their services include state-of-the-art imaging and diagnostics, as well as the latest treatment options, including extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy and endourology for kidney stones; blue light cystoscopy for early detection of bladder cancer; brachytherapy, CyberKnife®, external beam therapy for prostate cancer; surgical treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH); and minimally invasive, robotic-assisted surgery using the da Vinci® surgical system, including partial and total nephrectomy, cystectomy, and radical prostatectomy.

“Given his extensive training in advanced robotics and laparoscopy, Dr. Polotti is an excellent addition to our team of urology specialists,” said Dr. Brad Rogers, director of Urology at Capital Health. “He brings significant skill and expertise to our team as we continue to provide outstanding care to patients in the greater Mercer, Bucks, and Burlington county area.” “I’m thrilled to join the team of experienced clinicians at Capital Health – Urology Specialists and help them advance urological health care in the region,” said Dr. Polotti. “I look forward to meeting each patient and putting my training to work to provide personalized care for their specific needs.” Dr. Polotti earned his medical degree from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He completed a surgery internship and his urology residency at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey. At the

Capital Health – Urology Specialists is part of Capital Health Medical Group, a network of more than 500 primary and specialty care providers who offer easy access to experienced clinicians and the most advanced care in the region at nearby Capital Health hospitals. If you would like to schedule an appointment with Dr. Polotti or another experienced member of the Capital Health – Urology Specialists team, call 609.303.4460 or visit capitalhealth.org/urology.

Men’s Health 101 Thursday, December 2, 2021 | 6 p.m. Zoom Meeting Have you experienced erectile dysfunction (ED), urinary incontinence or are you a prostate cancer survivor? If you have questions about men’s health issues, DR. KAVEH KOUSARI, a board certified urologist from Capital Health – Urology Specialists, will review treatment options for ED and incontinence, share information about survivorship after prostate cancer treatment, and discuss related health topics.

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MEET CAPITAL HEALTH NURSES ON THE FRONT LINES IN THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19 The following is an excerpt from an article titled “Courage Under Fire” in the Summer 2021 issue of Real Woman magazine. Visit realwomanonline.com to read the entire story. In the battle against COVID-19, one of the groups that fought in the trenches was the 2Front (2F) unit at Capital Health Regional Medical Center (RMC) in Trenton. On March 28, as the pandemic began to ravage New York and New Jersey, RAHKIA L. STONE, RN, received a call at home from Chief Nursing Officer DEB MICAN that confirmed what she’d suspected. She was positive for COVID-19. The Capital Health nurse already felt awful. She was running a fever of 103, and she couldn’t get out of bed. Two days later, she learned that her beloved 75-year-old dad, who suffered from asthma and chronic lung problems, was admitted to the hospital for COVID-19—to the exact unit of RMC in Trenton where Stone worked the night shift. On April 9, 2020, her father, William, died in the hospital, and Stone’s family was completely shattered. After she recovered from COVID-19, she took a little time away from work to collect herself. But the hospital staff was so strained and exhausted from the pandemic that she returned to Capital Health in early May. “That first day was rough,” Stone recalls. “Seeing how bad the virus really was and what it was doing to people was terrible. But my coworkers were so loving from the minute I walked on the floor. We came together as a great team.”

Life in the Trenches The 2F unit at RMC confronted the worst of COVID-19 throughout the pandemic. Patients were sicker, equipment was in shorter supply, and the stakes were higher. After six months on the job, MELISSA CHICHILITTI, MSN, RN, CCRN, was fairly new to her role as divisional director of Patient Care Services at Capital Health. When COVID-19 took hold, she had to get her arms around the pandemic and the staff without fully understanding what she was up against. “The first COVID-19 patient presented to Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell on March 22, and it went from zero to 100 in a short span of time.” 18Bordentown Current | Health Headlines by Capital Health

The health of the staff became a major concern. At the end of March, a month into her role as nurse manager of 2F, NANAYAA (NANA) BREEDY, RN, was helping care for a patient who went into respiratory distress, then coughed in her face. Just days later, on April 1, Breedy tested positive for COVID-19. This was an additional worry because her son, who suffers from sickle cell anemia, doesn’t have a spleen, so keeping him healthy is a constant focus. While Breedy was home sick, the situation at the hospital worsened at an alarming rate. “I was home for about a week. I came back, and I remember thinking, What happened here? It was crazy,” she said. “Maybe we didn’t want to admit it, but the truth is that everyone was so scared.”

