Town Topics Newspaper, September 13, 2023

WJNA Meeting Crowd Participates, Challenges W-J Development Corp.

The Witherspoon-Jackson Development Corporation (WJDC) was in the spotlight at a lively meeting of the Witherspoon-Jackson Neighborhood Association (WJNA) attended by more than 60 people on Saturday, September 9 at the Arts Council of Princeton on Paul Robeson Place.

“The basic overall community opinion was that they want Witherspoon-Jackson Development Corporation to be more transparent,” said former Princeton Councilman and community leader Lance Liverman. He went on to mention the need for an improved website for nding information, adding, “We want them to do more reporting back to the community — what they’re doing, what they’re funding.”

Princeton Councilman Leighton Newlin, who co-chaired the meeting, applauded the “great information exchanged” on Saturday, but noted, “There was de nitely a call for greater transparency and accountability.” He added, “We’re at a crossroads and this is a critical time for homeowners in Princeton.”

Of particular concern, and the subject of a number of questions from the attendees, was the home at 31 Maclean Street that the WJDC purchased in 2019 and intended to sell to a quali ed buyer at an affordable price, but has not yet done so.

The WJDC was originally established in 1975 with a mission “to preserve and maintain the quality of life and the integrity of the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood.” After a long period of dormancy, it was revived in 2016 with the help of a $1.25 million grant from Princeton University, as part of a property tax lawsuit settlement.

Target beneficiaries of WJDC programs include those who have suffered the impacts of rising housing costs, taxes, and gentri cation. The WJDC website states, “WJDC is concerned about and focused on assisting the long-time W- J residents, their descendants or heirs, and those with deep roots in the W-J neighborhood.”

“The organization is working to keep folks in their homes in the W-J area,” said Liverman, noting that the most important part of the meeting was the questionand-answer session, which followed an extensive and detailed update on the organization’s past, present, and future

Care Center, DOH Dropped the Ball, Says Freda

All 72 residents of Princeton Care Center (PCC) on Bunn Drive have been safely moved, at least for the time being, but shock waves from the sudden evacuation on Friday, September 1 will continue to resonate for the elderly residents, some now in nearby facilities and some more than 60 miles away, and dozens of Princeton emergency personnel and others who were on the scene assisting.

“Allowing this to happen is just unbelievable,” said Princeton Mayor Mark Freda. “The ball was dropped by both Princeton Care Center and the New Jersey Department of Health.”

The Department of Health (DOH) had

been following the precarious nancial situation at PCC for many months, said Freda, adding, “The Department of Health contacted us on August 4 to say ’By the way, we’ve been watching these guys. They’ve been having a lot of financial problems. We’re putting a Department of Health person in the building to make sure that proper care is being given. They’re having trouble making payroll, paying their bills, etc., and the landlord wants his money — all those things.’”

Freda said his office was informed repeatedly by the DOH that PCC, owned by mother and son Gail and Ezra Bogner, was in negotiations with other entities to

take over the facility and its residents.

“The week before Labor Day weekend we had been updated by the Department of Health, saying that discussions between some entity and Princeton Care Center were looking really good and that the sale would go through — not a problem — don’t worry about it,” said Freda.

He continued, “Then of course, on Thursday night, Princeton Care Center tells the Department of Health, ‘We’re going to evacuate everybody tomorrow.’”

Freda discussed the DOH’s failures in the process. “The Department of Health could have been more actively involved, in my opinion, in the negotiations between

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“Keep on Stomping” To Help Control Spotted Lanternfly

In late August the New Jersey Department of Agriculture (NJDA) informed New Jersey residents that they no longer need to report sightings of the spotted lanterny. The invasive insect is now present in all 21 counties of the state, but in Princeton the numbers are diminishing, according to Princeton Municipal Arborist Taylor Sapudar.

“I have not seen high populations in Princeton at all this year,” Sapudar said. “It’s much better than last year. I might have seen one or two adult lantern ies this year, but in years past I saw them everywhere.”

Sapudar noted that when the spotted lantern y rst appeared in New Jersey in 2018 it was only present in a few counties bordering Pennsylvania. The NJDA wanted to have people report it so it could help control and prevent the spread and coordinate treatment resources.

Foresters from Berks County, Pa., where the spotted lanternfly first appeared in this country in 2014, have been in communication with Sapudar, and have reported signi cant population decreases. “I suspect that it is a combination of residents removing the tree of heaven (ailanthus altissimo), the spotted lantern y’s preferred food source, and residents treating host trees with insecticides,” Sapudar said. There is also some evidence that spotted lantern y populations tend to increase in the first two years after their rst appearance, then level off in the third year, and decline after that.

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NEVER FORGET: The 9/11 Memorial Garden between Nassau Hall and Chancellor Green Hall on the Princeton University campus was the site of one of many area observances marking the 22nd anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

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JOINING FORCES TO RESTORE THE ECOSYSTEM: Friends of Princeton Open Space and Princeton University students recently did environmental work together at Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve.

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Friends of Princeton Open Space (FOPOS) and Princeton University’s Community Action (CA), a small-group experience of Princeton Orientation coordinated by the Pace Center for Civic Engagement, recently joined forces to bring first-year Princeton students to the Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve for forest and riparian restoration work.

The students hiked into the forest restoration site with FOPOS’s stewardship team. Together, they freed native trees from the death grip of invasive plants. The

following day, two dozen incoming students planted dozens of native species in the riparian restoration site, including swamp milkweed, hibiscus, bee balm, buttonbush, and swamp white oaks.

Many of the plants were grown from seeds collected at the preserve, thanks to the support of the Garden Club of Princeton’s Partners for Plants program. FOPOS’s land steward interns played a key role as well, nurturing seedlings all season long and readying them for the weekend’s planting.

“It was a pleasure to welcome the incoming Princeton University students to

the Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve,” said Anna Corichi, FOPOS’s director of stewardship and natural resources. “Community Action helped us with critical restoration efforts, and they got to know the preserve. Since we’re located so close to the University, we hope that students will return and explore throughout the school year.”

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Call for Land Stewards: Join Friends of Princeton Open Space (FOPOS) in September, October, and November for morning or afternoon Saturday volunteer sessions under the guidance of FOPOS’ director of natural resources and stewardship to assist with various conservation projects at Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve. More at fopos.org/getinvolved.

Volunteers Needed: Sustainable Princeton is seeking volunteers to help with setup, event support, and event cleanup at the eCommuter Fest on Friday, September 22 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Princeton Shopping Center. Rain date is September 29. Sign up at sustainableprinceton.org by September 15.

Princeton University Farmers Market: On Wednesdays through October 4, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., at Firestone Library/Chapel Plaza. Farmersmarket.princeton.edu.

Princeton Flu Vaccine Clinics: From September through December, Princeton is hosting clinics for those age 3 and older. Upcoming dates are September 21, 4-6 p.m. at La Mexicana, 150 Witherspoon Street; and September 28, 3-5 p.m. at Princeton Senior Resource Center, 45 Stockton Street. There is no charge, but bring insurance information if you have coverage. Visit princetonnj.gov for more details.

Master Plan Open House: On Wednesday, September 27 from 4-7 p.m. at 400 Witherspoon Street, the municipality holds an open house on the ongoing development of the new master plan. Visit engage.princetonmasterplan.org for details.

Celebration of 10 Years of Consolidation: On Thursday, September 28 at 4:30 p.m., the community is invited to a gathering marking the 10 th anniversary of the consolidation of the former borough and township, featuring speakers State Sen. Andrew Zwicker, Mayor Mark Freda, and Councilwoman Michelle Pirone Lambros, at 400 Witherspoon Street. Followed by music and refreshments. Princetonnj.gov.

Cadwalader Heights House Tour Guests

Just northwest of Trenton’s downtown sits a neighborhood laid out by the eminent designer of Central Park in New York, the Biltmore Estate grounds in Asheville, S.C. , and the National Mall in Washington, D.C.: Frederick Law Olmsted.

For years, landscape and history enthusiasts have enjoyed a tour of Cadwalader Heights — the only neighborhood in New Jersey designed by the celebrated landscape architect — but the biennial tradition was disrupted by the pandemic.

Now, with the tagline “Welcome Back to the Neighborhood,” the first Cadwalader Heights Historic House and Garden Tour since 2019 is planned for Saturday, September 23 from 12 to 5 p.m. Proceeds will support HomeWorks Trenton, a nonprofit which operates a free afterschool residential program for marginalized high school girls. The program supplements public school with a goal of developing community leaders.

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“It’s an opportunity to say, ‘welcome back,’” said Erika Knudson, tour co-chair with her neighbor, Tracy Patterson. “This is something we love doing, showing the incredible vibrance of the neighborhood.”

Indeed, those who are opening their homes this year extol the neighborhood’s fine architectural details and its “open arms and open doors during the tour,” said Knudson.

Of the 75 homes, a sampling of 11 are on this year’s tour. One such home is a Parkside Avenue Colonial Revival home built in 1916 for Marc and Helen Purlee Solon, a Trenton businesswoman, volunteer, and civic leader. The house, renovated in 2020, features a 15-foot by 4-foot mural of Cadwalader Park, designed by the owner, showing the park in an imagined heyday.

A neighboring home was designed in 1916 by premier Trenton architect William A. Klemann for Trenton dentist Dr. Frederick Collier and his wife Edith. It features a beamed ceiling in the living room, floor and ceiling moldings, stained doors with egg-shaped glass doorknobs, Palladian transom windows, the original red slate roof, and a carefully upgraded mid-century St. Charles New York kitchen.

A 1923 brick Colonial Revival home on Whittier Avenue has its

own Instagram account (@thewhittiercentennial), which chronicles it restoration, and is shown as a work in progress. Its owners have retained the Trenton-made tile on the downstairs fireplace and in the foyer, and other details throughout the house.

Knudson’s and Patterson’s homes are also on the tour. Patterson’s Tudor Revival home on Belmont Circle, built in 1911, was once home to Mary Roebling, the first woman in charge of a major U.S. bank.

The house Knudson shares with her husband on Bellevue Avenue — with a grape arbor approach — has what she describes as

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Continued from Preceding Page an “eclectic and colorful interior,”including a “closet that turns a library into a speakeasy,” school auditorium seating from Brown County, Ind., and a dog portrait gallery.

“We were looking for a house that had a big yard for our dogs, with room inside to express creativity,” says Knudson. “What we found was a neighborhood full of friends in a city we love.”

Cadwalader Heights has been home to the titans of Trenton’s industries, government, and educational and fraternal organizations. One of the area’s first residents was Philadelphia physician Thomas Cadwalader, who was elected as the city’s first mayor in 1746. His son, Lambert Cadwalader, served as a delegate to the Continental Congress (1784-87) and two terms in the House of Representatives (1789-91; 1793-95) when the nation’s capital was in Philadelphia.

It was his grandsons who engaged Edmund Hill to develop the property, and it was Hill who championed a park and teamed up with Olmsted.

More about the neighborhood history is found in a book available for purchase at the tour, Cadwalader Heights , The History of an Olmsted Neighborhood , by Glenn R. Modica, for $20.

Email CadwaladerHeights Book@dathil.com for details.

The tour is an opportunity to see this history up close. “If you haven’t been on the house tour, you will be surprised and delighted to find the Olmsted firm’s work in Trenton, and see the architectural diversity, and diversity of residents and professions,” said Knudson. “There is real community spirit.”

Also included on the tour is the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, an Italianate villa that was built in 1848 and was acquired by the city of Trenton. The museum features the exhibit “Ellarslie Open 40” with 150 pieces of art by 109 artists.

Tour tickets are $20 per person in advance on the Cadwalader Heights Neighborhood Association website at cadwaladerheights.com, or can be purchased on the day of the tour for $25 a person at the registration center at Ellarslie, located in the heart of Cadwalader Park. The GPS coordinates are 299 Parkside Avenue, Trenton.

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Question of the Week: “What did you learn at the event today?”

(Asked Sunday at the Love Your Leaves workshop at Morven Museum & Garden) (Photos by Weronika A. Plohn)

“The event was very informative for us homeowners with yards. I learned how to turn my leaves into compost by using a leaf blower, and I was also introduced to the idea of a lasagna garden, where I use my leaves as one of the layers in my garden beds.”

—Ling Guo, Princeton

“I learned how I can manage my leaves more effectively and more sustainably. I also won a leaf blower, so now I feel like I am ready and well equipped to tackle my yard this fall.”

—Michele Tuck-Ponder, Princeton

“The event was so educational. I learned how to organize my leaves, how to compost, and how to talk to my gardener about the benefits of leaves not only on my lawn, but also in my garden.”

“I learned that I can not only collect leaves and leave them on the side of my property so that my lawn can still grow, but also that I can shred them. I especially liked the way of shredding the leaves with the grass trimmer or using the vacuum attachment of the leaf blower to do so.”

—Irene Zurakowski, Princeton

“I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of people that showed up to the event even though the weather was questionable. People want to learn about the sustainability in their yards and be able to manage the leaves on their properties without spending a lot of money. It was especially important for us to let the homeowners know that they can talk to their landscapers about more sustainable ways in their yards and gardens.”

—Louise Senior, Morven Museum & Garden horticulturalist, Princeton

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WJNA Meeting

continued from page one presented by WJDC President Yina Moore and the WJDC board of directors.

“I expected the house at 31 Maclean Street would be turned over to an appropriate family by now,” said Liverman, “but they said they have not done that. That was the purpose: buy the house, fix it up, and sell it as an affordable house to a family that had ties to the neighborhood, but it’s still sitting there, and there were a lot of questions about that.”

Moore stated that they are trying to sell the Maclean Street house as soon as possible, hopefully by the end of this year.

Liverman raised a concern over the expenses for taxes since the house was purchased four years ago. “That’s a lot of money going out in taxes, with nobody in the house, and it not being used,” he pointed out.

Other issues brought up in Moore’s report and the ensuing discussion included the WJDC’s initiatives to help people through grants and loans to pay for house repairs and taxes. Moore also spoke about gifts to the WJDC from individuals who have left money in their wills.

Liverman described a “good meeting with a lot of questions” and “a packed house.”

He continued, “I am hopeful that this new WJDC that has started back up can support members of the community in maintaining their homes and also help them with taxes. By doing that we can help to maintain the community.”

