Town Topics Newspaper, March 6, 2024.

Hotel Construction Issues Keep Chambers Street One-Way Until May 16

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Following a prolonged discussion, Princeton Council voted at its February 26 meeting to allow the Graduate Hotel to maintain the work zone on Chambers Street through May 16, which is more than two months longer than previously scheduled. That means the street will remain one-way going north until the hotel opens for business on that date.

Much anticipated, the hotel’s opening is delayed due to structural issues in the front part of the hotel, an existing building at 20 Nassau Street. Opening up the street to two-way traffic was not considered a viable alternative at this point, since it would likely entail periodic closures.

“We looked at numerous, numerous options to try and avoid this,” said Pablo David, representing the hotel. “We know that it has been an inconvenience to many of the residents, people who live, work, and play in the downtown. This is the quickest, most efficient way to get us off the street and the hotel opened.”

Council members and Mayor Mark Freda were not pleased at the request. “This is the second time you have come to us with a choice that is not really a choice,” said Councilwoman Eve Niedergang, referring to the developer’s request nearly two years ago to change the plan of keeping Chambers Street two-way during construction, changing it to one-way. “I’m frustrated on behalf of the people this is impacting,” Niedergang continued, suggesting that the developers might offer compensation in the form of a corporate contribution to a community cause. David replied that he could not answer that request “on the y.”

Flu Numbers Remain High; COVID, RSV Decline

As spring and the likely end of the season for high numbers of respiratory diseases approaches, in uenza activity locally and throughout the state remains high, but health officials are hopeful that this year’s numbers may have peaked in February.

“The trajectory for in uenza has decreased in the past week,” wrote Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center Epidemiologist David J. Herman in a March 5 email. “If this pattern holds, we may have seen the peak of this year’s in uenza season.” He noted that u activity remains high in all New Jersey counties, but he pointed out that a tripledemic — u, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) — “was not apparent, since all three viruses did not peak at the same time.”

He added, “COVID-19 cases continue in a slow decline both locally and statewide.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) most recently reported for the week of February 17 that RSV percent positivity in New Jersey and the percentage of emergency department visits with a diagnosis of RSV had been decreasing since mid-December.

Princeton Deputy Administrator/Director of Health Jeff Grosser also pointed out the high state activity for in uenza, “with

61,506 cases reported through February 24.” He continued, “Last year we saw in uenza peak through the early part of January. This season will likely conclude with the in uenza peak occurring sometime in mid-to-late February. We have also observed a few fast-acting outbreaks of in uenza in our K-12 schools.”

Grosser noted that this year is different from previous post-pandemic years in that “we are not having that overlapping peak timing.” In past years there were times

when all three respiratory illnesses — u, COVID-19, and RSV — “were peaking all at similar times, which increased the hospital emergency department burden.”

For the 2023-24 season through March 4, Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center has reported 510 cases of in uenza. There was a total of 672 cases reported for the entire 2022-23 season.

Grosser stated that the severity of this year’s u season seems “relatively typical,” but he said that with more workers

Citizen’s Police Academy Registering Participants for its Second Season

At the beginning of the six-week Citizen’s Police Academy held by the Princeton Police Department last spring, one of the 16 participants — a man in his seventies — told Sgt. Dan Federico that he had never really trusted the police. By the end of the program, “I think we opened his eyes on a few things,” said Federico. “He actually referred three people for this year.”

Getting the Citizen’s Police Academy up and running was a goal of Chief Jon Bucchere when he took over the top spot in October 2022. The success of the inaugural program last spring has prompted the department to schedule a second series, which begins April 18 and runs on

Thursday evenings through June 6. Spots are still available for the 20 slots. Participation is free.

“Having gone through it myself, I can say it’s a really top-notch program,” said Princeton Councilwoman Leticia Fraga during the governing body’s February 26 meeting. “It’s a wonderful experience. I would even go as far as saying it’s exciting. We may not get deputized. We didn’t get to keep a gun. But we learned how to use one.”

Learning how guns work is just one aspect of the program. The focus is on how the department operates, and how it responds to incidents in the community.

SIGNS OF SPRING: Cheery daffodils and other fl owers are popping up around town, heralding that spring will soon be here.

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Lecture on D&R Canal

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On March 20 at 7:30 p.m., the Delaware River Greenway Partnership’s Heritage Lecture Series will feature a Zoom lecture by photographer Ted Settle. “The Delaware and Raritan Canal: A Central New Jersey Gem” will address the challenges faced by its designers and builders, journeying from Bordentown to New Brunswick along the canal, exploring its intricate network of locks, bridges, and tender houses.

Settle will delve into the engineering marvels that made the canal operational,

including managing water levels and navigating natural obstacles. He will also discuss the canal’s rich ecosystem, encountering wildlife and wildflowers along the way.

Growing up in California, Settle developed a lifelong passion for photography when his parents gave him a Kodak box camera. Transitioning to a Konica 35mm camera in the mid-1960s, his interest blossomed during a trip to Australia in 1999, where he was introduced to professional photography using Canon equipment. Since then, he has remained dedicated to

through diverse landscapes and experiences. From capturing the scenic Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park during his daily commute to documenting travels across Australia, Costa Rica, the Middle East, and beyond, he has explored various terrains and light conditions. Recently, his focus has shifted to the landscapes of Montana and Wyoming, particularly the Bear Tooth Mountains and Yellowstone. To register for the free Zoom talk, visit https:// rb.gy/pel5k5.

Topics In Brief A Community Bulletin

Nighttime Work on Nassau Street : For the next several weeks, traffic on Nassau Street between Witherspoon and Harrison streets will be limited to one lane between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. as gas main work is underway.

Cherry Hill Road Closure : For approximately one month, Cherry Hill Road Bridge is closed to all traffic as emergency repairs are made to a partially collapsed culvert. Motorists will be diverted to Route 206, Mountain Avenue, Great Road, and Stuart Road as a detour.

Apply for the Princeton Advisory Committee on Affordable Housing, Human Services, and Racial, Social, and Economic Equity: The municipality is accepting applications for the newly formed committee. The deadline is March 14. Visit princetonnj.gov.

Recreation Department Summer Jobs : Apply for work at Community Park Pool in customer service, day camp, or on lifeguard staff. Visit Princetonnj.gov/982/ Seasonal-Employment.

Free Tax Assistance : The Mercer County AARP Tax-Aide program offers free federal and state tax preparation at Princeton Public Library, the Suzanne Patterson Building, and Nassau Presbyterian Church. Call (888) 227-7669 for specifics. Scholarship Opportunity : College-bound Jewish female students who live in the Princeton/Mercer/Bucks community can apply for funding from the Dr. Esther Wollin Memorial Scholarship Fund. JFCSonline.org.

Youth Leadership Programs : Students from Princeton High School, Princeton Day School, the Hun School, and Stuart Country Day School can apply for the municipality’s 2024-25 Youth Leadership programs, open to all sophomores. Applications are due March 19. Visit princetonnj.gov.

Wrapper Recycling : At the offices of Sustainable Princeton, 1 Monument Drive, drop off candy wrappers, gum wrappers, snack and chip bags, aluminum foil, granola bar wrappers, and foil-based packaging until the box is filled. Sustainableprinceton.org.

ALONG THE CANAL: Photographer Ted Settle captured this shot of an osprey eating fish along the Delaware and Raritan Canal. Settle will present a free Zoom lecture on March 20 at 7:30 p.m.

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McCarter’s Production of “Dreamgirls” Is About More Than Glitz and Glam

A video on McCarter Theatre Center’s website takes viewers on a behindthe-scenes tour of the set and costume shops as they prepare for the opening of Dreamgirls . With some 3,000 square feet of shimmer panels adorning the set, the musical, which is on stage at McCarter’s

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Matthews Theater March 6 through 24, is big on flash and glitz.

But there is more to Dreamgirls than glamour and sequins. “I love the story. I think it has a better book than it gets credit for,” said Lili-Anne Brown, director of the show, during a break from rehearsals this week. “I have always felt that while it was very glitzy and very much about that life, with really showy singing, that’s just one of the many parts of that story. It’s a generalized story about the music business, and also about womanhood and friendship, and how these things can be exploited in a business that’s supposed to be about people’s talent.”

the Goodman Theatre, and Put Your House in Order at La Jolla Playhouse. She is a graduate of Northwestern University and has won numerous awards for her work. She feels a particular affinity for Dreamgirls

“It speaks to me culturally,” she said. “It’s music that I grew up with, because my parents were listening to it. I grew up knowing Motown. That was heritage music for me.”

One of the things that makes Dreamgirls unique is the speed at which it moves. “This is a big, big show with a lot of really tiny details,” said Brown. “It moves really fast, and is known for its lack of transitions. It races from location to location, moving

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Brown brings Dreamgirls to Princeton from the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Conn., where she directed the show late last year. Originally produced on Broadway in 1981 starring Jennifer Holliday and Sheryl Lee Ralph, the Tony Award-winning musical was made into a movie in 2006 with Jennifer Hudson, Jamie Foxx, and Beyonce in leading roles. It tells the story of a 1960s Motown girl group that wins an amateur competition and soars to stardom. “And I am Telling You I’m Not Going” and “One Night Only” are among the show’s best-known songs.

Brown came to the show after Goodspeed approached her — out of the blue — about directing its production. “It was absolutely on my bucket list,” she said. “I’m very lucky, because I’ve gotten to do a lot of shows that I always hoped I’d do, and tell stories I’d hoped to tell. The offer came out of nowhere. I was actually working on a different production for McCarter at the time. As [the Goodspeed production] went along and different ideas were happening, they said maybe the best move here would be to take Dreamgirls to McCarter. And here we are.”

A native of Chicago, Brown is a director, actor, and educator with a page-long list of credits to her name. Just a few: she directed Lottery Day and I Hate It Here at

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The cast is “phenomenally talented,” Brown said. “There is something different and special about each one of them. They are not just singers, they are actors — great actors. I hope it sells really well. I think this cast deserves full houses. They’re working really hard, and it’s really a great show that I believe in. The costumes and singing are amazing, but it doesn’t just have to be about that. If you can balance it, it’s a great story.”

For tickets, visit mccarter. org.

—Anne Levin

Princeton Library Hosts Day Devoted to “Zines”

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A daylong celebration of zines and those who create them takes place March 16 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. when Princeton Public Library presents Princeton Zine Fest 2024. Pronounced “zeen,” zine is short for magazine or fanzine.

Small, do-it-yourself publications, zines are created in a wide variety of genres and are typically reproduced on a copy machine. Those who create them are called zinesters.

“We were excited by the enthusiastic response the library received to our call for zinesters to exhibit their creations at our first zine fest,” said Public Programming Librarian Janie Hermann. “We’re looking forward to introducing the community to zine culture and hope that visitors will register for our workshop, or attend our drop-in program, to create a zine of their own.”

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Held as part of New Jersey Makers Day, the Princeton Zine Fest features workshops related to zine culture, collection, and creating. At 10 a.m., “Zine Culture and Collections” with panelists Laura Poll, Megan Lotts, and Mike Lupica, will be held in the Newsroom. Following at 11 a.m. is “Zines and Graphic Novels: Pushing the Possibilities of the Form,” with panelists Christina Freeman and Jennifer Hayden.

Also at 10 a.m., instructors from Philly Soapbox will present “Make and Print a Zine” in the STEAM Studio on the third floor. Registration is required. From 2-4 p.m., there will be dedicated space on the third floor for creating zines. All are welcome to drop in to participate. Supplies and prompts will be provided, and staff will be on hand to answer questions. A Zine Marketplace will be held in the Community Room from 12 to 5 p.m. featuring a wide array of zinesters and local zine collections from the Arts Council of Princeton, Rutgers University, and the Trenton Free Public Library.

Additional information about Princeton Zine Fest workshops and panelists is available on the events calendar at princetonlibrary. org.

Mitch: “Blue Point Grill — so fresh. We also love Jammin’ Crepes and Princeton Soup and Sandwich.” —Mitch and Arlene Frumkin, Kendall Park

Phoenix: “I like The Bent Spoon. It’s really good!”

—Phoenix and Fareed Hayat, Montclair

Jack: “Blue Point Grill is our favorite place. Also Teresa’s for great Italian flavors.”

—Jack and Anne Brassil, Montgomery

Isabelle: “Elite Five. It’s absolutely delicious, the atmosphere is great, the people are so nice, and it’s very consistent. Even when it’s crowded, there’s always a calm atmosphere.”

—Gil Rampy and Isabelle Chu, Princeton

Hotel Construction continued from page one

Freda said the situation should have been revealed months earlier, “as soon as you guys hit these roadblocks with the structural problems in the front building.” Councilwoman Leticia Fraga said the construction and frequent closures have made travel on Chambers Street dangerous. Kristin Appelget, who heads Princeton University’s Office of Community and Regional Affairs, also spoke of feeling unsafe both traveling in her car and walking on the street.

Councilman Leighton Newlin said he was in favor of granting David’s request. “Finish it, and let’s open it up,” he said of the hotel. “It may be a little frustrating, but the most important thing is to get it open. I would sign up for 70 more days of grinning and bearing it.”

Loading a sustainable green roof and a backup generator onto the hotel’s roof are among the parts of the project still to be done, requiring special safety measures. Jim Purcell, Princeton’s assistant

municipal engineer, said this week that safety and efficiency were the reasons for the request.

“It wasn’t anything we expected,” he said. “We had anticipated that major construction work would be done by the end of December [2023], and the rest of the stuff could be done using their driveway and motor court turnaround. But it’s just not practical. There is not enough space. When they started renovating the interior of the old building, they discovered that it wasn’t structurally sound enough. So they had to do some work that affected the whole project. There are some little things that caused delays as well.”

The Graduate Hotel is part of a chain of themed hotels in college towns across the country and abroad. The May 16 date for opening — 10 days before Commencement activities begin at Princeton University — is firm, David assured.

Freda said, “Just to make this formal and have it on the record, May 16 is the date. That means May 17, the road is open.”

—Anne Levin

Flu

continued from page one spending more time back in the office, there have been more workplace-related respiratory outbreaks than in recent past years.

Grosser explained that the Princeton Health Department has partnered with a few schools that were experiencing increased absenteeism from influenza-like illnesses. There is a high risk of spread of illnesses in schools, he said, since there is typically a large number of people congregating closely.

“Timing is critical with our school-based infectioncontrol practices,” he added. “Early notification of cases leads to increased awareness and reduction of overall cases.”

The most recently reported CDC COVID-19 hospital admission levels, for the week ended February 17, are “low” throughout New Jersey except in the three southernmost counties, which are listed at a “medium” level.

At Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center there have been 307 COVID-19 cases reported from January 1 to March 4 of this year,

both hospitalized and outpatient. There were 570 cases reported in the same period in 2023.

Both Grosser and Herman strongly recommended updated COVID-19 vaccines for all. “The 2023-24 updated COVID vaccine is the best protection against severe COVID illness and death,” Herman wrote. “The vast majority (95 percent of adults) hospitalized with COVID-19 recently did not receive the 2023-24 updated vaccine, which became available in September 2023. The likelihood of developing long COVID symptoms is decreased in those who received the 2023-24 updated COVID-19 vaccine.”

He added, “It is safe; the benefits of the vaccine far outweigh any risks from the vaccine.”

Grosser emphasized the importance of an additional dose of the updated COVID-19 vaccine, particularly for older adults and those who are immunocompromised.

—Donald Gilpin

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Visitors From Italy Bring Rich Culture, Education, Lasting Friendships to PHS

Learning another language is a worthy endeavor, but Princeton High School (PHS) students who participated in an Italian exchange program — travel to Italy last fall and hosting a return visit last month by students from Italy and their teachers — were able to add several dimensions to the educational experience.

“I greatly appreciated the opportunity to stay with another family in Italy and to host two of my friends that I made on the trip here in Princeton,” wrote PHS eleventh grader Max Mazo in an email. “Living with an Italian family for a week gave me not only the opportunity to explore and learn the language, but also to temporarily integrate myself into the beautiful daily life and traditions of Carpi.”

He continued, “Hosting my friends also was a special experience. Of course going to New York and out for meals was fun, but the activities with Italian American history and culture with the Carpi students proved invaluable for learning and strengthening friendships.”

The PHS community, including the 14 PHS students who had visited the north central Italian town of Carpi in November and their families, hosted 35 students and three teachers from Carpi for eight days last month.

