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Health Dept. Prepares For School Reopenings And Fall Flu Season With September fast approaching, the Princeton Health Department continues to work with Princeton Public Schools, Princeton Charter School, and area private schools on their return-to-school plans. The New Jersey Department of Health issued guidance on school openings on August 13, the same day Gov. Phil Murphy announced that all-virtual learning would be acceptable as long as certain conditions were met and the schools had a clear plan for progressing soon to at least partial in-person learning. “Princeton schools have put a tremendous amount of time and effort into these plans,” said Princeton Health Officer Jeff Grosser. Those plans include extensive measures to implement protocols and policies to keep students and staff safe. The Health Department reported one new case of COVID-19 in Princeton on August 16, the only new case of the past seven days, with four new cases in the past 14 days. The new case was noted as a family/household exposure linked to an out-of-county occupation exposure. Princeton now has four active cases, 211 total positive cases, and 176 cases recovered with isolation complete. There have been 18 COVID-19-related deaths and an additional 12 probable COVIDrelated deaths. The average age of death in those cases is 84.6 years. The average age of all Princeton COVID-19 cases is 55 years. Last Friday, August 14, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced that, to help protect against COVID-19, all active registered New Jersey voters would receive a prepaid return-postage mail-in ballot for the November 3 general election. The plan is similar to how New Jersey conducted the July primary elections, mostly through mail-in voting with some polling locations available. Murphy noted that the July 7 primary registered the second highest voter turnout in the history of New Jersey primaries. “No one should have to choose between their right to vote and their health,” he said. Voters will have the option of returning their ballots by mail, depositing them in a secure drop box, or handing them directly to a poll worker at a polling place on Election Day. Each municipality will be required to open at least one in-person polling site. Voters who choose to cast their ballots in Continued on Page 9

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In-Person Reopening at PPS May Be Delayed In the sixth month of the coronavirus pandemic, with a number of schools and colleges delaying in-person reopening and just weeks to go before the Princeton Public Schools’ (PPS) originally scheduled reopening, the district is revising its plans for students’ return to the school buildings. The PPS August 7 Restart and Reopening Plan, a hybrid model for a combination of in-person and remote learning, was designed as a flexible work in progress, “tempered by the recognition that uncertainties remain regarding the degree to which the district will be able to return students to brick-and-mortar education.” The uncertainties — in the spread of the COVID-19 virus, in achieving standards of health and safety as directed by the New Jersey Department of Education and state and local health authorities, in staffing sufficiency, and in parental concerns — seem to have multiplied, with prospects for a successful in-person or hybrid opening less clear than ever. Deciding on a revised reopening plan was on the agenda for last night’s August 18 virtual Board of Education (BOE) meeting, taking place after press time. Earlier in the day, PPS Interim Superintendent Barry Galasso said he would be presenting a “phase-up” plan to the BOE last

night. “But there are two contingencies,” he added. Those contingencies, which might necessitate postponement of any in-person learning until later in the school year, were staffing and the installation of ionization filtration systems in all of the HVAC units. An increasing number of staff are seeking “approved accommodations,” opting for remote rather than in-person teaching in the fall, Galasso said. “It gets to the point where you can’t staff your schools

for in-person learning.” As of yesterday afternoon, 90 staff members had requested accommodations. Authorization to purchase 128 ionization units for the schools’ HVAC systems at a total cost of $98,456 was on the agenda at last night’s meeting. Galasso mentioned that the Board had been thoroughly supportive in meeting the schools’ requests as they prepared for reopening. In the next few days, Galasso said, “We Continued on Page 7

Transitioning Outdoor Dining to Fall Is a Focus of Merchants’ Meeting During the pandemic, many Princeton restaurants have coped with the ban on indoor dining by serving patrons outside, at carefully distanced tables under tents or umbrellas. Business, for the most part, has been brisk. But with the end of summer approaching, a new set of challenges awaits. Just how to cope with colder temperatures while still serving outdoors was among the topics at last Thursday’s virtual meeting of the Princeton Merchants Association. Additional discussions were about Princeton University’s plans for fall, a drop in cases of the coronavirus, and a

plan to place representations of artwork from the Princeton University Art Museum in empty storefronts [see story on page 8]. Princeton Fire Official Joe Novak told merchants his department is working on a safety sheet outlining rules about using heaters outside. He has already received requests from some restaurants about how to proceed. “A lot of people already have the towertype heaters, which are absolutely acceptable,” he said. “They just have to be at least five feet from the building — two feet vertically, and three feet horizontally from Continued on Page 9

DINING AL FRESCO: The outdoor tables at restaurants along Witherspoon Street are popular with residents and visitors alike. Town officials are planning to keep outdoor dining going into the fall and beyond, as long as the weather allows. (Photo by Weronika A. Plohn)

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A Community Bulletin Princeton Recreation Department Cross Country Program: Open to rising 9th-12th graders, weekdays through August 28 at Greenway Meadows Park from 8:30-11 a.m. Visit princetonrecreation.com for more information under “Track Programs.” The program will be run within the guidelines of the New Jersey Department of Health as well as with guidance from the Princeton Health Department. Email npaulucci@princetonnj.gov with questions. Flu Shot Clinics: Princeton will be holding several flu shot clinics throughout town August 26-November 14. All dates are subject to change due to COVID-19. Uninsured residents will be provided a free shot. The first date is August 26, 4-6 p.m. at Witherspoon Hall. For more information, visit princetonnj.gov or call (609) 497-7608. Extended Recycling Event: Mercer County’s next Household Waste and Electronics Recycling event will now be held over two days, Friday, September 18 from 12-5 p.m. and Saturday, September 19 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Dempster Fire Training Center, 350 Lawrence Station Road. For protocol and other information, visit mcianj.org. Meet the Mayor : Mayor Liz Lempert holds virtual open office hours Fr iday, Aug us t 28, f rom 8 : 30 -10 a.m. for meet ing ins t r uct ions, v isit princetonnj.gov.

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have to determine whether we have enough faculty and staff to implement a phaseup plan. If we don’t, then I’m asking the Board to authorize me to go totally remote until October and notify the county superintendent and the state.” Galasso’s phase-up reopening plan involves a “robust” remote learning program in place for all levels from the first day of school on September 14. Starting in person on September 14 would be Pre-K, kindergarten, first grade, and special education students. If that worked well, the rest of the elementary students, grades two to five, would begin inperson learning on October 5. And if that worked well, middle and high school students would begin in person on October 19, and the hybrid program would be fully operational. Galasso emphasized that with a vibrant new learning management system, new devices for students, and extensive training for faculty, the remote learning plans had been significantly improved since last spring. “The instruction and expectations for teachers, kids, and parents have been ramped up,” he said. “We heard the criticisms of what occurred last March.” About 35-40 percent of parents, in a preliminary survey, have said they would opt for a remote learning program in September whether the

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The ninth annual Sourland Spectacular, to “Save the Sourlands,” has typically been a cycling rally. But this year’s event invites registrants to choose their own route — and fee — to cycle, run, or hike anytime during the nine-day event September 5-13. “We want to keep everyone’s health and safety front and center, which is why we have modified the event to allow riders, runners, and hikers to participate safely following CDC guidelines,” said Sourland Conservancy Trustee Joanna Fiori. “We will be marking the routes, providing cue sheets and GPS files, a water fill station, and porta-potties.” “Because many people are experiencing economic hardship and because we are offering reduced services for this year’s event, we are not setting a fixed registration fee. Rather, we are asking you to pay what you can.” said Trustee Jim Andrews. “If you donate $60 or more, we will send you a wicking workout shirt.” T-shirts will be available while supplies last. Proceeds support the Sourland Conservancy, a nonprofit whose mission is to protect, promote and preserve the 90-square mile Sourland Mountain region. Their work is more critical than ever as the forest is on track to lose over one million trees within 3-5 years due to the invasive emerald ash borer. “Our staff, volunteers, and community partners are doing all we can to restore the forest. We need help,” said Laurie Cleveland, Sourland Conservancy’s executive director. “Millions of people rely on the forest to provide clean air and drinking water, habitat for endangered species, carbon sequestration, and more. Now, the forest is facing a serious threat. We will all need to work together to protect it.” Dante DiPirro, the Conservancy’s board president, said, “Canceling our largest fundraiser, the Sourland Mountain Festival, due to COVID-19 dealt a serious blow to our organization. We are hoping that the community will rally together to support our work.” Business sponsorships starting at $300 are still available. Visit sourlandspectacular.com/sponsors-1 or email info@sourland.org for more information.

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ing this unprecedented crisis will find it much easier to get the help they need.” So far, Arm In Arm, HIP, and the Community Foundation have provided assistance to 18 families with under 30 percent of the funding, at an average assistance level of $1,611— more than three times what Arm In Arm or HIP could offer alone. In a little over four weeks, that $100,000 has allowed Arm In Arm and HIP to match, dollar for dollar, rent and mortgage assistance to those who need it most. Recent statistics show that over a third of people in the U.S. are concerned they will lose their housing, and anywhere between 19 and 23 million renters are at risk of becoming homeless in what’s being termed an incoming “evictions tsunami.” Standard public funding

ironically, the current eviction moratorium in place is preventing many households from receiving a notice and thus the very assistance that can re-stabilize them. The collaborative effort on the part of Arm in Arm, HIP, and the Community Foundation has allowed for greater efficiency, and therefore greater effectiveness, in addressing the community’s needs. “We are supporting the partnership formed between Arm In Arm and Housing Initiatives of Princeton, as they have been working tirelessly to help our neighbors who have been devastated by the economic fallout from this pandemic,” said Jeffrey M. Vega, president and CEO of the Community Foundation, “By working together and sharing their expertise, we believe they will have a great impact in our region.”

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Police Department Reports Progress, Building Trust Amidst Community Concerns In the midst of ongoing national protests and debate over policing, Princeton Police Depar t ment (PPD) Captain Chris Morgan presented the 2019 Annual Police Department Report to the Princeton Council last week. “We are absolutely aware of a lot of the concerns out there,” said Morgan in describing the 86-page report as “the most comprehensive we have put together since consolidation.” He continued, “We are committed to rebuilding trust within the community. We believe community engagement is important and being transparent with this information. We’re always looking for ways to better serve the community.” A statement by PPD Chief Nick Sutter, written in June after George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis during a police arrest, accompanied the report and emphasized the importance of trust and relationshipbuilding between the police and the community. “Our officers are strongly aware of how this event will erode the trust of our citizens in police officers throughout our country,” Sutter wrote. He noted that the actions of the police officer kneeling on Floyd’s neck “violates every fundamental value we as police officers hold dear to our hearts. We grieve along with our citizens.” He continued, “This is particularly hurtful to me, as I know how hard our officers

in Princeton have worked to build trust in our community. I know how our officers personally invest in these relationships with our community and cherish them like personal friendships.” He noted that the PPD had received many questions about its approach to issues such as the use of force and racial/ethnic bias. “I can say without hesitation that our department has proactively been at the forefront of these issues for many years,” he wrote. “I also know the proof is in our actions, not our claims.” Commenting on the report at the August 10 Council meeting, Morgan pointed out that the PPD had used force in only five incidents in 2019, with ten officers using force on five individuals, “the majority dealing with people in crisis.” He noted that the individuals were most often in an agitated mental state and resisting the police officers. Typically, he said, the officers were using a low level of force to move the resisting individuals into a first aid vehicle. All use-of-force incidents, Morgan added, are subject to several levels of review and must be reported directly to the state. In an August 17 email, Sutter pointed out that the PPD takes a number of steps in analyzing data and monitoring the conduct of officers. “I would also highlight the reviews we conduct on every use-of-force incident and highlight the fact that our use-of-force incidents

are compr ised of minor physical contact,” he said. “The small number of force incidents indicates the success our de-escalation tactics are having in situations that may otherwise result in force.” In his comments Sutter noted the PPD’s focus on training, particularly in deescalation tactics. “When we do have to use force, we review the actions through a five-tier process,” he said. “We report the use of force monthly to our governing body and have our policies and statistics placed on our website for public review. We also review officer-citizen interactions regularly with regard to race and ethnicity and we place these statistics on our website (princetonnj. gov).” In his June statement, Sutter also said that the tragic interactions between police and citizens in Minnesota were most likely the result of police failures in recruitment, organizational culture, training, policy, or oversight. “In our department we have worked incredibly hard at recruiting the highest caliber officers that possess a strong moral fabric,” he wrote. “We have built a diverse department that reflects the community we serve. We have created a culture that demands integrity and does not tolerate misconduct. We know that the misconduct of one tarnishes the entire profession and we will not stand for it amongst our ranks.” Sutter and Morgan both