He went on to reflect on a positive trend he has perceived in the community. “I don’t know exactly when it happened, but right after COVID, or maybe it was during COVID, people started caring more about this community, it seems. There are more people at meetings, more people online. They had to keep bringing out more chairs for this meeting.”

Terry McEwen, a former resident of Witherspoon-Jackson and former board member of WJDC whose family has roots in the community going back to the 19th century, expressed optimism about the future of the WJDC’s efforts, but he was not pleased with their report on the past three years that he described as “vacant of any activity.”

McEwen has been in conversations with Moore and the WJDC about the opportunity for his son to purchase the 31 Maclean Street home. “This is

an opportunity for my son to continue our family legacy in Princeton,” he said.

McEwen is eager to see the WJDC follow through on its mission for qualified candidates, and he noted, “The next few weeks will tell as the WJDC works with the applications that come in for the Maclean Street house.”

He continued, “We are hopeful that the WJDC will embrace their mission and what the WJDC is all about in a vibrant way —and we move forward.”

He described a high level of participation at the meeting with a lot of questions asked about homes in the area. “The mood was one of people who had previously been discouraged looking at the chance for something positive to come out of this,” he said.

Other important items on the WJNA agenda Saturday included a presentation by Deputy Administrator/Municipal Engineer Deanna Stockton and Assistant Municipal Engineer Jim Purcell on the three phases of the Witherspoon Street Corridor project and a presentation by the League of Women Voters providing voter information and assisting with voter registration and vote-bymail forms.

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Princeton Care Center and the other entities — to sit at the table, to push everybody to find a way. That would have been the best solution,” he said.

“Also, the health department could have said, ‘No, you’re not closing on Friday of Labor Day weekend because that’s insane. We won’t let you close, and you’re staying open until next week.’ I’m sure the health department has that kind of authority.”

Freda added, “It didn’t have to happen the way it did,” noting that the DOH has the ability to bring in part-time staff and the authority and money to hire part-time workers to “come in and hold the fort until a solution is found, but they didn’t offer to do that.”

In response to queries from Town Topics, the DOH issued a statement on September 11, not exactly accepting blame for the sudden, unanticipated emergency evacuation, but accepting some responsibility for the event and a commitment not to allow such events to happen in the future.

“The Department of Health sympathizes with the residents and families who have been impacted by the abrupt closure of the facility and by relocation,” the statement from Nancy Kearney, deputy director of the DOH Office of Communications, reads. “We are actively reviewing this case and working with partner agencies, state departments, and key stakeholders to discuss regulatory and/or operational solutions to further strengthen the quality and resiliency of our long-term care

system and that may help to avoid a situation like this from occurring again.”

The statement goes on to note that the DOH cannot force a facility to stay open, which would be forcing residents into an unsafe situation with staff unavailable to provide care for them. The statement also notes that PCC was in violation of the law requiring 60 days’ notice to residents and the DOH prior to closing.

“The State Department of Health, the Department of Human Services, and the Office of the Long Term Care Ombudsperson continue to monitor the residents who were relocated to make sure they are afforded a choice of their permanent homes,” the DOH statement added.

Freda pointed out that the state, not local authorities, has jurisdiction over PCC, and “hopefully somebody will hold them accountable.”

Freda will be meeting this week with members of his senior staff and State Sen. Andrew Zwicker to follow up on the issue. “There have to be people who are held responsible here,” he said. “We’re going to put together a strategy on how to keep pushing that. I’ve been in touch with the governor’s office,

letting them know it’s a topic that we’re very interested in, making sure that something is done.”

Though the municipality does not have jurisdiction over the PCC, many members of the municipal staff, the health department, the police, emergency personnel, and fire department spent many hours on September 1 assisting the PCC residents.

“The fire department went out and got boxes for people to pack their stuff,” said Freda, and people from the Princeton Health Department were helping residents pack their belongings. People from our staff went over and above the call of duty, trying to help as much as they could.”

In a letter of appreciation in the Town Topics Mailbox last week, Councilwoman Eve Niedergang praised the dedication of the municipal staff and of Zwicker, who spent many hours at the PCC helping the residents and trying to obtain state resources and personnel to help with the evacuation.

“The last residents left for their new accommodations after 11 p.m. on Friday, as did the municipal staff and volunteers assisting them,” wrote Niedergang.

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“Tigers on Strike” Panel to Discuss Writers Guild, SAG-AFTRA Issues

A Princeton University event will examine the issues in the ongoing strikes by the Writers Guild and the Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA).

The September 20 program, called Tigers on Strike, will be held at the James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau Street, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Presented as part of the Arts at Work series sponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts and Center for Career Development, the event is free and open to the public; no reservations are required.

A panel of Princeton University alumni, faculty, and others whose lives have been impacted by the ongoing strikes will talk about some of the key issues such as salary equity, streaming, and generative artificial intelligence in the film and television industries.

The Writers Guild Strike began May 2 over lack of agreement on a new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. The SAGAFTRA strike has been in progress since July 14.

The panel seeks to inform Princeton area residents, who may not understand how the film and television industries function, “why writers have hit what feels like an existential crisis — fighting for the survival of our profession,” said Professor of the Practice in Creative Writing A.M. Homes, who is moderating the panel.

As a Writers Guild member herself, Homes pointed out that some issues in contention are that writers should be able to share in the success of the content they create and to be able to earn fair payment. Weekly pay for writers, she noted, has fallen 4 percent (23 percent when adjusted for inflation over the last decade).

Screenwriters pay has stagnated, she said, and work can be spread out over many months.

Television network and cable watchers may have noticed shorter seasons, from about 22 network episodes a year, to a streaming show with some eight episodes. This is complicated by the studios reducing the number of weeks writers are employed while they are “on hold’ for a show, Homes explained.

“There are lots of details and nuances to what has been happening and what is at stake, which will be discussed at the panel,” she said. For Homes personally, “work has stopped on projects I was developing, no meetings with producers, no moving forward.”

For creators like writers, ways of expressing ideas are missing. “Television is a wonderful way of talking about the world we live in, creating emotional experiences that resonate and are shared by thousands of people — there is both immediacy and intimacy to what we watch and the experience of sitting in a movie theatre in the dark. Those things aren’t happening

now. As a writer I want to know that the work I create is valued — that I am paid fairly, and that if/when the show is successful, I will earn some of the profits.”

The use of artifi cial intelligence (unauthorized use of likeness or voice) will be a topic for the panel that includes Sayash Kapoor, Mark Feuerstein, David Zabel, and Ben Whitehair.

Kapoor is a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy. His research examines the societal impacts of artificial intelligence, focusing on reproducibility, transparency, and accountability in AI systems. He has previously worked on AI at Facebook, Columbia University, and EPFL Switzerland, and is co-authoring a book titled AI Snake Oil with Arvind Narayanan.

Princeton graduate Feuerstein’s acting credits include the feature films What Women Want, In Her Shoes, and Practical Magic, and television shows Royal Pains, The West Wing, Prison Break, 9JKL, Babysitters Club, and Power. He will be seen in the new Chris Brancato series Hotel Cocaine for MGM+, the upcoming Apple limited series The Lady in the Lake with Natalie Portman, and as the title character in the indie feature Man in the Long Black Coat.

Zabel, also a Princeton graduate, is a writer, producer, and showrunner who started writing for television on such shows as JAG, Star

Trek: Voyager and Dark An-

gel. In 2001, he began a long tenure on the NBC medical drama ER, during which he eventually became an executive producer and the drama’s showrunner. He continued on numerous series including Detroit 187, Betrayal, and Mercy Street. His most recent work is Daryl Dixon, a spinoff of The Walking Dead universe, set and filmed in France.

Whitehair is an executive vice president of SAG-AFTRA who has worked more than 100 projects with Oscar and Emmy winners in film, television, dubbing, commercials, and more. He has served on over a dozen SAG-AFTRA committees, including Innovation and new technology committees, and was the founding chair of NextGen Performers. He also heads a social media management firm.

Moderator Homes is the author of 13 books of fiction, short stories, and non-fiction, including most recently a novel, The Unfolding. Her 2013 novel May We Be Forgiven won the Women’s Prize for Fiction and her memoir, The Mistress’s Daughter, was published to international acclaim. Homes is active in television and film and serves on the Council of the Writers Guild of America East. She was co-executive producer of David E. Kelly’s and Stephen King’s Mr. Mercedes and Falling Water on USA and a writer/producer on the original L WORD. She writes frequently on the arts for publications and is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, Bomb and Blind Spot.

For more information, visit arts.princeton.edu.

—Wendy Greenberg

Gittleman Steps Down

As HIP Executive Director

Kathleen Gittleman, Housing Initiatives of Princeton’s (HIP) first executive director, will be stepping down from her duties due to struggles with long COVID-19.

“We are so grateful for Kathleen’s thoughtful stewardship through a pivotal time for the organization, which included working on its Strategic Plan, and overseeing the expansion of HIP’s transitional housing program,” reads a statement from HIP.

Not only has an eighth housing unit been added to HIP’s inventory during Gittleman’s tenure, but there are also plans to add two more over the next two years. Three families graduated from HIP’s transitional housing this summer into safe, permanent homes and stable employment, with

a fourth family in final stages of qualifying for an affordable Princeton apartment this month.

HIP welcomes Lori Troilo as interim executive director. Previously known to the organization in her role as volunteer coordinator, Troilo also brings extensive experience in fund development and human resources from her tenure at the nonprofit Trenton Circus Squad.

Rae Padulo, a copywriter, past HIP volunteer, and former treasurer of a nonprofit foundation that helped women with their education and health care needs, will fill in as interim volunteer coordinator. The organization’s annual fundraiser, “3 by Three” Rent Party, is at The Watershed Institute, is October 21. Visit housingintiativesofprinceton. org for more information.

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Sapudar applauded Princeton residents’ efforts so far. “Management is working,” he said. “Keep on stomping. Remove ailanthus trees. Work with a certified arborist to identify host trees.”

Urban areas in New Jersey like Jersey City, Camden, and Newark have more spotted lanternflies than Princeton because they have more ailanthus trees, Sapudar noted. “When I was first getting calls [three or four years ago] people would say, ‘They’re everywhere,’ but I’d walk the property, and it’s typically just a couple of common host trees that they prefer. That’s where insecticide can be helpful,” Sapudar added.

He continued, “The ailanthus, their prime host, is a tree that the DEP recommends to be removed anyway. If the spotted lanternfly is on a more desirable species like a red maple or river birch, that’s where you’ll want to use other methods of treatment.”

Sapudar recommended that residents avoid using “sticky traps” on the trees. “The sticky trap doesn’t discriminate,” he said. “It will catch anything. There are a lot of beneficial insects, and I’ve even seen small mammals attached to the sticky trap.”

The spotted lanternfly is not going away anytime soon, Sapudar said. In addition to New Jersey and Pennsylvania, it has been found in nine other states: Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Princeton — with its high density of trees, and still an abundance of ailanthus, as well as other tree hosts including black walnut, red maple, river birch, willow, and agricultural crops such as grapes, apples, and peaches — continues to be susceptible to the colorful pest.

Spotted lanternflies are not a threat to humans or animals, but they can be a messy nuisance, and they have the potential damage agricultural crops and hardwood trees.

To help manage the spread of the insect, Princeton residents and business owners are encouraged to destroy as many spotted lanternflies and egg masses as possible. See princetonnj.gov/616/ Spotted-Lantern-Fly for further information on how best to do that.

Spotted lanternflies have moved into the adult stage over the past two months and are easily recognizable with their two sets of wings, one pale gray with black spots and the other with bright red spots.

Mating and egg laying take place in October, so this could be a critical time for management, according to the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) at Rutgers University. The first freeze will kill off the adults, but the eggs will survive to hatch new lanternflies next year.

The spotted lanternfly can lay egg masses on any flat surface, such as tree trunks, cars, picnic tables, and houses. Most of the egg masses on trees are found more than 10 feet above ground. Those egg masses, about one inch in size and containing up to 50 eggs, should be scraped and removed. Female

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lanternflies can lay up to two egg masses. Freshly laid egg masses have a light gray mudlike substance covering the eggs, while older egg masses change to a light tan color resembling cracked mud.

The spotted lanternfly is known as an invasive plant hopper, native to China, India, and Vietnam, and also established in South Korea and Japan, in addition to the U.S.

The spotted lanternfly has the potential to damage agricultural crops and hardwood trees, according to the NJDA. “The spotted lanternfly uses its piercing-sucking mouthpart to feed on sap from over 70 different plant species,” the NJDA website states.

“It has a strong preference for economically important plants and the feeding damage significantly stresses the plants, which can lead to decreased health and potentially death.”

The NJDA website goes on to describe how the spotted lanternfly excretes honeydew (a sugary substance), which can attract bees, wasps, and other insects as it promotes the growth of sooty mold (fungi), which can cover a variety of surfaces.

The NJDA website urges, “If you see a spotted lanternfly, help us Stomp it Out!” Many common spray insecticides will kill spotted lanternflies, the NJDA notes, but use insecticides only with great caution. They can also kill bees and other helpful animals.

For additional information, visit badbug.nj.gov, another NJDA resource for people to learn more about spotted lanternflies.

—Donald Gilpin

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Puerto Rican Migration Is Topic at Trent House

The Trent House Association and the Trenton Puerto Rican Community & Friends Organization are cosponsoring a talk on Puerto Rican migration in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. This free talk will be presented online on Sunday, September 24 at 2 p.m. by Robert McGreevey, professor of history at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ).

Audience members may attend the online presentation at the Trent House Visitor Center, where there will be refreshments and followup conversation.

In the early part of the 20th century, offi cials attempted to limit citizenship through the defi nition of Puerto Rico as a U.S. territory. However, as Puerto Ricans migrated

to California, Arizona, New York, and other states on the mainland, they challenged these limitations. Confl icts between migrants seeking work and citizenship on the mainland and employers, government offi cials, court officers, and labor leaders illustrate how the meaning of American citizenship was tested and reshaped.

McGreevey is a specialist in the political, social, and cultural history of the U.S. from 1877-1945. At TCNJ, he teaches courses on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, America in the 20th Century, and the history of

the U.S. in the World. His research focuses on foreign policy and migration in the 20th century and has been supported by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, and the Organization of American Historians. His first book, Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration, was published by Cornell University Press in 2018. More information and pre-registration are available at tinyurl.com/ RegisterSept24.