“The PHS families were so gracious,” said Laura Francolino, PHS Italian teacher and the organizer of the Italian exchange. “They reached out and opened their homes and their hearts and formed a bond with these students.”

Francolino described the scene when the Italian contingent arrived on February 5. “I can’t tell you how happy everyone was when these students got off the bus in Princeton. To re-see these kids after a few months and

to see the teachers, It was as if they had known each other for their whole lives.”

It was a busy eight days for the PHS students and their Italian visitors, with the PREA teachers’ union, Dorothea’s House, and the Pettoranello Sister City Foundation helping to sponsor an assortment of different events. The Italian students and teachers enjoyed a luncheon hosted by Dorothea’s House, where they met Princeton Mayor Mark Freda and an Italian language professor from Princeton University.

There was a cooking lesson, funded by the PREA, in the kitchens at Princeton Middle School, where the visitors learned how to make Super Bowl snacks and dip.

Another highlight of the visit was a “History of Pizza in New Jersey” event at PHS where all the students and host families sampled three different types of pizza found in the area, including traditional pizza from Papa’s Tomato Pies, the oldest pizzeria in New Jersey; sfincione, a Palermo-style pizza that Francolino found in Allentown; and traditional Neapolitan pizza provided by Conte’s.

The Italian students sat in on classes at PHS, meeting PHS teachers and other students. They had the experience of a snow day, went bowling, toured the town of Princeton and Princeton University, and went on family visits to New York City and Philadelphia. Francolino and the Italian teachers enjoyed a Saturday day trip to Washington, D.C.

“Showing the exchange students around the area gave me a new perspective and appreciation for Princeton and the surrounding area,” said PHS junior Devin Levy, who noted that he made a lot of friends on

his visit to Italy in November and is planning “to stay connected and visit again in the future.”

Though she has led many trips to Italy in the summer for students and their parents, this year’s exchange was the first for Francolino, who arrived recently at PHS, and the first PHS Italian exchange since before COVID-19.

Francolino spent many months making preparations, beginning with finding contacts at the sister school in Carpi, working with a travel agent to make travel arrangements, traveling to Carpi last summer to meet her Italian counterparts and work out details, holding Zoom meetings with PHS parents to explain the program, and more. “There was a lot to coordinate,” she said.

She continued, “Then we took off. It was wonderful. I don’t even know how to describe it. It was fabulous to see these Italian parents and students take in these children they had never met before.”

The 14 students, along with Francolino and a retired nurse who joined the group, stayed in Carpi for six nights, participating in such events as a basketball tournament, learning to make pasta and Parmigiano Reggiano cheese at the local senior center, and visiting classes at the Carpi school, which is a science high school.

“It was a wonderful eyeopener for my students,” said Francolino. “They got to use their language skills and they got to know Carpi — a nice, clean, vibrant city with a very diverse population and a remarkable history.”

The Italian hosts organized a day trip to Verona, and the Princeton contingent went

to visit Firenze

for two days and Perugia for two days.

Junior Valentine Mathews expressed her gratitude for the opportunity to participate in the program. ‘I think every student learned a lot from the experience,” she wrote. “There is a lot of beauty in Italian culture and in the connections we were able to establish, but I think the challenges that come with being in a foreign city with an unfamiliar group of people is where the real value of this type of trip can be found.”

She continued, “When you are immersed in a different culture in a place that requires you to discover a new level of self-reliance and individuality you can learn so much in such a short time. I returned from Italy with a new perspective and I think the same is true for the Italian students who came here.”

Madison Tepper-DeCarlo, also a PHS eleventh-grade exchange participant, shared the enthusiasm of her peers. “I really enjoyed being able to connect with people from a different culture,” she wrote. “It also gave me insight into what living a day-to-day life was like in another country. When the Italian students were here, I was very excited to show my exchange student around and give her an insight into what my life was like and how it was different from hers.”

Francolino noted how much her students had learned from the experience about Italian language and culture, and she agreed with Mathews. “Students who went have a different perspective,” she said. “It changes the way you look at things, and I think that’s really important. Whatever we have here isn’t always the only answer.”

She continued, “I’m looking forward to continuing the message: ‘Study Italian. Let’s go to Italy. Let’s live it. Let’s see what we can do. Let’s be there.’”

World Language Supervisor Priscilla Russel, who coordinated bringing the Italian Exchange back to PHS — “It wouldn’t have happened without her,” said

Francolino — commented on the district’s exchange programs, which also included a visit from 40 students from a partner school in Colmar, France, earlier this school year.

“These have been overwhelmingly successful, and while they may appear deceptively effortless, the teacher organizers, school administration, and many folks in town worked tirelessly to set up and carry out these wonderful experiences for our students and their families,” she said. The three visiting Carpi teachers

stayed with Russel during their eight days in Princeton.

Francolino, who is the only person in the district who teaches Italian, has six different Italian classes from first year through fifth year AP, with several students who finished the program early serving as her teaching assistants. She teaches about 140 students, with all of her classes full this year.

“That’s a lot of students,” she acknowledged, “but I love what I do.”

—Donald Gilpin

ITALY-PHS EXCHANGE: Laura Francolino, Princeton High School (PHS) Italian teacher and organizer of the recent PHS exchange visit with 35 students from Carpi, Italy, prepares for last month’s “History of Pizza in New Jersey” event, which took place at PHS for the students and their host families.

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Children’s Health Equity and Justice

The photograph on the overhead screen showed a touching image of a loving parent and child, as Dr. Renee D. Boynton-Jarrett, a practicing pediatrician, social epidemiologist, Princeton University graduate, and associate professor at Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, asked for responses from the overflow gathering of about 80 in the Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) Robertson Hall lecture room on Friday afternoon, March 1.

“It epitomizes a lot of what I’ve focused my career on,” she said. “How can we create a world where all children are safe and loved, with caregivers and families that feel supported by their environment, and their society provides this nurturing with warmth and safety?”

In a global health colloquium presentation titled “Community-Led Transformation to Advance Child Health Equity and Justice: Global Trends and Emerging Bright Spots,” Boynton-Jarrett, the founding executive director of Boston-based Vital Village Networks, led the audience of mostly University students in an exploration of the above question.

“Especially in this particular moment, we think about how large a challenge it is so that every child can experience that feeling of safety and caring and can fulfill their promise,” she said, asking the audience to “take a moment to consider how overwhelming the challenges that we face are” and citing “significant social and structural forces that need to be addressed.”

But she emphasized how the scene in her opening photo “is also incredibly sensible.” She continued, “There isn’t some magic wand that we need to wave for children to really have what they need to thrive and to have positive experiences in life.”

With a series of PowerPoint graphs, BoyntonJarrett went on to point out that the infant mortality rate and the maternal mortality rate, widely accepted indicators of population health and well-being, show that a greater proportion of people die from pregnancy and childbirth-related causes in the U.S. than in any other high-income country in the world. The U.S. records about twice as many maternal deaths per 100,000 live births as the high- income country with the next highest mortality rate.

These negative results continue to grow worse, and statistics for Black and Indigenous communities are even bleaker.

Boynton-Jarrett went on to note that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate “that more than 70 percent of the cases of maternal morbidity and mortality are preventable based on the technologies that we have and the preventions that can be provided.”

She cited a number of factors contributing to the negative results, including valuing some types of health care professionals and not others (e.g. midwives), scarcity of health care providers, lack of guaranteed paid maternity leave, and lapses in effective care for emotional distress and chronic disease.

“But if you look at our spending on health care, we top the charts,” she pointed out. “How can this be possible, that we outspend all of the other countries on health care and our outcomes around chronic illness, emotional distress, maternal morbidity, and mortality are so bad? How do you explain that?”

She concluded, “We messed up. We have dropped the ball here. Something is not right.” And she called on the audience to consider: “What actually would make a difference?”

The students’ responses ranged widely as they considered structural change in society to put more of the money spent on health care in the places where it is most needed, “to build trustworthy institutions and advance policies to reimagine systems of care and education to promote child welfare,” and to find “community-led solutions to advance health equity,” in accordance with Boynton-Jarrett’s advice.

Emerging from the ensuing discussion were such proposals as: spending more on preventive care in order to save on treatment care; focusing more on individuals rather than technology and procedures; prioritizing people’s well-being over capital gains; working to resolve a conflict of interest in a system where surgery is always more lucrative for the provider than preventive care; spending more on social care; and eliminating what Boynton-Jarrett called a “systematic discrediting of midwifery” in this country.

There were more questions than answers, a predominantly negative context with the current status of child and maternal health in the U.S., but also many ideas for ways to advance child health equity and justice and a large contingent of emerging university students who seemed committed to pursuing solutions.

—Donald Gilpin

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y Cuentos’ (P&S/GyC) annual benefit has returned to its roots with its upcoming event, “Notable Words/Palabras Notables: An Afternoon of Readings and Conversation with Melissa Coss Aquino, Denice Frohman, and Luis Mora-Ballesteros.”

The moderator is Nora Muniz, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University.

The event will be held on Sunday, March 17 at 2 p.m. in the Mackay Lounge on the campus of the Princeton Theological Seminary, 64 Mercer Street. It features a conversation and Q&A with three Latino authors, followed by a dessert reception with the authors and moderator.

Aquino is a Puerto Rican writer from the Bronx. She received her MFA from The City College of New York (CUNY) and her Ph.D. from The Graduate Center, CUNY, in English. She currently works as an associate professor in the English department at Bronx Community College, CUNY, where she serves as the co-faculty adviser for Thesis, the Literary Journal of BCC. Her personal essay “Una Sinverguenza” (“Shameless”) was published in Callaloo, and her fairy tale “Pelo Bueno/Good Hair” was published in The Fairy Tale Review. Carmen and Grace (HarperCollins) is her first novel.

Frohman is a poet and performer from New York City. A Pew Fellow and Baldwin-Emerson Fellow, she has received support from CantoMundo, Headlands Center for the Arts, the National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has appeared in the New York Times; The Breakbeat Poets: LatiNext; Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color; The Rumpus; and elsewhere. A former Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, she’s been featured on hundreds of stages from the Apollo to the White House. Recently, she debuted her one-woman show, Esto No Tiene Nombre, centering the oral histories of Latina lesbian elders.

Mora-Ballesteros is a Venezuelan American author and doctor in literature who has developed his career as a writer alongside his work as a literary critic, promoter, and lecturer in Spanish. He is the author of the novels Díptico de la frontera (2020), La sombra del comandante (2021), and Ya no es posible el Sur (forthcoming), as well as critical essays.

Ticket prices start at $125, including the conversation and dessert reception with the authors. Visit peopleandstories.org for the link.

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LEARNING ABOUT LAW ENFORCEMENT: Last year’s participants in the Princeton Police Department’s Citizen’s Police Academy included Princeton Councilwoman Leticia Fraga, at far right. The group was immersed once a week, for eight weeks, in the methods and operations of the department.

Citizen’s Police Academy continued from page one Topics include organizational structure, use of force, police response, arrest, search and seizure, motor vehicle stops, and officer safety. A ride-along program allows participants to observe patrol functions firsthand.

“It is our intention that the graduates of the Princeton Police Citizen’s Police Academy will gain an awareness and appreciation of the services we provide,” reads a description on the municipal website. “We also hope to collectively create an even stronger partnership between our police department and the community we serve.”

Federico said, “Everybody can go online and watch YouTube videos about how the police operate. But this gives a little more in-depth information, and shows why

we do things a certain way.”

A motor vehicle stop is set up for the participants. “We go up to the bad guy, which is one of our officers,” Federico said. “In that situation, they get a gun that shoots a paintball. Not every situation results in use of force, but they get that decisionmaking ability. We acquired a virtual reality trainer and we put them through a scenario where they get the chance to do things our officers get to do.”

Last year, 16 people took part. Up to 20 can register for the upcoming sessions. “Anything more than that might be too much to handle,” said Federico. “It’s not

just in the classroom, where we explain policies and procedures. They are also taking part in the hands-on side of things.”

Applicants must be at least 21, live in Princeton, submit a completed application, and pass a background check. Visit princetonnj. gov/1384/Citizens-PoliceAcademy for more information.

Last year’s participants ranged in age from late 20s to 70s. “It’s a wide range of people, from all different backgrounds,” Federico said. “It went very well and we’re looking forward to doing it again this year.”

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Stressing Importance of Supporting Equitable Access to Summer Enrichment Opportunities

To the Editor:

As I read a recent issue of Town Topics, I was struck by the incredibly diverse array of summer camps and enrichment programs available in our community. As a parent deeply invested in the well-being and growth of my own children, I was reminded of the invaluable benefits that high-quality summer enrichment programs afforded our family.

Young people participating in these programs gain not only new skills but also a heightened sense of self-awareness, increased confidence, and enhanced social-emotional skills. These experiences, often away from screens and electronic devices, contribute significantly to the development of resilience and independence.

It is crucial that these transformative opportunities are not limited to children from families with financial means. This belief is one of the primary reasons I proudly serve as an Advisory Council member at the Princeton-Blairstown Center (PBC). For 115 years, PBC has been dedicated to ensuring that young people from historically marginalized communities have equitable access to high-quality summer learning experiences.

PBC’s Summer Bridge Program exemplifies this commitment by providing high-quality academic and personal growth experiences to young people from Trenton and Newark. This award-winning program addresses summer learning loss through three hours of daily academic hands-on enrichment. In addition, young people develop teamwork and problem-solving skills through experiential outdoor learning challenges. To top it off, they enjoy the kind of carefree fun every child should experience.

Ensuring that young people from Trenton have access to such opportunities is not just about creating memorable summers; it’s about fostering a more level educational playing field. By supporting organizations like the PrincetonBlairstown Center, we collectively contribute to a brighter future for all our children.

CHRISTINA BAILEY Casselberry Way

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Books

A Chance Encounter: Author And Scholar Meet at Labyrinth

Exploring the encounters between historical figures in Rachel Cohen’s creative consideration of American culture, Labyrinth Books and Princeton Public Library present a conversation between the acclaimed writer and Princeton University Dean of the College Jill Dolan. The writer and scholar will discuss the updated, newly released version of Cohen’s classic book, A Chance Meeting: American Encounters , first published 20 years ago.

The conversation will be at Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street, on Wednesday, March 20, at 6 p.m. It is cosponsored by Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, Humanities Council, and Department of Art and Archaeology.

According to the publisher (NYRB Classics, $19.95 paperback), A Chance Meeting chronicles the serendipitous meetings between giants of American culture. “The book’s inventive consideration of the lives and work of more than 30 American figures makes a group portrait and traces a web of companionship and influence that extends from just before the Civil War up through the anti-Vietnam War march.” These include encounters between a young Henry James having his portrait taken by the photographer Mathew Brady; Brady receiving Walt Whitman in his studio; W.E.B. Du Bois and his professor William James visiting Helen Keller; Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz arguing about photography; and Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston writing a play together, among others.

Cohen is the author of three books of nonfiction, most recently Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels. Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, and The New York Times, among other publications, and her

Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail. it is operated by the Trent House Association, which is supported by donors and grants. For more information, visit williamtrenthouse.org.

Second Sunday Poetry

Reading At Princeton Makes Princeton Makes, a Princeton-based artist cooperative, and Ragged Sky Press, a local publisher focused on poetry, will host a Second Sunday Poetry Reading on Sunday, March 10 at 4 p.m. The readings will take place at the Princeton Makes store in the Princeton Shopping Center.

The March reading will feature Coleen Marks and Joy Kreves. Their readings will be followed by an open mic available to up to 10 audience members who would like to read their original poetry.

Joy Kreves has been a member of DVP/ US1 Poets, and is the current managing editor of the Worksheets Anthology. Her poems have appeared in several of her exhibition catalogs as well as in the 2022 and 2023 Worksheets. In 2022 she had a poem in the “Poetry” show at Trenton Social. Kreves has hosted several “Artist Melts” events that incorporated art and poetry at Suburban Frontier, her Ewing art space. For more information, visit princetonmakes.com.

Poet Skeets and Students Conclude PU Writing Series Princeton University’s 2024 C.K. Williams Reading Series concludes on Tuesday, March 19 with a reading by poet Jake Skeets. The event is at 5:30 p.m. in the Donald G. Drapkin Studio in the Lewis Arts Complex on campus.

work has been included in Best American Essays and Pushcart Prize anthologies. She is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Chicago.

Dolan is also a professor in English and professor of theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts. She received the 2011 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for her blog “The Feminist Spectator.” She is the author of The Feminist Spectator in Action: Feminist Criticism on Stage and Screen, and her most recent book is Wendy Wasserstein.