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mentioned the PPD’s early warning system, a management tool that tracks officers’ conduct, and the department’s risk assessment committee, that tracks the racial and ethnic breakdown of officers’ activity, as important policies to enhance internal accountability. In the short-term, Sutter noted in Monday’s email, the department’s biggest current issue is the implementation of the PPD body camera program. “This is a very important step in our history and will serve to increase public trust in policing in our community,” he said. The entire department is expected to be equipped with body-worn cameras by the end of the summer. “This has been a deliberate and public process that will add another layer of public transparency to our actions,” he added. In response to a question from Mayor Liz Lempert at last week’s Council meeting, Morgan noted that over the last six months there has been a surge in numbers of Princeton residents applying for gun permits, a reflection of a national trend. “We’ve seen that trend here, and it’s been a significant increase,” Morgan said. “Firearm applications started to skyrocket in March, with 31 last year, and 125 so far this year.” Morgan explained that individuals apply for a firearm permit online, then a local detective is assigned to do a background investigation. A recommendation to either issue a permit or deny it follows. Then there is a review and a determination by the chief of police. If the application is denied the applicant may appeal the decision to the state. “W hile we really don’t have any data locally to account for it,” Sutter stated, “we are left to assume that national issues are leading to the increase, especially because most people are indicating they are obtaining firearms for personal and home defense.” In his Monday email Sutter also commented on the national conversation about defunding police depar tments. He suggested that a more legitimate argument could be made for reallocating police resources. “The more important conversation surrounds services that the police are providing that can be better provided by experts in other fields,” he said. “A perfect example is in the area of mental health. We respond repeatedly to the same people who are suffering and in a mental health crisis.” He continued, “We do not have the resources to provide follow-up care that is necessary to help people in these situations, and often we are called back when a person’s condition has deteriorated to a point where they are a danger for themselves or someone else. This is one example where police resources can be reallocated in a way to better serve this population.” —Donald Gilpin

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The museum will work with landlords to identify vacant stores, and select images to f it par t icu lar storefronts. Speaking about the project this week, Kim said there has been a positive response from local businesses. “We’re working with Palmer Square folks right out of the blocks, and I have others in my email in the queue,” he said. The idea for “Art in the Streets” has actually been in the works for some time. “There have been some ongoing conversations about how to create a more positive experience for visitors,” Kim said. “And with what we have in our collection, it seemed like an obvious, natural fit.” The plan is for storefronts to display a rotation of artworks from the museum. Asked for examples, Kim m ent ione d pai nt i ngs by Claude Monet, photographs by Gordon Parks, iconic images from Life Magazine, ancient works of art, and a recent painting by artist Mario Moore. “We want to represent the strengths of Princeton,” said Kim. “Some of the artworks have local connections. The diversity, and what makes this town such a special place, are all part of this. One of the benefits of having an encyclopedic collection is that you have this great variety. It’s here, and we want to take advantage of it.” —Anne Levin

MASTERPIECES FROM THE MUSEUM: This portrait of author Toni Morrison by Paul Wyse, after a photograph by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, is among the works from the collection of the Princeton University Art Museum which will be displayed in empty store windows throughout town.

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any combustible surfaces. They won’t be allowed underneath canopies, but will be alongside them.” The heaters cannot block sidewalks. When not in use, they should be turned off. “One thing we’re concerned about is that all of these have locks on them so you can’t access the tank or the valve,” he said. “It’s probably a great idea to lock them during off hours, and shut them off.” Another concern is the proper storage of spare cylinders of propane. “There are a lot of limitations on w h e r e p r op a n e c a n b e stored, and permits are required,” Novak said. “We’ll probably have to come out and work with you on that.” Councilwoman Michelle Pirone Lambros, who has been closely involved in getting outdoor dining up and running, said this week that the town plans to keep it going through the fall as long as the weather holds. “We’re hoping for a mild winter,” she said. “The longer we can stay outside, I think the better. I think it has worked well so far for the majority of restaurants, and I would encourage any of those that haven’t opened [for outdoor dining] to try. We’re trying to waive fees for additional tents.” The meeting also included a presentation by Princeton University Director of Community and Regional Affairs Kristin Appelget about the University’s recent decision to keep undergraduates off campus for the fall semester. The lack of students in

town has a direct effect on local restaurants and retail establishments. “A week ago, it was going to be a very different update from what it is now,” she said. “it’s disappointing to many people, myself included, that we will not be welcoming undergraduates back this fall. But it’s important to note that graduate students will be on campus, working under specific protocols. Many of them are already here. A small number of undergraduates, who are housing-insecure, or for whom Princeton is their permanent residence, have remained on campus.” Health and safety risks related to COVID-19 were too great to allow the University to proceed with an earlier plan to allow students to return in shifts. “We were going to have literally hundreds of students who would need to quarantine for 14 days,” Appelget continued. “There were diminished benefits to bringing the students back.” The University is hoping to have the students return for the spring semester. In the meantime, the campus is still open for research and related pursuits, but Firestone Library, the Art Museum, Alexander Hall, and the Princeton University Chapel are closed to the public. “There are no gatherings on campus, no campus events, and any events held outside for more than 15 people will have to be managed,”

Appelget said. Princeton Health Officer Jeffrey Grosser reported that there were three cases of COVID-19 reported in the previous week, representing the lowest level since the pandemic began. “But I’m expecting that to change with some schools being back soon,” he said. With regard to businesses reopening, the department has two inspectors in the field to make sure it is being done correctly. “We have gotten a few complaints about people not wearing masks, but for the most part it has been great,” Grosser said. “Any questions on exposures, masks, or anything else, we’re here for you.” The Health Department is preparing for the potential rollout of a vaccine against t he v ir us, t hough t here is no word on when that might happen. “We want to make sure that when it is available, we’ll be able to vaccinate,” he said. “We’re getting locations ready and set up,” Grosser said. “We’re working closely with the University because they’re doing that as well.” G ros s er con clu d e d by t han k ing businesses for their collaborations with the Health Department. “I know this hasn’t been easy on any businesses. We really want to work with you in terms of education and compliance,” he said. —Anne Levin

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person will use a provisional ballot. All individuals with disabilities will have access to an ADA-conforming voting machine. “Making it easier to vote doesn’t favor any one political party, but it does favor democracy,” Murphy said. In an announcement yesterday, August 18, Murphy added two states, Delaware and Alaska, to the New Jersey quarantine travel advisory, bringing to 35 the total number of states and territories designated as COVID-19 hotspots. Individuals traveling to New Jersey from those states and territories are advised to quarantine for a 14-day period. In their August 17 Princeton COV ID -19 Update, Mayor Liz Lempert and the Council announced t hat Princeton residents are invited to participate in a community-focused longitudinal study related to COVID-19, being led by a Princeton University research team. The data collected from this study will help draw a more accurate picture of the number of infectious cases, even among people showing no symptoms, and get a better sense of the antibody response at the individual and the community level. Participants do not need to have COVID-19 or to have recovered from COVID-19. All Princeton residents over the age of 2 are invited to participate. See princetoncovid19.com to enroll or get more information. Flu Season Grosser pointed out that

vodka. An 18-year-old male from Princeton gave a false name and then ran from police. He was arrested and charged with resisting arrest and underage possession of alcohol. On August 8, at 9:35 p.m., a 27-year-old male from Princeton was charged with DWI and possession of under 50 grams of marijuana, subsequent to a motor vehicle stop on Terhune Road for reckless driving. On August 8, at 9 :21 p.m., a person reported that an unknown male stopped his vehicle in the roadway on Palmer Square East and engaged in a lewd act in the presence of two female juveniles. On Aug ust 8, at 5 :14 p.m., a resident of Stockton Street reported that someone contacted him via email in an attempt to extort about $992.03 worth of crypto currency with a threat. The person did not respond and did not lose any money. On August 4, at 2:49 p.m. a woman reported that two of her bikes, valued at $800, were stolen from a bike rack on Paul Robeson Place. Unless otherwise noted, individuals arrested were later released.

flu season is approaching, and the Princeton Health Department has scheduled t heir reg u lar f lu clinics from the end of this month through November. Clinic information is available at princetonnj.gov. The Health Department has been tracking the ongoing Southern Hemisphere inf luen za season, which typically predicts what is to come in the Northern Hemisphere from November to February. “Currently it appears that their influenza season has been very mild compared to last year’s,” Grosser said. “Some public health professionals have attributed this to increased physical distancing policies and mask wearing. If this is the case, it bodes well for us, but we are still encouraging everyone to get their flu shot this fall.” —Donald Gilpin

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t a time when so much of life is “virtual” these days, young children are having an opportunity to play and learn together in person under the auspices of YWCA Princeton. When so many summer camps. schools, and other

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“There are never more than 10 kids in a room at a time, and our staff to student ratio is usually one to nine or less. We will follow these same protocols when we move to our new location at the YW in September. “We look forward to that move into our new renovated

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virus, she adds, “It is very important for the staff to be safe and to feel safe. We must be sure to have enough personal protective equipment, and it is important that our staff is emotionally supportive and confident.” As the time approaches for the move to the Burke Foundation Early Childhood Center at he YWCA Princeton, O’Shea looks forward to seeing even more children join the program. “The new building will have six large rooms, new state-of-the-art HVAC, and large new windows. “We will also have a special English and Spanish bilingual program for 3 and 4-year-olds. We are partnering closely with the Princeton Public Schools as they determine what reopening plan and hybrid schedule they will implement. For example, with the most recent version, which is pre-school being dismissed at 1:15 p.m., we would offer care in the three pre-school classrooms in our building, as well as full daycare on Wednesday.” Essential Service As she looks ahead, O’Shea is determined to have the childcare program and facility continue to be available and stay open even if the pandemic should become worse. “Our goal is to remain open even if there is a second wave of the virus. We are an essential service for the families and children we serve. During the pandemic our goal is to help and serve our families. We pick up the telephone and call someone to reassure them. We did this even when we were closed from March to July. We kept in touch with

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ourselves to addressing and fixing issues of injustice, and we must never be silent. Our mission is a cause and in this way, we will uplift our beloved community and contribute to the wellbeing of humankind. We know that our current landscape is changing every day and thus, Princeton Academy remains nimble and responsive. Decisions regarding the opening of school will always be based on smart public health practices, best available science, and an understanding of what is best for our community. This is our reality and we will make the most of every moment. We have a plan that prioritizes health and safety and seeks to mitigate risk, with an understanding that it is impossible to eliminate all risks. There is no doubt about it, this effort will take all of us to be all in and it will require immense trust. The physical and emotional health and well-being of our students, alumni, families, faculty, staff, and trustees will always be our top priority. I am confident that we will succeed, together.