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WANING NEMESIS: The spotted lanternfly, in its full-grown adult state as it prepares to mate and lay eggs in September and October, is declining in numbers in Princeton, according to Municipal Arborist Taylor Sapudar. Residents are advised to keep on stomping and removing ailanthus trees.

Jonathan Taplin, Nigel Smith to Discuss

Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto at PPL Event

Focusing on four specific schemes — the metaverse, cryptocurrency, space travel, and trans-humanism — Jonathan Taplin has written an exposé on the tactics he says four modern billionaires use to pull focus from more prevalent issues in our current economic, political, and moral climate.

Princeton professor Nigel Smith will join writer, film producer, and scholar Taplin to discuss Taplin’s new book The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future, on Monday, September 25 in the Princeton Public Library Community Room. The 7 p.m. event is co-presented by Labyrinth Books with support from the Princeton University’s Humanities Council.

The book, recently published by Public Affairs, breaks down how billionaires Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreesen, and Peter Thile (“The Four”) capitalize on economic instability in order to sell a fantasy future — featuring their products. Taplin, director emeritus of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California and professor at

the USC Annenberg School in the field of international communication management and digital media entertainment, argues that, in reality, these “Technocrats” are performing some of the greatest con jobs of the 21st century, exponentially increasing their influence over both popular and practical culture.

leverage and power, and how they use it.

In The End of Reality, Taplin sets out to construct a reform agenda that eliminates the strategies of “The Four” in favor of regenerative and sustainable economic growth, to ultimately promote a society that will benefit the majority of Americans, not an elite minority.

Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, called The End of Reality “[a] vigorous polemic…. Persuasive and insightful, this cutting portrait of America’s slide toward oligarchy hits home.”

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Taplin’s decades of involvement with media and technology, combined with a financial literacy that comes from firsthand experience in the industry, give him a unique edge in understanding how media, tech, and finance moguls acquire

Ken Auletta, author of Hollywood Ending, said that “Reading Taplin’s invigorating The End of Reality is akin to attending a huge outdoor feast. There is so much nourishment in his book, so much provocative thinking, so much vivid writing, so much thought that went into the book’s vast menu, that by the final page the reader is left in awe. Taplin is a delightful iconoclast and a daring thinker.”

A 1969 graduate of Princeton University, Taplin made a name for himself in the entertainment industry after getting his start as a tour

manager for Bob Dylan and the Band. Known primarily for his work as a film producer, he produced Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets , documentaries such as The Last Waltz, and has earned numerous Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for his films. Later, Taplin became a Merrill Lynch executive, was a founder of video-ondemand service Intertainer, and acted as a broadband technology consultant to multiple foreign governments. He is the author of books including Move Fast and Break Things and The Magic Years: Scenes from a Rock and Roll Life.

Smith is the co-director of the Center for the Study of Books and Media at Princeton University, as well as the William and Annie S. Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature. He has published extensively on a wide variety of authors and subjects, among them William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Donne, Frank Herbert, John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Thomas Hobbes, Margaret Cavendish, and Katherine Philips. His current work includes a study on the relationship between words and music. For more information, visit labyrinthbooks.com/events or princetonlibrary.org.

—Grace Roberts

Meeting House Restaurant Starts Hospitality Program

The Meeting House restaurant has launched an opportunity for Princeton students to earn income for furthering their education, while also learning hospitality and what it takes to work at a food service company.

The micro-grant hospitality program offers $2,500 scholarships to two 2024 rising seniors at Princeton High School . The goal is to find two individuals who enjoy learning, are interested in hospitality, and are passionate about working in the community. These two people will be offered the scholarship upon completion of the program, which is a 200-hour paid internship ($15 an hour) for two possible positions (front of house, and back of house).

The application is open through September 29 at 5 p.m. Recipients will be

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Priceton Environmental Commission Thanks All Involved with Upcoming Green House Tour

To the Editor:

The Princeton Environmental Commission (PEC), in partnership with Sustainable Princeton (SP), has been busy as bees (pun intended) in preparing for the Green House Tour (GHT) on Saturday, September 30. This event will provide the community with the opportunity to observe what their neighbors (GHT hosts) have done to support the environment through energy efficiency, native vegetation, and various other green property improvement methods.

On the day of the event, four short videos featuring some of the properties will be shown at the Princeton Public Library (PPL) prior to the tours. The films were created by student videographer Devan Sakaria, who put in countless hours, under the direction of Seth Mellman. Whether simply viewing the films or taking a tour, GHT participants can expect positive inspiration in how they may adapt to creating healthier and more energy-efficient homes and environments with green building practices, such as solar panels, rain gardens, and more.

As a result of everyone’s significant contributions and efforts, PEC would like to extend a sincere appreciation to the GHT hosts, filmmakers, SP, and PPL, and look forward to a successful community event. For more information, please visit princetongreenhousetour.com.

TAMMY L. SANDS Chair, Princeton Environmental Commission

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Former Princetonian Shares Memories of Time Spent with Oppenheimer Family

To the Editor:

As one who knew the Oppenheimer family when I was young and living in Princeton, it turns out that I am one of many people for whom the recent Christopher Nolan film has stirred up a host of memories [“’Oppenheimer’ Film Sparks Remembrance of His Secretary, Verna Hobson,” August 23, page 7].

For some years, I lived on Mercer Street, a few doors down from where Einstein lived, and not at all far from Olden Manor. When I was very young, I got to know Robert Oppenheimer’s daughter Toni, a lovely, brilliant girl, with the most entertainingly lively imagination. My mother was a very close friend of Kitty Oppenheimer, and we were at their home many times. Even when I was quite young, it was immediately apparent to me that these people were amazingly unusual.

Robert expressed himself with no wasted words, and so articulately that it seemed as if a masterful author had carefully penned all of his utterances before he spoke. He had a graceful, cosmopolitan air about him, and if he was asked a question, his reply always seemed like the very thoughtful answer one might expect from a very gifted professor. Both he and Kitty were, for the most part, very gracious hosts. Her continental cooking was unforgettable. I knew them for quite a few of my younger years, from a time when I was too young to understand the global significance of Oppenheimer’s legendary scientific contributions.

BOE Candidate Adam Bierman has Passion, Experience to Help Schools

To the Editor: Princeton is blessed with an impressive pool of talented, committed individuals and I want to thank every one of my Princeton neighbors who is a candidate for the Board of Education (BOE) and is willing to step up for public service.

I am giving my vote to Adam Bierman — a candidate pledged to maintain Princeton public school education excellence and who also has the courage, honesty, and credentials in equal measures to do so.

As a mother of four children, I am impressed with Adam’s background as a teacher. I myself attended the Princeton Public Schools and loved Princeton so much that I have now moved back. I want to see the residents of Princeton benefit from Adam’s passion and experience that can help the Princeton schools and community. He is up to date on the latest common-sense strategies that help students realize their potential such as technology integration, multisensory learning, and making sure testing is done by competent professionals. So again, please cast your ballot on November 7 and or vote by mail for Adam Bierman.

Wondering if Recent Court Ruling Means End of Tax Breaks for Developers in Town

To the Editor:

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Beth Behrend’s Experience, Proven Capability are Much Needed for PPS

To the Editor:

I write in support of Beth Behrend for reelection to the Princeton Public Schools Board and to urge Princeton voters to join me in voting for Beth.

We have been favored by Beth’s leadership on the Board for the past six years and fortunate that she is offering to continue serving for another three. Her experience and proven capability are very much needed as the Princeton Public Schools navigate this challenging time of increasing student population, heightened cultural awareness, and the increasing variety of educational needs from an increasingly diverse student body.

Beth is thoughtful, hard-working, diplomatic, and committed. She cares about the health and well-being of all our students, about environmental sustainability, about the value of long-term planning, and about ensuring that every dollar of taxpayers’ money is justifiably and wisely spent. Her service on the PPS Board has focused on supporting student achievement with targeted new initiatives and hiring; stabilizing school finances and developing priority-based budgeting; long-term facilities planning that anticipates capital spending to minimize the effect on taxpayers; Board governance by developing clear and measurable goals and through updated Board policies and training; and district advocacy (she is one of only two invited Board-member representatives of the Executive Board of the Garden State Coalition of Schools, a leading advocate on behalf of all N.J. public school students).

Princeton’s public schools are at a pivotal moment. We need a strong and experienced School Board. We need Beth Behrend on that board to ensure continued success.

SCOTT SILLARS Patton Avenue

Later, I witnessed the sad effect of the McCarthyites attack on his reputation and his career. My mother and many of her friends discussed, at length, all the stresses of that ordeal. Some of them had witnessed a hostile confrontation between Oppenheimer and Strauss, at a party. In the fewest words imaginable, never raising his voice, Oppie put Strauss very much in his place when the man had been throwing his weight around in such a way as to irritate a number of people at the event.

I really loved that family, and their Caribbean housekeeper, and all the lovely hours we spent with them. As time wore on, I was not unaware of Mrs. Oppenheimer’s problems with alcohol, but most of what I remember about her was her kindness to me, and all her animated expressions of interest in my youthful pursuits of that time.

Living now in Southwestern Pa., I have occasionally returned to Princeton. It has changed incredibly since I lived there. In the 50s and 60s, it was a wonderful place to grow up in.

DAVID A. GREENE Carpenter Lane, North Huntingdon, Pa.

Noting That General Disregard for Traffic Safety Has Taken Root in Driving Public

To the Editor:

To the Beemer driver who tailgated me and flipped me the bird when I had the nerve to drive the speed limit and stop at stop signs in the tree streets area of town; get a grip. Spruce Street isn’t the place to demonstrate your driving prowess and your vehicle’s clearly awesome power.

There are kids on these narrow streets, bicycle riders (both in the street and on the sidewalks), lots of pedestrians crisscrossing the streets to get to their cars, and, of course those damnable electric scooter/skate board riders who blithely drive at top speed as if the laws of physics won’t govern their ability to stop. Twenty miles per hour is more than fast enough to get you to where you are going in the five short blocks that make up the tree streets area. The intersection of Spruce and Chestnut is particularly dangerous given the poor sight lines and the need to pull forward over the pedestrian crossings at Spruce Street to see if there are cars or trucks making their way up and down Chestnut Street. There are plenty of blind driveways too.

There is a general disregard for traffic safety that has taken root in the driving public. U-turns and K-turns in the middle of Nassau Street are commonplace as is speeding and tailgating for what purpose I can’t fathom. You can’t shave that many minutes off your commute, can you? There is no upside to careless driving on residential streets, so Beemer Guy, keep both hands on the steering wheel instead of one out the window with a single finger salute and get your foot off the accelerator.

Note to Police Department: If you want to fill the local coffers with speeding fines, just park a speed recording device mid-block on Chestnut Street and pull them over at Barbara Boggs Sigmund Park. You’ll make bank.

RALPH

THAYER Chestnut Street

In a recent N.J. Supreme Court ruling, Malanga v. Township of West Orange, it was ruled that the town improperly designated the site of its public library as an area in need of redevelopment (ANR) under the Local Redevelopment and Housing Law. The court reaffirmed that the standard for declaring a property or building in need of redevelopment must be that the property is “blighted” and must prove that the area is detrimental to the community and that there is a public purpose to redeveloping buildings. They also emphasized that the fact that a property is old or requires modernizing is not confirmation of “blight.”

Why is this relevant to Princeton? In recent years, at least three approvals of an ANR, primarily to enable property developers and owners to override existing zoning and to secure tax breaks in the form of PILOT’s (Payments In Lieu Of Taxes) have been granted. Given that Princeton has a shortage of buildable land that generally sells at a premium there is very little, if any, property that comes even close to the standard for being “blighted.”

What’s more, the recent Princeton Theological Seminary (PTS) properties illustrate this issue perfectly. Of the 10 properties classified under the ANR, one was a playing field and others were used for residential, recreational, and even conference use. The ANR approval resulted in several historic buildings being demolished and the properties being offered to a developer who is looking for favorable zoning and a tax break. The remaining properties, all of which are still in use, including the playing field, still fall under the ANR designation.

The court has highlighted that these type of ANR designations are clearly in violation of the law and represent an overly broad interpretation of the law, which has been so enthusiastically embraced by developers. What should be done?

To respect this ruling, existing ANR approvals should be reviewed, and where relevant, they should be corrected to comply with the proper interpretation of the law. This would include, for projects not approved, not negotiating further PILOT agreements that negatively impact school funding and property taxes, and also reasserting compliance with underlying zoning. For properties that are presently in use, including playing fields, the ANR should be rescinded, and the properties should revert to their underlying zoning, making them subject to normal planning processes. This potentially represents an opportunity for Princeton Council to redirect development towards affordable housing realigning with the public interest and using tax breaks to encourage developers to prioritize affordable development.

While this decision sets a precedent and highlights the importance of ensuring that ANR designations are made in accordance with the law and serve a true public interest, it does not automatically prohibit the use of ANR designations in the state. Instead, it calls for greater scrutiny, transparency, and adherence to legal standards when making such designations.

MIKE HEAD Hibben Road

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Books

author event series, and is co-sponsored by Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts and Humanities Council.

Li, who was featured in the New York Times’ By the Book feature September 10, is described as a “truly original writer, an alchemist of opposites: tender and unsentimental, metaphysical and blunt, funny and horrifying, omniscient and unusually aware of just how much we cannot know,” on the publisher’s website.

In the stories in Wednesday’s Child , (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27), a grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she’s lost; a professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser; and every year, a restless woman receives an email from a strange man twice her age and several states away.

A starred review in Kirkus Reviews describes the stories as “An infinite variety of ways to survive — or, at least, march through — devastating loss are cataloged in Li’s cool and measured litany of pain . . . The cumulative mass of the stories is sobering, a gorgeous almanac . . . Quiet, beautiful accounts of journeys through hell.”

Li is the author of Must

Yiyun Li to Discuss New Short Story Collection at Library

Labyrinth Books and the Princeton Public Library are celebrating a new short story collection, Wednesday’s Child, about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life. Author Yiyun Li, who wrote last year’s award-winning The

Book of Goose , teaches at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts.