Trent House Talk Highlights

Role of Dissenting Women

Author Ralph Young will discuss his latest book, American Patriots: A Short History of Dissent , in which he chronicles the key role women’s participation in dissent has played in the shaping of the United States, when The Trent House Association hosts a talk on on Saturday, March 16 at 2 p.m.

This free program will be held in-person at the Trent House Visitor Center, 15 Market Street, Trenton (across from the Hughes Justice Complex) and via Zoom at tinyurl.com/TalkMarch16.

His talk will focus on the valuable role of dissenting women from Abigail Adams to Gloria Steinem and Tarana Burke.

Young is a history professor at Temple University. He is the recipient of several teaching awards and is the author of Dissent: The History of an America Idea and Make Art Not War: Political Protest Posters from the Twentieth Century

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Marks was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and moved to a mining camp in New Jersey when she was 4. She is a graduate of Rutgers University and an award-winning photographer, having studied at the International Center of Photography in N.Y. She has published two books of poetry, Writing Naked and Twin Passions, which includes her photographs. With her third book of poetry, she explores the yin and yang of a career spent in the business world as an HR executive while keeping one hand firmly in the arts. Embracing her Irish storytelling heritage, she has woven the chance encounters of a life into her latest book of poems, How Do You Think of It.

Kreves is a visual artist who holds an M.S. in painting and a B.S. in art education from Illinois State University. She currently has an exhibition of her large-scale photographs and sculptures at GNI Galleries in Pennington. Kreves has often incorporated poems into or exhibited them alongside her artworks. Since 2021 she

Skeets, author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers and winner of the National Poetry Series, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, American Book Award, and Whiting Award, will read from his work along with several seniors in the Program in Creative Writing. Skeets is an assistant professor teaching at Diné College in Tsaile, Ariz.

The series showcases seniors in the program, with established writers as special guests. Featured seniors listed to read are Ananya Grover, Abbie Lambert, Ethan Luk, Sierra Stern, Grady Trexler, Cathleen Weng, Emmett Willford, Henry Wright, Briony Zhao, and Valeria Zuluaga-Sánchez.

The reading is free and open to the public. Tickets required and can be obtained through University Ticketing at tickets.princeton.edu/online. The Drapkin Studio is located on the second floor of the Wallace Dance Building at the Lewis Arts Complex

Coleen Marks

“There Are Smiles” on Ring Lardner’s Birthday

How can you laugh if you can’t cry?

—Ring Lardner (1885-1933)

because she’s always speeding. That story just about killed me.”

Today is Ring Lardner’s birthday, spring training baseball is underway, and I’ve been reading You Know Me Al : A Busher’s Letters (Doran 1916), in which “living” and “having” are spelled “liveing” and “haveing,” and a series between two teams becomes a “serious.” After Lardner’s team, the White Sox, were branded the Black Sox for throwing the 1919 “World Serious,” he saw it as a betrayal, although five years passed before he said, “I have kind of lost interest in the old game, or rather it ain’t the old game that which I have lost interest in it, but it is the game which the magnates have fixed up to please the public with their usual good judgement.”

In her August 1, 1925 Saturday Review essay on “American Fiction,” Virginia Woolf surprised a great many readers, including no doubt Ring Lardner and his neighbor at the time F. Scott Fitzgerald, by observing that Lardner “writes the best prose that has come our way” and “often in a language which is not English. Mr. Lardner has talents of a remarkable order. With extraordinary ease and aptitude, with the quickest strokes, the surest touch, the sharpest insight, he lets Jack Keefe the baseball player cut out his own outline, fill in his own depths, until the figure of the foolish, boastful, innocent athlete lives before us. As he babbles out his mind on paper there rise up friends, sweethearts, the scenery, town, and country—all surround him and make him up in his completeness.”

As it happens, Woolf’s eloquent appraisal could be applied to another character who is allowed to “cut out his own outline, fill in his own depths” until he “lives before us” as he “babbles out his mind on paper,” with friends, girlfriends, enemies, a little sister named Phoebe, scenery (Central Park) and town (New York City) all surrounding him and making him up “in his completeness.”

Lardner and Salinger

Early in The Catcher in the Rye , after a pronouncement worthy of You Know Me Al — “I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot” — Holden Caulfield goes on to say that his “next favorite author” after his brother D.B. is Ring Lardner. As an example, he mentions “this one story about a traffic cop that falls in love with this very cute girl that’s always speeding. Only, he’s married, the cop, so he can’t marry her or anything. Then this girl gets killed,

Had Holden provided the title, I’d have gone looking for the story years ago, but the present occasion being Lardner’s 139th birthday, I borrowed his Best Short Stories (Scribner’s 1957) from the Princeton Public Library, found the story, and will tell you about it “if you really want to know.” While I can’t say that it “almost killed me,” it made me realize how much Holden’s “completeness” owes to Lardner.

A Fifth Avenue Tale

With a title like “There Are Smiles,” the story is already heading toward an answer to Lardner’s question, “How can you laugh if you can’t cry?”

Though he is described in the third person, the cop stationed at Fifth Avenue and 46th Street seems to be talking to us one-on-one. What sets him apart from other traffic cops is that he “just naturally appeared to be having a good time whether he was scolding you or not; his large freckled face fairly beamed with joviality....

It heartened you to look at him. It amused you to hear him talk. If what he said wasn’t always so bright, the way he said it was.” Instead of scolding you for running a red light, he’d say “I suppose you didn’t see that red light,” and after the driver said “no,” he’d say “Well, what did you think the other cars was stopped for? Did you think they’d all run out of gas at once?” He delivered these “sly rebukes” in “such a nice way that you were kind of glad you did wrong.”

the prettiest face he had ever seen and it wore a most impudent, ill-timed, irresistible smile, a smile that spoiled other smiles for you once and for all.”

After the cop delivers several sly rebukes such as “Maybe you thought you was in London where they drive on the left side of the street,” the girl says, “You’re cute” in “a voice as thrilling as her smile.” With her leading the way (“I’d like to hear your whole line someday”), they make a date timed to Fifth Avenue traffic, which moved both north and south in those days.

It’s the sort of situation that Hollywood romantic comedies of the time thrived on, and Lardner brings the flirtation to life with a few pages of lively, pitch perfect dialogue. The girl lives in Rye, north of the Bronx, where he lives, and the best conversations take place the two times she drives him home. Not until the last time do they exchange names. His is Ben Collins. When he says “I could learn yours by asking to see your driver’s license,” she says “Heavens! Don’t do that! I haven’t any.” Perfect. They have taken the relationship all the way to this moment, both so deeply distracted that the cop has yet to ask for her driver’s license. Meanwhile it’s been raining, hard. Her name is Edith Dole. “It’s a funny combination,” she says. “Edith means happiness and Dole means grief.”

when he and Lardner were neighbors. It’s amusing to think that Lardner, a misspelling virtuoso, helped read the typescript of a notoriously bad speller. Lardner is also a presence in the novel by way of the character known as “Owl Eyes,” Fitzgerald’s real-life nickname for him. Owl Eyes first appears in Gatsby’s library, drunkenly sequestered from the crowd at one of Gatsby’s famous parties. And except for Nick Carraway, Owl Eyes is the only one of the partygoers who attends Gatsby’s funeral.

When Lardner died at 48 in 1933, Fitzgerald remembered him in the New Republic, writing, “At no time did I feel that I had known him enough, or that anyone knew him.” For baseball fans, a troubling feature of Fitzgerald’s recollection is his lament about the amount of time Lardner “moved in the company of a few dozen illiterates playing a boy’s game. A boy’s game, with no more possibilities in it than a boy could master, a game bounded by walls which kept out novelty or danger, change or adventure.... So long as he wrote within that enclosure the result was magnificent: within it he heard and recorded the voices of a continent. But when, inevitably, he outgrew his interest in it what was Ring left with?”

Virginia Woolf knew: “It is no coincidence that the best of Mr. Lardner’s stories are about games, for one may guess that Mr. Lardner’s interest in games has solved one of the most difficult problems of the American writer; it has given him a clue, a centre, a meeting place for the divers activities of people whom a vast continent isolates, whom no tradition controls. Games give him what society gives his English brother.”

And now, with the World Serious of American politics approaching, the game is on. Is it “the game which the magnates have fixed up to please the public with their usual good judgement.” Or does judgement have nothing to do with it?

Lou Reed (1942-2013)

Then one day along comes a new Cadillac at a speed “violating all the laws of common sense and of the State and City of New York.” The cop, who is 6’4, has to stand in front of the car and then jump on the running board (those were the days), ready to “speak his mind in words beginning with capitals when he got his first look at the miscreant’s face. It was

Even if you don’t already know what happens shortly after she drops him off at 164th Street, you’re not surprised, and even if it doesn’t kill you or knock you out, it gets to you, you’re touched, and by the end you’re feeling what the cop feels as he talks aloud to himself for the first time since he was a kid: “I can’t feel as bad as I think I do, I only seen her four or five times. I can’t really feel this bad.”

Lardner and Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote most of The Great Gatsby in the summer of 1924

On the trip to the library that led to Lardner’s story, I picked up The King of New York (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2023), Will Hermes’s 500-page biography of Lou Reed, whose birthday was last Saturday, March 2. In an interview cited on “thebaseballbloggess.com,” Reed refers to the “childhood trauma” of “the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn, which, if you think about it, is a reason why some of us are imbued with a cynicism that we never recovered from.”

—Stuart Mitchner

Princeton University Orchestra Presents Concerto Competition Winners and World Premiere

The annual Princeton University Orchestra Concerto Competition has always shown the depth of talent in the University student body. This year was no exception, with the Orchestra performing a showcase concert of the Competition winners this past weekend. Under the direction of PUO Conductor Michael Pratt, the Orchestra played three full and complex concerti featuring tuba, cello, and violin soloists. As a bonus, the ensemble presented a world premiere of a collaborative work with the University’s African Music Ensemble and the West African Dafra Kura Band.

The Concerto Competition winners were young this year, with three underclassmen displaying impressive technical dexterity in the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Robert Schumann, and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Sophomore Wesley Sanders and the University Orchestra opened Friday night’s performance in Richardson Auditorium (the concert was repeated Saturday night) with Vaughan Williams’ Concerto for Bass Tuba. The first major concerto ever written for tuba and orchestra, the 1954 concerto packed within its three movements virtuosic requirements well illustrating the full capabilities of the instrument.

Conductor Pratt led the Orchestra in a brisk and chipper opening to the militaristic first movement, with Sanders beginning the solo part with clean runs and exact rhythms. A supremely confident player, Sanders easily found dynamic contrasts and lyrical passages within the brisk orchestral texture. He began the first movement cadenza low in the tuba’s register, with the instrument’s resonant lower notes ringing off the Richardson walls. In both the cadenzas which closed the first and third movements, Sanders took his time, maneuvering challenging passages well. The third movement in particular showed Sanders’ proficiency on exceedingly quick runs, as well as effortless breath control.

The second Competition winner, sophomore cellist Kaivalya Kulkarni, performed a piece written 100 years earlier than Vaughan Williams’ tuba concerto, but equally as demanding. Composed not long before the composer’s death, Robert Schumann’s Concerto for Violoncello was never publicly performed in Schumann’s lifetime, but was novel in its instrumentation. Schumann gave his motivation for writing the composition that “there were so few works for this lovely instrument,” and throughout the performance Friday night, Kulkarni brought out the richness and lyricism of the 1907 Italian instrument he played.

The concerto was dark from the outset, with a melancholy solo cello line against the rest of the strings. Kulkarni consistently played with ease and expression, moving through phrases well. In the first movement, his continually running solo passages were complemented by a subtle pair of horns. The second movement “Langsam” was marked by a lilting duet between Kulkarni and principal cellist Brandon Cheng. Quick and agile solo technique was required for the closing movement, as conductor Pratt kept the orchestral sound

restrained against Kulkarni’s nimble play ing. Well-unified winds provided drama, with solo oboe and a pair of flutes setting up Kulkarni’s recitative-like final cadenza. University freshman Daniel Lee was featured in one of the most challenging pieces in the concerto repertory — Tchai kovsky’s 1878 Concerto for Violin. The Orchestra opened the first movement with a trademark Tchaikovsky rich melody in the strings in dialog with the winds. Lee’s first solo lines introduced a sweet and poi gnant melody, and he showed himself to be thoroughly comfortable and in control of the technical demands of the music. He clearly knew the piece well, keeping the ornaments and double stops clean within heroic but emotional passages. Lee played especially supple arpeggios and dynamic variety in the cadenza which closed the first movement.

The second movement took the form of a graceful Italian “canzonetta,” with Lee’s solo Russian melody well complemented by solo winds. Throughout the concerto, Lee demonstrated solid conviction and imagina tion of how to interpret the music, particularly finding variety in the rondo-like final movement.

Within the University’s stable of instrumental groups are ensembles dedicated to music of diverse cultures. One of these is the University African Music Ensemble, a relatively new organization exploring sounds and rhythms originating from cities across Africa. The Ensemble joined the Princeton University Orchestra in Friday’s concerto to perform the world premiere of Be Kunu: A Contemporary Exploration of Ancient Mandingo Strings, composed by Burkina Faso native and University faculty member Olivier Tarpaga. Joining the two ensembles were five musicians of Dafra Kura Band, singing Tarpaga’s text and playing Indigenous West African instruments.

Tarpaga’s work was comprised of four musical scenarios, including his own tribute to his daughter and a song of inspiration. All the movements contained a great deal of repetition and exacting drumming, effectively provided by the 13 members of the African Music Ensemble. From within Dafra Kura Band, Wassa Kouyaté conveyed expressive text accompanied by the kora, a plucked instrument combining the qualities of lute and harp; and Boubacar Djiga played the djeli n’goni, a stringed instrument sounding much like its descendent, the banjo. Issouf Dembélé solidified rhythms with a balafon — a gourd-resonated xylophone and two other band members played electric guitars. Along with members of the University Orchestra, the stage was full of very interesting instruments for Tarpaga’s piece, and the joining together of these ensembles made for a spirited and uplifting performance. With composers from England, Germany, Russia, and West Africa represented, this past weekend’s University Orchestra performances brought together four distinctive cultures, and showed that great music does not lose its appeal across the ages.

—Nancy Plum

The Princeton University Orchestra will present its next performances on Friday, April 19 and Saturday, April 20 at 7:30 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium. The Stuart B. Mindlin Memorial Concert will feature the University Glee Club and Orchestra together with soloists Anthony Dean Griffey, Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, and Andrew Foster Williams in Sir Edward Elgar’s “The Dream of Gerontius.” Ticket information can be obtained by tickets.princeton.edu.

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Performing Arts

“Uncomfortable Comfort”

on April 18, “Unexpected Community” on May 16, “I Was Younger Then” on June 20, and “Open Theme” on July 18. Visit artscouncilofprinceton.org for more information.

Orchestra from Ukraine

On Stage at State Theatre State Theatre New Jersey presents the Kyiv Virtuosi Symphony Orchestra led by Chief Conductor Dmitry Yablonsky on Sunday, March 17 at 3 p.m. The program includes Myroslav Skoryk’s Melody ; Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor; Mendelsohn & Moscheles’ Fantasie Brilliante & Variations; Ignaz Moscheles’ Les Contrastes Grand Duo Op. 115; Berliner’s Jacob’s Dream Cello Concerto; and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 in F Major.

Soloists in the program include pianist Alon Kariv, Dmitry Yablonsky on cello, and the MultiPiano Ensemble.

Years of friendship and collaboration between a group of talented Ukrainian musicians, laureates of international competitions, and world-famous conductor and cellist Dmitry Yablonsky has grown into the creation of Kyiv Virtuosi Symphony Orchestra.

opening a gateway that we hope will instill a lifelong love of music.”

Tickets are $5 for children and $10 for adults; free for eligible low-income families. Visit puc.princeton.edu.

Princeton Pro Musica Concert Presents Mozart and More

idiomatic Mozartean practice,” said PPM Artistic Director Ryan Brandau.

Arts Council of Princeton’s Open Mic Events Continue

DON’T BE SHY: The Arts Council of Princeton’s monthly Story & Verse Open Mic invites emerging and established artists to take a turn in the spotlight starting March 21 with “Open Theme Night.” These events are free and open to all. and ACP Program/Marketing Manager Melissa Kuscin. “It’s diverse in every way possible, showing off the talent of every age group, every level of experience. In fact, we’ve been getting more beginners than ever, and we’re honored to host a space that makes everyone feel like it’s for them.”