all levels ages 3 through adult. The health and wellness of students, faculty, and staff remain the organization’s top priority. The School’s safety measures have been developed following all CDC, state, and local guidelines, and were reviewed by the Princeton health officer during a site visit in June 2020. The School will continue to communicate closely with health officials and adapt these measures as needed. Families may choose a hybrid schedule, where classes are grouped into two cohorts and alternate between weekly in-person and online instrucThe Pennington tion. Class sizes will be limStudio for Dance ited to accommodate social The Pennington Studio for Princeton Academy of distancing guidelines and proDance (TPS), nestled between the Sacred Heart vide an opportunity for even A Message from PrinceRoute 31 and Main Street at more individualized attention. the Straube Center in Pen- ton Academy of the Sacred Students may also take a nington, is flourishing in its Heart Headmaster Alfred “virtual only” path and parfifth year in their community. (Rik) F. Dugan III: ticipate in live-stream classes The Studio’s mission is to Today, we find ourselves from home. This option also provide the community with in the throes of two pandemallows for greater flexibility strong and inspiring dance ics — one a global health and students may switch to programs for all ages, while crisis and the other a social the hybrid option at any time emphasizing proper technique crisis fueled by racial inif space allows. and nurturing the artistic spir- justice. In this moment we it in each student. While American Repertory must pause, reflect on what Ballet’s traditional NutcrackTPS offers instruction in we have learned during this er will not be in theaters this ballet, jazz, tap, contempo- time, and move forward with holiday season, Princeton rary, hip-hop, acrobatics, care, purpose, and grace. Ballet School is committed to kinderdance, and pre-school Princeton Academy of the providing safe and enriching dance. There are classes for Sacred Heart is respond- Princeton performance opportunities for all levels and all ages. Their ing to both pandemics with Ballet School It’s Safety First at Prince- students. compassionate and qualified creativity, compassion, and faculty have extensive back- courage. Regarding public ton Ballet School, the official Princeton Ballet School will grounds in performing and health, the only way we will school of American Repertory be designing a new producPhototeachers by Rosaliefoster O’Connor by Justusscene Henry selecsucceed in this moment is Ballet. teaching. Their tion, Photo featuring positive and healthy relation- if we as individuals do our Following a successful five tions from American Reperships in the lives of their stu- part, trust each other, act weeks of in-person and virtual tory Ballet’s Nutcracker and dents, and strive to create last- in the best interest of one Summer Programs, aligned adapting choreography for ing partnerships with families. another, and join together with current CDC health and appropriate social distancing What sets TPS apart is the as one strong community. safety guidelines, Princeton guidelines. Professional artexposure the students have Regarding racial injustice, Ballet School is pleased to an- ists from American Repertory to classical and contempo- we must be radically anti- nounce that the Fall session Ballet will also participate. Early Bird pricing ends March 15th! rary techniques, while be- racist and educate our young will continue to be a mix of inThis production will also ing encouraged to find their men to act with intentional- person and online instruction. voice through art. Discipline, ity as such; we must devote Classes begin September 9 for Continued on Page 21 number one goal is to ensure the health and well-being of every member of the Notre Dame Family. Beyond the health and safety of our Notre Dame family, we will continue to nurture students who are confident, critical thinkers and college ready. Notre Dame will provide the high level of instruction our students have been accustomed to, both in-person and virtually. Very limited space is still available at all grade levels. To learn more, visit us at ndnj.org or call (609) 882-7901.

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Asking for Action After Destructive Traffic Events on Hamilton Avenue

To the Editor: Our neighbors at 200 Hamilton Avenue have recently experienced a frightening event that has occurred at that address no fewer than six times in my experience. I have lived here for 28 years. The front yard, fences, and shrubbery were recently destroyed by a fast moving vehicle that plowed into their property at great financial loss and, potentially, though thankfully not yet, human loss or injury. I have lived at 218 Hamilton Avenue and seen many traffic events that wrecked the yard and instilled fear in the families that have lived in that house. I walk to work every day and I am “super” vigilant when I cross the Hamilton/ North Harrison intersection. Speed is unmonitored and drivers run or jump the lights on a routine basis. They go too fast and can’t stop. My neighbor’s yard is where they finally hit the brakes. My husband was “clipped” by a driver when crossing the street. He reported it to the police but was told no action would be taken since he was not injured. I have offered my yard, three houses away, for my neighbor to bring his children to play. Is this why one moves to Princeton? The house at 200 Hamilton Avenue has experienced a turnover of residents for obvious reasons. We care about our neighbors and our neighborhood. I know that drivers will behave better when they are aware that monitoring is in place and I know that we all behave better when there are consequences for poor action and decisions. Also, it’s time to even up the traffic surveillance in town. Knowledge of the issues — I am sharing them now. Honor the mission of fairness regardless of the “address,” Integrity so that citizens and those charged with protecting react fairly to situations and Service. We citizens help you help us so that all families feel safe. I have sent this letter to the Princeton Engineering Department and I await their response. MARY DOLAN Hamilton Avenue

An Appeal to the Community to Match Paper Crane Project Demonstrates Challenge Grant to Help Small Businesses Support For Larger Princeton Community To the Editor: The dual health and economic crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic is challenging our local merchants in unprecedented ways. The Princeton Small Business Resiliency Fund was created to provide much needed relief to our community, with an eye toward rebuilding from the crisis in ways that will make our community healthier and stronger moving forward. As part of the initial round of funding, local businesses that met eligibility requirements were able to submit applications for up to $5,000 for COVID-related reopening expenses. Before distributing the first round of grants at the end of this month, the Fund is making an appeal to the community to match a “challenge” grant from Princeton University to enable fuller funding of those businesses that applied. Currently, there are more worthy requests than money in the fund. Princeton University, which generously contributed the initial $250,000 to create the Fund, has pledged an extra $100,000 in matching dollars to double the impact of additional donations. We have until Friday, August 21 to unlock this challenge funding before decisions are made about how much money can be distributed. To make a donation to the fund visit princetonresiliencyfund.org or mail a check to the Princeton Regional Chamber Foundation, 600 Alexander Road, Suite 3-2, Princeton NJ 08540. Checks should be made payable to the Princeton Regional Chamber Foundation; please note the Princeton Resiliency Fund on your check. Please consider giving — your donation will be matched dollar for dollar by Princeton University and will help our small local businesses at this critical time. LIZ LEMPERT Mayor MICHELLE PIRONE LAMBROS Councilwoman

To the Editor: The Princeton Paper Crane Project was the brainchild of Heidi Moon from Miya Table and Home. It is a community art project created at the community room at the Arts Council of Princeton. Its purpose is two-fold: to call attention to all those in New Jersey who have lost their lives due to the coronavirus, and to acknowledge Black Lives Matter in a very visual manner. Heidi and family have orchestrated a very moving multifaceted display of the paper cranes which were created by many in Princeton and elsewhere. There are quite a number of different installations of cranes hanging from the ceiling, laying on the floor, in plexiglass cases, placed on the steps of the stairs leading to the second floor. All are equally creative. All, nearly 20,000, are testimony to the caring people of Princeton demonstrating their support for the larger community we live in. Hopefully this Crane Project represents more than a moment in time, but represents the visible and ongoing

support of people and families and of the Black community that all deserve this recognition and obvious outpouring of compassion and caring found in our town. I am happy and proud to have played a part, albeit a small part, in helping to launch this effort. It is available to be seen at the Arts Council, respecting social distancing. I encourage all to visit. Experience a moment of solemnity in the quiet strength one feels in the solitude of this silent paper aviary. ROSS WISHNICK Edgerstoune Road

People Should Think About Replacing Invasive Plantings with Native Plants

To the Editor: I applaud Sustainable Princeton’s recent attention to the invasive plant species that abound in our wooded areas. I would also like to invite people to walk around their yards and think about replacing the so commonly used landscaping plantings that are both highly invasive and that give no sustenance or shelter to our native pollinators. These include boxwood, English ivy, barberry, burning bush, butterfly bush, autumn olive, Callery pear, pachysandra (there is a native pachysandra!), and many others. These all are devoid of pollinator support. And for each of these there is an equally attractive native plant species that could be used that would help stem the disastrous worldwide decline of our native pollinators. This decline is due to the lack of food and shelter for them and the pervasive use of pesticides and herbicides that tear apart the necessary eco-community that is entirely interdependent for their continued existence. Native plant gardens are designed to look beautiful — with a seasonal arc of blooming of choices from a full palette of colors, textures, and heights. Plant those trees, bushes, grasses, and flowers and they will come! JUDITH K. ROBINSON East Broad Street, Hopewell

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young people in the Princeton Community. For more than a decade, Jean has been a mainstay of youth baseball in Princeton, working largely under the radar, organizing activities, coordinating volunteers, raising funds, and generally helping do what has to be done. The Little League has flourished over these years, and with broad community support and organization, every child has had a chance to participate and feel welcomed. Over these same years Jean quietly served our schools as well. For two years she was a member of the board of the Princeton Education Foundation; and after stepping down from the board, twice went back to co-chair PEF’s annual fundraising gala. For many years she was instrumental in supporting and growing the Chess Club at Littlebrook School. She was a prime mover and fundraiser for the Club’s activities, including the introduction of privately-funded chess instruction at the school. She also served a term as co-president of the Littlebrook PTO. I have known Jean personally over these years and have been privileged to practice law with her. She is a talented lawyer and problem solver with sound judgment and a rich legal background. She also brings to her work an MSW and the skills and insights of a social worker. Her analytical tools and sensibilities make her eminently qualified to serve on the Board of Education. As a member of the Board, Jean will work with her colleagues to husband scarce resources at a time when, for many of us, affording to live in Princeton is ever more challenging. She knows well that in order to maintain the economic diversity of our schools and our community, taxes must be affordable. Jean will work to help find savings and new sources of revenue and get ahead of problems through long-term planning. As a former member of the Board myself, I appreciate especially that Jean understands another aspect of Board service, equally important and challenging: to create a school environment in which all students feel welcome and respected and have the support they need to succeed. Jean Durbin has worked on the ground with our young people and the wondrously diverse families and individuals that make up our town. As demonstrated by her record of service to our children and our schools, she will strive to bring people together to ensure that all children are fairly treated and no child is left out. WALTER BLISS Moore Street

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The Poetry of Paranoia — Playing Post Office with Thomas Pynchon

abokov must be writing this script. Who else but the creator of Humbert Humbert, Dolores Haze, and Jonathan Shade could conceive of a president named Trump appointing a postmaster general named DeJoy to sabotage the U.S. postal system ahead of the 2020 election? The USPS subplot of my homemade conspiracy theory can be traced to Thomas Pynchon’s short novel, The Crying of Lot 49 (CL49). The Cornell connection, formed when Pynchon was a student taking one of Vladimir Nabokov’s courses (presumably “Masters of European Fiction”), is signaled in the opening paragraph’s reference to “a sunrise over the library slope of Cornell University.” A Postmarked Bookmark When I’m in need of something to mark my place in a book, I usually choose from a stash of photos, actual bookmarks, and old postcards like the one of Grand Central Terminal I’ve been using for CL49. Addressed to a Mrs. N. Adams in Franklin, Indiana, the card is postmarked 1 a.m. Nov. 22, 1922, and bears a canceled dollar-green U.S. Postage 1¢ stamp of George Washington (profile facing left). According to the Mystic Stamp Company, the earliest known use for this series was December 17, 1922. Readers familiar with Pynchon’s work will recognize one of his signature tropes in the note stating that due to “poor centering and other minor defects, a number of coil stamp sheets had been set aside as ‘waste’ to be destroyed.” In CL49, the acronym WASTE (We Await Silent Tristero’s Empire) refers to an underground postal service created by fusing the poetry of paranoia with the thermodynamics of entropy; the system’s emblem, a muted post horn, can be seen on the cover of the first edition of The Crying of Lot 49 (shown here). Published in 1966, the novel presages not only the hauling away of post office drop boxes and sorting machines in August 2020, but the president’s obsession with voters in a specific constituency, namely the “suburban housewives” who are the subjects of an experiment on the effects of LSD-25 being conducted by psychotherapist Dr. Hilarius. Refusing to take part in the experiment after being told “We want you,” CL49’s fantasy-prone protagonist Oedipa Maas hallucinates “the well-known portrait of Uncle that appears in all our post offices, his eyes gleaming unhealthily, his sunken yellow cheeks most violently rouged, his finger pointing between her eyes. I want you.” The Power of the Vote The passage from CL49 wherein Pynchon actually seems to be picking up errant signals from the future, as if intercepting scrambled partisan feedback generated by the voting-by-mail debate of 2020, begins with “intrusions into this world from another, a kiss of cosmic pool balls .... For here were God knew how