Li will be speaking with fellow writer Lynn Steger on Thursday, September 21, at 7 p.m., at the Princeton Public Library. The event opens Labyrinth Bookstore’s fall

I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude , A Thousand Years of Good Prayers , The Vagrants , Gold Boy, Emerald Girl , The Book of Goose, and of the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

Strong is the author of the novels Hold Still, Want, and Flight . Her non-fiction has appeared in the New York

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Times, Los Angeles Times, New York, The Paris Review, and elsewhere, and has taught writing at colleges and universities including Columbia University and, most recently, Bates College.

Friends of Lawrence Library

Hold September Book Sale

Shop the Friends of the Lawrence Library September Book Sale for thousands of used, gently-read books for readers of all ages. The sale opens on Thursday, September 21 and ends on Monday, September 25 at the Lawrence Headquarters Branch of the Mercer County Library System, 2751 Brunswick Pike, Lawrenceville.

The book sale’s Early Admission on Thursday, September 21, from 10 a.m.12 p.m., is free for current members of the Friends of the Lawrence Library. Entry to the Early Admission event is $5 for the general public. Patrons with scanners will be charged $20 and will only be allowed to use scanning devices during Early Admission.

After the Early Admission event, entry to the sale is free and open to the general public. No scanning devices will be allowed. Payment by cash or checks will be accepted. The book sale will be open on Thursday, September 21 from 1 to 4:30 p.m.; on Friday, September 22 and Saturday, September 23 from 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; on Sunday, September 24 from 12:30–4:30 p.m.; and on Monday, September 25 from 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Sunday, September 24, and Monday, September 25 will be $5 a bag days.

Book donations for the

Friends of the Lawrence Library book sale are being accepted at the Lawrence Headquarters Branch. Proceeds from the book sale fund programs and other library services that benefit library patrons of all ages. For more information about the library and its programs, call (609) 8838294 or visit mcl.org.

Martha McPhee Remembers Omega Farm in Book, Talk

In March of 2020, writer Martha McPhee, her husband, and their two almostgrown children left their New York City apartment for McPhee’s childhood home in nearby Ringoes to quarantine outside of the city and to care for her mother.

But returning to Omega Farm brought back memories of her unconventional childhood with her mother, her stepfather, and their nine other children, living an unconventional lifestyle, and depicted in her new memoir, Omega Farm.

Award-winning author McPhee will discuss the newly released memoir Tuesday, September 19, at 5:30 p.m. at a ticketed event at The Historical Society of Princeton Updike Farmstead.

This event is co-sponsored by the Historical Society of Princeton with support from Labyrinth Books. Proceeds will benefit the library for ongoing author events. Tickets, available through the events calendar at princetonlibrary.org, are $35 and include a copy of Omega Farm. The evening will also include sparkling beverages, sorbet, and other sweets.

Omega Farm (Scribner, $28) is a candid exploration of the author’s complicated

family legacy, and has been called “a piercing account of her unexpected return to her childhood home during the COVID-19 pandemic” and “a courageous self-examination made of equal parts candor and compassion” by Publisher’s Weekly.

McPhee, the daughter of writer John McPhee and artist Pryde Brown, and stepdaughter of Dan Sullivan, states on her website, “I can’t claim that my childhood was unhappy, but it was complicated, rich. And because of it I can say unequivocally that I became a novelist.”

McPhee is also the author of the novels An Elegant Woman, Bright Angel Time, Gorgeous Lies , L’America, and Dear Money Gorgeous Lies was a finalist for the National Book Award. McPhee, who was born in Princeton, currently lives in New York and teaches fiction at Hofstra University.

McPhee will also be at the Frenchtown Bookshop Friday, September 15, at 6:30 p.m., to discuss Omega Farm. The event is free and open to the public, however, seating is limited and priority will be given to attendees who have purchased the book in advance from the bookshop (frenchtownbookshop. com). The author will be in conversation with the bookshop’s Barbara de Wilde.

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Performing Arts

The first 50 submissions will be accepted for consideration and read by a panel of judges. Commentary will be provided for all submitted scripts. Up to six plays will be selected for staged readings before a live audience on the historic Mill stage on Sunday, March 3, 2024. In addition to these readings by experienced actors, the selected writers will receive a $100 cash prize.

Last year’s winners included scripts by students from Solebury School, Princeton Day School, and New Hope-Solebury High School, among others.

“This challenge offers many incentives: Your play read on the historic Mill stage by accomplished actors, a personal commentary on your play from the judges written just for you, a $100 cash prize,” said Valerie Eastburn, drama committee chair. “Find your voice and start writing. We want to hear what you have to say.”

New York City Ballet

Pays Tribute to Balanchine New York City Ballet opens its 75th anniversary season Tuesday, September 19 with seven performances of George Balanchine’s Jewels, considered the first three-act, abstract ballet ever created. Following that week, the season continues with an exploration of works by Balanchine, which are the foundation of the company’s repertory.

Among the many works to be performed are Apollo, Agon, Western Symphony, La Sonnambula, Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2, Prodigal Son, Theme and Variations, and Bourrée Fantasque.

The opening night performance will include a special tribute to the more than 750 dancers who have performed with New York City Ballet since its inception, with more than 250 alumni dancers in attendance. A large-scale video installation by David Michalek will be displayed each night on the façade of the theater. For ticket information, visit nycballet.com.

Chubby Checker Stars

In Doo Wop Spectacular A four-act Rock ‘N’ Roll/ Doo Wop Spectacular starring Chubby Checker comes to the State Theatre, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, at 7 p.m. on Saturday, October 21.

Checker, famous for “The Twist,” grew up in South Philadelphia and formed a street-corner harmony group at age 8. He learned to play piano at Settlement Music School and went to South Philadelphia High School, where he entertained classmates, including Fabian Forte, with vocal impressions of Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis and Fats Domino.

After school, he worked at a market where his boss was so impressed with his customers’ enjoyment of Checker’s singing impressions that he had him record a version of “Jingle Bells,” in which he imitated popular recording stars. Dick Clark sent the song as a Christmas greeting to his business associates, and Cameo Parkway Records signed Checker.

In 1959, “The Class” was his first hit record. “The

Twist” was originally a “B” side, but Checker tirelessly promoted it on TV, in interviews and in performances. By the summer of 1960, “The Twist” became a No. 1 hit, introducing the concept of couples “dancing apart to the beat” and leading to a revolution in dancing with one dance craze leading to another.

Co-headlining the show is The Doo Wop Project The act consists of five Broadway stars from hit shows like Jersey Boys and Motown The Musical . Also performing are The Duprees and Vinnie Madugno. Visit Stnj.org for ticket information.

Submissions Now Open For Playwriting Challenge

Drama at Phillips’ Mill is again offering students in grades 7-12 a chance to enter the second annual juried Play with Words student playwriting challenge. Those who attend school within a 25-mile radius of Phillips’ Mill, just north of New Hope, Pa., are invited to submit an original oneact, short play by January 15, 2024.

For details, visit phillipsmill.org/drama/playwith-words.

Kelsey Theatre Season

Opens with “Beautiful” Mercer County Community College’s Kelsey Theatre and Playful Theatre Productions will be kicking off the 2023-24 season with Beautiful: The Carole King Musical , September 22 to October 1.

The Tony- and Grammywinning production tells the inspiring true story of singer/songwriter Carole King. It follows her rise from a teenage songwriter to her role as part of a hit songwriting team with her husband, Gerry Goffin, to one of the most successful solo acts in popular music history, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The story is told through a narrative and classic songs that span generations.

From hits King wrote for James Taylor and Aretha Franklin to her own success as a solo artist, the show includes more than two dozen chart toppers such as “You’ve Got a Friend,”

“One Fine Day,” “Up on the Roof,” and “Will You Love Me Tomorrow.”

“Kelsey’s 2023-24 season is all about leading ladies, and there can be no doubt that Carole King is the leading lady of popular music from the 60s, 70s, even today,” said M. Kitty Getlik, artistic director at Kelsey Theatre. “We are thrilled to kick off the new Kelsey Theatre season with such a high-energy, upbeat production that will leave the entire audience with a smile on their face and a song in their heart.”

Performances are Friday, September 22 and 29 at 8 p.m. ; Saturday, September 23 and 30 at 2 p.m. and 8

p.m.; and Sunday, September 24 and October 1 at 2 p.m. (The October 1 performance is sold out). Tickets are $30 and available at kelseytheatre.net or (609) 570-3333. Kelsey Theatre is located on the campus at 1200 Old Trenton Road in West Windsor.

Bristol Riverside Theatre Presents Campy Comedy

The mainstage season of Bristol Riverside Theatre in Bristol, Pa., begins October 3 with the Charles Ludlam comedy-camp-suspense-satire play The Mystery of Irma Vep. The show runs through October 22.

The two-man cast of Chris French and Charles Osborne transform through eight characters: male, female, human, and werewolf in this B-horror mystery, which was originally produced by Ludlamn’s Ridiculous Theatrical Company off-Broadway, in 1984. Ludlam played Lady Enid, while his partner, Everett Quinton, played Lord Edgar Hillcrest.

Osborne is best known for his appearances on the Food Network show The Worst Cooks in America, and several off-Broadway productions. French has appeared in Assassins, Hedwig and the Angry Inch , and other productions.

For tickets, visit brtstage. org or call (215) 785-0100.

CAROLE KING’S STORY: Jennifer Fischer of Hamilton as Carole King in “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, running September 22 to October 1 at the Kelsey Theatre on Mercer County Community College’s West Windsor campus.

BALANCHINE FESTIVAL: George Balanchine’s “Serenade” is among the ballets to be performed by the New York City Ballet September 18-October 1 at the David H. Koch Theatre in New York’s Lincoln Center, as part of a tribute to the late choreographer, who co-founded the company 75 years ago. (Photo by Erin Baiano)

“PARSONAGE BARN”: This painting by Donna Senopoulos of Plainsboro is part of Watercolorists Unlimited’s annual Fall Art Show and Sale, to be held on Saturday, September 16 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Parsonage Barn in Cranbury.

Watercolorists Unlimited Fall Art Show, Sale in Cranbury

Watercolorists Unlimited will host their annual Fall Art Show and Sale on Saturday, September 16 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the historic Parsonage Barn at 3 Cranbury Neck Road, one block away from Main Street in Cranbury. Original paintings from 11 local watercolor artists will be available for purchase, selling at price points from $35 to $500. Both framed and unframed, many paintings feature the barns on this property and local scenery, along with florals, still life, and

landscapes of various locations and seasons. A portion of the proceeds helps support the Parsonage Barn.

Watercolorists Unlimited, a group of artists from Central New Jersey, has been active for more than 25 years.

The artists meet monthly to propose challenging assignments and to critique the previous month’s work. This show will have more than 100 of their paintings for sale, and artists will be on hand to answer questions about their work. Refreshments will be served.

Artists include Carla Olsen of Princeton; Andrea

Rubenstein of Princeton Junction; Donna Senopoulos of Plainsboro; Bob Heyer and Jean Dunham of Monroe; Diane Pastore, Dale Smith, and Lisa Walsh of Cranbury; and Elaine Citron, Sharon Lisman, and Leila Sawyer from the greater Central Jersey area.

The Parsonage Barn, circa 1741, was moved to its current location and restored in 2010. It features original timbers and many farm tools from the period. The site includes two other historic barns. It is one of Cranbury’s most scenic spots, and a great place to spend a fall day.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY: The Princeton Makes artist cooperative, which features 37 artists from the greater Princeton area, will host a second anniversary celebration on September 16 and 17 at its studio space in the Princeton Shopping Center.

Cash, checks, and some electronic payments such as Venmo are accepted, but no credit cards. The event will be held rain or shine. Parking is available on Main Street and nearby Heritage Park on South Main St. No parking is allowed on the barn site.

Princeton Makes to Host 2-Day Second Anniversary Celebration

Princeton Makes, the artist cooperative in the Princeton Shopping Center, will mark its two-year anniversary throughout the day on Saturday, September 16 from 1 to 4 p.m. with an Art Celebration open to the public, and their monthly Java Jam on Sunday, September 17 at 4 p.m., featuring The Woe Nellies.

Since its inception last year, the co-op has expanded from 24 to 34 artists from the greater Princeton area, who work across a range of artistic genres, including painting, drawing, stained glass, sculpture, textiles, greeting cards, and jewelry. Sixteen artists now work from studios in the coop, and the public is encouraged to come and see them at work and purchase any of the hand-made items from the market.

“Princeton Makes has become a real community of artists bringing different cultures and art styles under one roof,” said Spriha Gupta, a Princeton Makes artist. “It encourages the principle of working together, learning from each other, and just enjoying being part of the same group. The interaction with customers as they stop in and visit the studios while artists are working is an enriching feeling for both the local artists and the people.”

The Saturday anniversary celebration will include a variety of activities for adults and children alike. In addition to artists at work in their studios, some artists will provide hands-on art activities and others will do art demonstrations in the

studios. There will be light refreshments served during the day.

On Sunday, the Java Jam will feature The Woe Nellies, a five woman ukulele band that features El Hirvonen, a Princeton Makes co-op member. The Woe Nellies return to play their mix of folk, country and jazzy tunes on ukuleles. The five women sing in harmony as they strum, with other instruments sometimes substituting in such as bass, banjolele, and clarinet.

For more information, visit princetonmakes.com.

Fall Classes at Center For Contemporary Art

Registration is underway for The Center for Contemporary Art’s (The Center) fall art classes and workshops for adults, teens and children. Select classes will be offered in a virtual or a hybrid format. Classes and workshops are offered for artists with all levels of expertise in a variety of media including oil and acrylic paint, pastel, watercolor, drawing, ceramics, and more.

More than 50 adult classes and workshops will be offered. Classes include Photorealistic Drawing with Oscar Beck, Morning Watercolor with Lena Shiffman, Afternoon Oil Landscape with Gary Godbee, Introduction to Drawing with Oscar Peterson, Evening Painting with Wes Sherman, The Power of Pastels with Andrea Gianchiglia, iPad Drawing and Painting with Jeremie Duval, Chinese Brush Painting with Diana Kung, Ceramic Sculpture with John Reinking, Beginner Wheel Throwing with Lori Pearson, and more. New classes this fall include Introduction to Writing with Jamie Fiore Higgins, Figure Drawing and Sculpting with Oscar Peterson, and ceramics class Beginner Wheel with Jennifer Evans Arbo.

workshops to choose from including Color Theory with Andrea Gianchiglia; Watercolor Autumn Scene with Doris Ettlinger; Palette Knife Impasto with Smriti Sangal; The Art of Mosaics with Donna Conklin; Pysanky Egg Painting with Wendy Hallstrom; Colored Pencil with Andrea Gianchiglia; and ceramic workshops with Jennifer Evans Arbo, Ceramic Ornament Making and Scratching the Surface: Sgraffito; and Masks in Clay with Vanessa Cabezas. In conjunction with the fall exhibition “Kendra: A Celebration of Work by Contemporary Indo-American Artists,” The Center will be offering the workshop, Lippan Art. The Facilitation Experience with Matheny Arts Access workshop will be offered in association with the fall exhibition “Counterpoint: Artists from the Arts Access Program at Matheny.”