The Arts Council of Princeton (ACP) will continue its monthly Story & Verse Open Mic every third Thursday at their Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, 102 Witherspoon Street. The first in the series is March 21, “Open Theme Night.” The free events start at 7 p.m.

Since 2020, Story & Verse has provided a warm and welcoming spotlight for both emerging and established artists in the ACP’s Solley Theater.

“Story & Verse has really blossomed over the past few months”, said organizer

The evenings are hosted by local artist Brass Rabbit, and complemented by live piano music by community member Marc Weiner. Performers are invited to share a story, poem, or spoken word piece up to 5 minutes in length.

Upcoming themes are

Sweet Spring

Friday, March 22 at 8pm

Princeton University Chapel

Free admission

During the orchestra’s first season, the orchestra performed more than 120 concerts in Ukraine, Israel, Azerbaijan, Spain, Switzerland, and other countries.

Immediately after its inception, Yablonsky was invited to become the orchestra’s first chief conductor and artistic director of the Kyiv Virtuosi Symphony Orchestra. In February of 2017, Yablonsky initiated a tour, which was dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Ukraine and Israel. The orchestra gave 17 concerts to some 11,500 people. The Kyiv Virtuosi Orchestra has recorded and released seven CDs. In 2018, the orchestra recorded a disc of chamber music composed by Valentyn Silvestrov, pianist Iryna Starodub, and Yablonsky, which was nominated for the Classical Music Awards 2018 as the Recording of the Year in the Contemporary category.

State Theatre New Jersey is at 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick. Visit Stnj. org for tickets, which range from $25-$55.

Chamber Music Society

At Richardson Auditorium

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center returns to Richardson Auditorium on Saturday, March 16 at 1 p.m. for their annual “All in the Family Concert” sponsored by Princeton University Concerts (PUC). The host is Rami Vamos.

The one-hour program will take kids 6-12 and their families on an adventure through time to meet Franz Joseph Haydn and his equally famous student, Ludwig von Beethoven, via piano trios by the composers.

“Music has a positive impact on children’s development — their learning and emotional well-being,” said PUC Director Marna Seltzer. “We are proud to partner with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to create family concerts that make classical music fun, accessible, and interactive,

On Sunday, March 17 at 4 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium, Princeton Pro Musica (PPM) Chorus and Orchestra returns to Mozart’s Requiem , presented alongside a new companion work by Baltimore-based composer Jasmine Barnes, Portraits: Douglass & Tubman. This concert will also feature guest artists from the Glassbrook Vocal Ensemble, directed by Chaequan Anderson, performing a set of works by Vincente Lusitano, Margaret Bonds, and Nathaniel Dett, some of the most celebrated Black composers across the history of music. It is well known that Mozart did not live to complete his Requiem. Though the version completed by Franz Süssmayer is more frequently performed, Princeton Pro Musica will present the edition by pianist and Mozart scholar Robert Levin. His alternate completion “observes the character, texture, voice leading, continuity, and structure of Mozart’s music. The traditional version has been retained insofar as it agrees with

In a PBS interview, Barnes said that when asked to write a companion piece to the Mozart, she thought about the significance of Mozart to the world. She then turned to Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman and realized that while Mozart didn’t live to finish his work, the work of Douglass and Tubman is never done. Requiem is about death; Portraits is about honoring life — the lives of the two famous abolitionists.

Guest artists in the Mozart work are Crystal Glenn, soprano; Sylivia Leith, mezzosoprano; Alex Longnecker, tenor; and Mark Hightower, bass. Chaequan Anderson, artistic director and founder of Glassbrook Vocal Ensemble, is an active choral conductor and music educator. Now in his 12th year

with Princeton Pro Musica, Brandau will lead the full Princeton Pro Musica Chorus and Orchestra in the Mozart and Barnes.

Soprano Rochelle Ellis will host Barnes for a preconcert chat about her music. The event is free to all ticket-holders and will begin at 3 p.m. Visit Princetonpromusica.org or call (609) 683-5122 for tickets.

Folk Music Society Presents Guitarist/vocalist Ruth Wyand

The Princeton Folk Music Society presents singer and guitarist Ruth Wyand at Christ Congregation Church, 50 Walnut Lane, on Friday, March 15 at 8 p.m.

Being diversified is Wyand’s specialty. Demonstrating guitar virtuosity with powerful fingerpicking, bottleneck slide and a warm alto voice, she plays a mix of Americana, jazz, blues, folk, and country, with a portion of Piedmont picking and bluegrass clawhammer thrown in. Her songwriting is universal, using a melting pot of styles with lyrics that are sometimes witty, sometimes serious, but always human and genuine. Wyand presents a mix of originals as well as instrumental arrangements of classics ranging from Doc Watson, Etta Baker, Jimi Hendrix, and Leo Kottke to Thelonious Monk and Nina Simone. Tickets are $10-$25 ($5 for children 11 and under). Visit princetonfolk.org.

MULTIPLE PIANOS AND MORE: The Kyiv Virtuosi Symphony Orchestra brings a varied program to State Theatre New Jersey in New Brunswick on March 17.

MUSICAL MIX: Multi-faceted singer and guitarist Ruth Wyand is known for her guitar virtuosity, ranging from original songs to instrumental arrangements of Doc Watson, Jimi Hendrix, and many others.

Crystal Glenn

Keep children’s bodies moving and brains buzzing during summer vacations and school breaks. Gym time and gym games, STEAM activities, Arts & Crafts.

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“AIR SPACE”: Watercolor paintings by Barbara Kaiser will be featured in “Shifting Perspectives,” her dual show with ceramicist Elisabeth Quatrano, on view March 16 through April 13 at the Arts Council of Princeton.

Arts Council Presents “Shifting Perspectives” Dual Exhibition

The Arts Council of Princeton (ACP) will present “Shifting Perspectives: Capturing Moments in Ceramics and Watercolor,” a dual exhibition by Barbara Kaiser and Elisabeth Quatrano, in its Taplin Gallery March 16 through April 13. A free gallery opening will be held on Saturday, March 16 from 3 to 5 p.m.

This collection of Kaiser’s watercolor paintings — created during a time touched by tragedy, uncertainty, and fear — explores remembrance, resilience, and hope. Through depictions of motion and upward-looking compositions and sharing the common threads of blue sky and flight, the works represent a shift from melancholy to brightness, possibility, and joy. The artist employs her signature use of bold color, thoughtful composition, and varied watercolor techniques throughout.

Quatrano’s body of work was created amidst the joy of attending art school and the challenges of the pandemic, isolation, and numerous losses in her personal life. The work chronicles the grief and uncertainty through large, abstract ceramic vessels around which she wrapped her thoughts. Slumped from the multiple

firings that tested the limits of the material, the pieces embody the experience of carrying emotional weight. This collection endures as a personal time capsule and a testament to the therapeutic potential of creating art.

Also opening on Saturday, March 16 is an exhibition of original works that comprise Serena Bocchino’s new publication, Heroes: Women Artists Who Influence and Inspire. These “poem-paintings,” as Bocchino has deemed them, interrelate free verse poetry that she has been writing since 1982 with her studio practice. Bocchino’s methodology is to create in layers: each line, mark, pour and brushstroke defines the next and maintains the basic qualities of abstraction. They are created with cut and drawn text along with oil paint and graphite on vellum paper. Together, these materials work to pay homage to 37 women artists who have inspired her. The exhibition is on view in ACP’s Solley Lobby Gallery.

The Arts Council of Princeton is located at 102 Witherspoon Street. It is free and open to the public. For more information, visit artscouncilofprinceton.org.

Local Artist Awarded For Collage Work Longtime Princeton resident Trudy Borenstein-

Sugiura has been awarded a 2024 Finalists Award from the Mid-Atlantic and New Jersey State Council for the Arts.

Borenstein-Sugiura’s collages explore issues of memory, time, cultural identity, ecological, and ideological concerns and are made entirely out of cut paper relating to the topic. Personal documents, brochures, textbooks, magazines and family photos are all worked into an image of a person, or, often, a bird.

Her pieces have been shown in museums, galleries, and libraries all over the U.S., and she was a 2023 artist-in-residence at Foundation House in Greenwich, Conn., as well as the 20192021 artist-in-residence at Nassau Presbyterian Church.

Borenstein-Sugiura currently has work included in the Hudson Valley Museum Art of Contemporary Art’s “WAR” exhibit running through April 10, and will be featured at the Arts Council of Princeton in the Art People Party Tombola Preview exhibit March 15 through April 4.

Nature Quilt Exhibit at Tulpehaking Nature Center

The nonprofit Friends for the Abbott Marshlands (FFAM) is hosting a new art quilt exhibit, “Nature Captured in Fabric,” at the Tulpehaking Nature Center in Hamilton through April 30. The solo exhibit features works by Deb Brockway, a volunteer and executive board member of Friends for the Abbott Marshlands. As stewardship chair, she is well known for her trail building skills, while her professional background is in education research and STEM education.

The exhibit combines Brockway’s love of the marsh, the outdoors, and art quilting. Inspiration for her ongoing quilting series comes from her many outdoor activities on preserved land throughout New Jersey and across the country. Kayaking, hiking, and traveling bring the landscapes she encounters into focus on her quilts. Her quilts have been exhibited in quilt and art shows in five states, from New Jersey to Georgia.

It all began in 2002, when Brockway created her first traditional quilt. She soon discovered that she preferred instead to imagine and create her own designs. Her quilts range from pictorial designs that represent the textures and details of the natural world to more abstract designs that evoke a sense of being in nature. Working with hand-dyed and commercial fabric, thread, natural dyes and acrylic paint, she experiments with materials and techniques that put her artistic touch

Brockway. See more of her work at brockwayquilts.com.

Tulpehaking Nature Center’s galleries are located at 157 Westcott Avenue in Hamilton, at the edge of the Abbott Marshlands-Roebling Park. The center is open Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

“ON SENTRY DUTY”: This quilt by Deb Brockway is part of “Nature Captured in Fabric,” her solo exhibit on view through April 30 at the Tulpehaking Nature Center in Hamilton. to her designs. In this exhibit, quilts range from depicting close-up aspects of nature to artful landscapes, but occasionally there is another purpose . “ N osing In expresses my concern over the unintended impact we have on wildlife, whereas Enjoying Spring Ephemerals was created to simply evoke a sense of place,” said

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Saturday, March 16, 3–5 pm

Art on Hullfish, 11 Hulfish Street

Enjoy this popular Mexican game of chance. Lotería will be called in Spanish and English. Winners will receive a prize, and refreshments will be served. View the exhibition

Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures, which surveys work by a Los Angeles–based artist who has spent more than thirty years conducting a rich exploration of migration, labor, gender, and her Mexican American identity through photography.

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Arte en Hulfish, 11 Hulfish Street

Disfruta de este popular juego de azar mexicano. La lotería se anunciará en español e inglés. Los ganadores recibirán un premio y se servirán refrescos. También puedes ver la exhibición

Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures [Christina Fernández: Exposiciones multiples], que repasa la obra de una artista residente de Los Ángeles que ha dedicado más de treinta años a explorar de manera profunda la migración, las relaciones laborales, el género y su identidad mexicoestadounidense a través de la fotografía.

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“WILDEST DREAM”: Princeton artist Trudy Borenstein-Sugiura recently received a 2024 Finalists Award from the Mid-Atlantic and New Jersey State Council for the Arts for her work.

ART AT NIGHT: Works by ceramicist Zohar Lavi-Hasson will be among those featured at an art party on Saturday, March 9 from 6 to 11:30 p.m. at the Princeton Makes Artist Cooperative in the Princeton Shopping Center.

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Art at Night Party

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Princeton Makes, a Princeton-based artist cooperative, will host Art at Night, an evening art making party, on Saturday, March 9 from 6:30 to 11 p.m. at its artist studios and art market in the Princeton Shopping Center.

The art party will feature creative activities for children and adults, open drawings of live models (dressed till 10 p.m., nude after 10 p.m.), artists working in their studio, refreshments, live music by Dharmasoul, and a raffle for artwork from Princeton Makes artists.

“We’re excited to host for the second time a community event of art and music, where people can create and connect with each other,” said Zohar Lavi-Hasson, a Princeton Makes ceramicist.

Princeton Makes is a cooperative comprised of 40 local artists who work across a range of artistic

genres, including painting, drawing, stained glass, ceramics, sculpture, textiles, and jewelry. Customers will be able to support local artists by shopping for a wide variety of art, including large paintings, prints, custom-made greeting cards, stained glass lamps and window hangings, jewelry in a variety of designs and patterns, and more.

For more information, visit princetonmakes.com.

Call for Art: Phillips’ Mill Signature Image

The committee for the 95th Annual Juried Art Show at Phillips’ Mill invites artists to submit an artistic representation of the historic Mill in New Hope, Pa., for consideration as this year’s signature image. Submissions will be accepted through March 19 at 5 p.m. at signatureimage@ phillipsmill.org. There is no submission fee.

The image selected will be used on posters, ads, invitations, postcards, social

media, banners and on the Phillips’ Mill website, in short, on all marketing, publicity, and advertising materials for this 95th anniversary juried art show.

The winning artist will receive a $400 honorarium and the artwork will be featured for sale at the annual juried show. The winning artist is free to submit additional entries to the show as outlined in the show’s prospectus.

Previous years’ images have included whimsical as well as traditional depictions of the Mill and its surroundings. Collages, watercolors, oils, and acrylics have all been chosen, so artists should feel free to use their favorite medium, with the exception of photography, to express their vision of the Mill, inside or out. The Mill encourages artists of all cultural backgrounds to submit their work and to follow their inspirations, traditional or contemporary, representational or abstract. Images selected for past shows can be seen on the Mill’s website at phillipsmill.org/art/ art-exhibition-archives.

After a preliminary review of all submissions, finalists will be selected and notified by March 22 with instructions to drop off the original artwork for in person review the following week. The winning entry will be selected and the winning artist notified on or before March 30.

Phillips’ Mill Community Association is located at 2619 River Road in New Hope, Pa. Submission details can be found at phillipsmill.org/art/juried-artshow. Questions can be emailed to signatureimage@ phillipsmill.org.

PSO Showcases Local Artist’s Work for Princeton Festival Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) showcases the artistry of Anandi Ramanathan, a member of the local art scene, with this year’s graphic design look for its June 7-22 Princeton Festival. Ramanathan’s studio is at Princeton Makes, an artist cooperative at

ART AT SMALL WORLD: Works by local artist Jessie Krause, depicting places both real and imagined, are on view at Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street, through April 2.

Princeton Shopping Center on North Harrison Street.

Tapping into her knowledge of flowers and talent for rendering them vibrantly in watercolor, the PSO is decoratively applying her florals to Princeton Festival posters, flyers, and other marketing materials through a collaborative design process. Ramanathan reviews each design application along the way to ensure her work and artistry remain intact.

Anandi Ramanathan

Executive Director Marc Uys said, “Anandi’s watercolors beautifully capture the casual joy, setting, and spontaneity of our festival at Morven Museum & Garden. The array of florals and their uplifting colors echo the variety of performing art offerings available throughout our two weeks there.”

Ramanathan is an engineer

by profession and a passionate watercolor/acrylic artist. She likes to observe, admire, and capture the beauty of the world in her works. She enjoys painting the little things around her like florals, and shares the feelings of joy and bliss in her paintings. Juggling the realms of technology and creativity, she skillfully merges business acumen with digital artistry, transforming her paintings into greeting cards, stickers, prints, scarves, and T-shirts for sale in over 10 stores in New Jersey with the signature name Artcolorworks.

She hosts workshops across New Jersey, sharing her expertise and passion for watercolors cultivated over four years. Her works have been displayed/sold at Princeton University, MarketFair mall, West Windsor Arts Center, Princeton Public Library, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Small World Coffee, and elsewhere, and are available for purchase at Princeton Makes.

A sample of Ramanathan’s watercolor florals can be found on the PSO’s Princeton Festival website at princetonsymphony.org/ festival.

Area Exhibits

Gourgaud Gallery, 23-A North Main Street, Cranbury, has “Youth Art Exhibition” through March 21. cranburyartscouncil.org.

Grounds For Sculpture, 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, has “Cloud Swing” through April 1, “Night Forms” through April 7, and “That’s Worth Celebrating: The Life and Work of the Johnson Family” through the end of 2024, among other exhibits. groundsforsculpture.org.

