Volume LXXIII, Number 23
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Sacks and Lambros Win Democratic Primary For Princeton Council
“New Jersey Baseball” Exhibit at Morven . . . . . 5 Residents Weigh In on Climate Action Plan . . . 8 New Segment of Lawrence Hopewell Trail . . . . . . . 10 Princeton University P-rade 2019 . . . . . . . . 14 D-Day, David Milch, and the Return of Deadwood . . . . . . . . . 19 PU Rowers Excel at National Championship Regattas . . . . . . . . . 32 PHS Boys’ Track Falls Short of State Title . . 35
Kam Williams, Prolific Film and Literary Critic, Longtime Town Topics Contributor, Dies . . . . 38 Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Berkshire Hathaway Fox & Roach Realtors . .24, 25 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . 27 Cinema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Classified Ads . . . . . . 39 Mailbox . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Music/Theater . . . . . . 20 New To Us . . . . . . . . . 30 Obituaries . . . . . . . . . 38 Police Blotter . . . . . . . 12 Real Estate . . . . . . . . 39 School Matters . . . . . . 12 Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Topics of the Town . . . . 5 Town Talk . . . . . . . . . . 6
Mia Sacks and Michelle Pirone Lambros earned the highest number of votes in yesterday’s primary election, according to unofficial results, and will represent the Democrats in the November contest for two Princeton Council seats. Sacks won 1,371 votes (39.59 percent), while Lambros earned 1,109 (32.02 percent), and the incumbent Tim Quinn finished third with 969 votes (27.98 percent). Adam Bierman will run as an Independent in the November 5 election against Sacks and Lambros. There are no Republicans in the election for Council this year. Jenny Crumiller will step down at the end of the year, and her seat and Quinn’s will be up for grabs in the general election. Running unopposed in the Democratic Primary for two seats, two-year terms, in the 16th Legislative District of the New Jersey General Assembly, incumbents Andrew Zwicker and Roy Freiman earned spots on the ballot in November, while Republicans chose Mark Caliguire and Christine Madrid over third place finisher Roger Forest Locandro. In other local primary election results, incumbent Brian M. Hughes, running unopposed in the race for Mercer County executive, will represent the Democrats, while Lishian “Lisa” Wu, also unopposed in her primary, will be the Republican candidate this fall. Incumbent Democrats Andrew Koontz and Nina D. Melker ran unopposed for the nomination to two open Board of Chosen Freeholders seats, and will run without opposition again in the November election. Sacks has served on the Planning Board and the Environmental Commission and has been active in numerous other local organizations. She has also worked at the senior level in the nonprofit sector in New York City and abroad. Lambros, whose campaign emphasized bringing ”a new perspective and fresh ideas “ to Council, has built and owned a number of small businesses and has served on the Princeton Zoning Board, the Princeton Merchants’ Association Board, and the Princeton Community Democratic Organization Board. —Donald Gilpin
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Defend Civil Virtues, Urges Eisgruber Presiding over Princeton University’s 272nd commencement ceremony yesterday on the front lawn of Nassau Hall, University President Christopher L. Eisgruber called on the 1,282 undergraduate and 562 graduate degree recipients to “defend the civil virtues.” He warned them that they were going out into a world “in which civic norms crucial to our shared political life are fraying.” He added, “Your generation’s ability to address the world’s problems will depend on, among other things, your capacity to nurture and repair those norms.” Describing civil virtues as “the indispensable foundation for any democratic society in which people seek to learn from one another and to pursue a common good that unites them across differences,” Eisgruber urged his listeners not only to “live those values but also to speak up bravely on their behalf…to provide the service, citizenship, and leadership that our world so needs.” The University also awarded honorary degrees to six individuals for their contributions to education, literature, public
service, science, and space travel. The honorary degree recipients were Ohio State University President Michael Drake, who is widely known for his leadership on issues of diversity; former Republican Congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen, who represented New Jersey’s 11th district for 24 years before retiring in January 2019; Princeton Zoology Professor Emeritus Peter Grant and Senior Research Biologist Emeritus Rosemary Grant, groundbreaking evolutionary
biologists exploring the group of 18 bird species known as Darwin’s finches; Edith Grossman, renowned translator of Spanish and Latin American literature from Cervantes to Marquez; and astronaut and former director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center Ellen Ochoa, who in 1993 became the first Latina to travel into space. The full text of Eisgruber’s speech follows: In a few minutes, all of you will march Continued on Page 7
Public Schools Chart Their Way Forward; “Transparency Blitz” as Year Winds Down
“Here’s what we’re doing. Here’s where we’re going,” said Princeton Public Schools (PPS) Board of Education (BOE) President Beth Behrend in a Monday press conference as she laid out the multiple projects and plans for the BOE in the coming days, months, and years. Transparency, advocacy, and stewardship are high priorities for the BOE and the PPS as they move ahead, with a
difficult year behind them and a host of challenges ahead. The past year has seen community conflict over multiple facilities referendum proposals, final passage last December of a reduced $26.9M referendum, then grappling with budget constraints and the BOE’s 6-4 approval last month of an unpopular budget that requires cuts of about Continued on Page 15
HAPPY GRADUATES: Four of the 1,282 undergraduates and 562 graduate students who graduated yesterday bask in the sun, and in the glow of their accomplishments, at Princeton University’s 272nd commencement ceremony on the front lawn of Nassau Hall . (Photo by Mark Czajkowski, Princeton University)