Fall classes for children and teens begin September 18. Classes for children ages 5-8 include Mixed Media, Painting In Depth, and Drawing In Depth. Ages 6-8 can learn to work on the wheel and hand building in the Pottery class. Children ages 9-11 have the choice of Mixed Media, Painting In Depth, Drawing In Depth, and Pottery. Intensive classes for teens allow students to dig deeper into the subjects of painting, drawing, and pottery.

Classes will also be offered for children with autism spectrum disorder and other special needs beginning September 18. Students will explore a variety of art projects specifically geared to their interest and ability both in two- and three-dimensional approaches.

The Center for Contemporary Art is located at 2020 Burnt Mills Road in Bedminster. For more information or to register for a class, call (908) 234-2345 or visit ccabedminster.org.

Classes are designed for all ages to build confidence, artistry, discipline, and foster students’ love of dance. Our world class faculty is dedicated to helping each student reach their full potential, with spacious studios, new state-of-the-art dance floors, and live music. The perfect environment to learn and grow!

FALL ART CLASSES: Ceramic Sculpture is one of the many fall art classes and workshops for adults, teens, and children offered by The Center for Contemporary Art in Bedminster. Select classes will be offered in a virtual or a hybrid format.

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POETRY TALK-GALLERY WALK: D&R Greenway Land Trust will host events on September 21 and 24 related to the Garden State Watercolor Society’s 53rd Annual Open Juried Exhibition, “Migration: Movement for Survival,” on view through September 24. required. Light refreshments will be served.

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Poetry Talk-Gallery Walk

At D&R Greenway Garden State Watercolor Society’s (GSWS) 53rd Annual Open Juried Exhibition, “Migration: Movement for Survival,” continues at D&R Greenway Land Trust through September 24. For the exhibition, GSWS artists created their art to contemplate migration and change — a growing phenomenon in today’s world. Whether figurative or abstract, realistic or fanciful, the art will inspire viewers to think and reflect on the state of the world’s people, wildlife, and climate.

The exhibition is also online at gswcs.org.

Poetry workshops, led by local poets in partnership with D&R Greenway, will culminate in the Poetry Talk-Gallery Walk being presented on September 21. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and poetry reading of selected works is slated to begin at 7 p.m. Following that is a Gallery Walk hosted by GSWS from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. No preregistration is

An artist demonstration by award-winning GSWS artist Ann Greene will take place on September 24, from 2 to 4 p.m. as a culmination of the exhibition.

In addition, GSWS’ 5th annual art installation, “Going, Going, Gone…,” is on view in D&R Greenway’s Johnson Education Center lobby. For this display, “Fifty-three GSWS artists created 123 beautiful small works that call attention to New Jersey species identified by NJDEP as in greatest need of our conservation efforts,” said Tess Fields, president of GSWS. “Artists submitted paintings of animals using a designated color scheme. GSWS is proud to partner with the D&R Greenway Land Trust to inform and inspire people into action.”

D&R Greenway Land Trust’s Johnson Education Center is at One Preservation Place. The public is invited to visit the art galleries on weekdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call (609) 924-4646 or visit drgeenway.org.

Art All Day Returns

To Trenton Sept. 16

Art All Day marks its 12th year on Saturday, September 16 from 12-6 p.m. in Trenton. Guests will have the opportunity to visit art studios, get a tour around the city, see live painting destinations, and enjoy downtown activities and River Days in partnership with the Mercer County Parks Commission. Guests are invited to begin their day at Artworks Trenton, located at 19 Everett Alley, Trenton.

Art All Day uses creativity as a catalyst for connection and unity in the city of Trenton. Volunteers, staff, and artists work together to continue this annual tradition as it provides a place to celebrate the uniqueness that the city has to offer.

“The highlight for Art All Day 2023 is that we have more live muralists and live demonstrations that will be taking place,” said Addison Vincent, artistic director of Artworks.

This initiative is led by Jonathon Conner (LANK), Artworks’ public projects manager. It speaks to the organization’s initiative to develop community-led creativity in the capital city. Live painting locations include One Up One Down Roastery and Caffe, Artworks Trenton, and South River Walk Park.

Throughout the day there will be trolleys transporting attendees throughout the city. Patrons are also welcome to hop on a bicycle tour offered by Trenton Cycling Revolution. To learn more, visit artworkstrenton. org/events.

NJ Dept. of Agriculture

Kicks Off Photo Contest

After Noon Concert Series

Thursdays at 12:30pm

Princeton University Chapel

A weekly opportunity for the Princeton Community to enjoy performances by local, national, and international organists.

Performing September 14 is Rich Spotts

Open to all.

New Jersey Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Joe Atchison III has announced the launch of the #JerseyFreshApples social media photo contest. Jersey Fresh fans can now share photos of Jersey Fresh apples and mention the orchard where they were picked with the hashtag #JerseyFreshApples.

Using the #JerseyFreshApples hashtag on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and Instagram will automatically enter one a chance to win the grand prize of a $250 gift card to their favorite Jersey Fresh market.

There is also a weekly contest that will start each Wednesday where

and an artist demonstration is on September 24 from 2-4 p.m. drgreenway.org.

Gallery 14 Fine Art Photography, 14 Mercer Street, Hopewell, has “A Photographic Salon” through October 1. gallery14.org.

The #JerseyFreshApples photo contest will last through October 31. At the end of the contest, a voting gallery will be created from the eight weekly winner photos with voting open to the public from November 3-17.

“The fall season is a great time for families to go out and visit many of our farms that feature pick your own apples and other activities,” Atchison said. “This is a great way to highlight our many outstanding orchards and a chance for Jersey Fresh fans to use their creative skills for their own benefit.”

To read the full contest rules go to https://woobox. com/7ssrc2.

More information about Jersey Fresh, including which crops are in-season and where they are available, can be found at FindJerseyFresh.com.

Area Exhibits

Art@Bainbridge, 158 Nassau Street, has “Victor Ekpuk: Language and Lineage” through October 8. artmuseum.princeton.edu.

Artists’ Gallery, 18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, has “Here and There” through October 1. Gallery hours are Thursday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. lambertvillearts.com.

Art on Hulfish, 11 Hulfish Street, has “Art About Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings” through November 5. artmuseum. princeton.edu.

Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, has “Our Knowledge is Power: The Cultures of Beauty and Survival in Isle de Jean Charles, LA and Shishmaref, AK” through September 30 in the Taplin Gallery. Artscouncilofprincetton.org.

D&R Greenway Land Trust Johnson Education Center, 1 Preservation Place, has “Migration: Movement for Survival” through September 24. A Poetry Talk-Gallery Walk is on September 21 from 7-8:30 p.m.,

Gourgaud Gallery, 23-A North Main Street, Cranbury, has “Water, Woods, and Wonder” through September 28. An reception is on September 17 from 1-3 p.m. cranburyartscouncil.org.

Grounds For Sculpture, 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, has “Local Voices: Memories, Stories, and Portraits” and “Spiral Q: The Parade” through January 7 and “That’s Worth Celebrating: The Life and Work of the Johnson Family” through the end of 2024, among other exhibits. groundsforsculpture.org.

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

Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine Street, Doylestown, Pa., has “Sarah Kaizar: Rare Air” through November 5 and “Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories” through January 14. michenerartmuseum.org

Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, has “Striking Beauty” through February 18 and the online exhibits “Slavery at Morven,” “Portrait of Place: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints of New Jersey, 1761–1898,” and others. morven.org.

LOVE THOSE APPLES: The New Jersey Department of Agriculture has launched a #JerseyFreshApples social media photo contest, with entries accepted through October 31. contestants will have until the following Tuesday to post their #JerseyFreshApples photos. The weekly winner will be announced on the Jersey Fresh Facebook, X, and Instagram pages and will receive a $50 gift card to the Jersey Fresh market of their choice.

Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, has “Everything’s Fine: Surreal Paintings About Mental Health” through October 15 in the second floor Reading Room. princetonlibrary.org.

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

Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street, has “Flore Organic Botanics” through October 3. Watercolors by Mia Yashin are at the 254 Nassau Street location through October 3. smallworldcoffee.com.

Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, Cadwalader Park, Trenton, has “Ellarslie Open 40” through September 30. ellarslie.org.

West Windsor Arts Center, 952 Alexander Road, West Windsor, has “Ode to New Jersey Art Show” through October 28. westwindsorarts.org.

Mark Your Calendar TOWN TOPICS

Wednesday, September 13

11 a.m.-3 p.m . : Princeton University Farmers’ Market at Firestone Library/Chapel Plaza. Catalina Empanadas, The Granola Bar, Judith’s Desserts, Little Star Foods, Terhune Orchards, and more. Pumarket@princeton.edu

6 p.m .: Master plan “listening session” focused on the Riverside/Jugtown neighborhood, at The Jewish Center of Princeton, 435 Nassau Street. Engage. princetonmasterplan.org.

6:30-8:30 p.m : Planned Parenthood Action Fund of NJ 2023 Endorsement Launch Party, on the role of reproductive freedom in the upcoming election. At a location in Princeton to be shared after RSVP at ppactionnj.org.

7:30-10 a.m.: Central Jersey Healthcare Symposium, sponsored by the Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber, with keynote speaker Justin Guarini. At the Boathouse at Mercer Lake, Mercer County Park, 334 South Post Road, West Windsor. Princetonmercer.org.

1:15-3:30 p.m.: Foraging Forest Tour and Talk, at the Hopewell Park Gazebo, Hopewell. Led by Sourland Conservancy stewardship coordinator Eric Williams and volunteer Sari Pehnke. Redlibrary.org.

4 p.m : Meeting of the Princeton Special Improvement District (Experience Princeton) Board of Directors, at the Nassau Inn, Palmer Square.

7-8 p.m : Meeting of the League of Women Voters of the Greater Princeton Area, at West Windsor Library, 333 North Post Road, Princeton Junction. Lwvprinceton.org.

Thursday, September 14

8:30-9:30 a.m.: ber Business Before Business Virtual Speed Networking, held by Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber. Free for members, $15 non-members. Princetonmercer.org

10 a.m.-3 p.m eton Farmers’ Market is at Hinds Plaza. Organic produce, pasture-raised meat and eggs, bread, empanadas, pickles, flowers, and more. SNAP/EBT accepted on eligible purchases. Free parking for one hour in Spring Street Garage. Princetonfarmersmarket.com.

7 p.m : Author Gabriel Debenedetti talks about his book The Long Alliance , a profile of the long relationship between Barack Obama and Joe Biden, at Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. Livestreamed on YouTube. Princetonlibrary.org.

7 p.m : Sketching the Sourlands, with artist Barbara DiLorenzo, at Titusville Presbyterian Church, 48 River Drive, Titusville. First in a series, Talk of the Sourlands. Free but donations welcome. Registration required at tinyurl.com/Sketching-theSourlands.

8:30 p.m Master plan “listening session” in Spanish, at Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church, 124 Witherspoon Street. Engage. princetonmasterplan.org.

Friday, September 15

11 a.m.-1 p.m.: Trenton Area Soup Kitchen’s annual Community Meal Event, with live music. Open to the public. 72 Escher Street, Trenton. Trentonsoupkitchen.org.

4:30 p.m.: Diarmaid Ferriter on the Irish Civil War, presented by the Fund for Irish Studies and Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University at the James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau Street. Free. Arts. princeton.edu.

7 p.m.: Soil & Light: A Poetry Event at The Farminary, 4200 Princeton Pike. Readings by Camille T. Dungy and Tess Taylor. Register at bit.ly/ poetsonthefarm.

Saturday, September 16

8:30-11:30 a.m.: New Jersey Clean Communities 6th Annual Delaware River Cleanup, at sites in Mercer and Hunterdon counties. Visit delawarerivergp.org

9 a.m.-1 p.m.: West Windsor Community Farmers’ Market, Vaughn lot of the Princeton Junction train station, 877 Alexander Road. Fresh produce, seafood, poultry, pastured eggs, cheese, baked goods, and more. Entertainment by Carmen Maranco. Westwindsorfarmersmarket.org.

9 a.m : Master plan “listening session” focused on the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood, at the Arts Council, 102 Witherspoon Street. Engage.princetonmasterplan.org.

10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Fall Family Fun Weekend at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Pony rides, pedal and play tractors, kids’ games, animals, stories, food, live music, and more. Terhuneorchards.com.

12-2 p.m.: Summer Music Series on the Palmer Square Green with the Erik Daab Trio. Palmersquare.com.

12-2:30 p.m.: “Discover India,” on Palmer Square. Photo booths, performances, dance workshop, and more. Rescheduled from

SEPTEMBER

September 9. Srmosaic.org or (609) 433-8343.

1-4 p.m : Princeton Makes artist cooperative hosts a second anniversary celebration at its studio space in the Princeton Shopping Center. Music, art activities for all ages, and light refreshments. Princetonmakes.com.

8-11 p.m.: Central Jersey Dance Society presents the No Name Dance, at Suzanne Patterson Center, 1 Monument Drive. No partner needed; singles, couples, and new participants welcome. $15 ($10 full time students with ID). Centraljerseydance.org.

8 p.m .: Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood in Scared Scriptless , at State Theatre New Jersey, 15 Livingston Avenue. Improvisational comedy. $29-$59. Stnj.org.

Sunday, September 17

10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Fall Family Fun Weekend at Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road. Pony rides, pedal and play tractors, kids’ games, animals, stories, food, live music, and more. Terhuneorchards.com.

12-3 p.m .: Alliance Francaise of Princeton Re-entree Picnic to celebrate the start of the new school year, at Community Park South, Route 206 at Mountain Avenue. Bring your own picnic; beverages and desserts are provided. No alcohol permitted. Door prizes, games, meet the teachers. Allianceprinceton.com.