Historical Society of Princeton, Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road, has “Einstein Salon and Innovator’s Gallery,” “Princeton’s Portrait,” and other exhibits. Museum hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 12 to 4 p.m., Thursday to 7 p.m. princetonhistory.org

Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine Street, Doylestown, Pa., has “Ethel Wallace: Modern Rebel” through March 10, “Renewal and Change: New Acquisitions” through April 28, and “CFEVA at 40” through May 26. michenerartmuseum.org

Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, has the online exhibits “Slavery at Morven,” “Portrait of Place: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints of New Jersey, 1761–1898,” and others. morven.org.

Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, has “Anthropomorphic: Photos and Stories” through March 15. princetonlibrary.org.

Art@Bainbridge, 158 Nassau Street, has “Reciting Women: Alia Bensliman and Khailiah Sabree” through March 31. artmuseum. princeton.edu.

Artists’ Gallery, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, has “Gallery-Wide Group Show” through March 31. Gallery hours are Thursday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. lambertvillearts.com.

Art on Hulfish, 11 Hulfish Street, has “Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures” through April 28. artmuseum.princeton.edu.

Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, has “Transversing Nostalgia” through March 9 and “Shifting Perspectives: Capturing Moments in Ceramics and Watercolor” March 16 through April 13 in the Taplin Gallery. artscouncilofprinceton.org.

Considine Gallery, Stuart Country Day School, 12 Stuart Road, has “The Stuart 60th Anniversary Community Art Exhibit” through March 8. stuartschool.org.

Ficus Art Gallery, 235 Nassau Street, has “Embrace the Everyday” through May 6. ficusbv.com.

Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University, has “Nobody Turn Us Around: The Freedom Rides and Selma to Montgomery Marches: Selections from the John Doar Papers” through March 31. library.princeton.edu.

Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street, has works by local artist Jessie Krause through April 2. Acrylic paintings by Corinne Pisauro are at the 254 Nassau Street location through April 2. smallworldcoffee.com.

Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, Cadwalader Park, Trenton, has “Music to My Eyes” through April 7. ellarslie.org.

West Windsor Arts, 952 Alexander Road, West Windsor, has “GR8 Works” through April 6. An opening reception is on March 8 from 7 to 9 p.m. westwindsorarts.org.

Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers, 71 George Street, New Brunswick, has “George Segal: Themes and Variations” through July 31 and “Michelle V. Agins: Storyteller” through December 8. zimmerli.rutgers.edu.

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Mark Your Calendar TOWN TOPICS

Wednesday, March 6

6:30 p.m.: “Oscars and Popcorn: The Roadshow Reboot,” in the Newsroom at Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. Held in advance of the 96th Oscars show. Discussion, trivia, and door prizes. Princetonlibrary.org.

7 p.m .: Author Rachel Lyon is in conversation with Lynn Steger Strong to discuss her novel Fruit of the Dead at Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. Princetonlibrary.org.

Thursday, March 7

10 a.m.: Meeting of the 55-Plus Club of Princeton. Joshua Winn, professor of astrophysics at Princeton University, will speak on “Strange New Worlds” in person at the Jewish Center Princeton and online. Meetings are free of charge but there is a suggested donation of $5. To join via Zoom and for payment methods, go to princetonol.com/ groups/55plus.

11 a.m.-3 p.m .: Winter Farmers Market at Hinds Plaza. Locally grown produce, pasture-raised meats, fresh baked breads, homemade treats, and handmade gifts. Princetonfarmersmarket.com.

1-2 p.m. Princeton University Carillon concert, listen on the Graduate School lawn. Gradschool.princeton.edu.

7 p.m .: Free “Soundtracks” talk at Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, with Princeton Symphony Orchestra music director Rossen Milanov and soprano Maria Karpatova, exploring the songs, dances, and music of their native Bulgaria. Princetonsymphony.org.

7:30 p.m .: The Hagen String Quartet performs works by Haydn, Debussy, and Beethoven at Richardson Auditorium. $10-$50. Puc.princeton.edu.

Friday, March 8

10 a.m.-2 p.m.: Hunterdon County Rug Artisans Guild’s Rug Hooking Guild meeting, at Oldwick Manor, 163 Oldwick Road, Oldwick. Guests welcome. Hcrag.com

11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.:

The Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber holds a legislative luncheon, featuring Mercer County Executive Dan Benson as speaker, at Mercer Oaks Catering, 725 Village Road West, West Windsor. $50-$65. Princetonchamber.org.

4:30 p.m.: “Dracula and Home Rule: History, Horror and a Dream of Reconciliation,” lecture by Fintan O’Toole at James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau Street. Presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. Free. Arts. princeton.edu.

7-9 p.m .: “GR8 Works” art show opening at West Windsor Arts, 952 Alexander Road. Free; activities for everyone. Westwindsorarts.org.

7 p.m .: American Repertory Ballet presents “Classic Beauty: An All-Tchaikovsky Program” at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, 11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick. Excerpts from Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty.” Arballet.org.

Saturday, March 9

9 a.m.: Pi Day Pie Eating Contest, at McCaffrey’s Market, Princeton Shopping Center. Sponsored by Princeton Tour Company. Princetontourcompany.com/tours/ pi-day.

9:30-11 a.m .: Princeton Plasma Physics Lab’s Science on Saturday series, at 100 Stellarator Road. “Using Plasmas to Create Quantum Technologies and Diamonds.” Arrive by 8:30 a.m. for coffee and doughnuts. Pppl.gov/ events/science-Saturday.

9:30-10:30 a.m .: Lawrence Hopewell Trail’s Saturday Morning Walking Club explores the section of the trail between ETS and Pretty Brook. Meet at ETS, Assessment Drive near the trail going to Province Line Road. Lhtrail.org/walkingclub/.

10 a.m.-4 p.m .: Sustainable Home Expo at Suzanne Patterson building, 45 Stockton Street. Contractors, solar installers, sustainable landscapers, and others will be on hand to give advice.

10 a.m. and 12 p.m .: “Milk & Cookies” storytelling and music series for kids 3-8 at State Theatre New Jersey, 15 Livingston Avenue. With Suzi Shelton. The 12 p.m. show is sensory-friendly. $5 including a cookie and milk after the show. Stnj.org.

10 a.m. and 1 p.m.: Friends of Princeton Open Space holds hands-on spring cleanup sessions at Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve, Mountain Avenue. Volunteer at fopos.org.

11 a.m .: Einstein LookAlike contests at Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. Part of Pi Day celebration. Followed at 12:30 p.m . by the Pi Recitation Contest and Pi-Rade, and at 3:30 p.m . by “The Physics Show” with Dave Maiullo of Rutgers University. Princetontourcompany.com/ tours/pi-day.

11 a.m .: Science Saturdays with Princeton University, presented by University students for kids grades K-5 at Lawrence Headquarters Branch of Mercer County Library System, 2751 Brunswick Pike. Free. Registration required. Mcl.org.

12-5 p.m.: Winery Weekend Music Series at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Live music from 1-4 by Brian Bortnick. Terhuneorchards.com.

2 and 7 p.m .: American Repertory Ballet presents “Classic Beauty: An AllTchaikovsky Program” at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, 11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick. Excerpts from Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty.” Arballet.org.

7:30 p.m .: La Fiocco period instrument ensemble presents “The Fiddler’s Return” at Christ Congregation, 50 Walnut Lane. $10$25. Lafiocco.org.

8 p.m .: The Princeton Symphony Orchestra performs at Richardson Auditorium with guests the Time for Three trio. Works by Prokofiev, Kevin Puts, and Marin Goleminov. Princetonsymphony.org.

Sunday, March 10

11 a.m.: Author Adelle Waldman discusses her novel Help Wanted at Princeton Public Library’s Book Brunch, 65 Witherspoon Street. Princetonlibrary org.

12-5 p.m.: Winery Weekend Music Series at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Live music from 1-4 by Bud Belviso. Terhuneorchards.com.

1 p.m.: Pruning demonstration by Gary Mount at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Terhuneorchards.com.

2 p.m.: Pinkalicious The Musical is at State Theatre New Jersey, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick. $15-$35. Stnj.org.

2 p.m .: American Repertory Ballet presents “Classic Beauty: An All-Tchaikovsky Program” at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, 11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick. Excerpts from Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty.” Arballet.org.

3 p.m .: Ensemble 132, a chamber music collective, performs at Princeton University Chapel. Works by Stravinsky, Haydn, and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. Ensemble132.com.

3 p.m.: Fred Miller presents “When Oscar was King,” examining Academy Award-winning songs from 1934-1970.

At Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. Princetonlibrary.org.

4 p.m .: The Princeton Symphony Orchestra performs at Richardson Auditorium with guests the Time for Three trio. Works by Prokofi ev, Kevin Puts, and Marin Goleminov. Princetonsymphony.org.

4 p.m .: The Princeton Society of Musical Amateurs does a choral reading of Brahms’ Requiem, at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Princeton, Route 206 at Cherry Hill Road. Choral singers welcome, no auditions. Led by Christopher Loeffler. $10, vocal scores provided. Musicalamateurs.org.

4 p.m.: Gathering in solidarity with the October 7 hostages, and a call for their release. Organized by a grassroots group of Israelis in Princeton. At Hinds Plaza.

7 p.m.: Hollywood Awards Party at Princeton Garden Theatre, 160 Nassau Street. Watch party for the Oscars; red carpet reception available. $7.75-$45. Princetongardentheatre.org.

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Tuesday, March 12

10 a.m.: Read and Explore:

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Birds, Nesting and Birdhouses, at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. After story time, each child makes their own birdhouse and gets nesting materials to take home. Registration required. $12. Terhuneorchards.com.

7 p.m .: Screening of Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici (A Life in Lyrics) at the Princeton Garden Theatre, 160 Nassau Street. Documentary followed by a Q&A with Muldoon. $7.75-$13.50. Princetongardentheatre.org.

Wednesday, March 13

7-8:15 p.m .: “Pollinators, Food, and Climate Change,” presented by Judith K. Robinson at Hopewell Presbyterian Church, 80 West Broad Street, Hopewell, or via Zoom. Redlibrary.org/events.

Thursday, March 14

12-1 p.m.: Lunchtime Gallery Series, “Anna Walinska: The Spirit of a Search without Boundaries” with Janet Mandel. Presented via Zoom by West Windsor Arts. Free for members, $10 others. Westwindsorarts.org.

7 p.m .: Authors Gary Berger and Michael DiRuggiero discuss their book Einstein: The Man and his Mind at Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. Princetonlibrary.org.

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After Getting Sidelined by Hard Fall Against Columbia, Allocco Returns to Help PU Men’s Hoops Edge Cornell

As the Princeton University men’s basketball team hosted Columbia last Friday night, Matt Allocco got knocked out of the game late in the first half.

Princeton senior guard and co-captain Allocco crashed to the floor when taking a charge and didn’t return for the second half as he was treated by the program’s medical staff while the Tigers pulled away to an 84-70 win.

While Allocco’s status for Saturday’s regular season home finale and Ivy League first-place showdown against Cornell was unclear, he had no doubt that he would take the court for his Senior Night.

“It is my last game here, nothing is going to keep me out or anybody out of a game like that,” said Allocco.

While Allocco and the squad’s other senior, Zach Martini, were honored in an emotional pregame ceremony that drew the cheers of the sellout crowd of 5,409 packing Jadwin Gym, the pair kept their focus on dealing with the Big Red.

“It was like stay locked in, win the game because we can enjoy all of that stuff when we are done here and get to look back,” said Allocco.

“We still have a job to do. This whole experience of playing here has been the greatest joy of my life, but we had a job to do. It was always just to stay on task.”

Martini took the same approach. “I think the im

the game helped us stay focused,” said Martini. “It was a great ceremony. It was awesome to be honored with coach and Mush (Allocco), but we knew what was at hand today.”

In the early going, however, things weren’t going great as the Tigers fell behind Cornell 17-7 and drew the ire of Princeton head coach Mitch Henderson.

“I was getting into the guys. I told the guys beforehand, ‘I am going to be really calm tonight and you guys have to play hard and then I totally lost it,’” said Henderson, who called two timeouts in a span of 1:15 midway through the first half. “They were looking at me like I was funny and I was looking at them like they were funny and it was, ‘Let’s go.’ I thought we weren’t focused and playing hard enough to play championship level basketball, and then we did.”

Responding to Henderson’s fiery message, Princeton closed the half on a 26-18 run to draw within 35-33. The Tigers kept playing at a high level, pulling out a 79-77 win, improving to 23-3 overall and 11-2 Ivy. They are now tied atop the Ivy standings with Yale (20-8 overall, 11-2 Ivy) as Cornell (21-6 overall, 10-3 Ivy) slipped to third.

“I thought we absorbed about 50 haymakers on the night, we kept fighting back and pushing back,” said Henderson.

“I can’t even look at

(Cornell head coach and former Princeton assistant coach Brian Earl) is a great friend, a best friend. It is very difficult to look down there because they are so good. It is really not a fun game to coach in.”

Allocco was proud of how the Tigers battled in the tense contest that saw the Tigers trailing 69-64 with 4:21 left in regulation.

“You can look down the line and everybody stepped up and made a big play at some point,” said Allocco. “Zach hit a huge three in the corner that gave us a lead when things looked like they were starting to swing their way. I could go down the line — I highlight him because he is right here. A lot of us have been in big moments all year long. I think it really helped us tonight.”

Henderson credited his two senior stalwarts, Allocco and Martini, with helping the Tigers excel on a daily basis.

“We are the beneficiary of these two guys,” said Henderson. “In this league, it is seniors. You don’t see that often in college basketball any more. With a player like Caitlin Clark (of Iowa), women’s college basketball is exploding and is popular because everyone knows the players. People know these guys. We are such beneficiaries as a staff, as a program, as a team, the managers with the quality of human beings that Zach and Matt are.”

In the win over Cornell, Princeton benefited from quality minutes off the bench

former Hun School standout

“He is the first to practice. He is always putting in extra work and has earned everything we have given him,” said Henderson of Scott, who scored four points with three rebounds, hitting a key three-pointer down the stretch and then draining a free throw with 14 seconds left that put the Tigers up

“He played fearless tonight, he had a smile on his face in a really big moment. That three he made was one play but he also had three really important rebounds. I just felt good about him in

A dunk by sophomore star Caden Pierce on a feed from Allocco with 1:15 left that put Princeton ahead for good proved to be a really important moment for the

“It was an unbelievable play, I think one of the better executed plays I have ever seen,” said Henderson, referring to the heroics of Pierce who ended up with 23 points and eight rebounds and was later named the Ivy Player of the Week.

“It was really important, I thought that swung it. Mush dumping it off to Caden for an and-one and then making the free throw. It was a huge play.”

Allocco liked the way the Tigers executed down the stretch as they held off the Big Red.

“We just had to weather

the storm, we took a few big hits early for sure,” said Allocco, who tallied 19 points with four rebounds and two assists in the win. “I thought we did a great job of just staying in the moment. Our whole thing going was just being fearless, letting it rip, cutting it loose.”

With Princeton playing at Penn on March 9 in its regular season finale before starting play in the Ivy Madness postseason tournament from March 16-17 at Columbia, Henderson is confident his players will stay on task.

“The beauty of these two, I asked them in the locker room if they wanted to say anything and Zach goes, ‘We have one more,’” said Henderson, who also got 19 points along with 10 rebounds from sophomore star Xaivian Lee against Cornell. “We will be ready.”

—Bill Alden

ALL IN: Princeton University men’s basketball player Matt Allocco looks to pass the ball last Friday night against Columbia. Bouncing back from a knock that sidelined him in the second half of Princeton’s 84-70 win over the Lions, Allocco scored 19 points as the Tigers edged Cornell 79-77 a night later in Ivy League first-place showdown. Princeton, now 23-3 overall and 11-2 Ivy, plays at Penn on March 9 in its regular season finale. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

PU Women’s Hoops Sweeps Harvard, Dartmouth As Mitchell’s

Aggressive

With the Princeton University women’s basketball team coming off a tough 67-65 loss at Columbia to end February, Ellie Mitchell sense that the Tigers were primed to get back on the winning track as they hosted Harvard and Dartmouth last weekend to start March.

“We know there was a lot we could improve on, hopefully there is a lot left for us in March,” said Princeton senior forward Mitchell. “We were excited to get back on the court and try to make a statement game with Harvard and then Dartmouth, one at a time.”

Realizing that there is not a lot of time left in her Tiger career as she played in her next to last weekend at Jadwin Gym, Mitchell is looking to leave everything on the court.