Fear Factor As Capital Health crept up to its highest census mark of more than 90 COVID-19 patients in May 2020, the anguish and fatigue was palpable among patients and staff. The uncertainties around COVID-19 put a huge strain on front-line medical staff, says KRISTEN STUENCKEL, RN, nurse manager of Trauma Medical ICU & IMU. “These patients were a lot sicker and required a lot more resources, and we weren’t sure why.” Both Chichilitti and Breedy say the COVID-19 experience made them a better team and prepared them to handle just about anything. “COVID-19 made us understand the importance of communication. For me, now overseeing the managers, they know I will ask a lot, but I won’t stand next to them and ask them to do anything I wouldn’t do myself,” Chichilitti says. “There was no way we were going to do any of this without each other.”

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POINSETT continued from Page 1 man, Mike played special teams and saw some time at inside linebacker. He became the starting Mike linebacker as a sophomore and had a team-high 81 tackles as the Scotties improved to 5-3. Through this year’s 2-1 start, Poinsett had 21 tackles, five for loss, and one sack. He is also the starting fullback and pretty much never comes off the field. “He has the bulldog mentality, the old school mentality,” Edwards said. “He comes ready to play. You strap it on and you’re playing 48 minutes. He likes contact, he loves to initiate contact. Against Palmyra we put him on the kickoff team because we needed somebody out there and he went down and made a big hit on our kickoff.” Contact is what makes Poinsett tick. He is a true student of the game, but it is the joy of hitting other people that has had him playing since age 4. “Football is all I remember,” he said. “I don’t remember a time where I wasn’t playing football or watching it. I always loved football. I remember the Eagles being on every Sunday. I always liked the contact. That was the best part.” Poinsett played for Bordentown’s travel team in the West Jersey Football League and was predominantly a linebacker except for some brief time at defensive end. One of his fondest memories came when he was on the age 11-12, 115-pound team, which went undefeated. “Our last game of the regular season we played another team that was undefeated and we beat them in overtime,” he recalled. “That was great.” Upon arriving at Bordentown, Poinsett quickly discovered that playing good football meant more than just going mano y mano. “I learned a ton my freshman year,” he said. “In the youth league I just watched the ball. Wherever the ball went, I went. But once I got to high school it was all about reading the offensive line. I had to read blocks,

Bordentown Regional High School linebacker Mike Poinsett is sometimes underestimated by opponents because of his size. (Photo by Rich Fisher.)

there were a bunch of different keys I had to learn about. “A lot changed from youth ball to high school. There’s a lot more to think about and I learned a lot. It was definitely confusing but toward the end of last year I was getting the hang of it.” Mike was also entering a world in which the guys he was trying to bring down had a bit more strength than himself. “My last year on youth league I was one of the bigger kids,” he said. “As soon as I got to freshman year in high school I was one of the smallest on the team. It really changed. But physically, I was still able to hold up against the big guys. It was more physical but I could handle it.”

He handled it to an extent, but Poinsett knew he had to increase his strength to get better. He began hitting the weight room hard, and can now bench 235 pounds, squat 300 and lift 385. “After his freshman year he dedicated himself,” Edwards said. “He went into the weight room, worked real hard, gained more size. He went to a couple camps before the Covid outbreak took place. He worked hard getting bigger while everybody was home with Covid.” It was Poinsett’s answer to people saying he was too small. “I’ve always heard it, that hasn’t stopped me,” he said. “I’ve always been shorter, smaller in high school than everyone else.” Edwards credits defensive coordinator Rich McGlynn for taking Poinsett’s game to the next level, saying “he really worked hard with Mike. He taught Mike a lot about reads as a linebacker, filling as a linebacker and learning the game.” They were lessons that Poinsett took to heart. “You gotta focus on your reads,” he said. “It’s easy to start looking in the backfield; and of course in the backfield there’s a lot of misdirection teams will do. But if you just read the linemen they’ll always show you where the play is going.” It is that kind of attention to the game’s intricacies that impresses Edwards. “I think one of the biggest attributes

Mike has, is he recognizes plays,” the veteran coach said. “He studies tape, he knows what our scouting report is and how to go about getting prepared for the game. He learns the mental part of it when he’s off the field and puts the mental part on the field when it’s time to react.” As for the physical aspect of things, Poinsett has everything but height when it comes to drawing attention to recruiters. But that’s not discouraging him by any means. “I really want to play in college,” he said. “I do think about (my size) but there’s nothing I can really do about it so I just have to play to my full potential.” Edwards isn’t just looking to see Poinsett in college, he wants to see him at the highest plateau. “He has good quickness, and we’re trying to get him up to a D-I level,” Edwards said. “He needs to get a little more size and height, but that’s his body, that’s not something we can do. I just know he has the ability to become a very good football player. One of the better football players in Burlington County.”