12 p.m.: The Princeton Battlefield Society hosts Young Patriots Day at Princeton Battlefield State Park, 500 Mercer Street. George Washington, Ben Franklin, and other historical guests are on hand for this family event. Pbs1777.org.

2 p.m.: “Annis Boudinot Stockton: The Poet and the General,” illustrated talk by Joseph Wroblewski at Morven, 55 Stockton Street. $5 (free for members), includes an optional tour at 12:30 p.m. of Morven’s first floor exhibition. Morven.org.

4 p.m .: The Woe Nellies perform at the Java Jam coffeehouse, at Princeton Makes artist co-op, Princeton Shopping Center. The five women sing with ukulele accompaniment and other instruments. Princetonmakes.com.

Monday, September 18 12 p.m.: Master plan “listening session” focused on Elm Court at the Harriet Bryan House, 310 Elm Road. Engage.princetonmasterplan.org.

1-3 p.m .: The Women’s College Club of Princeton meets at Morven Education Center, 55 Stockton Street. Joyce Felsenfeld speaks about artists Gabriele Munter and Vassily Kandinsky. Free. Wccpnj.org.

7:30 p.m .: Emily Mann in conversation with her biographer Alexis Greene, about Mann’s new play The Pianist , to be presented at

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

Tuesday, September 19

9 a.m.: Master plan “listening session” focused on the Central Business District at the Nassau Inn. Engage. princetonmasterplan.org.

5:30 p.m .: An Evening with Martha McPhee, who discusses her memoir Omega Farm , at the Historical Society of Princeton, 354 Quaker Road. $35 including the book and refreshments. Proceeds benefit the Princeton Public Library. Princetonlibrary.org.

7 p.m .: Songwriters’ Circle and Open Mic. The Princeton chapter of the Nashville Songwriters’ Association provides feedback and tips to help songwriters improve; also included is an acoustic open mic. At Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. Princetonlibrary.org.

Wednesday, September 20

9:30 a.m.-1 p.m.: Meet the Human Services Department during open office hours in the lobby of Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. Princetonlibrary.org

11 a.m.-3 p.m .: Princeton University Farmers’ Market at Firestone Library/Chapel Plaza. Catalina Empanadas, The Granola Bar, Judith’s Desserts, Little Star Foods, Terhune Orchards, and more. Pumarket@princeton.edu

11 a.m .: Master plan “listening session” focused on Princeton University Farmers Market) at Firestone Library, 1 Washington Road. Engage. princetonmasterplan.org.

6 p.m.: Princeton Public Library Board of Trustees meeting, in the Community Room, 65 Witherspoon Street, unless otherwise noted. Princetonlibrary.org.

6 p.m .: “Tigers on Strike!” A panel of Princeton University alumni, faculty, and others impacted by SAG/AFTRA strikes and the Writers Guild, at the James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau Street. Free. Arts. princeton.edu.

6:30 p.m.: “Keeping Time: New Jersey Musical Clocks,” featuring popular music of the 18th and 19th century, at Morven, 55 Stockton Street. With the Practitioners of Musick and members of the vocal ensemble Mostly Motets. $25-$35. Morven.org.

7 p.m .: Concert by New Aries Tango, presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts at The Forum at the Lewis Center complex. Free. Arts.princeton.edu.

7 p.m.: Master plan “listening session” focused on Princeton High School and Princeton Middle School at the Princeton High School Black Box theater. Engage. princetonmasterplan.org.

If dining out is on your menu, and you are ready to experience a variety of new tastes, the Planted Plate restaurant can become your new “go to” eatery.

Located at 15 Spring Street, this vegan restaurant offers breakfast, lunch, dinner, and takeout with wideranging culinary choices. it

more thoroughly, he turned to a vegan diet that is plantbased, with no meat, fish, poultry, or dairy products. Many consider this to be a very healthy diet, as well as a way of protecting animal rights and the environment.

“I also always wanted to be my own boss, and have my own business,” he says, with a smile.

Popular Planted Place Vegan Restaurant Is a Big Success Story on Spring Street IT’S NEW To Us

was opened in 2021 by owner/chef Omer Basetemur, and it has consistently increased its customer base as more and more people are enjoying its intriguing variety of plant-based options.

Basetemur is especially happy to have opened Planted Place in his hometown. “I grew up in Princeton, and I really liked the idea of having a restaurant here. Princeton is a good match for a vegan restaurant,” he says.

Bastemur’s culinary history has an interesting origin and evolution. After graduating from Princeton High School, he headed to the Jersey Shore, where he worked in a vegetarian restaurant. Not a practicing vegetarian at the time, he began to appreciate its benefits. “I saw its healthy aspects, and it became part of my diet,” he explains.

Healthy Diet

As time went on, and Basetemur investigated culinary and animal rights issues

In 2005, he opened Kaya’s Kitchen, a vegan restaurant, in Belmar, which he still owns. When he decided to branch out in Princeton, he wanted to offer a more informal setting. Planted Plate has a friendly, casual vibe, with a relaxed atmosphere.

“We can seat 30, and people come in and out all day,” reports Basetemur. “Everything is popular, and people start coming in for breakfast and continue for lunch and dinner. Takeout is also very big.”

What customers will find is an abundance of choices. Sandwiches, wraps, platters, soups, hot bowls, salads, kabobs, tacos, burritos, and Munchie Meals are all available.

Favorites include Avocado Toast; Planted Salad with field greens, grape tomatoes, cucumber, red cabbage, and broccoli florets; and a variety of kabobs. Also every week there are specials, such as Roasted Squash Soup, Oyster Po’ Boy, and Korean Cauliflower Tacos.

Pleasure and Challenge

The menu is displayed on a large chalk board, and

choices are listed with fun and whimsical names: Soul Rebel, Humble Hippie, UnTuna Melt, and “Chick-Un Salad,” among others.

Originating these dishes — with ingredients such as vegetables, fruits, tofu, tempeh, herbs and spices that can replicate traditional meat, fish, poultry, and dairy products (and naming them too!) — is Basetemur’s pleasure and challenge. “I learned about creating vegan dishes by studying, traveling, and constantly working at it,” he says. “I love creating the dishes, seeing what works well together, and finding new tastes and new flavors. We have special recipes, fresh ingredients, and great presentation.”

The customers are all ages, he reports, including families and people from all over the area. “We have regulars who come once a week or more as well as new people all the time.

“Also, many people who come in are not vegans, but are curious and want to try it. I like to let them discover it. I believe that when they do try it, they will like it.”

Two regulars from Hamilton, Morgan Meara and Monse Acosta, have tried it and definitely like it! “We are very enthusiastic about it, and we love Planted Plate,” they say. “The food has been excellent. We are completely satisfied. The staff is very helpful, and it’s a very friendly atmosphere. We will definitely keep coming!”

Voted Best Vegetarian Restaurant

Beneficial Effects

Indeed, the virtues of a plant-based diet are becoming more apparent to many people. A recent convert to the diet reported improved health, more energy, and fewer digestive issues.

Studies have indicated that a plant-based diet can have beneficial effects for the environment. According to The New York Times, a study from Oxford University “found that plant-based diets accounted for 75 percent less in greenhouse gas emissions than diets that include 3.5 ounces of meat a day. The world’s food system is responsible for one-third of greenhouse gases, with beef, lamb, and cheese the most polluting.”

In addition, the Times continues, the New York Health + Hospitals, the country’s largest municipal health system, has focused on plantbased food for patients during the past year. According to New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ office, the hospital system has reduced foodrelated carbon dioxide emissions by 36 percent.

Basetemur has much to look forward to as Planted Plate becomes increasingly popular, and he is very enthusiastic about participating in the Vegan Chef Challenge this month. Many area restaurants are competing by creating three vegan dishes. Diners can sample the creations, and then vote for their favorites. The event is under the auspices of Vegan Outreach, NJ Veg, and Vegan in NJ.

“I’m very excited that Vegan Outreach is doing this, as it will bring awareness to plant-based food,” says

PLANT-BASED: “The vegan diet is plant-based with no meat, fish, poultry, or dairy products. Interest is growing, and I thought there was a need for it in Princeton. There is really nothing like our restaurant, a full-scale vegan restaurant, in the area.” Chef Omer Basetemur, owner of Planted Plate, is shown in front of the restaurant’s colorful full-size mural, featuring a rain forest/jungle background and the Princeton tiger looking on.

Basetemur. “Hopefully it will show a lot of people that vegan food can be delicious.”

He is very happy to have the opportunity to provide a quality plant-based menu in his hometown. “It is special for me to have Planted Plate in Princeton,” he says. “I look forward to growing the business even more and being a part of this town, this community.

“It means a lot to me to

wake up every morning and have work that I enjoy and do something I believe it. I am feeding people healthy food, and I look forward to continuing to do that.”

Planted Plate is open Sunday through Thursday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. For more information, call (609) 356-0845 or visit plantedplatevegan.com.

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TO YOUR TASTE: Two popular dishes at the Planted Plate restaurant include Tofu Kabobs, left, with chimichurri sauce, skewered peppers and onions; and the Palm Tree featuring grilled jerk tofu, bell peppers, onions, pineapple, broccoli, kale, black beans, brown rice, and mangococonut drizzle, with avocado.

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Princeton Football Kicking Off Season at San Diego, Excited for Fresh Start After Rough Finish Last Fall

After roaring out to an 8-0 start last fall, the Princeton University football team faltered down the stretch, losing nail biters to Yale and Penn in its final two games to see its Ivy League title hopes dashed.

Looking ahead to the 2023 campaign which starts when the Tigers play at the University of San Diego on September 16, Princeton head coach Bob Surace doesn’t see any hangover from that staggering finish.

“You want to respect and learn and grow from those things but we are not carrying anything over,” said Surace, who has guided Princeton to a 35-5 mark and two Ivy crowns over the last four seasons. “We are not carrying the fi rst eight games or the last two, what we do today is so important.”

Senior quarterback Blake Stenstrom acknowledges that the sour taste left from the 24-20 loss at Yale and the 20-19 setback to Penn in the season finale helped motivate the Tigers as they prepared for the upcoming season.

“That was definitely a tough finish, guys came into the off-season ready to attack it,” said Stenstrom, who is one of the team’s four captains along with Liam Johnson, Ozzie Nicholas, and Jalen Travis. “There was definitely an edge about our spring ball and winter training. It is something that motivates us to come back. We definitely focus on the new year, but there is some unfi nished business and we want to go take care of that this year. That is our goal.”

Noting that a roster swelled with seniors over the last two years due to players taking time away from school as they worked around COVID cancellations, this year’s squad is much younger.

“This is a new team and the focus is how are we going to be and how are we going to approach lifts and meetings and now practices,” said Surace. “I think we had 84 seniors combined the last two years which made for great development for the young guys but it makes for a little more inexperience. As coaches, it is a really an enjoyable piece to see where we can get them to everyday. They are seeing something new and making changes.”

Surace has enjoyed seeing Stenstrom loosening up in his second year as a starter.

“Every quarterback has different personalities. Blake is so focused, so serious, so cerebral where for a guy like [John] Lovett, everything was emotional,” said Surace of Stenstrom, who passed for 2,742 yards and 16 touchdowns last fall as he earned second-team All-Ivy honors after winning a preseason battle for the starting job. “I think when you are in that competition period, there is a stress and sometimes you try to force things to be the flash guy instead of just making the right play. Now it is making the right play all of the time. He is also having fun. He rolled out of the pocket a couple of days

ago and one of the receivers scrambled up the fi eld and got open and he throws it and he walks off like Steph Curry hitting a game winner. I am starting to see this side of him that he is enjoying himself.”

Although the Tigers are losing two of the best receivers in program history, Andrei Iosivas (66 receptions for 943 yards and 7 touchdowns in 2022) and Dylan Classi (61 receptions for 915 yards and 4 touchdowns) to graduation, Surace likes what he is seeing from such returners as junior A.J. Barber (28 receptions for 245 yards and 1 touchdown), senior Jo Jo Hawkins (19 receptions for 130 yards and 1 touchdown), junior Matthew Mahoney, junior Luke Colella, senior Anthony Bland, junior Tamatoa Falatea, and junior Jalen Geer.

“A.J. and JoJo both played last year, they were somewhat splitting time and then JoJo had an injury and A.J. kind of took that over,” said Surace.

“With the Catapult, the fitness vest that they wear, the speed is incredible with what they are doing. They are cutting down on mistakes, that is the hard part with inexperience. In high school and lower levels of football, they are not quite as challenged on their splits and the formations. It is not just beating a guy over you, there are so many subtle things they have to know. They have been awesome.”

At running back, the trio of junior Jiggie Carr (120 yards rushing for 1 touchdown), junior John Volker (96 yards rushing for 2 touchdowns), and sophomore Dareion Murphy should give the Tigers a productive rushing attack.

“They have been phenomenal, our speed at the position is great,” said Surace. “I thought we had some depth last year, but John got hurt in the opener and tried to come back and reinjured it at Harvard. Jiggie had an injury early in the year; he was healthy later and was able to get where he was productive in the role. Murphy was like most freshman, physically he had to put on strength. He put on 20 pounds of strength, he is like a new man.”

The offensive line is being led by mammoth 6’9, 315-pound senior left tackle Travis, a second-team All-Ivy selection last fall who has been named to the 2024 Senior Bowl Watchlist and the East-West Shrine Bowl 1000 list.

“In junior year he starts but he suffered an injury midway through and played through it but it caused him to miss the spring,” said Surace, whose offensive line should also include senior center Blake Feigenspan, junior gaurd Tommy Matheson, senior guard Nick Hilliard, junior tackle Will Reed, and sophomore tackle Cooper Koers. “His upside is through the roof, he has been been primarily a right tackle with Henry [Byrd] on the left but now he is going to play left tackle.”

The Tiger defense had a lot of upside with talent at each level.

“We have seen the young guys grown and get stronger, we are seeing that right now on the d-line,” said Surace, whose defensive line includes junior Ryan Ives, junior Collin Taylor, senior Jack DelGarbino, and sophomore Bakari Edwards, among others. “The back end speed is making it like really compelling. Our QB and receiving group had been ahead of our defensive backs but now it is so competitive in those drills.”