“I try not to think about it because it is very sad,” said Mitchell. “Basketball and Princeton basketball, especially, has been my world for a very long time. It just makes it more special. I am really trying to make the most out of it and play with that much more excitement and remind the younger ones they have a lot of years left, but me, Kaitlyn [Chen], and Chet [Nweke], this is going to be the end for us. It makes it a little more personal and still a lot more fun.”

Mitchell ended up having a lot of fun against Harvard and Dartmouth. She s cor ed six points with nine rebounds as Princeton defeated Harvard 60-49 on Friday and then had six points on 3-of-3 shooting along with six rebounds, one assist, and two steals in a 6842 win over Dartmouth a day later. The Tigers ended the weekend at 22-4 overall and 12-1 Ivy, remaining atop the league standings along with Columbia.

“I am always trying to look for my shot — I know I have been saying that for a while,” said Mitchell, a 6’1 native of Chevy Chase, Md. who is averaging 5.0 points

Play Makes a Difference

and a team-high and leaguebest 10.0 rebounds a game.

“Sometimes I sort of forget. My teammates and coaches have a lot of confidence in me; they are reminding me to shoot the ball. That is always helpful. At this point in the season, teams are sagging off sometimes because they know us. If I get some of those openings, I have to be ready to shoot them.”

Princeton head coach Carla Berube enjoyed seeing Mitchell produce a perfect shooting day in the win over the Big Green.

“Ellie actually told me this morning that her elbow was a little banged up and she said, ‘I don’t think I am going to shoot today,’” said Berube. “Then the one day she actually took some outside shots was today — some reverse psychology maybe.”

Mitchell’s aggressive play has been a major influence on Princeton’s team psychology.

“She is just a great teammate and shows the underclassmen here is how we play Princeton basketball,” said Berube of Mitchell. “She has been awesome, she has been a great leader and captain. She shows it in the way you have to play. When you play that hard with that intensity and aggressiveness, you can impact a game in a lot of different ways.”

Berube liked the intensity she got collectively from her players this weekend.

“These back-to-backs are challenging, we are getting prepared for two teams,” said Berube. “I thought we took care of business like we needed to. We got the big win last night. They got up this morning, went to the shootaround, and were really focused on the challenge of playing Dartmouth and how we needed to defend them what we wanted to work on offensively. They came in ready to work this morning, it was a great weekend.”

Princeton got a superb offensive performance against

the Big Green from freshman guard Skye Belker, who scored 10 points on 4-of-4 shooting.

“It is a testament to Skye’s hard work and attention to detail,” said Berube. “She is very serious about her craft and Princeton basketball and being a great teammate. I am really proud of her freshman year, just staying pretty steady and consistent. Not every game is she scoring 10 points but she is usually guarding our opponent’s best player. She has been really important for us.”

Belker’s output exemplifies the depth that the Tigers possess as 12 players scored against Dartmouth.

“We are just looking for the open player whoever it is; I don’t think we just have one or two who scores, everybody is capable,” said Berube, who got 12 points from sophomore star Madison St. Rose with senior guard Kaitlyn Chen and freshman guard/ forward Fadima Tall chipping in nine points apiece.

“When you are playing against a zone, you just keep trying to find the next open player. I thought everybody was aggressive. We took a lot of threes in the first half, there were some wide open ones that we just weren’t hitting. I thought we did a better job of hitting the high post and hitting the low post in the second half. We have capable scorers, everybody has the green light in their range. It is nice to have a lot of different options.”

Princeton broke the game open in the third quarter, outscoring the Big Green 20-6, turning defense into offense.

“We just picked up the defensive intensity and then really moved the ball offensively,” said Berube. “When you are playing against a zone, you try to find those openings and gaps. We were hitting the high post, swinging it and getting Maddie [St. Rose] some good looks and finding Chet [Nweke] underneath. I

LEAVING IT ON THE COURT: Princeton University women’s basketball player Ellie Mitchell hits the floor to get a loose ball last Friday against Harvard. Senior star forward Mitchell came up big last weekend for the Tigers, scoring six points with nine rebounds as Princeton defeated Harvard 60-49 on Friday and then had six points along with six rebounds, one assist, and two steals in a 68-42 win over Dartmouth a day later. The Tigers, now 22-4 overall and 12-1 Ivy League, host Penn on March 9 in their regular season finale. (Photo by

thought Kaitlyn [Chen] was distributing the ball really well and finding the open players. Our third quarter was great, our second and fourth we weren’t fantastic defensively. We had pretty good offensive output in all four quarters.”

The squad’s intensity and skill has been pleasing the throngs the program has been drawing to Jadwin Gym this winter.

“I hope that we are putting a good product on the court that people enjoy watching, that is really important to us,” said Berube, whose team played before crowds of 1,500 plus in both games last weekend. “We have got young fans excited about women’s

basketball, boys and girls. Princeton is such a great community. They can come out and watch our team, watch the men’s team, or any of our athletic teams. These are some amazing student athletes. I hope it keeps growing. I have seen the growth over these four years I have been coaching. It is fun, it makes the experience for our student athletes even better when we have such a great crowd and they are into it.”

Mitchell, for her part, is looking to end her Princeton career with a great stretch drive.

“I think a big thing is that we can’t get complacent, we saw at Columbia that we

have to keep working,” said Mitchell, who will play in her Jadwin finale when Princeton hosts Penn on March 9 in its last regular season game before competing in the Ivy Madness postseason tournament from March 15-16 at Columbia.

“Anything can happen, obviously with the tournaments and hopefully later in March. We have got to keep showing up — everyone is going to give us their best game. At the end of the day, we have got to do the same. We have to keep fighting and just take it one game at a time.”

—Bill Alden

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Junior Star Blake Tallies 3 Goals for PU Women’s Lax, But Tigers Edged 11-9 by Yale in Ivy League Opener

McKenzie Blake and the Princeton University women’s lacrosse team will try to get back on track against Monmouth this Wednesday evening as they host the Hawks in non-conference play.

A dreary afternoon last Saturday with driving rain all game was made a little worse for the Tigers when they lost, 11-9, to Yale in their Ivy League opener. Princeton dropped to 2-2 overall as it heads into three straight non-conference games.

“We have to focus on the little things,” said Blake, a junior attacker who scored three goals in the loss to Yale. “Our big game overall is getting better. We looked more like a good true team in the past two games – defense, turnovers, transition, down two and offensive goal. We need to get back to that. To stay at that level you have to do little things right. We have to scrap harder on 50-50 balls and draw controls. Offense, we have to cut out that sloppiness and make sure we’re playing clean and good lacrosse in order to string those plays together.”

After dropping its season opener to a Virginia team that is ranked 15th nationally and looks talented enough to compete well in the ACC, Princeton, now No. 21, picked up a pair of big back-to-back wins over ranked teams Penn State and Rutgers. The Tigers had their offense humming in an 18-13 win at Penn State on

February 24, then returned home last Wednesday for a 13-10 win over Rutgers in soggy weather conditions again. The victories had Princeton feeling good about their development early in the season.

“We start a little later in the Ivy League than other schools,” said Blake. “We start with three tough outof-conference games and then one very tough in-conference game. So I think those two wins were huge for us. It showed people that we are here to compete and we’re not just a team that’s going to roll over after having a bad year. Those are huge for our confidence, huge for our younger players who got some minutes and some goals. We just need to build off of that. This game today wasn’t how we wanted it, but we need to keep that mindset that we had last week with Rutgers and Penn State.”

Princeton was feeling pretty good at halftime Saturday as it was tied with Yale despite a big discrepancy in draw controls. The Bulldogs held an 11-5 edge in draws.

“The energy was good,” said Blake. “It was a tied game. It was competitive on both ends of the field. The mindset was we knew we needed to start controlling the draws a little more. We were down six in draw controls at half. That was our biggest focus going into the third quarter. Obviously it didn’t turn out exactly how we hoped.”

Yale, now ranked 18th, ended up with a 16-8 draw control advantage and pulled away in the third quarter when it outscored Princeton, 3-0.

“The third quarter, they came out and scored a couple goals and we got a little sloppy then,” said Blake. “Offensive possessions were few and far between and we didn’t value possession like we needed to. Defense played long, hard sets, and then it’s not very good when they have those long, hard sets and come up with a turnover and we can’t finish on the offensive end. I think that was a little demoralizing. But I would say we played sloppy in that third quarter. Offensively, we had a couple turnovers that we’re not used to having and we really shouldn’t be having.”

The deficit grew to 11-7 early in the fourth quarter before Blake scored twice in the final six minutes of the fourth. Blake has been a proven finisher. She led the team in goals last year with 39 and has a teamhigh 12 goals through four games after adding her three Saturday.

“I think a couple of my goals were scrap goals from my other teammates that I just got out on the end of,” said the 5’9 Blake who was joined on the score sheet by Ellie Mueller (2 goals) with Haven Dora, Kari Buonanno, Jami MacDonald, and Grace Tauckus adding one goal apiece.

“Sam DeVito had one great interception towards the end of the game and passed it to me and it was a one-on-one with the goalie and I knew I needed to finish. I’m not really sure. Another was a transition goal so again, we have to give the defense credit and I just ended up on the goal end of it, which was nice. A lot of it just came from the defense and defensive turnovers which was the key in that game.”

Princeton had to cause turnovers and get stops to try to overcome the draw deficit. Blake has been an important asset on the draw this year. After finishing with 21 draw controls last year, she has 21 through four games this year, but only one on Saturday.

“As a midfielder in high school, I took the draw my whole career in high school and before that,” said Blake. “Coming into here I wasn’t taking the draw, but I’ve definitely been itching at getting up on the circle, which is a lot more of what I’ve been doing this year. I started to at the end of last year, but then I had a little injury and that put me out for a little bit and I wasn’t able to get back up there. This year, I wanted to focus on getting up on the circle. I know I’m capable of helping my team in that way — scrapping for those 5050 balls, getting it out of the air, and the communication on the draws has been really good this year I think, which is something we’ve struggled with in the past. It’s just an extra part of my game that I’m excited to be able to bring to the team this year.”

determined to get Princeton back to its winning ways after the Tigers were 7-9 a year ago and 4-3 in Ivy play.

Blake has found ways to contribute to the Tigers since she arrived from nearby Haddonfield. As the daughter of Haddonfield coach Jessica Blake, she brought a good IQ and skills that enabled her to make a big move as a freshman.

“I’m pretty well coached, and I can adapt pretty well to that, which is nice,” said Blake. “I would say my biggest transition coming in my freshman year was transitioning from middie to low attack. I was the only lefty on the team, so naturally I’m going to play more of a low attacking role. That was pretty tough. Other than that, the transition, it was the pace of the game — the level is just so much better at the college level, general things like playing harder against bigger, stronger defenders. My biggest challenge was that transition from midfield to a low attacker.”

Princeton has been thrilled that Blake chose to stay close to home for her college career. She’s now working on becoming an even bigger part of the Tigers in her third season. She has been focused on being a better leader.

“You’re an upperclassmen, so you have to focus on being a vocal leader on and off the field, helping the underclassmen when they need it just so they can adapt more to the college game,” said Blake. “We have a lot of freshmen and sophomores who are getting a lot of minutes. So I think helping to lead them and help them when they need it, and offensively I wanted to be more of a force on the field, step up in big moments. I’m trying to focus on that — playing well offensively, working well with teammates, and building a good attack unit.”

Blake and the Tigers are keeping their focus on building together. She is one of the veteran performers who is

“Last year we had a down year,” said Blake. “This year our focus is more on making a statement. We had a lot of seniors graduate after my freshman year and a coaching change last year, and we weren’t where we wanted to be. Our main focus this year has been making that statement and proving to people we are a really good team and we can compete with the best teams out there. Our focus is more of a winning mindset and playing with confidence especially after a year like last year.”

—Justin Feil

Saturday March 9 at 3pm

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MAC ATTACK: Princeton University women’s lacrosse player McKenzie Blake unloads the ball in a 2022 game. Last Saturday, junior attacker Blake tallied three goals in a losing cause as Princeton fell 11-9 to Yale in the Ivy League opener for both teams. The No. 21 Tigers, now 2-2 overall and 1-1 Ivy, host Monmouth on March 6. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

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Sophomore Jacobs Providing an Offensive Spark As PU Men’s Hockey Heads into ECACH Playoffs

For Princeton University men’s hockey player David Jacobs, taking a nasty hit against Yale in late February that split his chin open and required 24 stitches hasn’t slowed him down.

“It is just in a tough spot,” said Princeton sophomore forward Jacobs. “We wear cages in this league, so it is not so big of a deal. It sucked that it happened. It is what it is — it’s hockey.”

Last Friday night as Princeton hosted St. Lawerence to start its last regular season weekend at Hobey Baker Rink, Jacobs played some very good hockey, tallying two goals and an assist as Princeton overcame a 4-2 deficit to tie the game at 4-4 and force overtime.

Although Princeton ended up coming up short in a penalty shootout, Jacobs was proud of how the Tigers fought back against the Saints.

“We knew we had to win this game or at least bring it overtime,” said Jacobs. “We know we have done it before. We are really good in the third period, especially at home. Shift after shift we turned them over. We rely on our hard work all of the time and we just pressured them and got our bounces.”

After Princeton fell behind 1-0, Jacobs got Princeton on the board as he scored a goal with 12:49 left in the first period.

“It was our set breakout that we work on all week,” said Jacobs in reflecting on the tally. “There was some good speed coming through the middle with my linemates. They were going to the net and it popped to me and I just poked it in.”

The Tigers forged ahead on a tally by senior star and captain Ian Murphy 38 seconds later but then yielded three unanswered goals to find themselves trailing 4-2 entering the third period.

Jacobs struck again with 12:01 left in the third period, finding the back of the net with linemates Kai Daniells and Brendan Gorman setting him up.

“That was a great forecheck by Kai,” said Jacobs. “Gorms found me in front and I just put it home.”

Later in the period, the Jacobs line produced the game-tying goal as Daniells scored to knot the contest at 4-4.

“We were staying on top of pucks. We changed our forecheck a little bit, and started turning them over and just worked them below the goal line,” said Jacobs, a 5’11, 195-pound native of Needham, Mass., whose assist on the Daniells tally gave him 24 points this season on seven goals and 17 assists.

“Gorms kept it in and found me and Kai went to the net, which we have been working on all year.”

Princeton head coach Ron Fogarty likes the work he has been getting from Jacobs.

“He has been playing really well, he is a dog,” said Fogarty of Jacobs. “He is a really good hockey player. He is a 200-foot player, he is an every-situation player. He is playing with 24 stitches still in his chin from the cross check at Yale — he is a battler.”

While the Princeton senior group ended their final weekend at Baker Rink on a down note as the Tigers fell 6-2 to Clarkson on Saturday,

ON THE STICK: Princeton University men’s hockey player David Jacobs sends the puck up the ice in a game last season. Last Friday, sophomore forward Jacobs tallied two goals and an assist as Princeton rallied to tie visiting St. Lawrence 4-4 through regulation and overtime and then came up short in a penalty shootout. The Tigers, who fell 6-2 to Clarkson on Saturday to move to 10-15-4 overall and 8-11-3 ECAC Hockey, are the ninth-seed in the upcoming ECACH playoffs and will play at eighth-seeded Harvard on Friday in a single-elimination opening round contest with the victor advancing to the best-of-three quarterfinal series from March 15-17. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

Fogarty credited them with battling through a lot over their college years.

“It is a huge impact — they had a tough go with COVID,” said Fogarty of his Class of ’24, which includes Nick Carabin, Joe Berg, Mike Kennedy, Mackenzie Merriman, Adam Robbins, and Nick Seitz in addition to Murphy.

“They have been really good helping our young guys, setting new standards this program wants to get to,” said Fogarty, whose team moved to 10-15-4 overall and 8-11-3 ECAC Hockey with the loss to Clarkson and are the ninth-seed in the upcoming ECACH playoffs and will play at eighthseeded Harvard on Friday in a single-elimination opening round contest with the victor advancing to the best-ofthree quarterfinal series from March 15-17. “They are very valuable players, all seven of them. They are going to be missed, I have already told them that.”

The team’s senior line of Robbins, Seitz, and Murphy have been productive down the stretch.

“They have been clicking, they are playing hard and heavy,” said Fogarty. “This place means a lot to them. That senior line is doing a good job.”

Fogarty was not surprised to see his squad rally against St. Lawrence.