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Patience Wright: Lady of Legends with her sister, Rachel Wells, and then solo. According to researchers, Wright Bordentown, founded in 1682, was the home of some of the nation’s used different waxing and heating “founding fathers,” including Thomas techniques, which allowed her sculpPaine, the pamphleteer who wrote tures to become more realistic. She “Common Sense,” and Frances Hop- also began to create both life-sized kinson, designer of the American pieces and busts for her subjects. Wright and Wells became so sucflag and a signer of the Declaration of cessful with their work they opened a Independence. While their names echo through studio in New York City. Unfortunately, history, another important colonial in 1771, the New York studio caught on Bordentown resident is only men- fire, destroying most of the work. Wright, in search of more opportutioned as an historical footnote. That is America’s first sculptress, Patience nity, set her sights on London. “EngWright, a forgotten figure who played land had the most opportunities for a role in the history of art and the artists in the entire world back in the 1770s, and they would have better founding of the United States. success there than she The artist was born would have back in coloPatience Lovell in 1725 nies,” says Kiovsky. in the village of Oyster In London, Wright Bay, Long Island. When became highly she was four years old, respected by politicians, the Lovell family moved socialites, and nobles to Bordentown. The realoyal to King George III, son was that they were and members of London devout Quakers and society would commiswanted to live in a region sion Wright. where the Quaker influHigh profile figures ence was strong. It included William Pitt, was also where Wright the prime minister durbegan experimenting ing the Seven Years War, with art. and Benjamin Franklin, According to Doug Wright a Philadelphian who at Kiovsky, vice president the time was a colonial of the Bordentown Historic Society, “When Patience was ambassador to England. In fact, Benyoung, she made dyes from herbs jamin Franklin’s younger sister, Jane and paints from soil and the gums of Mecom, introduced Wright to the Lontrees. Then she switched to clay from don Society. When tensions boiled between the the creek banks as well as using flour dough. The seven ‘perfect’ colors that colonies and England, Wright became Quakers used in their artistry most outspoken and became supportive of due to their religion were black, red, the cause for American independence. She also voluntarily became a spy blue, yellow, green, white, and ‘lake.’ She started experimenting with art for the colonies and shared secret notes encased in wax figures to evade when she was very young.” Kiovsky and other researchers say detection to members of the Continenthere’s not much information about tal Congress. After the successful outcome of the who she studied with and where she studied, if at all. However, documents American Revolution, she made plans show she moved to Philadelphia, to return to America, but it was not which was the capital of arts and cul- to be. In 1782, she fell and “suffered internal injuries for several days. She ture in the American Colonies. It was during her time in Philadel- did not make it,” says Kiovsky. The artist died on March 23, 1786, phia that she met barrel maker Joseph at age 61. And despite her desire to be Wright, whom she married in 1748. Within months after their marriage, buried in America, she was buried in the couple moved back to Borden- London. And so was much of her fascinating town, where they raised four children. One was Joseph Wright Jr., who would history and artistry. Today, Wright’s become a world-renowned painter works are only in a few museum col— he has portraits of the founding lections — mainly in England. “The fathers located at the Rockingham only museums that have Patience’s work are the British Museum and Museum in Rocky Hill. The Wright family lived at 100 Farn- Westminster Abbey, (the British) have sworth Avenue and attended services the life-size sculpture of William Pitt,” at the Friends Meeting House, the says Kiovsky. “There’s no recorded current home of the Bordentown His- evidence that there is any of her work at the Smithsonian or other museums toric Society. She lived on Farnsworth until 1769, in the America.” But he says the BHS has a small when her husband died of natural causes. Widowed and broke, she fell self-portrait of Wright in its collection back on her on the early art experi- and believes they may be one of the ences — and probable training — and few institutions in America to have an returned to Philadelphia to begin a example of her work. Wright, however, did inspire a few career creating wax sculptures, first By Byron Aubrey