The strength of the defense will be in the middle with a trio of senior linebackers, senior Liam Johnson, the reigning Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year, Ozzie Nicholas, and Will Perez.

“They are like coaches on the fi eld with the way they communicate,” said Surace. “There are times when we see something in camp that we weren’t prepared for, the offense comes out in a different formation and Liam, Ozzie and Will can get them lined up.

The Tiger secondary is stocked with several superb performers in junior Payton Tally, junior Jalen Newman, junior Mason Armstead, and sophomore Nasir Hill.

“Payton is healthy, he played great before having an injury in the middle of the year last year,” said Surace. “Jalen and Mason are terrific, those were three corners last year, we are moving Mason around a little bit. Nasir is playing well. I feel like they are flying to the ball. You are completing a pass in a window and you have to be on time or it is getting broken up.”

Looking ahead to the opener at San Diego (0-2), Surace knows that the Tigers will need to play well to overcome the Toreros.

have a good trip, the young squad will need to overcome the mistakes that come with playing a bunch of new faces.

“When you leave camp, you want to see a team that has come together,” said Surace. “It is an inexperienced team and you are going to live with a false start or a defensive offsides early in camp. We need to do a really good job where we put them in all of the situations where we correct them. It is making sure on my end that we have prepared them for as many of these situations as possible. They are going to make some mistakes physically but you want to make sure that you have that growth of teaching.”

Stenstrom has been seeing that growth and knows that it has to continue throughout the fall in order for the Tigers to reach their goals.

“I think it is consistency in preparation, they guys seem to be bought into the process of studying their plays,” said Stenstrom. “They are locked into meetings and all of the different things in that regard. It is also endurance; the Ivy League season is 10 games only but it is 10 weeks with no bye week. It goes quick but it hits you every single week and you need to be prepared to endure that and take the same approach every single week. I think we have all of the talent on the team to accomplish our ultimate goal. It is just being bought in and having that endurance throughout the season.”

— Bill Alden

CALIFORNIA DREAMING: Princeton University quarterback Blake Stenstrom fires a pass in action last fall. Senior star Stenstrom, a second-team All-Ivy League selection in 2022 after passing for 2,742 yards and 16 touchdowns, will be looking to get his final campaign off to a good start when Princeton plays at the University of San Diego on September 16 in its season opener. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

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“They are historically winning that conference (Pioneer Football League); they have won playoff games, it is going to be a challenge,” said Surace. “They are going to have a couple of games and two weeks of practice on us. We can’t have the practice that is not good because you are behind. Our leaders really instill that mentality into the team.”

Stenstrom, for his part, is looking forward to the trip and the challenge.

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“Team trips are awesome, we want to Florida last year (to play at Stetson) and that was fun,” said Stenstrom, noting that his grandparents live in the San Diego area. “I think traveling with the team and having that experience is a great opportunity. We are playing an out-of-conference opponent who we haven’t played that much before so it is exciting.”

Surace sees the journey to California as a bonding experience.

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With Senior Agatucci Bringing Versatility, Energy, PU Field Hockey Battling Tough Foes in 1-3 Start

Liz Agatucci has done a bit of everything for the Princeton University field hockey program.

After her class lost its freshman year to the COVID-19 pandemic, Agatucci began her career on defense for the Tigers. Last year, she moved to forward, and this year she has established herself in the midfield while also taking on a new leadership role as a senior starter.

“We joke about it all the time,” said Agatucci. “I’ve been everywhere.”

Her versatility and growth are helping the rebuilt Tigers sort out their strengths. No. 15 Princeton fell to 1-3 on the young season with a 2-1 loss to No. 12 Rutgers in double overtime Sunday in the Tigers’ home opener. It was Agatucci who provided the lone goal for Princeton to force overtime following a long delay to tend to injured goalie and reigning Defensive Player of the Week Robyn Thompson who was hurt in a collision with a Rutgers player. Freshman star Ottilie Sykes drove the penalty corner toward the goal and Agatucci dove to get her stick on it and redirect the ball to tie the game.

“I don’t think I was expecting to dive,” said Agatucci, a 5’2 native of Chapel Hill, N.C. “In the moment, it felt right. I just saw the ball going and I was too far out so I just went for it. I really wanted that one.”

A Princeton team that lost nine starters from a year ago, and was further thinned when another captain, Grace Schulze, was lost to injury for the season in a 2-1 overtime loss to No. 1 North Carolina a week earlier, could not muster another goal after Agatucci’s, and Rutgers scored on a penalty corner to end the game, the fourth 2-1 game of the season for Princeton. Their last three games have gone at least to overtime, and Princeton picked up its first win of the season less than 48 hours before the Rutgers loss with a 2-1 double-overtime win at Delaware on Friday.

“There’s definitely some fatigue there,” said Agatucci. “We’re already a small team considering we graduated eight or nine starters last year. We were already going into the season with a brand new team and brand new girls and we’re learning

how to gel together. Two double overtimes in one weekend is going to wear anyone out. But I will say this team is pretty resilient. We play with heart and we play with passion. We’re ready for anything.”

Princeton’s first win came off the stick of Bridget Murphy, who tapped in a tipped shot from Agatucci. Agatucci scored the Tigers’ first goal against Delaware and a 1-0 lead that they held until barely one minute remained in regulation. The late Delaware goal did not deflate Princeton, who survived a near-game winner by Delaware that was waved off as a dangerous play. Princeton didn’t have long to celebrate its hard-fought win before it had to take on Rutgers. And it won’t have time to ponder what went wrong against Rutgers before playing at Maryland on September 14 and then hosting Connecticut on September 17. Princeton has played the toughest schedule in the country according to Massey Ratings.

“I don’t want to make excuses but I see this happen every year where we haven’t played together for that long and we have enough talent on this team that when we start to come together, they will really come together,” said Agatucci. “It happens every year. We do get a slow start, but we do have two really tough games in our opening weekend. And every year we get better and better and better, and so that’s what I’m taking from this. Things will change and we will improve. With this team and the talent we have, things will improve.

I’m not worried at all.”

Agatucci is relying on experience gained through the ups and downs of her career. She came to Princeton after growing up five minutes from the UNC campus. She honed her game under the guidance of one of the premier coaches in the area.

“I grew up going to all the games and all of that,” said Agatucci. “I played for a club team there, so I was trained by Grant Fulton who isn’t at UNC anymore, but he was my coach growing up and he was amazing. There’s not a ton of field hockey down there. I’m grateful that I grew up in a place where it was growing and there was a club team that was starting when I was pretty young. I’m lucky that

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I grew up there and got to be trained by some amazing coaches. It’s definitely growing down there.”

Agatucci played in a couple games as a defender in her sophomore year before moving to forward as a junior. She notched her first goals of her career last year in that role, and this year head coach Carla Tagliente has her helping at both ends of the field as a midfielder.

“I got recruited as a defender, but I grew up playing every position; I played center mid for my high school team, and I played a little forward for them as well,” said Agatucci. “But I was mainly a back and a midfielder for my club/travel team. In terms of my evolution, I try to look at it as I said to Carla, ‘Just put me out there. I’m happy to step in anywhere, I just want to be a contributor.’ It’s obviously a little harder when you have some of the best players in the country. It’s a little harder to get out there and try to contribute. I was fine going anywhere. I had a blast playing forward last year. It was new to me. And I’m happy to step in the back whenever as well because that was my original position. But I’ve really enjoyed the midfield so far because I get a little bit of both. I get that attacking, I get to score goals, which is really exciting. I also get that defensive experience as well.”

In addition, Agatucci has assumed more of a leadership role. With Thompson and Schulze both injured, the only senior captain left on the field Sunday was Sam Davidson. In the time while Thompson was being treated, Agatucci was one of the players addressing her team.

“I’ve definitely taken on more of a leadership role,” said Agatucci. “I feel more responsibility to look out for my freshmen, make sure they’re doing OK, and make sure they’re settling in. For me, it being my last year — I lost my first year to COVID which was pretty devastating — so this being only my third season is a little sad, but it’s definitely changed my mentality. I definitely want to just have fun and enjoy it.”

Agatucci hasn’t taken long to figure out her role. She knows that she can contribute to the Tigers in a variety of ways on and off the field. She has tried

to set an example with her leadership and her style of play.

“The way that I’ve always played is just bring the energy because that’s really something that’s contagious on the field,” said Agatucci. “That’s where I found my leadership role. It’s bringing the energy and also calming everyone down between quarters and telling each other to keep composure, keep calm and work together. As somebody who’s in their third season and last year, I’ve been around the block. I’ve played every position, and so I kind of know if things get too frantic, we need to calm it down. If things are hard we need to have somebody step up and calm everybody down. I’ve seen it from girls that graduated and learned it from them and stepped up into the role that they played.”

It seemed fitting that Princeton’s goal after Thompson’s injury came from a fellow senior. After a long delay, it took Agatucci just three minutes to tie up the game. The goal lifted the Tigers’ spirits after they lost Thompson, whose playing availability and severity of injury was not disclosed as of Monday.

“I think we were just a little frustrated, the same happened when Grace got injured in our UNC game,” said Agatucci. “When some -

thing like that happens to somebody you’re really close to, you just want to do it for them. It gives you some sort of purpose. Aside from that, we weren’t playing the way we normally play. That might be some fatigue setting in there from the Delaware game. After halftime it was a huge switch-up. We just wanted to go out there and said we really need to pick it up and change things here. With what happened to Robyn, it fueled that fire even more.”

For Agatucci, it was her second goal of the season and already equals her best production of her college career. She credits being in a better headspace with her productivity.

“I’ve kind of struggled with a mental hump for the last three years as many athletes struggle with,” said Agatucci. “I think this year I was just kind of done with feeling kind of stuck. I just looked at it like it’s my last season and I want to go out there and have fun and I want to enjoy the sport I love and have loved the majority of my life. I’m in a better place now and I’m in a place where I can go out there and zone in and have a good time and just not think, not overthink, not underthink, just play. And that’s what I’ve been doing. I would say it’s a mentality switch for me.”

Agatucci is motivated to make the most of her final season with Princeton. The sociology major isn’t sure if she will use her final NCAA season of eligibility elsewhere. She’s drawing on her

experience to help Princeton meet its potential in her last year. The improvements that the Tigers are used to seeing will come as the players learn each other’s styles and strengths.

“We’re a talented team,” said Agatucci. “We’re all extremely talented. We don’t need time in that aspect. It’s just the passing that needs to be connected better. We saw that in (Sunday’s) game as well. There were several passes that were just a little too hard or a little too out in front. I think with time that will come together.”

Princeton is confident that its arduous schedule will pay off when it opens defense of its Ivy League title. The Tigers haven’t had the results that they have wanted, but they are showing progress even through the daunting challenges of the new cast, difficult schedule and injury bug.

“I think every single person on this team is willing to work and will work,” said Agatucci. “Everybody is giving 110 percent on the field, to the point where we’re having to call for subs. It’s really important and it’s refreshing to see that, especially from the freshmen. To see them come in and push themselves where they haven’t had a ton of time on this team, seeing them work this hard, it’s helpful for us. That’s the one thing that I love about this team is that everybody is willing to hustle and give 110 percent every single game, every single play.”

—Justin Feil

FINISHING TOUCH: Princeton University field hockey player Liz Agatucci controls the ball in a game last year. Last Sunday, senior midfielder Agatucci scored the lone goal for No. 15 Princeton as it fell 2-1 to No. 12 Rutgers in overtime. The Tigers, now 1-3, play at Maryland on September 14 before hosting Connecticut on September 17. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

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Ayres Leaving PU Wrestling To Guide Stanford Program

Having transformed Princeton University wrestling team from an Ivy League doormat into a force on the national scene, Chris Ayres is ending his 17-year tenure with the program to guide Stanford University wrestling.

Ayres was appointed as the Matt Gentry Head Wrestling Coach at Stanford, as announced Monday by Cardinal Director of Athletics Bernard Muir.

“I am excited to welcome Coach Ayres to Stanford,” said Muir in a release on the Standard Athletics website. “His success at Princeton speaks for itself and I believe he can take our wrestling program to new heights. We are thrilled to have him lead our studentathletes and be ingrained in the Stanford community.”

A four-time Ivy League Coach of the Year, Ayres has built the Princeton program into a conference and national contender. Among the many achievements, Ayres has produced just the second individual national champion in Princeton history this March in Pat Glory who took the title at 125 pounds, giving the Tigers their first national champion since 1951.

In reflecting on the move, Ayres said he was primed for a change.

“The most common question I have been asked during

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this process is, ‘Why would you leave Princeton?’” said Ayres. “My answer is simply, ‘It’s time. After 17 years of building the Princeton program I am ready for a new challenge. My experience at Princeton has uniquely prepared me to take the Stanford wrestling team to new heights.”

During Ayres’ tenure, the Tigers had their first NCAA finalist since 2002, producing two in the same season in 2022. They qualified a program-record seven wrestlers to the 2017 NCAA Championships, and, in 2019, had a program-record three AllAmericans. In 2023, Princeton was 13th at the NCAA Championships — the highest finish in program history and its 10th top-25 standing all-time.

Under Ayres, the Tigers won 10 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) individual titles, all since 2016, and placed in the top 5 at EIWAs (when competing) from 2016-22.

Princeton has earned 48 bids to the NCAA Championships since 2010.

In 2020, the Tigers won their first Ivy League championship since 1986, snapping a 34-year-long streak to Cornell in the process.

A former EIWA champion and two-time recipient of Lehigh’s “Outstanding Athlete” honor during his undergraduate career, Ayres spent five years as an assistant for the Mountain Hawks before taking over at Princeton.

While at Lehigh, Ayres established a new school record with 120 career victories, and in 1998, he amassed the most wins in a single season for a Lehigh wrestler with 39. He won the 150-pound EIWA championship as a junior and earned All-America honors at 157 pounds as the NCAA sixthplace finisher during his senior season.

Ayres earned his undergraduate degree in marketing and his master’s in elementary education at Lehigh in 2001. He and his wife, Lori, have a daughter Chloe, a member of the Princeton wrestling Class of 2025, and a son, Atticus, a Princeton High wrestling standout.

Tiger Women’s Soccer Fall to Penn State

PU Women’s Cross Country Takes 1st at HYP Meet

Tsion Yared led the way as the Princeton University women’s cross country team finished first in the annual HYP meet last Saturday at Allen’s Meadows Park Wilton, Conn.