“I think you have seen that all year. They are resilient guys, they don’t quit,” said Fogarty. “We knew we needed a big third period, just jumping on them. We were on our toes, we did a great job. I would like to see that for 60 minutes. It is pretty hard, heavy hockey that you have to play when you are down. You have to just leave everything on the table. I told that to the guys going into the third, and they did that.”

Heading into the matchup against Harvard (6-17-6 overall, 6-10-6 ECACH), Fogarty believes his squad is in a good place.

“We have been building after our game with Cornell (a 6-2 loss on January 19), we played Colgate (a 6-3 loss on January 20) and played pretty well,” said Fogarty, whose team tied the Crimson 4-4 and prevailed in a shootout on November 3 and then posted a 5-2 win over Harvard on December 30 in regular season meetings between the rivals.

“I think the one bad game we had was here against Dartmouth (a 5-1 defeat on February 2) that we weren’t good the last seven or eight games. We have been playing well, we have gotten points out of our last four games. We have been in all of those games but even before that we were competing, we were just missing.”

Jacobs, for his part, is determined to compete hard to the final horn for the Tigers.

“I think it is just confidence, the coaches trust me in all areas of the game,” said Jacobs, reflecting on his progress this season. “I try to bring it, shift in, shift out. I am a hard working player. I try to use that and be physical when I can and help my line in any way possible.”

—Bill Alden

PU Sports Roundup

PU Men’s Swimming 2nd at Ivy Championships

Aidan Wang starred as the Princeton University men’s swimming team placed second at the Ivy League Championships last weekend in Cambridge, Mass.

Freshman Wang won both the one-meter and threemeter diving titles and was named the High Point Diver of the Meet.

Other individual victors for the Tigers at the meet included John Ehling in the 1,000-yard freestyle and Noah Tech in the 400 individual medley.

In the team standings, Harvard piled up 1,682 points in taking first with Princeton scoring 1,321 in earning second.

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help No. 15 Princeton defeat No. 18 North Carolina 15-9 in Chapel Hill, N.C. Two days later, Mackesy had two goals and two assists as Princeton fell 17-8 at then-No. 1 Duke in Durham, N.C. The Tigers, now 3-2 overall, play at No. 16 Rutgers on March 10.

Tiger Men’s Squash

3rd at CSA Tourney

A late tally fell short as the Princeton University men’s squash team fell 5-4 to Penn in the semifinals of the College Squash Association (CSA) national team championships last weekend in Philadelphia, Pa.

Trailing 4-1, the Tigers got wins from Alhassan Khalil at No. 7, Alastair Cho at No. 5, and Zach Ahmad at No. 8 but couldn’t pull out the fifth victory needed to advance. Gordon Lam got the other Tiger win at No. 9.

Princeton finished the winter with a 10-3 record. In upcoming action, the Tiger players will be competing in the CSA Individual Tournament from March 8-10 in Philadelphia.

PU Women’s Squash

2nd at CSA Tournament

Making its first appearance in the College Squash Association (CSA) Howe Cup national team championship final since 2020, the Princeton University women’s squash team fell 6-2 to Trinity last Sunday in Philadelphia, Pa.

Zeina Zein got a victory at No. 1 and Molly Chadwick prevailed at No. 7 to post the wins for the Tigers.

Princeton finished the season with a final record of 12-3. In upcoming action, the Tiger players will be competing in the CSA Individual Tournament from March 8-10 in Philadelphia.

Princeton Baseball

Goes 0-3 at UNC

Coming up short in some high-scoring games, the Princeton University baseball team went 0-3 at No. 16 University of North

Carolina last week in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Princeton fell 12-2 to the Tar Heels on Friday and then lost 11-2 a day later. On Sunday, the Tigers wrapped up the three-game set with a 13-6 loss as they moved to 1-5.

Princeton plays a threegame set at Navy next weekend in Annapolis, Md., with a doubleheader on March 9 and a single game on March 10. The Tigers will then head to Virginia where they will play at Richmond on March 11 and at Old Dominion on March 12.

PU Softball Goes 1-4 at UCF Event

A win over Bethune-Cookman proved to be a highlight as the Princeton University softball team went 1-4 at the UCF Knights Classic last weekend in Orlando, Fla.

Allison Ha pounded out two doubles and scored a run in the victory over Berthune-Cookman on Friday in Princeton’s first action of the event. The Tigers fell 10-2 to host University of Central Florida in its second contest of the day.

On Saturday, Princeton lost 5-1 to Kennesaw State and 11-3 to UCF. The Tiger wrapped up the weekend with 4-1 loss to No. 22 South Carolina on Sunday.

Princeton, now 5-4, will head west next weekend when it takes part in the Fullerton-Long Beach Tournament from March 8-10 in Fullerton, Calif.

Tiger Women’s Water Polo

Tops St. Francis, Brown

Kayla Yelensky had a big day as the No. 10 Princeton University women’s water

ROUGH KNIGHTS: Princeton University women’s hockey player Sarah Paul controls the puck in recent action. Last Friday, sophomore forward Paul tallied a goal and an assist as seventh-seeded Princeton fell 3-2 in overtime to second-seeded in the opener of the ECAC Hockey best-of-three quarterfinal series. A day later, the Tigers fell 6-3 to the Golden Knights to end their season. Princeton posted a final record of 14-12-6 overall.

polo team posted a pair of wins last Sunday, topping St. Francis 14-7 and defeating Brown 9-6.

Junior Yelensky scored two goals in the win over St. Francis and then tallied four against Brown.

In upcoming action, Princeton, now 12-2, will be competing in the Aztec Invitational from March 8-10 in San Diego, Calif.

PU Men’s Volleyball

Tops George Mason

Ben Harrington starred as the No. 15 Princeton University men’s volleyball team topped No. 17 George Mason 3-0 last Friday at Dillon Gym.

Senior star Harrington has 14 kills to help the Tigers prevail 25-18, 25-20, 25-23. Princeton, now 8-8, plays at Loyola Illinois on March 11.

CAROLINA CLASH: Princeton University men’s lacrosse player Coulter Mackesy eludes a defender in recent action. Last Friday, junior attacker Mackesy tallied

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(Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

(Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

Taking 6th at 138 in N.J. Wrestling Championships, Junior Mele Moves Closer to His Goal of a State Title

Blas é Mele is hoping to continue his trend of improving his state finish each year.

The Princeton High junior placed sixth at 138 pounds in his third trip to the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Boys Wrestling State Championships in Atlantic City on Saturday.

“It’s such a hard tournament,” said Mele. “I’ve been there twice. The environment is like no other. I’d like to say I’ve competed everywhere, and the environment is like no other. It’s starting to set in how it’s been pretty cool. I have one more year and I’m shooting for gold. I’m trying to get Princeton its first state title.”

Mele has had plenty of firsts. Two years ago, he was the first PHS freshman boy to reach the state championships. Then last year, he reached the final 12 for the first time. Places 9-12 do not compete after the wrestleback fourth round, but it set up this year’s move onto the podium. While he would have loved to place higher, just moving up is significant, and doing it after moving up a weight class this year.

“When I was a little kid and I was asking my dad about what makes a good New Jersey wrestler, what should my ambitions be moving forward, the one thing he always brought up is New Jersey state placer,” said Mele. “When I was looking at Alec Bobchin and other amazing New Jersey wrestlers, the one thing in common is always New Jersey state placer.”

Bobchin placed fourth at states for PHS in 2019, setting a standard for the Tiger program. PHS has also produced state champion girls with Chloe Ayres and Ava Rose.

“We’re hoping this medal can really jumpstart our program again,” said PHS head coach Jess Monzo. “If you look back at all the girls we’ve had too, we were fortunate to have Chloe come through the program, to have Ava (the older sister of current PHS star Cole Rose) come through, and the two years prior to Chloe, Alec Bobchin placed. Whether it’s been a boy or a girl those last seven or eight years we’ve had someone standing on a podium somewhere with a medal. It’s great. Not too many programs can say that, and those programs that can are very good. It’s our turn to start building, building to that powerhouse that Princeton can be.”

Mele was proud to represent the Tigers again in Atlantic City. He was the lone wrestler from the school to advance out of Region 5, where he placed third. Mele drew the No. 9 seed for states, which he exceeded in part because of the support he felt.

“I think that’s what really kept me focused too, knowing I wasn’t just doing it for myself, I was doing it for other people, that I was doing it for Princeton,” said Mele. “If you look at the podium, I’m the only public school kid on that podium. Everybody else on that podium is a private school kid. There is no better feeling than winning for the place that you were born, and winning for the people that you’ve grown up with, and winning to represent them. That’s what really got me through this tournament is having my friends send videos of them watching me wrestling during class at school, that’s something special. I don’t think I’ll ever forget that. Being able to represent them on the biggest stage in Atlantic City when everybody else is in school, that’s something special for sure.”

Mele opened the state tournament with a pin of Vincent Kain of Manalapan before running into nemesis Giovanni Scafidi of Howell. Mele had ended Scafidi’s state tournament last year, but Scafidi pinned Mele in the region semifinals this year. This time Mele built a lead and then held off another attempt by Scafidi for a pin when he had Mele on his back in the final period. Mele advanced with a 6-5 win.

“Winning when it matters is the most important thing to me,” said Mele. “That’s when it matters — in the state tournament. I prepare in the wrestling room every day with my partners and my coaches to win big matches. I’m just grateful and happy things went my way.”

Mele credited his coaches with keeping him going in the final period of that match. While he was facing a dire situation, he had the training and the coaching to pull out the win.

“There was a brief second when I could look over and my coaches were like, ‘You’ve got this, don’t worry,’” said Mele. “I’m super grateful that they were able to keep me grounded and keep me in that match because I don’t know if I would have been able to come away with that win if I didn’t have them in my corner telling me

that I just need to keep my head and I’ll come away with the win.”

Mele fell into the wrestlebacks when he dropped a 7-3 decision in the quarterfinals to top-seeded and eventual champion Caedyn Ricciardi of St. Peter’s Prep. Mele advanced in wrestlebacks with a 10-1 major decision over sixth-seeded Ryan Langenmayr of Lakeland. It was his second win in a row over a higher seeded wrestler, as Scafidi was the No. 8 seed.

“I’m super confident in my preparation, so no matter what seed I get I’m pretty content and I’m pretty happy with it,” said Mele. “One thing is the matchups, getting that second match against that kid from Howell was super good because that’s something I wanted back and I was happy to get.”

Mele pulled out another hard-fought win, 2-1, over Jake Zaltsman of St. John Vianney in their wrestleback quarterfinal match. The win pushed him closer to the podium.

“It kind of came down to last period,” said Mele. “At that level, you’re going to get the tough matches. It’s just having a sense of comfortability in those tough matches and being ready for them and being prepared for them.”

In the next round, he lost, 8-0, to Dylan Ross, the No. 3 seed out of Paramus Catholic. His final match was for fifth place, but he was edged by Anthony Depaul of St. Augustine, 5-2, to place sixth.

“Thinking back to all of the matches, the match against the 1 seed there was definitely a bit of a skill gap that I’m going to need to work to close,” said Mele. “The other two, even though the Paramus Catholic kid, the score says it was a dominant victory. If you were watching the match you would think it was a lot

Last Saturday,

closer than it actually was. And then the St. Augustine kid was really a last-second takedown and I can get that back in another match for sure in my mind.”

Mele finished the year with a 41-7 record and the highest state finish for a PHS boy in five years. His season was marked by huge wins that helped build him into a state medalist.

“That was the goal at the beginning of the season,” said Monzo. “To be honest, I think his goal was to be a little higher than what he accomplished this year. Going back to December, and at the Sam Cali, he wins the tournament and has two really, really great wins over nationally ranked guys. And those two wins really helped him believe that he could do it, and gave him the confidence that he wasn’t the guy that was just dreaming.”

The season helped to prepare him for the state

tournament and the toughest trek there is. He had to wrestle through a gauntlet of state qualifiers over three days all the while making weight and sustaining enough energy. By the end of states, he was as sore as anytime in his career.

“It’s a grind like no one else has done,” said Monzo. “Only a select few every year, the guys that earn their way down. That tournament, they’re beat up, they’re tired, they’re hurting, they’re hungry, and then they’re cutting weight for the next day. It’s pretty intense and it’s pretty amazing to watch it go down. They put their heart and soul out there every single match. You see it win or lose. You feel bad for the kids that don’t get their hands raised. And the ones that do, you want to hug them and tell them everything that they’re doing, everything that they’ve trained in is culminating

and working now.”

Mele could not have done it without the help of his coaches and teammates. Even with his own season done, Cole Rose selflessly traveled with Mele and helped him work out between matches and maintain weight.

“My coaches were super great about keeping me focused on what was in front of me this weekend and it was one just thing,” said Mele. “It was, ‘We’re done wrestling, let’s go check our weight and see where we are.’ This was a business trip. I was down there to get something done, to do it for Princeton, to do it for my team. As much as this is a state medal for me, this is a state medal for my wrestling family, my boys. I’ve been practicing with these guys. It’s about time we’ve had someone on the state podium.”

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Princeton Prospect Foundation is pleased to announce free public access to Princeton University’s iconic eating clubs where generations of students have taken meals and socialized in historic and architecturally significant clubhouses that date as far back as 1895. Upcoming open houses will take place from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. on the following dates (no reservations are required):

Princeton Prospect Foundation is pleased to announce free public access to Princeton University’s iconic eating clubs where generations of students have taken meals and socialized in historic and architecturally significant clubhouses that date as far back as 1895. Upcoming open houses will take place from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. on the following dates (no reservations are required):

Princeto rinceton University’s iconic eating clubs where generations of students have taken meals and socialized in historic and architecturally significant clubhouses that date as far back as 1895. Upcoming open houses will take place from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. on the following dates (no reservations are required):

Sun., Oct. 6th: Cannon Club, Colonial Club, Cottage Club, Quadrangle Club, Terrace Club, Tower Club

Sun., Oct. 6th: Cannon Club, Colonial Club, Cottage Club, Quadrangle Club, Terrace Club, Tower Club

Sun., Mar. 24th: Cannon Club, Cap & Gown Club, Colonial Club, Ivy Club, Terrace Club, Tower Club

Sun., Oct. 20th: Cap & Gown Club, Charter Club, Cloister Inn, Ivy Club, Tiger Inn

Sun., Oct. 20th: Cap & Gown Club, Charter Club, Cloister Inn, Ivy Club, Tiger Inn

Sun., Apr. 7th: Charter Club, Cloister Inn, Cottage Club, Quadrangle Club, Tiger Inn

The fascinating origins and evolution of the clubs, along with many archival images and spectacular photos, are presented in The Princeton Eating Clubs, written by awardwinning author Clifford W. Zink in 2017. This beautiful book is available at Labyrinth Books and the Princeton University Store, and on Amazon.

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BLASE OF GLORY: Princeton High wrestler Blas Mele, left, controls a foe in action this season.

junior Mele placed sixth at 138 pounds in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Boys Wrestling State Championships in Atlantic City.

PDS Girls’ Hockey Falls Just Short of State Final, Losing in Semis on Late Rally by Immaculate Heart

It was round four this winter between the Princeton Day School girls’ hockey team and Immaculate Heart Academy as the foes met in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Girls’ Ice Hockey State Tournament semis last Wednesday at the Mennen Sports Arena.

In the previous three meetings, the teams played tight, tense contests with PDS coming away with two wins, including a 4-3 victory over the Blue Eagles in the Librera Cup semifinals on February 7 in their last clash before the state tournament.

In the state semis matchup, third-seeded Immaculate Heart jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first period even though the second-seeded Panthers built a 9-6 edge in shots.

Heading into the second period, PDS head coach Jamie Davis urged his players to keep pressing forward.

“It was just continue what we were doing, we have a strong team,” said Davis. “It was keep getting shots and doing all of the stuff that got us here.”

Responding to the coach’s message, the Panthers produced a strong second period, outshooting Immaculate Heart 19-6 and tallying two unanswered goals. The first tally came from senior Emily McCann on a power play goal with 5:12 left in the period. Just over two minutes

later, senior captain Logan Harrison put PDS up 2-1 as she found the back of the net with 2:35 remaining in the second.

“Emily’s goal brought us back to life, it was a clutch goal,” said Davis. “They were all working really hard.”

The Panthers kept up the good work early in the third period as another senior standout, Lily Ryan, lofted a shot over the Immaculate Heart goalie to put PDS up 3-1 with 13:52 left in regulation. The Panthers mobbed Ryan behind the goal and the players on the bench roared their approval.