many citizens, deliberately choosing not to communicate by U.S. Mail. It was not an act of treason, nor possibly even of defiance. But it was a calculated withdrawal, from the life of the Republic, from its machinery. Whatever else was being denied them out of hate, indifference to the power of their vote, loopholes, simple ignorance, this withdrawal was their own, unpublicized, private. Since they could not have withdrawn into a vacuum (could they?), there had to exist the separate, silent, unsuspected world.” In the spring of 1969, when I read that paragraph in my marked-up copy of the Bantam paperback of CL49, with its generic psychedelic cover art (dancing woman clad in paisley, drummer with Beatle haircut), I understood “the power of the vote” in the context of the 1968 debacle that put Nixon in the White House. Reading the same passage now, after t he v ir t ual opening night of the Democratic convention (a bizarre contrast to the Chicago free-for-all), what stands out along w ith P ynchon’s prescience is his prose. In the last sentence, you can feel him gear ing up for the rhapsodical pyrotechnics of Gravity’s Rainbow. Eyeballing the Capitol Dome T h e Nab oko v ian absurd of Humber t world in CL49 makes way at one point for a passing intimation of Terry Southern’s The Magic Christian (1959) and the grandiosely perverse practical jokes of the billionaire trickster Guy Grand. I’m thinking of the sequence when Oedipa studies the familiar carmine 8¢ airmail stamp “with a jet flying by the Capitol dome,” where “at the top of the dome stood a tiny figure in deep black with its arms outstretched.” Oedipa isn’t sure “what exactly was supposed to be on top of the Capitol,” but she knows “it wasn’t anything like that.” In the deep violet 3¢ regular issue of 1954 there’s “a faint menacing smile on the face of the Statue of Liberty” while in the 15¢ dark green from the 1893 Columbia Exposition Issue (“Columbus Announcing His Discovery”) “the faces of three

courtiers, receiving the news at the right-hand side of the stamp, had been subtly altered to express uncontrollable fright.” The postal ser vice underground WASTE’s sinister defacing of U.S. postage stamp representations of American icons resonates loud and clear in 2020’s cancel culture. The virus of paranoia infecting the straight status quo reflects the “intrusions into this world from another,” when Oedipa verifies “with her own eyes,” evidence of the WASTE system, in the form of two WASTE postmen, a WASTE mailbox, WASTE stamps, WASTE cancellations, and “the image of the muted post horn all but saturating the BayArea.” The Beatles Connection P y nchon was writing The Crying of Lot 49 in 1964-65, a turning point in the history of American culture. On Friday, February 7, 1964, some two months and two weeks after Friday, November 22, 1963, a jetliner from the United Kingdom delivered a phenomenon called The Beatles and a state of mind the British press called Beatlemania. In Volume Two of the DVD version of The Beatles Anthology, shortly after you hear the voice of manager Brian Epstein explaining the longterm significance of the moment, a young fair-haired girl heaves into view, almost as if she’d flung herself through the air into the rapture of that arrival, eyes closed in a transport of infatuation as she’s caught and held back, like the others you later see rushing the limousine carrying the Beatles to the Plaza Hotel. Cut to the moment when Oedipa’s DJ husband Mucho Maas tells her, “Whenever I put the headset on now... I really do understand what I find there. When those kids sing about ‘She loves you,’ yeah well, you know, she does, she’s any number of people, all over the world, back through time, different colors, sizes, ages, shapes, distances from death, but she loves. And the ‘you’ is everybody. And herself. Oedipa, the human voice, you know, it’s a

flipping miracle.” Later, after rhapsodizing on LSD (“You’re an antenna sending your pattern out across a million lives a night, and they’re your lives too”), Mucho enthuses: “The songs, it’s not just that they say something, they are something, in the pure sound. Something new.” The next chapter has Oedipa hanging out with the Paranoids, a Beatlesque foursome whose leader has written a song that brings the Nabokovian conspiracy connection back into play, the lyric bemoaning “all these Humbert Humbert cats coming on so big and sick. / For me, my baby was a woman, / For him she’s just another nymphet.” Los Paranoias I have no idea whether any of the Beatles read or even heard about the appearance of “She Loves You” in CL49, or if they knew of the recording of “I Want to Kiss Your Feet” by another Pynchon creation, Sick Dick and the Volkswagens. If you believe or want to believe in a Pynchonesque alternate reality, then you should enjoy an outtake from the Beatles recording session of September 16, 1968 (it’s on the CD version of The Beatles Anthology 3). Paul McCartney is playing tunefully around with “Step Inside Love,” a song he wrote for Cilla Black. After putting a Bossa Nova spin on the melody, hamming it up in slick-suave pop star style, he assumes the voice of a smooth emcee, giving the performer a name made up in the spot (“Joe Pararey and the Pararey Wallflowers”), which prompts John Lennon to shout “Los Paranoias!” Paul laughs, instantly taking the cue (Lennon-McCarrney teamwork in action) and begins improvising a theme song to the beat he’s strumming, “Los Para-noias in-vite you to come and en-joy us.” The spontaneous shout-out nature of the moment makes it seem unlikely that John could be consciously alluding to Thomas Pynchon’s Beatles spin-off the Paranoids, even in a conspiracy-theory-driven universe. But why not be a believer? Why not assume that the music of coincidence is the air you breathe and the beat of creation never stops? hen I saw the cable news clips of uprooted mail boxes being trucked off to parts unknown, my first thought was of the drop box that served as home base for a faraway and long-ago neighborhood version of hide and seek we called Taffy on the Ice Box. I don’t know the origins of the name; it was just there, in the air, it came with the game. Whoever was “it” would lean on the big mail box, hands over eyes, count to ten and then yell “Here I come, ready or not,” and if you made it home, you yelled “Olly Olly Oxen in free.” You won, you survived, you were no longer “it,” you were home. —Stuart Mitchner

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of COV ID -19, the threecity, three-day event was trimmed to a one-day online production. “Team work and improvisation, cornerstones in jazz, are essential in any partnership. The CJJF team is committed to presenting great artists,” said Sheila Anderson, who has curated and emceed the Somerville portion of the festival for 11 years. The concert opens with vocalist A lex is Mor rast, followed by pianist/organist Matthew Whitaker. Alto saxophonist Mark Gross will close the show.

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NO BOUNCING BALL NEEDED: Sing along with Music Mountain Theatre of Lambertville on Saturday, August 22 at 3 p.m. According to Music Mountain, you’ll know the words to the songs at this virtual family sing-along, which promises popular family favorites for audiences of all ages. Tickets are $25 per household. Visit www.musicmountaintheatre.org or call (609) 3973337 for ticket information and instructions on viewing.

“Nutcracker” is Canceled, door community presence, tual material through McBut Excerpts Will be Online bringing elements of Nut- Carter@HOME. The digital

Due to many unknowns about the global pandemic, American Repertory Ballet’s Nutcracker has been canceled for the holiday season. But a virtual series of excerpts will be available for online viewing. “It was a difficult decision, but our top priority remains the health and safety of our staff, artists, and audiences,” said Executive Director Julie Diana Hench. “Since 1964, American Repertory Ballet’s Nutcracker has been a celebration of community and youthful imagination. We look forward to the day when we can all be together again in-person to celebrate the magic of this professional and joyous holiday tradition.” While the traditional stage production cannot be performed this year, American Repertory Ballet and Princeton Ballet School will still create a way for students and families to experience the ballet. Featuring professional dancers from American Repertory Ballet, the School’s new Nutcracker Suite will be a virtual series of scene selections and socially distanced choreography performed and recorded in the studio, complete with sets and costumes. American Repertory Ballet also plans to increase its out-

cracker directly to sidewalks and town squares this holiday season. Registration is now open for the fall season at Princeton Ballet School, the official school of American Repertory Ballet. Classes begin September 9, offering in-person and online instruction for all levels ages 3 through adult. To learn about fall classes, please visit arballet.org.

McCarter Cancels Performances Through the End of January

McCarter Theatre Center’s administration has made the decision to cancel performances through January 31, 2021 due to the global pandemic. “It’s difficult to imagine so much time without artists, staff, and patrons in our building, but we believe that this is the best choice for the health and safety of our community,” reads a press release issued last week. “We continue to evaluate plans and opportunities for February onward and what might be possible for programming. As government orders continue to evolve and artist schedules change, we will keep you posted as we have information and news.” McCarter is offering vir-

platform hosts a weekly series of educational activities and creative content including interviews, timely conversations, playlists, behind-the-scenes clips, community play readings, and virtual classes.

“Pine Mud” To Premiere At Outdoor Screening

Filmmaker Jared Flesher’s new documentary, Pine Mud, is the story of the degradation of the New Jersey Pine Barrens by illegal offroad vehicles. After four years in production and two canceled world premieres due to the coronavirus, the film will be screened under the stars, on the green of Princeton Shopping Center on Thursday, August 20 from 7-9 p.m. “It’s kind of a rough time to be a documentary filmmaker, or any type of creator who makes work for public consumption,” said Flesher. “I’m grateful for the opportunity to premiere this film in real life, rather than virtually, which is less fun.” The screening is spons or e d b y t h e s h op p i n g center, the Princeton Environmental Film Festival, and Sustainable Princeton. Tickets are free but limited, social distancing guidelines

The Central Jersey Jazz Festival (CJJF) will be presented virtually on Sunday, September 13 from 1-5 p.m. The free event is a collaboration of the Flemington Communit y Par tnership, New Brunswick Jazz Project, and Downtown Somerville Association & Arts on Division.

Matthew Whitaker

“This year’s CJJF featured Jazz Legend, honored on festival collateral, is the late saxophonist Jimmy Heath, with whom Mark worked for many years. Jimmy Heath was the headliner at the very first festival in 2009 and this is a great way to celebrate his legacy,” Anderson said. Morrast, who is 19, was the 2017 recipient of Hot House Jazz Guide‘s Best Up and Coming Young Artist award, and winner of Showtime at the Apollo. She now attends Berklee College of Music and has just returned Alexis Morrast from touring with Wynton I n s t e a d o f c a n c e l i n g Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln the annual event because Center Orchestra.

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Whitaker mixes old-school jazz with new school sounds. At 15, he became a Yamaha Artist, becoming the youngest musician to join this group of jazz pianists. He has performed at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, The Apollo Theater, and The Kennedy Center, as well as international venues in Europe, Asia, and Africa. He has been awarded the ASCAP Foundation’s Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers Award. Gross studied classical music at the Baltimore School for the Arts, followed by four years at Berklee College of Music. He has toured with the Mark Gross Quartet, Buster Williams, Delfeayo Marsalis, Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, Philip Harper, Nat Adderley, Dave Holland, Mulgrew Miller, Nicholas Payton, Dizzy Gillespie, Nancy Wilson, James M o o d y, J i m m y H e a t h , Duke Ellington Orchestra, Charles Mingus Big Band, Freddie Hubbard, Captain Jack McDuff, Cyrus Chestnut, Regina Carter, Lionel Hampton, Stephon Harris, and many others. Performances will stream on CentralJerseyJazzFestival.com. Visit the site for more information.

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will be in effect, and preregistration is required at https://bit.ly/PineMudPton. “Should the New Jersey Pine Barrens be protected as a nature preser ve, or used and abused as a giant off-road vehicle park? That’s the central question of my film,” Flesher said. “It’s our public land, so I hope the film teaches New Jerseyans a little more about it.” Pine Mud was originally scheduled to premiere at the Environmental Film Festival in Washington, D.C. in March, but the festival was canceled at the last minute due to the emerging pandemic. The documentary’s trailer can be viewed on YouTube at https://youtu.be/pw_QBkq9WgU.

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“EAGLETS”: Artist Doris Ettlinger, who created this painting, will be one of the participants as the Garden State Watercolor Society (GSWS) and D&R Greenway Land Trust celebrate GSWS’ juror and top award winners from “Out of the Wild,” their 50th Anniversary Juried Exhibition. The virtual happy hour is Wednesday, August 26 from 5 to 6 p.m.