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other wax sculptors who gained larger reputations. One is world famous. “The French sculptress Madame Tussaud was deeply inspired by Patience’s work, especially her form of realism,” says Kiovsky about the creator of the popular attraction founded in London and in New York City. Wright’s life can be found in one of the few heavily researched books on her, the 226-page “Patience Wright: American Artist and Spy in King George III’s London” by Charles Colman Sellers. He wrote several other books about art in Colonial Philadelphia, including two on his great-greatgrandfather, the artist Charles Willson Peale, and another on the portraits of Benjamin Franklin. Those interested in connecting

more with Wright can easily do so by visiting Bordentown. The house that she lived in is still there and is privately owned. It is on the corner of Park Street and Farnsworth Avenue, right across from the home of the earlier mentioned Hopkinson. Look for the historic marker sign that provides information about her and her husband. Also look for the panel adjacent to the house on Park Street provided by the New Jersey Women’s Heritage Trail. Both are good ways to remember the work and the legacy a talented sculptress and an offbeat part of history that should be celebrated — or else before forgotten and erased from history entirely. Image of Wright is a painting from the National Portrait Gallery.

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A ribbon of water: Part II DOUG KIOVSKY THE BEND IN THE RIVER

In 1834, the 66-mile Delaware and Raritan Canal and feeder were completed at an estimated cost close to $3 million. The opening ceremonies with New Jersey Governor Peter Vroom and other dignitaries in attendance toured the canal on barges borrowed from the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company. Starting at Lock No. 1 in Bordentown, the lavishly decorated fleet was towed by teams of mules to the town of New Brunswick where speeches, parades, and a 24-gun salute were planned. Indeed, this transportation enterprise experienced considerable success. The 1860s and 1870s proved to be its most profitable decades as close to two million tons of freight, especially anthracite coal, were transported through its waterway. In 1866, its net earnings surpassed those of the Erie Canal’s best year as 3 million tons of cargo passed through its locks. Although it wasn’t as long as its counterpart, the ingenuity of its construction rested on wider traffic lanes, deeper channels, and the imple-

mentation of A-framed swing bridges. The Delaware and Raritan Canal maintained a healthy annual profit until 1893. Business was extremely brisk along Bordentown’s natural harbor and canal terminal. William and Frank Clinton established the town’s first shipyard in 1856. Captain D. S. Mershon possessed a

Even a floating church, known as the Church of the Redeemer, graced the canal’s presence along the docks. lucrative talent for fabricating sloops, schooners, and tugboats. This led to a government contract for building two gunboats during the Civil War. Even a curious floating church, designed by Clement Dennington and known as “The Church of the Redeemer,” graced its presence along the docks. Wherever one looked, there were more vessels on the water than the water itself. Along a spit of land leading to the canal was the company office, a toll

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Made of stone and mortar, the workmanship failed and it tumbled into the Crosswicks Creek. Several years later, the location for a new lock was moved closer to the Delaware River and replaced with heavy timber frames that were floated to the canal entrance and fixed in place with iron spikes and backfill. Today this site contains the only wooden lock along the canal. Above the hill that overlooked so much activity was a dirt street with Doug Kiovsky is the vice president of the simple frame homes on meager lots Bordentown Historical Society.

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October 2021 | Bordentown Current23

Florence Twp $389,900

Edgewater Park Twp $325,000

Upper Freehold Twp $449,500

FOR SALE

FOR INFO & PICS, TEXT 983632 TO 35620

FOR INFO & PICS, TEXT 143787 TO 35620

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Rosemary S Birch, Realtor Associate (609) 947-5536 cell

Marilyn E Ondy, Broker Associate (609) 203-3187 cell

Rosemary Pezzano, Broker Associate (609) 744-4617 cell

Plumsted Twp

Bordentown City

Trenton City

$225,000

$199,900

$115,900

FOR SALE

FOR INFO & PICS, TEXT 136626 TO 35620

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Cynthia S Malsbury, Broker Associate (609) 203-4959 cell

Frank Angelucci Jr., Realtor Associate (954) 243-3987 cell

Mary E Donchak, Realtor Associate (609) 647-2508 cell

Bordentown Twp

North Hanover Twp

Eastampton Twp

$380,000

$450,000

$219,900

FOR SALE

FOR INFO & PICS, TEXT 125202 TO 35620

FOR INFO & PICS, TEXT 770903 TO 35620

FOR INFO & PICS, TEXT 112287 TO 35620

Victor J Cocorles, Realtor Associate (609) 332-2149 cell

Beth A Kimmick, Broker Associate (732) 740-9397 cell

Anjani Kumar, Broker Associate (609) 575-3029 cell

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