“That was great, going up 3-1. We should be able to finish that game out,” said Davis.

But it was Immaculate Heart that produced the big finish, tallying three unanswered goals in the last 10:13 of the contrast, including the game-winner with 1:46 left in the game to pull out a stunning 4-3 win.

The Panther players trudged to their locker room with blank stares and some crying.

“I think we were all a little bit in disbelief as I am sure the other team is, and everyone who watched that game,” said Davis, whose squad ended the winter with a 12-6 record. “It is a tough loss. This one stings for sure.”

The defeat was particularly stinging since the Panthers controlled the puck for much of the contest.

“I think we outplayed them but sometimes hockey doesn’t work like that,” lamented Davis, whose team outshot the Blue Eagles 2812 through two periods and 33-24 on the evening.

“They had a really strong second half of that third period and they kept it on us. They scored their goals there. They didn’t let up and they kept pushing. They were being aggressive. They were continuing to get shots on net and they put them in the net.”

Davis credited his group of seniors with setting a positive tone as the Panthers enjoyed another winning campaign, highlighted by topping nemesis Morristown-Beard 3-1 in the Librera Cup final on February 14 and posting a pair of wins over eventual state champion Pingry (4-3 on January 4 and 2-1 on February 1).

“They are the core of our team,” said Davis of the team’s Class of ’24 that includes Julia Miranda, Elena Sichel, Colleen Mayer, Isabel Cook, Ceci Scheil, Madison Trend, and goalie Brigid Milligan in addition to McCann, Harrison, and Ryan.

“They work hard every single shift, they are definitely going to be missed. We are very proud of the girls, this is not where we wanted to fi nish up today. We did win the Librera Cup, it is shame we had to end here.”

— Bill Alden

HEARTBREAKER: Princeton Day School girls’ hockey player Lily Ryan races up the ice in a game earlier this season. Last Wednesday, senior star Ryan tallied a goal and an assist as second-seeded PDS fell 4-3 to third-seeded Immaculate Heart Academy in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Girls’ Ice Hockey State Tournament semis at the Mennen Sports Arena. The Panthers, who led the Blue Eagles 3-1 in the third period, ended the winter with a 12-6 record.

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Swimming : Kyleigh Tangen and Daniel Brophy excelled as they competed in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Meet of Champions last weekend at the Gloucester County Institute of Technology pool. Senior Tangen placed eighth in the 50-yard freestyle final in a time of 24.40 while junior Brophy finished eighth in the 200 free final in 1:41.78.

Local Sports

Dillon Youth Hoops Playoff Results

In playoff semifinal action last weekend in the Boys’ 3rd/4th grade division of the Dillon Youth Basketball League, Sportworld edged Tortuga’s Mexican Village 20-18. Tyler Spiegel scored 14 points to lead the way for Sportworld while Ahaan Balantrapu tallied 10 points for Tortugas. Milk & Cookies defeated Princeton Air 20-17. Aiden Spies scored nine points for Milk & Cookies while Leo Cronan chipped in seven points for Princeton Air.

In the Boys’ 5th/6th grade division semis, Jackson Szurek scored 14 points to lead Jefferson Plumbing over Pizza Den 33-25. Alex Burger had 10 points for Pizza Den. Majeski Foundation topped Mason Griffin & Pierson, PC 44-28. Nathan

Stock poured in 20 points in the victory. Ilan Spiegel had 11 points for Pizza Den. In the semifinal round of the Boys’ 7th/8th grade division, the Celtics edged the Nets 3533 as Ryan Tague scored 23 points for the Celtics. Devan Jayachandran had 15 points for the Nets. The Knicks defeated Sixers 31-21. Ai’Bree Green tallied 12 points for the Knicks while Shail Besler chipped in 10 points for the Sixers.

As for the Girls’ 3rd/5th grade division semis, the Sparks defeated Sun 16-9 as Elizabeth Howes scored nine points to lead the way for the Sparks. Layla Bak had six points for the Sun. The Mystics topped the Liberty 14-7 as Caroline Win scored eight points for the victors.

In the semifinal round of the Girls’ 6th-8th grade division, Delizioso Bakery + Kitchen posted a 14-10 win over Princeton Pettoranello Foundation. Annie Harman and Isabella Gustus each had six points for Delizioso while Ella Fries had six points for Princeton Pettoranello. Princeton Restorative Dental defeated Homestead Princeton 25-16. Eme Moorhead poured in 19 points to lead Princeton Restorative Dental. Sienna HoushmandOeregaard scored six points for Homestead.

The five league championship games are slated to take place at the Hun School on March 9 with the action starting at 8:15 a.m.

Princeton 5K Race

Slated for March 16

The Princeton 5K is returning on March 16 for its 15th year.

The event annually brings together athletes — young

and old, big and small, fast and not so fast — to run or walk while supporting the Princeton High cross country and track programs.

The in-person race starts in front of the Princeton Middle School at 217 Walnut Lane at 8:30 a.m. In addition to the 5K, there is a 300-meter kids dash for children under 10. To register and get more information on the event, log onto runsignup.com/Race/ NJ/Princeton/PrincetonNJ5K. Registration is also available in-person on race day.

The Princeton 5K is the largest annual fundraiser for the Princeton High School Cross Country Track and Field Booster (PHSCCTF) a 501(c)(3). All donations directly support the PHS boys’ and girls’ cross country and track teams.

Hopewell Valley 5K

Scheduled for March 16

The 2nd Annual Hopewell Valley 5K is taking place on March 16 at 9:30 a.m.

The theme for this year’s event is the “Lucky Bulldog Dash.” The race will kick off at the Hopewell Valley High and head down Dublin Road and back for an adventure to find a Pot O’ Gold. Runners and walkers are encouraged to put on their greenest gear to try and catch the leprechaun.

Winners in age group categories will come away with a chocolate prize. Prizes will also be awarded for the best team and individual St. Patrick’s theme costumes. There will also be a special prize for anyone who can catch the leprechaun.

To register, log raceroster. com/events/2024/83118/ hopewell-valley-5k.

(Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

Obituaries

Dr. Carol Dwyer

Dr. Carol Dwyer, 78, of Pennington, NJ, passed away in her sleep on February 20, 2024.

Dr. Dwyer, an educational researcher, retired after a career of more than 30 years at Educational Testing Service (ETS), where she served as a Distinguished Presidential Appointee and devoted her career to education and especially gender equity in testing. She was active in national professional organizations, serving as a Division President of the American Psychological Association and as Vice President of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). For her scholarship and service in support of the education of women and girls, she was recognized with the Willystine Goodsell Award from the AERA.

Carol was born to Anne and James Dwyer in Baltimore in 1945. She grew up in Hagerstown, Maryland, where she graduated from St. Maria Goretti High School in 1963. She graduated from Barnard College in 1968, earned a Master of Arts in 1970, and then a PhD in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972. In 1978, she married W. Miles McPeek, and they enjoyed over 45 blissful years together. Carol and Miles were devoted parents to their three children.

In addition to her professional achievements, Carol was an accomplished host and cook, a delightful conversationalist, and a person of impeccable judgment and taste who excelled as a sounding board and mentor. Her many hobbies included gardening, carriage driving, and the study of French language and literature. She and Miles enjoyed vacationing in France and, in their later years,

traveling extensively throughout Europe, Morocco, Australia, and New Zealand.

Carol will be dearly missed by her husband Miles; her children Mary Sara McPeek (Mark Abney), Robert McPeek (Natalka Freeland), and Carol-Anne McPeek (Mateo Pastore); her sister Cathy (Michael) Kleinbeck; her brother Dennis (Judy) Dwyer; her five granddaughters, Helena, Fiona, Roxelana, Katrusia, and Rowan; her many nieces and nephews; and her longtime friends.

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Eberhard Mathias Rosenblad

1943 — 2024

and sister, Axel Rosenblad of Rhode Island, Elof Rosenblad of Sarasota, and Anna Davies in Mougins, France.

Born in Stockholm Sweden, Eberhard Mathias Rosenblad came to the U.S. in 1950 and resided in Princeton, NJ. The youngest son of Curt F. Rosenblad and Baroness Lucie H. Hermelin, he graduated from The Hun School and University de Los Americas in Mexico with a Bachelor of Science in Economics.

He worked in New York City for Laidlaw Co. as a stockbroker and then worked in Princeton for Rosenblad Corporation, a family company specializing in the manufacturing of evaporators that were used in the pulp and paper industry to treat and clean up the water used in the process.

In 1966 he married Sandra Sayen Rosenblad and had daughters Nicole Rosenblad Wheeler and Mikaela Rosenblad. In 1987 he moved to Siesta Key in Sarasota, FL.

He is survived by his wife, daughters, and three grandchildren: Samantha Jones, Curt Wheeler, and Nils Wheeler. He is also survived by his two older brothers

Kathleen Babich

Kathleen Simko Babich, born July 8, 1947, in Staten Island, NY, passed away peacefully Tuesday evening, February 27, 2024, at the Hospital at the University of Pennsylvania with family at her bedside.

The eldest of three daughters to Michael and Margaret Simko, she spent her childhood in Fords, NJ, later to attend high school at St. Mary’s in Perth Amboy, NJ.

Kathleen went on to become a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, holding a BS from Marywood University in Nutrition and Dietetics and serving a dietetic internship with the U.S. Public Health Service. It was while at Marywood that she met the love of her life, Charles. Kathleen then received her MA in Nutrition Education and Dietetics from New York University, and she held a New Jersey Department Education teaching certification in Family and Consumer Sciences.

Kathleen was a Renal Dietitian in the Hemodialysis

Unit at the Raritan Bay Medical Center in Perth Amboy, NJ, also serving as a faculty member in the dietetic internship program. She worked in community nutrition and was a “Live for Life” Nutrition Consultant with Johnson and Johnson, Inc. in New Brunswick, NJ. From 1987 to 1995 she taught secondary school Foods and Nutrition, Food Science, and Education for Parenthood at JP Stevens High School in Edison, NJ. She was also an adjunct Nutrition Instructor in the Dietetic Technology Program at Middlesex County College in Edison.

In 1995, Kathleen was diagnosed with the rare inherited blood cancer predisposition “RUNX1 Familial Platelet Disorder” after being diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia. She beat the odds in spring 1996 after receiving a successful allogeneic bone marrow transplant, only to develop another rare hematologic disorder, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP). A lifelong learner with a passion for understanding health and one’s ability to affect disease outcomes, she returned to school in later life to complete the Medical Humanities Program in the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies at Drew University.

Kathleen was a longtime member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and of the NJ Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, for which she held numerous elected state and local board positions, also serving as a reviewer for the nutrition journal Topics in Clinical Nutrition . As an advocate

for the two rare diseases she bravely battled, she served as a patient advisory board member to the RUNX1 Research Program, was a member of the PCORI Advisory Panel on Rare Disease and the Answering TTP Foundation. While a resident of Princeton, NJ she was an active member of the Women’s College Club of Princeton.

Kathleen was a parishioner of St. Paul’s RC Church in Princeton, NJ, where she served in the St. Paul’s Altar Rosary Society. Surviving are her husband of 53 years, Charles Babich, son Timothy and his wife, Monica, and son Daniel and his wife, Luisa. She was blessed with five grandchildren, Nathaniel, Elijah, Joseph, Catherine, and Anna.

A visitation was held from on Monday, March 4 at The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, 40 Vandeventer Avenue, Princeton, NJ, 08542.

Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Monday, March 4 at St. Paul’s Parish Church, 216 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ, 08542.

Burial was in the Holy Savior Cemetery in Bethlehem, PA.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the RUNX1 Research Program, runx1-fpd.org.

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Belle Mead Garage (908) 359-8131 Ask for Chris

HOUSECLEANING: Experienced, English speaking, great references, reliable with own transportation. Weekly & bi-weekly cleaning. Green cleaning available. Susan, (732) 8733168. 04-24

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HOME HEALTH AIDE: 25 years of experience. Available mornings to take care of your loved one, transport to appointments, run errands. I am well known in Princeton. Top care, excellent references. The best! Call (609) 356-2951 or (609) 751-1396. tf

LOLIO’S WINDOW WASHING & POWER WASHING: Free estimate.

Next day service. Fully insured. Gutter cleaning available. References available upon request. 30 years experience. (609) 271-8860. tf

JOES LANDSCAPING INC. OF PRINCETON

Property Maintenance and Specialty Jobs

Commercial/Residential

Over 45 Years of Experience

• Fully Insured

• Free Consultations

Email: joeslandscapingprinceton@ gmail.com

Text (only): (609) 356-9201 Office: (609) 216-7936 Princeton References

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Residential and commercial

Carpet cleaning and upholestry Pressure and soft washing • Area rugs

Strip and wax floors • Sanitizing Water damage • Grout cleaning

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THE MAID PROFESSIONALS:

Leslie & Nora, cleaning experts. Residential & commercial. Free estimates. References upon request. (609) 2182279, (609) 323-7404.

05-29

STORAGE UNIT FOR RENT

10 minutes north of Princeton in Skillman/Montgomery. 10x21, $200 discounted monthly rent. Available now. https://princetonstorage.homestead. com or call/text (609) 333-6932.

03-13

EXPERIENCED M-F, LIVE-IN

CAREGIVER, SOME WEEKENDS. Excellent references. Princeton preferred. (609) 203-5206.

03-06

HOME HEALTH AIDE/COMPANION AVAILABLE: NJ certified and experienced. Live-in or live-out. Driver’s license. References available. Please call Cindy, (609) 227-9873.

03-20

DELAWARE 2 BED, 2 BATH, PET-FREE, WELL-MAINTAINED CONDO. Waterview, screened deck. Jack Nicklaus golf course. Many amenities. Nearby Rehoboth Beach and outlets. (908) 253-8887. Call now and enjoy the summer here! <$300,000.

03-06

LOOKING TO RENT STUDIO SPACE (no toxic materials used), need natural light and access to sink and bathroom. Please call (609) 306.2718.

03-13

HANDYMAN–CARPENTER: Painting, hang cabinets & paintings, kitchen & bath rehab. Tile work, masonry. Porch & deck, replace rot, from floors to doors to ceilings. Shelving & hook-ups. ELEGANT REMODELING. You name it, indoor, outdoor tasks. Repair holes left by plumbers & electricians for sheetrock repair. RE agents welcome. Sale of home ‘checklist’ specialist. Mercer, Hunterdon, Bucks counties. 1/2 day to 1 month assignments. CREDIT CARDS

ACCEPTED, Covid 19 compliant. Active business since 1998. Videos of past jobs

Paul Robeson Place Princeton, NJ | $2,575,000

Michael Monarca: 917.225.0831 callawayhenderson.com/id/TTQWDX

Introducing: Stockton Street Princeton, NJ | $1,695,000

Jane Henderson Kenyon: 609.828.1450 callawayhenderson.com/id/X62RGR

Introducing: Armour Road Princeton, NJ | $1,195,000

Martha Giancola: 609.658.1969 callawayhenderson.com/id/7JEH3J

Humbert Place

Princeton, NJ | $645,000

Susan L DiMeglio: 609.915.5645 callawayhenderson.com/id/2STFNQ

Carter Road

Lawrence Township, NJ | $2,340,000

Susan Hughes: 609.213.5556 callawayhenderson.com/id/3K3NFH

Introducing: Fairview Road (34.29 acres) Montgomery Township, NJ | $1,550,000

Amy F Greenwood: 609.647.8910 callawayhenderson.com/id/R4WYZW

Introducing: North Main Street Pennington Borough, NJ | $950,000

Maura Mills: 609.947.5757 callawayhenderson.com/id/JLW3Y5

Introducing: Birch Avenue Princeton, NJ | $599,000

Irving Newlin: 609.731.6576 callawayhenderson.com/id/34TD59

Introducing: Spring Hill Road Montgomery Township, NJ | $1,995,000

Jennifer E Curtis: 609.610.0809 callawayhenderson.com/id/SRC5WP

Building Lot: Prentice Lane (2.36 acres) Princeton, NJ | $1,550,000

Susan L DiMeglio: 609.915.5645 callawayhenderson.com/id/9RWDND

Newly Priced: River Drive Hopewell Township, NJ | $748,000

Susan L DiMeglio: 609.915.5645 callawayhenderson.com/id/Y64NES

Introducing: Academy Court

Pennington Borough, NJ | $398,500

Catherine C Nemeth: 609.462.1237 callawayhenderson.com/id/KLGYJS