Virtual Happy Hour For “Out of the Wild”

On Wednesday, August 26 from 5 to 6 p.m., the public is invited to pour their favorite beverage and join others who appreciate the varied and vital connections between nature and art as the Garden State Watercolor Society (GSWS) and D&R Greenway Land Trust celebrate GSWS’ juror and top award winners from “Out of the Wild,” their 50th Anniversary virtual juried exhibition. Via Zoom, viewers will discover which wild settings and what interactions with wild creatures inspired the chosen winners of the exhibit’s top prizes. The first presentation of the land trust’s

new D&R Greenway James Fiorentino Nature Award will also take place that evening. Register for this free Zoom event at rsvp@drgreenway.org. GSWS President Tess Fields will discuss the role of art in 21st-century conservation, and address art in the time of COVID. D&R Greenway CEO and President Linda Mead will moderate the nature-focused discussions. She will speak about how the land trust’s management of their preserves uses conservation data to ensure protection of wild creatures. Internationally renowned artist and D&R Greenway Trustee James Fiorentino will

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the Wild,” through September 30 and the ongoing virtual galleries “Trail of Breadcrumbs: Nature in Fairytales” and “Portraits of Preservation: James Fiorentino Art.” The center is currently closed to the public. drgreenway.org. Ellarslie, Trenton’s City Museum in Cadwalader Park, Parkside Avenue, Trenton, has the ongoing virtual exhibit “Not Quite Open: The Art of Sheltering in Place.” The museum is currently closed to the public. ellarslie.org. Grounds For Sculpture, 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, has “Bruce Beasley: Sixty Year Retrospective, 1960-2020,” and other exhibits. Hours are Thursday through Monday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Timed tickets required. Indoor buildings are closed to the public. groundsforsculpture.org. Historical Society of Princeton, Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road, has “A Virtual Tour of Hamilton’s Princeton” and the “History@Home” series. princetonhistory.org. James A. Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine Street, Doylestown, Pa., has “Selma Bortner — The

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celebrate the juror and top award winners from GSWS’ 50th Anniversary Juried Virtual Exhibition. Free. To register, email rsvp@drgreenway. org. 6-7 p.m.: Princeton Family YMCA presents Marlise Correa, Rutgers University police officer, as part of its virtual “Paths to Success” interview series for students sixth grade and up. Register at surveymonkey.com/r/B77YKFF. Friday, August 28 5-8 p.m.: Sunset Sips and Sounds series at Terhune Orchards, Cold Soil Road. With Bill O’Neal & Andy Koontz. terhuneorchards.com. Saturday, August 29 1-4 p.m.: Weekend Music series at Terhune Orchards, Cold Soil Road. With Roundabout. terhuneorchards. com. Sunday, August 30 1:30 p.m.: “Electronic Environmental Detectives,” via Zoom, is the Sunday at the Sarnoff talk by physicist Jonathan Allen, who will discuss the evolution and current state of electronic instruments for atmospheric measurements, and analysis including both gaseous and particulate pollutants, as well as instruments developed by the author. For registration information visit davidsarnoff.tcnj.edu. 1-4 p.m.: Weekend Music series at Terhune Orchards, Cold Soil Road. With Jerry Steele. terhuneorchards. com. Monday, August 31 Recycling 7:30 p.m.: Author and Saturday Night Live writer Alan Zweibel discusses his new book Laugh Lines in an

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Boasting Vast Experience at All Levels of Basketball, PU Alum Robinson Taking Helm of Coaches Group

aving seen many sides of basketball over the last 40 years, Craig Robinson is getting a new view of the game as he was named the executive director of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) last month. Robinson was a two-time Ivy League Player of the Year for the Princeton University men’s hoops program in the early ’80s, an assistant college hoops coach at Northwestern from 2000-2006, and a head coach at Brown and Oregon State from 2006-14. Since leaving coaching, he has been a college basketball analyst for ESPN, a front office executive with the Milwaukee Bucks and then the New York Knicks, as well as general manager of the Knick’s G League Westchester Knicks. “It’s really the first time I’ve been able to bring all of my experiences to bear on one particular job,” said Robinson, 58, who worked as a bond trader, investment banker, and executive in the corporate world after graduating from Princeton before making the move into college coaching. “I think the NABC is guided by the core values of leadership, advocacy, education, and service, all of which have been pillars in my family.” Robinson is also the father of a college player, Leslie Robinson, who followed in his footsteps to Princeton, where she starred for the women’s basketball team, graduating in 2018 and getting selected in the WNBA draft. “It was tremendously uplifting for me and our family for Leslie to play at Princeton,” said Robinson, whose younger sister is Michelle Obama, a fellow Princeton alum. “It made us, and made me particularly, proud because I tell people all the time I’m from the south side of Chicago, neither one of my parents went to college, and I had no idea what legacy meant when I was a student at Princeton. I would hear that term and I didn’t really understand what it meant. And lo and behold, my daughter ends up having a legacy of her own. As a parent of a Princeton athlete, you’d be really proud, but a parent of a child who ends up taking almost your exact same path, it’s really humbling. It’s much harder being a parent of a Princeton basketball player than it is being a Princeton basketball player.” The NABC represents more than 5,000 basketball coaches, mostly from college and ranging down to high school. Founded in 1927, the NABC seeks to support and develop coaches and promote their importance as well as improve the game of basketball for student-athletes. “We’re trying to help coaches develop on and off the court,” said Robinson. “We’re trying to help them have a voice on issues that impact the profession. I think my experiences in corporate America and as a coach, as a professional front office person in the NBA and G League, all of that is going to be important in this role, especially the NBA relationship. Many of the issues that impact

college basketball and the NBA are the same. There are going to be some things we need to cooperate on. Hopefully my relationships with folks in the NBA and G League will help that.” Several NABC members are also former Princeton players like Robinson and they have been quick to offer their support for him in his new post. “My relationship with the Princeton family, the guys out there coaching, I’ve heard from just about every single one of them and it’s all been positive,” said Robinson, a 1983 Princeton alum, who scored 1,441 points in his college career, the seventh-most in program history. “It’s good to know there’s a group of folks who will be supportive in the beginning as I get to know the coaches that I don’t have relationships with. The one thing about being in the fraternity of Princeton and Princeton coaches and players is that it’s one of the few organizations where we all know each other or know of each other and we wouldn’t have played together. It’s a fun brotherhood to be a part of.” In his newest role, Robinson will be leaning on every aspect of his personal and professional experience and seeing basketball from every vantage point is a huge plus for him. “Being a parent is another tool to add to my tool kit,” said Robinson. “A lot of my experiences fortunately have made me uniquely qualified for a position like this. Parenting is just one of them. Coaching is another. Having been an executive in the front office of an NBA team is one. Having had some experience in corporate America is another. All of

those I hope to bring to bear on representing our membership the way they would like to be represented and taking advantage of this unique time for basketball.” With college basketball facing an uncertain future in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, and already at the heart of addressing hot topics of transfer eligibility and name, image and likeness legislation, Robinson is taking over the NABC at a critical time. “This is a time for me to come in and take a look at what has taken place in the industry and to really do some listening to our coaches, our membership, listening to our stakeholders,” said Robinson. “There are a couple things that are easy to point out – it’s critically important that we have a good working relationship with the folks at the NCAA. That’ll be at the top of the list. We want to make sure one of the big benefits of being a part of our organization is coaching development, and we’re committed to pushing for more developmental opportunities for the next generation of coaches. There is a lot of work to be done, but I want to do a lot of listening to our membership to get a feel for them where they want this organization to go because ultimately they’re the ones that this organization is made for.” In addition to those issues, there is a new focus nationwide on social justice that impacts every sport. The NABC’s naming of Robinson puts an African American in an important role for men’s college basketball. “I think it’s important, but it’s a time where just about everybody is focused on societal issues, so anyone who

EXECUTIVE DECISION: Craig Robinson speaking at the “Thrive: Empowering and Celebrating Princeton’s Black Alumni” conference last fall on campus. Robinson, a former Princeton men’s hoops standout, college coach, and NBA executive, was recently named as the executive director of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC). (Photo by Denise J. Applewhite, provided courtesy of Princeton’s Office of Athletic Communications)

would have taken this position would be someone who would be sympathetic to what’s going on out there,” said Robinson. “Being an African American in a leadership position like this is an important statement for the NABC, it’s an important statement for the coaches, especially when we’re trying to help more coaches of color get positions. I can be a spokesperson for them, but I can also be a spokesperson for any young coach trying to get to move up in the profession. I feel really honored to have been selected and I’m excited to get started.” Robinson wasted no time in getting to work. In the first week after he was named to the position, the NABC made two major announcements. The NABC proposed that the NCAA no longer require SAT and ACT requirements in its initial-eligibility standards. A week later, they announced their support for college men’s

basketball coaches’ partnership with the McLendon Foundation’s John McLendon Minority Leadership Initiative. “It’s a whirlwind; I can’t take any credit, those were initiatives that were in place as I was coming aboard. I think the NABC has done a great job with them, especially with the McLendon Minority Leadership Initiative,” said Robinson. “I think John Calipari and Tommy Amaker have done a wonderful job in trying to put in place an apparatus for more people of color to have jobs in the sports administration side of our business, irrespective of any kind of playing career. That’s been terrific. That was easy to get behind. The elimination of standardized tests has been in my wheelhouse for as long as I can remember. There have been plenty of studies done on how biased those are. Those are two initiatives that were easy to get behind. They didn’t wait to

throw me into the fire.” Taking over for Jim Haney, who served as Executive Director of the NABC for the last 29 years, Robinson isn’t being asked to head an unfamiliar program like he did at Brown in his first head coaching job, or to rebuild a struggling basketball program as he did at Oregon State. “Unlike those coaching positions, this is one where Jim and I knew each other beforehand,” said Robinson. “And he’s still around sort of helping, which you don’t see when you take over as a new coach. You don’t have the former coach help the new coach. He’s been really gracious with his time and support and there are some big shoes to fill. But these are some really interesting times for basketball, college basketball in particular, and I look forward to accepting those challenges.” —Justin Feil

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e ar n e d a cha mpion s h ip in Major League Lacrosse (MLL) with the Ohio Machine in 2017 before joining the PLL. He has been the MLL Most Valuable Player and the National Lacrosse PU Lax Alum Schreiber League (NLL) Rookie of the Named PLL’s Top Midfielder Year with the Toronto Rock For the second time in the despite having very limited Premier Lacrosse League’s box lacrosse experience. ( PL L ) t wo - ye ar h is tor y, former Princeton Univer- Princeton Baseball Star Boone sit y men’s la x s tandout Signs with Wash. Nationals Princeton University rising Tom Schreiber has won the Gait Brothers Award as the senior Jake Boone became the second Tiger baseball league’s top midfielder. Playing for the Archers, player to ink a professionSchreiber led all PLL mid- al contract this year as he fielders during the two-week signed a deal with the Washabbreviated championship ington Nationals. Boone adds to the list of series this summer with 16 points on 12 goals and four Princeton Tigers who have assists. His 12 goals were either been drafted or signed four better than any other by a Major League team over middie. He also led all PLL the past several years. Last midfielders with a 41 per- month, James Proctor was picked up by the Cincinnati cent shooting percentage. Schreiber was the league’s Reds. Ryan Smith was setop middie last year as well, lected by the Los Angeles tallying 37 points to lead Angels of Anaheim last year all midfielders and leading while Ben Gross was picked the league overall with 20 by the Houston Astros the year prior. assists. Boone appeared in 72 A 2014 Princeton gradugames with Princeton, reate, Schreiber was a threetime first-team All-Ameri- cording a .250 batting avcan, a three-time national erage. He finished two seamidfielder of the year, and sons and seven contests in a four-time first-team All- 2020 with 71 hits, 31 runs Ivy League during his col- and 24 RBI. Infielder Boone lege career. He also won the also posted a .927 fielding Lowe’s Senior Class Award percentage. The 6’0, 185-pound nafor his work in the classroom and the community, in addi- tive of San Diego, Calif., was selected in the 38th tion to on the field. S c h r e i b e r , a 6 ’ 0 , round of the 2017 Major 190-pound native of East League Baseball Draft by Meadow, N.Y., has enjoyed the Washington Nationals, a superb professional and but opted to come to Princinternational career since eton instead. Boone is a fourth-genergraduation. In 2018 World L acrosse Championship, ation professional player as he scored the game-win- his father, Brett (1992-05), ning goal with one second grandfather, Bob (1972-90), left in the final to help the and great grandfather, Ray U.S. edge Canada 9-8 and (1948-60), all played prowin the title. Schreiber also fessional baseball as did his

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uncles Aaron (1997-09) and Matt (1997-03). His family has combined for two World Series titles, 11 Gold Glove awards, and 10 All-Star appearances. His uncle, Aaron, is also the manager of the New York Yankees. Princeton has two players in MLB currently in Mike Ford and David Hale, both with the New York Yankees. Matt Bowman is on the taxi roster for the Cincinnati Reds. So far in 2020, first baseman/designated hitter Ford is batting .194 with two homers and 10 RBIs in 11 games, while relief pitcher Hale is 0-0 and has one save in five games with seven strikeouts in six innings and a 3.00 ERA.

Princeton Student-Athletes Help Start Polling Place Project

A group of Princeton student-athletes, led by men’s basketball rising senior Ryan Schwieger and women’s soccer rising sophomore Ella Gantman, will be working to help keep polling places staffed in the 2020 election this November through their involvement with the Poll Hero Project. “The Poll Hero Project is an all-volunteer organization with the sole purpose of recruiting more young people to work the polls on election day,” said Schwieger, a cofounder of the organization, in a release on the Princeton sports website. “The majority of poll workers are older Americans, who are at a greater risk of COVID-19 complications. We are solving this problem by recruiting young people to become poll workers, ensuring polling stations are open and ever ybody can exercise their right to vote.” Schwieger and those

involved were inspired by P r inceton s taf f member Laura Wooten, a Wu dining hall employee who passed away this past year. Wooten was the longest working poll worker in American history. The Princeton student-athletes have joined with fellow Princeton students Kennedy Mattes ‘23, Eric Periman ‘22, James Lee ‘23, and Kai Tsurumaki ‘23 to help honor Wooten’s legacy. “The Poll Hero Project was founded by a group of students from Princeton, Denver East High School, and one University of Chicago Business School grad,” said Schwieger. “Ironically, we started our work earlier this summer by promoting federal funding for Vote-By-Mail. As the window for that ran out, we

pivoted to making voting in person more accessible by recruiting poll workers.” Soccer goalie Gantman stressed the importance of this initiative. “I think the Poll Hero Project is critically important because it provides young people with a tangible way to protect and serve our democracy,” said Gantman. “Polling stations around t he nat ion are shut t ing down due to a deficit of poll workers which can lead to voter suppression. As a young person, this project is offering a sense of owner-

ship and accountability in our democracy. It is time for young people to step up and I urge all to do so. Poll heroes make elections possible.” Those interested in getting involved with the Poll Hero Project can do so by logging onto www.pollhero. org. “Even if you are unsure whether you can actually work the polls on November 3, you could still help out by spreading the word and sharing this opportunity with your friends,” noted Schwieger.

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It has become a summer tradition for Princeton High boys’ soccer alums to meet up when they are back in town for some spirited pickup games and camaraderie. “Over the summer whenever we are home, we will always get together and have a couple of beers and kick around,” said former PHS soccer standout Chase Ealy ’15. “We hang out and get to see each other again.” But with the COVID-19 limiting field availability, Ealy and his buddies decided to enter a team in the Mercer County Amateur Master Soccer League (MCAMSL). “We were having a really hard time finding somewhere to play casually so we said ‘you know what, this league already exists, why don’t we see if we can play in the league,’” said Ealy of the league which plays at Mercer County Park. “A bunch of Princeton boys have always played in the league on other teams but this year I said we have enough guys that we could have a Princeton team. As we reached out to people, they were saying yes.” For ming a squad, t he Princeton Wanderers, the PHS alums got a spot in the MCAMSL men’s Open Division which featured teams from West Windsor-Plainsboro, Lawrence, Bordentown, and Florence as well as sides called Barcelona FC and the Young Guns including players from a mix of schools.

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“We know these guys from falling 2-0 to Bordentown our high school days and our in the quarterfinals in their college days,” said Ealy, the debut campaign, Ealy is manager of the Wanderers. hoping that the squad will “It is always fun, the mental- be an annual fixture in the ity is right.” MCAMSL. After playing against the “We would love to keep Young Guns on August 3, playing on the league,” said Ealy was all smiles even Ealy, who played college t h o u g h t h e Wa n d e r e r s soccer at Rider and Monttrailed 2-0 before the game clair State. was postponed at halftime “One of the things that due to thunderstorms. made me really happy about “It is great to be out here, this team is the young guys it is competitive,” said Ealy, who are getting out here this a defender/midfielder. “We year like Seb Ratzan and want to compete out here Atticus Lynch. As guys get and we want to win games older and we can’t make it but ultimately we are out one year, we can tell Seb, here to enjoy each other’s you are in charge of the company again and play Wanderers this year. It is a ball. Even when it is com- nice thing we can pass on.” petitive in there, we are still In Ealy’s view, though, the having a couple of laughs.” nicest thing about joining With a roster including the league was the chance to such former PHS standouts reconnect with former PHS as Gustavo Vega, Lido Guz- teammates. man, A xel Galeano, Seb “After this we will get toRatzan, Alex Ratzan, Alec gether and we will have some Korsah, Atticus Lynch, Rue- food; it is that really great ben Morales, Nick Kapp, atmosphere again that a lot Kyle Brady, Henry Dobbs- of the guys miss,” said Ealy. Allsopp, and current Tiger “You have that bond at star Nick Petruso, the squad PHS. All of us are good has a comfort level on the soccer players. We have pitch. Qualified Retirement Plans and Accounts played everywhere in many “We know what to expect different places all over the Qualified retirement accounts include 401(k) and other employer spons of each other because we world but I have never had plans and Individual Retirement Accounts (IRA’s). Typically, contribution all played together,” said as much fun playing soccer to income tax when made, the account grows tax deferred (without tax) Ealy. as I did at PHS. I think a lot “But I know if I get tired of these guys would agree. in retirement (after age 59.5) are subject to ordinary income tax. Other q I can tell whoever to come That bond and that culture accounts include Simplified Employee Pension Plans (SEP); Savings Inc on the field for me. That is is something you want back. Plans (SIMPLE); and Defined Benefit Pension plans. the real nature of this league You want to play with these and we are all enjoying it.” guys again. That is what makes this special.” With the Wanderers end- Retirement Qualified Plans and Accounts Plan HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE: Chase SEP Ealy, left, battles a foeSIMPLE during recent action in401(k) the Mercer ing up going 2-3-1 in regu—Billinclude Alden 401(k) Qualified retirement accounts and other employer sponsored retirement May Master Be Best Soccer for: Businesses Businesses seeking Self-employed and at Mercer County Amateur League (MCAMSL) County Park. Former Princetonseeking lar season action and then plans and Individual Retirement Accounts (IRA’s). Typically, contributions are anot subject High boys’ soccer star Ealy helped organize team of PHS Princeton Wanderers, to salar plan flexibility, analums, easy tothe administer small, closely held play in the summer. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski) to income tax when made, the account grows tax MCAMSL deferredthis (without tax), and looking distributions deferrals and match plan that permits businesses for

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WW-P Babe Ruth 13s All-Star Team Fights Hard As it Falls in Southern New Jersey State Tourney When the West WindsorPlainsboro all-star squad fell behind 5-0 to Nottingham in the second inning of the opener at the Southern New Jersey Babe Ruth 13-yearold state tournament last Friday evening, it could have thrown in the towel. Instead, W W-P bat tled back, scoring three runs in the top of the fifth to

narrow the gap to 5-3 in the game played at Bacon Field in Hopewell. A f te r N o t t i n g h a m r e sponded with two runs in the bottom of the sixth, WW-P got runners on first and third in the top of the seventh but the rally fizzled as it ended up falling 7-3. “It was nice that the kids hung in there,” said WW-P

manager Jason Petrone, whose roster included Princeton residents Eddie Kuczysnski, Michael Prete, Ben Walden, Alex Winters, and Travis Petrone. “We haven’t had a lot of time to practice here but some of the kids play a lot of baseball with some travel teams.” Petrone’s son, Travis, who came on to pitch in the third

SMOOTH STROKE: Travis Petrone of the West Windsor-Plainsboro all-star team shows his hitting form last Friday in the Southern New Jersey Babe Ruth 13-year-old state tournament at Bacon Field in Hopewell. Outfielder/pitcher Petrone helped the WW-P squad battle hard as it fell 7-3 to Nottingham on Friday and 8-5 to Ewing/Hopewell a day later to get knocked out of the double-elimination competition. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

inning in relief of starter Bennett Siegel, helped keep WW-P in the game with a solid mound effort. “Travis was throwing some strikes, dropping it off and mixing it up a little bit,” said Petrone. “He is efficient and he almost made it through four innings. It was time to take him out, the meat of their order was coming up the second time around.” Utilizing some aggressive baselining to take advantage of some walks by the Nottingham reliever, WW-P pushed across three runs in the top of the fifth. “We finally got a hit that inning,” said Petrone. “They changed pitchers and walked a couple of guys; the kids got a little excited.” While WW-P never scored again, it got some exciting play from center fielder Winters and shortstop Will Carter. “Alex showed good hustle out there, he has grown a few inches and is growing into his legs a little bit,” added Petrone. “He is a good ballplayer. Will Carter made some good plays. He got our first hit of the game and he came in and shut them down when we needed him to after Travis was kind of worn out.” Even though the loss left WW-P with its back to the wall in the double-elimination competition, Petrone was unfazed. “We will look forward to coming back out tomorrow; hopefully we will come out with a little more energy,” said Petrone. A day later, WW-P showed energy as it faced Ewing/

Hopewell in an elimination game, jumping out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first with Walden contributing an RBI single. Ewing/Hopewell answered with three runs in the bottom of the first but then W W-P regained the lead on a two-run double Prete in the fourth. Winters and Prete each had singles later in the game but WW-P didn’t plate any more runs as Ewing/Hopewell pulled away to an 8-5 win.

While Petrone would have liked to have seen his team post some wins in the tourney, he knows that just getting the chance to compete was a plus for his players. “The kids love to play baseball and it is just nice to be able to do this in this summer with the craziness of it all,” said Petrone. “They get together and can enjoy this weekend.” —Bill Alden

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The Princeton Athletic Club (PAC) has rescheduled its Institute Woods 6K for Labor Day, Monday, September 7. The run starts at 10 a.m. from the Princeton Friends School and the event is limited to 200 participants. The run will be chip timed. Athletes have the option of a traditional competitive start or an individual time trial start. All abilities are invited, including those who prefer to walk the course. Accommodations are in place to address the public health situation and conform to New Jersey guidelines for outdoor sports activities. Online registration and full details regarding the event and race protocols are available at princetonac.org. The entry fee is $40 until September 4, including optional T-shirt. The PAC is a nonprofit, all-volunteer running club for the community that promotes running for the fun and health of it and stages several

The Princeton Recreation Department is partnering with US Sports Institute (USSI) to offer two weeks of a multi-sport program and a one-week soccer program for boys and girls ages 5 to 11 at Community Park South. The multi-sport participants will learn key skills through small-sided scrimmages in sports such as lacrosse, soccer, t-ball, and track and field. Soccer participants will develop skills in passing, dribbling, shooting, defending, and more. The USSI is a full-time professional sports provider that works with Recreation Departments and community organizations all over the country. All programs are taught by USSI staff in a safe and structured environment that allow participants to experience a variety of sports while emphasizing fun. Adaptations are in place to ensure social distancing and to prevent sharing of equipment. The soccer camp runs from August 24-28 while the multi-sports program ran during the week of August 17-21 with the second

session to take place from August 31-September 3 (4-day week). All programs will run from 9:00 a.m.-12 p.m. daily. The cost of the multi-sport program is $145 for Princeton residents or $172 for non-residents for the fourday week of August 31-September 3. The cost for the soccer program is $175 for Princeton residents or $208 for non-residents. Register online at register. communitypass.net/princeton under “2020 Youth Sports Programs.”

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POWER HITTER: Jonathan Tao takes a big cut last week in action for the West Windsor-Plainsboro Babe Ruth all-star team at the Southern New Jersey State 15-year-old tournament. Tao, a Princeton resident, blasted a three-run homer to help WW-P beat Lawrence 6-0 on August 10 in an elimination game. The team’s run at the tourney ended a day later when it fell 10-2 to Hamilton/Northern Burlington with a spot in the championship round on the line. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

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Herman Alexander Zullow Herman Alexander Zullow, the cherished and beloved son of Keith Zullow and Kathleen Moriarty, the loving brother of Madeleine, Lillian, and Hannah Zullow, and the adored grandson of Marlene Zullow, passed away on Sunday, August 9, 2020, at the too young age of 20. Herman was born in Manhattan, New York, on April 19, 2000. He lived almost half his life in Ossining, New York, and then moved to Princeton Junction, New Jersey, where he attended The College of New Jersey. Herman was a quiet, gentle soul with a quirky sense of humor. As a child, he enjoyed inventing silly characters and games when playing with his younger sisters. He shared inside jokes with his sisters and was often heard laughing late into the night while gaming online with his friends. He also loved his pets (two dogs and two cats) and had a special bond with them. They brought him great comfort and joy, especially during times of turmoil. From a young age Herman showed a strong interest in the outdoors and nature, somet hing t hat mat ured into a lifelong love for hiking and adventure. Between family trips and camps, he bungee jumped and hiked m ou nt a i n s a l l ove r t h e world, including glaciers in Iceland, the Inca Trail and Machu Picchu in Peru, Pulpit Rock and Kjeragbolten in Norway, and many others in the United States. During such hikes, Herman’s compassionate side would shine through, as he could often be found with the slowest hikers making sure that they were okay or raising group spirits through trail games. Herman also surfed sand dunes in Peru, surfed 15-foot waves in Hawaii, and even surfed with his sisters in the Arctic Circle. Herman’s greatest passion was technology. He would take apart old phones and other devices to learn how they worked. This curiosity for electronics morphed into a talent for computer programming and software engineering. Herman was a self–taught programmer in multiple languages and successfully built and fixed computers and other devices for himself and loved ones. Some of Herman’s happiest times were when he was tinkering with an electronic device and searching for ways to make it work. S i n c e ag e 9, H e r m a n battled health issues with physical and psychological

manifestations, including anxiety and depression. He was diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder known as PANS/PANDAS (Pediatric Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections ) that caused inflammation in the brain and neurological and psychological symptoms, including an xiet y, OCD, and tics. He was later diagnosed with Bartonella, an insect-borne bacterial disorder that can also have psychological manifestations, including anxiety and depression. Unfortunately, the stress of college combined with his battles with these physical and mental illnesses proved too much for him to bear. Though Herman’s time with his family was short, he touched many lives and was loved deeply by those around him. His family cherishes his memory as the brief gift it was. In lieu of flowers, the family respectfully requests that memorial contributions be made to the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (https://www.bbrfoundation.org) and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (https://afsp.org). To leave condolences for the family, visit orlandsmemorialchapel.com.

a birthday present.” When she was learning to ride it, she looked back at him and “smacked right into the back of a parked car!” Lawrence told her that falling is inevitable and to “get right back up again and go!” His sister Gina Caruso remembered the extensive rock collection that he gathered in the 1960s from the dumpster behind Guyot Hall on the Princeton University Campus. She recalls that he would identify, label, and arrange his rocks, and as a reward for “not telling on him for his almost daily, imaginative pranks,” would periodically give her a private tour of his collection. “He was the most mischievous child I’ve ever met, but he had such a sparkling curiosity. I loved exploring Guyot Hall and building forts with him in the woods,” she says. As a teen he was a promising visual artist and drummer who loved Pink Floyd, David Bowie, and the Velvet Underground. His sister Kathleen Kalinowski remembers when he hitchhiked across the country in his 20s and sent postcards home written in a Jack Kerouac-like style. His sister Mary Ann Mitchell remembers frequently corresponding with Lawrence when she was serving in the military in Iraq. In 2003, she visited him in Florida, and they watched Kill Bill together. “I just loved him,” she said. Lawrence was a certified electrician, professional juggler, owned a small moving company, played chess in a club he organized, loved old cars and motorcycles, and his dogs. He is survived by his 91-year-old mother Mollie Jean Caruso, and his siblings John Caruso, Kathleen Kalinowski, Mary Ann Mitchell, Gina Caruso, Marti Davis, Amy Pisechko, and Aaron Caruso. Donations can be made in his memory to the ASPCA. A memorial for him will be held at a later date.

Louise Russell Irving 1922 – 2020

Lawrence Robert Caruso Lawrence Robert Caruso, known as “Bob” to his close friends, and professionally as “Robin the Juggler,” was born in Princeton, NJ, on Friday, February 7, 1958 and died on Friday, August 7, 2020 in Gainesville, Florida, where he was a longtime resident. His sisters Amy Pisechko and Marti Davis have fond memories of him teaching them how to ride and fix bicycles, and how to box and juggle. Amy said that her boxing skills have been a lifelong form of self-defense and have made her fearless. Mar t i says, “He bought me my very first 10-speed bicycle, a used Schwinn, that he fixed up for me as

L ou is e Ru s s el l Ir v i ng, aka “Weedie,” was born on March 14 th , 1922 in New York City. She died at home in Princeton on August 8th, 2020. She was 98. Her large family sorely misses her. In 1947, she married the late John E.D. Irving, a DuPont Co. marketer. They honeymooned at Varadero Beach, Cuba, and went on to raise five children: John Jr., of Princeton; the late Henry Russell Irving of Cambridge, Mass; Douglas Irving of Princeton; David D. Irving of NYC; and Carol R. Irving of Northumberland, England. John and Louise were together for over 50 years until his death in 1998. L o u i s e at te n d e d M i s s Hewitt’s School in NYC; Foxcroft School in Middleburg, VA (under the celebrated headmistress Miss Charlotte Noland). Her friends from

Foxcroft School remain loyal unto death. Louise received a BA in zoology from Barnard College in 1944. After college, and consonant with American WWII efforts, she signed up as an assistant nurse with the Red Cross and shipped out in early 1945 to Tagaytay, Philippines. There, the U.S. Marines welcomed her and made her their “Company Mascot.” Mustered out with the homebound soldiers after VJ day, she built her family with John successively in Wilmington, New York City, Providence, and Unionville, PA. After her husband died, she relocated to Princeton, her childhood summer home. Louise was conversant in French, Italian, and Spanish and applied her language skills in travels to such other countries as Vietnam and Panama. She returned from those trips and penned lively travelogues for her local newspapers. Louise practiced assiduously at the piano all her life, which brought her immense joy. She played competent tennis and golf. She loved astrology. Louise promoted her six grandchildren’s participation in sports, music, film, and dance. While in Princeton, she was a strong proponent of the Charter School and the admirable PHS Studio Band jazz program directed by Joe Bongiovi. Her grandchildren visited her regularly, traveled with her, laughed with her, and delighted in her charisma and indomitable energy. Louise was always thrilled to see her family and especially proud of her great-grandchildren. She was a dyed-in-thewool Republican with strong opinions about polit ics, American life, and food. She regularly hosted lo cal Republican functions at her home, and in recent years was distraught at Leftist and progressive excesses in America. She liked President Trump and preferred “All Lives Matter” to other iterations of that concept. She was an avid, competitive bridge player up to the day she died, with a few games already scheduled for the following week. She planned to live forever. S u r v ivor s i n cl u d e h e r four adult children John, Douglas, David, and Carol, their spouses, as well as the spouse of her predeceased son Henry; six grandchild r e n ; t wo g r e at- g r a n d children; and her younger brother Archibald Douglas Russell and his family. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to The Princeton Republican Club, 131 Victoria Mews, Princeton, NJ 08542 or PHS Band Parents Association, c/o Amanda Kewley, 174 Nassau Street, Suite 423, Princeton, NJ 08542. Written by John Irving Jr.

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“Pete” Peters Florence “Pete” Lamborn Peters passed away peacefully at Acorn Glen Assisted Living in Princeton, New Jersey, on July 19. She had just turned 92 in June. Pete was born June 28, 1928 in Montclair, New Jersey, and was the second child of John Warren Lamborn and Anna Elizabeth Flynn. Pete graduated from The Convent of the Sacred Heart Maplehurst (now Greenwich) in 1945 and from Rosemont College in 1949 with a degree in English. Upon graduation, Pete returned home to Montclair where she worked in a photography studio. While spending her summers at Martha’s Vineyard, she met Landon Peters, who also happened to be from Montclair. She married Landon on February 2, 1952 and they moved to San Antonio, Texas, where Landon served in the Air Force during the Korean Conflict. Their eldest child, Eric, was born in San Antonio. They truly enjoyed their adventure there, far from family, and made many lifelong friends. They visited San Antonio many times, thereafter. They returned to Princeton, New Jersey, so Landon could finish his studies at Princeton University, from which he graduated in 1956, though a member of the Class of 1952. Pete and Landon remained in Princeton for the rest of their lives, where their sons Michael, John, David, and Christopher were born. Pete’s younger cousin, Elinore Flynn, came to live with them in 1957, after her parents had died. They were married for 53 years until Landon’s death in 2005. Pete’s ties to Martha’s Vineyard were deep. Both sets of grandparents became summer residents in the early 1900s. While spending time there, she enjoyed sailing and tennis, and hosting visitors at Pohogonot Farm, as well as at the home that Landon and she built in 1989. Until recently, she spent summers there every year of her life. She was devoted to her large, extended family there and to the preservation of Pohogonot and its flora and fauna. Her own mother’s lessons of community service led Pete to enjoy a long career as a volunteer in Princeton community organizations. During the 1960s her focus was more on religion, helping to initiate, and teach, lay-taught CCD classes at St. Paul’s Church, and as a founding board member of the Princeton Interfaith Council, an ecumenical organization of people with a variety of community concerns. At various times in the 1970s and 80s, she served on boards and various committees for the Princeton YWCA, Friends of Princeton University Art Museum, McCarter Theatre, the

Medical Center Auxiliary, and the United Way of Princeton. Many of her roles focused on editing newsletters and publicity. Her interest in history, its preservation and ongoing interpretation, drove a deep commitment to the Historical Society of Princeton, serving at various points in time, on its Board of Trustees, as Vice President, and editor of its “News and Notes.” Gardening and flower arranging was one of her primary interests throughout her adult life. She was a member of the Garden Club of Princeton for 51 years during which she held many leadership roles including President. Friends in the GCP recall Pete as a knowledgeable and passionate horticulturist and gardener, a fabulous flower arranger, a mentor to everyone who sought her advice, and a worker who chased down every detail. Pete served the Garden Club of America as Director, Board of Associates member, Chairman of Archives, Secretary of the Finance Committee, and Zone IV Director. She received the Zone IV Creative Leadership Award and the GCA Medal of Merit. Pete and her friend Phyllis Hamel ran The Princeton Flower Shop for several years in the early 1980s. Together with Landon, she grew and maintained gardens at their homes in Princeton and Edgartown, MA. In 1990, the United Way of Princeton awarded her the Gerard Lambert Award, its annual award recognizing volunteer leadership. Pete held a firm belief that those who have been blessed with good fortune have a responsibility to contribute to their communities and to those less fortunate. She also greatly valued the enduring, cross-generational friendships that were a part of all of her community activities. Pete was also a founding Trustee of Kieve Affective Education in 1974 (now Kieve Wavus Education) which runs Camp Kieve and Wavus Camp for Girls on Lake Damariscotta in Maine. Several of her sons and granddaughters attended those camps, as have many Princeton residents. She was a member of Prettybrook Tennis Club, the Nassau Club, and Springdale Golf Club. Pete was predeceased by her husband Landon, her son Michael, her sisters Patricia Coward Kolbe and Elizabeth Lamborn, her brothers John W. Lamborn, Jr., and George D. F. Lamborn, and her daughter-in-law Sarah Gelotte Peters. She is survived by her sons, Eric and his wife, Eileen Murphy, and John, of Vineyard Haven, David, of Princeton, New Jersey, and Christopher and his wife Kathryn, of Dallas, Texas, her seven grandchildren, Nathaniel Peters, Molly Peters, Emily Peters, Caroline Peters, Lorna Peters, Charles Landon Peters, Kathryn Peters, and her great-grandchild, John Peters. A memorial ser vice in Princeton will be held and burial will be at Martha’s Vineyard, both at a future date. Donations in her memory may be made to the Historical Society of Princeton, 354 Quaker Road, Princeton, NJ 08540 or the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, 151 Lagoon Pond Road, Vineyard Haven, MA 02568.

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Barbara MacLeod Morgan 85, of Stockbridge, MA (formerly of Princeton, NJ) passed away peacefully on July 28th at home with her daughters by her side. Barbara was born in Bear River, Nova Scotia, Canada, to Reverend Archibald A. MacLeod and Barbara Grace MacLeod. She was educated at Saint Andrews High School, Saint John General Hospital Nursing School (Registered Nurse), and University of Pennsylvania (Masters of Science in Nursing — Nurse Practitioner). She lived in Princeton for 47 years and summered on Prince Edward Island, her ancestral home, in her beloved seaside cottage on the Northumberland Strait. In 1962 Barbara met and married her first husband, David Baxendale, in Nova Scotia, Canada, where she worked as a Reg istered Nurse at the Cornwallis Naval Station Medical Center and where he was an officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Soon after the birth of their two daughters they moved to Cambridge, MA. During those years, Barbara worked at Mount Auburn Hospital while David attended university. Subsequently the family settled in Princeton, NJ, where Barbara was employed at Princeton Medical Center, both in the Operating Room and the Neonatal departments; Carrier Clinic; and eventually Princeton University Health Center. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1982. In 1985 Barbara married Arthur Palmer Morgan of Princeton, NJ. Barbara and Arthur enjoyed a 32 year marriage including travel to five continents. Barbara worked as a fundraiser in the interest of the environment, in expanding the Princeton Public Library, and in supporting Planned Parenthood. Together she and Arthur formed a blended family with five daughters, always keeping up with the comings and goings of each and providing support and wisdom. They welcomed many shared grandchildren and g reat- g randchildren into their fold throughout the years. Although Barbara worked in many areas of medicine during her 35 year career she was most devoted to woman’s health care concerns. As a Nurse Practitioner at the Princeton University Health Center, she was especially proud of the pre-natal and post-natal program she established for international students and their spouses offering a supportive and loving atmosphere. As an advocate and ally of t hos e le s s for t u nate among us, Barbara always

William W. Augustine William Winfield (“Bill”) Augustine died peacefully of natural causes on August 9, 2020 at Brandywine Assisted Living, where he had resided for the last eight years. He was 93. A longtime resident of the Princeton area, Bill was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on March 26, 1927. In 1942, his parents, Thomas Henry and Ruth Duncan Augustine, moved the family to Bucks County, near Bowman’s Hill Tower, so that Bill’s father could work for General Motors in Trenton in support of the War effort. Bill’s older brother, Duncan, studied engineering at Princeton University, and Bill loved to recount stories about coming to Princeton as a child in the 1930s to visit his brother. As a young man, Bill had his eye on a career in radio and the exciting new medium, television. He received voice training for radio in Philadelphia and also

became involved with the local theater, playing leading roles in several productions at the Play and Players Theater there. However, despite having job offers from local radio and TV stations, he ultimately decided on a different path. After attending Rider College for several years, he left to take a series of sales and marketing positions with Dodge Reports, 3M, and Standard Oil, which sent him to work in Italy for several years. In the mid1950s, Bill returned to the Princeton area to work for Johnson & Johnson as a product manager. In 1960, he and local contractor, Ray Hunt, formed Hunt & Augustine, Inc., which quickly became a leading residential construction and real estate development firm in the Princeton area. They partnered with architect William Thompson, Jr. AIA, who had previously spent several years as the resident architect for Williamsburg, in designing both custom homes and residential developments, including Winfield, Audubon and Castle Howard in Princeton and the Abey tract and the Pennington Professional Center in Pennington. In 1962, Bill began development of the property that would become the Bedens Brook Club in Skillman. Bill was one of the founders of the golf club, and the Bedens Brook Company, of which Bill was President, also built many of the beautiful custom-designed homes that ring the golf course. In 1981, Hunt & Augustine began development of a 700-acre tract of land in Skillman as a golf club community to be named Cherry Valley Country Club. Bill assembled the land and obtained all of the necessary approvals, which was a grueling process that took many years. This project was eventually sold to Dyson, Kissner & Moran. However, Bill remained involved until the Cherry Valley golf course was completed. It opened in 1991. Bill married his wife, Mary Jane, in 1986. They loved adventure and traveled extensively together. One notable trip involved following the Silk Road across China from east to west in 1995. That trip ended abruptly in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, when Bill became seriously ill from food poisoning and had to be transported by medivac plane to the American Hospital in Istanbul, where he stayed for more than a mont h. T here, he made many friends among the hospital staff, who started spending their breaks visiting in his room. In typical fashion, Bill Augustine fashion, he turned his time in the Istanbul hospital into a continuation of the Silk Road adventure. Throughout his business career, Bill always found time to be active in the community and later in life, he devoted much of his time and energy to charitable pursuits. While serving as President of both Hunt & Augustine, Inc. and the Bedens Brook Company, he was also President of the Princeton Art Association and Senior Vice President of the Princeton Ballet. After retiring, he became a Board member of the American Red Cross of Central Jersey, which awarded him

the Bob Clancy Culture of Caring Award for service in 2008. He was also a longtime volunteer with Meals on Wheels, continuing to deliver meals and cheer to shutins well into his mid-80s. Bill was an accomplished athlete pursuing tennis, figure skating, running, and golf at various times in his life. However, golf was his enduring passion. He took up the game in his late 20s and continued to play until he was well past 80. He loved nothing better than spending time on the Bedens Brook and Cherry Valley Country Club golf courses with his many friends. He was especially proud of being an honorary member of both Clubs. In his later years, he researched and authored detailed histories of Bedens Brook and Cherry Valley, which he gave as an enduring gift to both the Clubs and their members. Bill was pre-deceased by his parents ; his brother, Duncan Colfax Augustine; his sister, Natalie Jean Augustine; and his two children by a previous marriage, William Winfield Augustine, Jr. and Sara Dougan Augustine. He is survived by his wife, Mary Jane Augustine; his stepdaughter, Lia Christian Nielsen, of Lambertville ; and a nephew, Dr. D.C. Augustine of Amherst, Virginia. A private memorial service is planned for late September. The family wishes to express t heir grat it ude to Brandywine Assisted Living and Vitas Healthcare for taking wonderful care of Bill. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the American Red Cross of Central Jersey. Extend condolences and share memories at blackwellmh.com.

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extended her hand to offer support to those in need. A lifelong progressive, she was concer ned w ith the socio-political atmosphere created by the current administration in Washington and followed politics, environmental and social justice issues until the end. She recognized suffering in all forms and responded with compassion. Barbara was predeceased by her grandson William MacLeod Manning, sister Alexandra (Sandra) Thompson, brother Bently MacLeod, stepbrother Hinson MacLeod, stepsister Mar ion B u r n s, a n d h er husband Arthur Morgan. She is sur vived by her daughters Robin Alexandra Manning of Great Barrington, MA, and Jennifer MacLeod Baxendale (Richard Epstein) of Stockbridge, MA, and Dummerston, VT, and her t hree sur v iv ing grandchildren —Jesse Baxendale Manning (Jack), Donovan William Lally, and Lucy Alexandra Manning. She especially delighted in time spent with her devoted family. Barbara is also survived by her brother Archie MacLeod (Carmel) of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and her stepdaughters Ann Battle (Craig) of Princeton, NJ, Cathy Morgan (John) of Hawaii, and Cynthia Pastahov (Stefan) of Linconville Center, ME, and her stepgrandchildren Jason Battle (Sarah), Celina Fuller (Dan), Morgan Battle ( Brooke ), Silas Standard (Cali), Alex Pastahov (Brittony), Miles Pastuhov (Sabrina), and Eloise Standard (Patrick). She was lovingly known as “GG” by her greatgrandchildren. In honor of Barbara we invite you to make a contribution to HospiceCare in The Berkshires, Inc., 877 South Street, Suite 1W, Pittsfield, MA 01201.

Evelyn Geddes Evelyn Geddes, age 97, of Princeton, New Jersey, passed away on Aug ust 11, 2020 after suffering a stroke. Evelyn lived a long, full life. She loved cooking, travel, reading, and had a very wide range of interests ranging from healthcare policy to politics, social justice, and the arts. Evelyn was born in Brooklyn, NY, to Harry and Rose Basse in 1923. She grew up mostly in Brooklyn, with a short period in Providence, Rhode Island. She graduated from James Madison H ig h S ch o ol, a n d t h e n earned a BA in economics from Brooklyn College and studied economics in graduate school at the University of Wisconsin. She married Robert Geddes, her husband of 73 years, in 1947. They had two children, David, an anthropologist and business consultant, and Ann, an

architect and ceramic artist. Evelyn was involved in Democratic politics in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. She was par ticularly active in healthcare issues, as president of Planned Parenthood of Mercer County, as president of the Princeton School Board, introduced sex education programs into the Princeton schools, and served as chair of the New Jersey State Health Commission. She is sur vived by her husband, her two children, seven grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren, her sister (Minna Berkowitz), one niece and her family, and one nephew and his family, and several cousins. The family will be having a Zoom funeral service in the near future. In lieu of flowers, gifts in her memory should be made to the Guttmacher Institute.

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6390 Fleecydale Rd,caRVeRSVIlle, Pa Through a gated entry, over a private bridge sits a meticulously restored mid-century modern stone and glass home. Situated up high, this magnificent property takes in the view of a meandering stream and woodlands beyond. This iconic home sits on 9-acres and has undergone a complete renovation, using the finest local artisans, while maintaining its original integrity. Three bedrooms, three and a half baths, a cooks kitchen and maple wood cabinetry, top-of-the-line appliances and radiant heated floors. Sonos system fills the home with music, along with security and temperature control. Separate garage off courtyard. This property has septic in place to accommodate additional bedrooms and/or a guest cottage/studio. Unwind, de-stress with the sound of the stream flowing by in this easy to maintain property. Located on Fleecydale Road, one of the prettiest roads in Bucks County, Pa. Five minutes by car or an easy bike ride to the Delaware River and quaint village of Lambertville $3,150,000

5595 RIdge Rd,NeW HOPe, Pa Curl Creek Farm is a example of the quintessential Bucks County farmhouse/estate, that is becoming more and more difficult to locate. As you enter the circular drive, one immediately views the spectacular red barn with three prominent cupolas/air vents that give this structure strength and grace. To the left, the farmhouse is sited back from the road and enjoys its view of the lush landscaping and the 1,000 acres of preserved land that envelops it. The stucco over stone home has been totally renovated by the current owner with a period sensitive and sophisticated hand. The spacious front foyer spreads both left and right introducing you to a formal living room with built-in bookcases and fireplace. Off of the living room is the library/office with built-in bookcases as well. The banquet sized dining room, with fireplace, can easily seat 20-24 family members for memorable gatherings. All rooms have beautifully crafted millwork. There is a solarium room flooded with natural light and windows that look at the sweeping lawns. The stunning and published kitchen has been totally renovated with new cabinetry, Azure blue marble counters and island, Subzero and Wolf appliances and another fireplace. A courtesy powder room off of the kitchen is the second powder room to service the main floor. The nucleus of this architecturally perfect room is the breakfast room featuring two half circular windows that create style and design. Off of the kitchen, the tavern room contains a brick hearth and an upstairs office or bedroom with full bath. The master suite boasts large closet space, private bath, washer & dryer and a woodburning fireplace. This room has numerous windows that make the space brilliant. In addition, there are four family/guest bedrooms and two baths. This wonderful and spacious home has ample room for weekend guests and family members. Over the garage, there is a cozy one bedroom apartment that is ideal for in-laws, caretaker on an Au pair. The beautiful landscaped grounds with irrigation, contain an in-ground pool in its own magical “secret garden.” The pool area has an outdoor patio area with fireplace and an indoor pavilion perfect for a sudden Summer downpour. When your guests and family members enter the grounds of Curl Creek Farm, for a brief enigmatic moment, they will believe that they have become part of a living canvas by Currier & Ives. $2,395,000

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Beatrice Bloom Sales Representative/Princeton Residential Specialist, MBA, ECO-Broker

Beatrice Bloom

Sales Representative/Princeton Residential Specialist, MBA, ECO-Broker

609-577-2989 (cell) | info@BeatriceBloom.com 609-577-2989 (cell) | info@BeatriceBloom.com | BeatriceBloom.com

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