Yared placed third overall with a time of 13:45.7 over the 4,000-meter course. Maggie Liebich was next for the Tigers, taking fourth in 13:46.5 with Mena Scatchard coming in fifth at 13:48.9.

In the team standings, Princeton had a winning score of 29 with Harvard (36) coming in second and Yale taking third (59).

Princeton runners will be competing in the Battle of Beantown on September 29 in Boston, Mass., and the Paul Short Invitational on September 30 in Bethlehem, Pa.

PU Men’s Cross Country Places 3rd in HYP Meet

Connor Chen set the pace as the Princeton University men’s cross country team took third in the annual HYP meet last Saturday at Allen’s Meadows Park Wilton, Conn.

Chen took 14th individually with a time of 19:42.3 over the 6,000-meter course.

In the team standings, Yale took first with a score of 18 followed by Harvard (43) and Princeton (75).

Princeton returns to action when it competes in the UVA Invitational on September 23 in Charlottesville, Va.

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Edged by Mount St. Mary’s Battling hard, the Princeton University women’s rugby got edged 27-26 by Mount St. Mary’s last Saturday in its home opener.

Amelia Clarke scored three times in the defeat for the Tigers with Celia Watson adding one.

Princeton, now 0-2, hosts Dartmouth on September 16.

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Adds Norton to Staff

The Princeton University men’s volleyball program has added Joe Norton to its staff as a new assistant coach.

BIG WEEKEND: Princeton University men’s water polo player Vladan Mitrovic gets ready to unload the ball in 2022 action. Last weekend, junior Mitrovic starred as the No. 6 Tigers went 5-0 at their annual Princeton Invitational at DeNunzio Pool. The Tigers started the event by defeating No. 16 Cal Baptist 15-7 last Friday. In action on Saturday, Princeton defeated Wagner 17-5 and then topped No. 19 Santa Clara 15-7. A day later, the Tigers topped Chapman 17-8 and No. 20 Fordham 15-9 as they improved to 7-0. Mitrovic totaled 16 goals on the weekend to help spark the Tigers. Princeton will look to keep rolling as it plays in the Bucknell Invitational on September 16. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

mater as an assistant coach/ recruiting coordinator.

“Princeton Volleyball is extremely excited to welcome coach Norton into our family and team around the team,” said Princeton head coach Sam Shweisky. “Joe has made a great name for

himself, first as a standout player at George Mason and subsequently as a tremendous coach at Mason the last eight years. The respect we have for the George Mason program is paramount as one of the top teams in the EIVA. I have always admired

Joe’s tireless work ethic, keen eye for game tactics, and above all else his positive and uplifting energy.”

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Despite building an 11-9 edge in shots, the Princeton University women’s soccer team fell 3-0 at No. 6 Penn State last Thursday. On Sunday, Princeton had a game at Lafayette postponed due to heavy rain.

The Tigers, now 3-1-1, host Georgetown on September 14 and then play at Quinnipiac on September 17.

PU Women’s Volleyball Goes 0-3 at Maryland Event

Running into some tough competition, the Princeton University women’s volleyball team went 0-3 at the Maryland Tournament last weekend in College Park, Md.

In action last Friday, Princeton fell 3-1 (25-21, 25-22, 25-20, 25-16) to Coastal Carolina then lost 3-1 (25-23, 21-25, 25-16, 25-18) to UMBC.

Wrapping up the competition on Saturday, the Tigers lost 3-0 (25-23, 25-22, 2520) to host Maryland.

Princeton, now 2-3, is next in action when it plays at Temple on September 13 and at Rutgers on September 15.

An Eden, N.Y., native, Norton joins the Tigers after serving eight seasons an assistant coach at George Mason where he helped lead the Patriots to its best conference record in program history, a 13-1 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) season in 2018. That same year he coached three athletes to All-EIVA honors, two firstteam and one second-team.

As a former George Mason outside hitter, he totaled 362 kills in 253 sets played across 82 matches from 2008-2012. In addition, he piled up 41 aces during his collegiate career.

Norton earned his bachelor’s degree in sport management from George Mason University in May 2012 as well as a Master’s in International Sport Management in September 2014. The George Mason alum returned as the head coach of the U17 formation of Northern Virginia Volleyball Association in 2014 and shortly after took on the role of strength and conditioning coordinator in the organization. In 2016, Norton returned to his alma

PHS Football Blanks Haddon Township 23-0

As Famiglietti Helps Lead Stifling Defense

It turned out to be worth the wait for Anthony Famiglietti and the Princeton High football team.

Having jumped out to a 14-0 lead over Haddon Township last Saturday afternoon late in the second quarter on an 8-yard touchdown run by senior tailback Tyler Goldberg and a scintillating 83-yard interception return by sophomore star Ellington Hinds, the game was halted due to thunderstorms that hit the area.

The contest was postponed to Monday afternoon at 4:30 and PHS was determined to close the deal.

“We tried to make a statement that we are going to come out and set the tone, not only Saturday but today,” said senior defensive end and team co-captain Famiglietti.

The Tigers kept coming Monday, getting a 21-yard touchdown run by junior quarterback Travis Petrone and a 29-yard field goal by Carmine Carusone in the third quarter as they pulled away to a 23-0 win in a game that was stopped with just over four minutes left in regulation due to the threat of more storms in the area.

It marked the second shutout in three games for a rugged PHS defense that had blanked Lawrence 20-0 in its season opener on August 25.

“We have a lot of guys coming out to play,” said Famiglietti reflecting on the team’s defensive play as PHS has started 2-1. “I want to give a shout-out to our defensive linemen. I think our ends and linebackers are playing well. Everyone is doing their job. We are getting it done.”

Famiglietti, for his part, has done a variety of jobs for the Tigers over the years.

“It is a lot, they have been playing me at a lot of different positions,” said Famiglietti. “Two years ago I was middle linebacker. Last year I was outside. This year I am playing more of an edge defensive end. I like it a lot, trying to get to the quarterback and stop the run.”

In addition to his versatility, Famiglietti brings speed and technique to the field.

“One thing I realized is that I am little bit more undersized,” said Famiglietti. “I have to be really good with my hands and technique and be really good with my speed. I have to be

The trio of senior co-captain Jake Angelucci, junior Joe George, and Famiglietti has given the PHS defense a really good foundation.

“I think we feed off each other’s plays,” said Famiglietti. “It is me stringing the play out, Angelucci stringing the play out and Joe getting the tackle. We are all working together, we are working as a cohesive unit.”

With PHS having posted an overall record of 3-16 in the two previous seasons, Famiglietti is fired up by the team’s encouraging 2-1 start.

“We are tired of losing, I think that is it,” said Famiglietti. “We are angry. We have had the same kids come around every year for the past two years. It is me, Luc (Angelucci), and all of us as sophomores who are now seniors, we are just tired of losing. That record means a lot. I am really excited, I am trying to aim for an 8-1 season.”

Famiglietti knows that the Tigers face a big challenge in keeping on the winning track as they host Florence (2-0) on September 16.

“Florence is a very big, run-heavy team, “ said Famiglietti. “If we stop the run, I think we can win.”

—Bill Alden

Looking to Build on Run to Sectional Final last Fall, PHS Girls’ Volleyball Aiming for Banner Season

For the players on the Princeton High girls’ volleyball team, looking up to the wall in a corner of the PHS gym serves as daily motivation.

“We see the banner in our gym every day; we have a couple of league titles on the banner but at the bottom of the banner for states, it is blank,” said PHS head coach Patty Manhart “They see it, they want it, at least a sectional title. We are setting that bar for a Group 3, that is always where we are looking. We are not going to lower our expectations.”

Last year, the Tigers added to the banner, winning a Burlington County Scholastic League (BCSL) championship and nearly adding a state title as they advanced to the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Central Jersey Group 3 sectional final where they lost 2-1 to Colts Neck.

With most of the stars from that squad returning this fall, there is an upbeat mood around the players.

“I think they feel really good,” said Manhart, whose team posted a 21-5 record last year. “They trust each other. They have played together before on the school team, but they have also been playing at the same club,” said Manhart, whose team topped Hopewell Valley 2-0 (25-7, 25-9) last Monday to improve to 2-0 in 2023. “They are familiar with different systems and communication. They are ready to go, everyone can see that their teammates get better every year. Knowing that they were solid last year, everyone feels really good.”

Manhart feels good to have sophomore Naomi Lygas back after a superb debut campaign in 2022 that saw her post a team-high 189 kills.

DEFENSIVE STAND: Princeton High football player Anthony Famiglietti, right, battles in the trenches in recent action. Senior defensive end and team co-captain Famiglietti helped PHS post a 23-0 win over Haddon Township in a game that started Saturday and was halted in the second quarter due to thunderstorms and completed on Monday. The Tigers, now 2-1, host Florence (2-0) on September 16.

knowing that she officially has that leadership position, she puts all of her skills out there. She is so court smart, she communicates really well with others.”

Star libero Agel has put in a lot of work to improve after a sophomore season that saw her lead PHS in digs with 199.

“Pearl is someone who is busting her butt in the offseason,” said Manhart. “She is getting stronger, more consistent every year. She knows her job as the libero to be the glue on defense and takes it really seriously. She is a really positive person and super supportive and always takes responsibility for our game and our defense as far as serve/ receive. She is just a super reliable person that we are really lucky to have on the team.”

Another key veteran, sophomore Charlotte Woods, is looking to take on some new responsibilities this fall.

“Each returner is taking on something new, Charlotte used to play back row for Kaelin but now we are going to slot Charlotte into the outside position where Sarah Villamil used to play,” said Manhart. “Charlotte is not the tallest player, but she is very athletic and very fast. She can jump and always a great passer, so now it is bringing that front row game that she has been focusing on.”

A pair of upperclassmen, senior Mackenzie Lyle and junior Anya Haeberli, have

worked their way into the PHS rotation.

“The position where we graduated people was in the middle … so we have been trying to pull in different players and training them at that position,” said Manhart. “Mackenzie is a senior this year — she didn’t really get much playing time last year because we had lots of seniors at the middle, so now it is her turn. Anya was on JV last year, but is another person that could fill that middle position. That is where the opportunity is for newer players to make their way into the lineup.”

In Manhart’s view, the keys to adding lines to the team banner in the gym revolve around rising to the occasion against the toughest competition.

“Something Naomi said last year when we were doing our exit interviews on the last day of practice is that we are not always a big game team,” said Manhart, whose team hosts WW/PNorth on September 14, hosts a tri-match with Pinelands and Madison on September 16, plays at Notre Dame on September 18, and then hosts Northern Burlington on September 19.

“When we would go up against big teams and it was a big game, we didn’t always dig deep and find that extra oomph to take an unexpected win. It is more the mental aspect of the game of being able to work through nerves or turning on that little bit extra. That is what I am looking for; it will help to have that experience under our belts.”

—Bill Alden

“Naomi is great; she is a top player already and she is even stronger, faster, and more powerful,” said Manhart. “I am always impressed by her skill set. Naomi was an impact player last year and she is going to be an impact player this year, but now she has got that year of varsity experience. It is going to make a difference mentality-wise.”

Another sophomore, Kaelin Bobetich, will looking to make a difference.

“I think something that Kaelin has been focusing on is her back row play,” said Manhart of Bobetich, who had 84 kills and 22 blocks last fall. “She can continue to be strong on serve receive and defense. If she can play all around, that is another hitting option out of the back row because she is just a tall, strong player. That’s something she put in a lot of offseason work to get better at because she wants to play all around in the rotation.”

Junior Lois Matsukawa, who tallied a team-high 465 assists last season, is bringing leadership to go with her set-up skills.

“Lois has always been a leader but this year she is a captain with Pearl Agel, our libero,” said Manhart. “What has been nice is that Lois in the past was respectful and a quiet leader, but this year,

SERVING NOTICE: Princeton High girls’ volleyball player Naomi Lygas hits a serve in 2022 action. Coming off a superb debut campaign, sophomore Lygas is looking to make an even bigger impact this fall. PHS, who defeated Hopewell Valley 2-0 (25-7, 25-9) last Monday to improve to 2-0, hosts WW/P-North on September 14, hosts a trimatch with Pinelands and Madison on September 16, plays at Notre Dame on September 18, and then hosts Northern Burlington on September 19. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

(Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

PHS Field Hockey Looking to Fill Some Spots, But Boasts the Talent to Have Another Big Season

With the Princeton High field hockey team lacking strength in numbers, Heather Serverson will need a strong effort across the board from her squad.

“I have a lot of spots to fill, we graduated a big group and we have a small junior class,” said PHS head coach Serverson, who guided the Tigers to a 14-3 record in 2022 as they advanced to the Mercer County Tournament semis and the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Central Jersey Group 4 sectional quarterfinals. “We are kind of low on numbers right now. We really need a lot of bang for our buck from every player on the field.”

Senior Erin Liggio, a Dickinson College commit, should give the Tigers plenty of bang for the buck on the forward line.

“I think she surprised a lot of people last year with the number of balls she was able to put in the back of the cage,” said Serverson of Liggio, who tallied a team-high 30 goals in 2022. “She is a quiet, consistent player. She does her thing and it works out.”

In addition to Liggio, junior Mia Ramirez (9 goals, 8 assists in 2022) and sophomore Sarah Cate Walker (2 goals) will see action at forward.

“We have Mia and Sar -

ah Cate there right now,” added Serverson. “They are connecting well within their own layer. It is just the transition piece with the midfield right now that we are working on.”

At midfield, senior Delaney Keegan (14 goals, 8 assists), who is heading to Cornell and playing for its field hockey program, will be leading the way.

“I have her sitting back a little bit right now at low mid position,” said Serverson, whose midfield unit will also include senior Reva Doshi (8 goals, 8 assists), and Leah Rose Seiden (6 goals, 9 assists), a Hamilton College commit. “She just does such a great job at both ends of the field, she is the anchor in the middle for us.”

Keegan and Liggio have developed a great connection over the years.

“They play with each other year-round too, they both play for Princeton Field Hockey Club,” said Serverson. “They are great leaders too. They do a great job of helping the people around them as well.”

The trio of senior Sally Flanagan, junior Sophie Gono, and sophomore Sofia Digioacchino will be spearheading the Tiger back line.

“Flanagan and Gono are the only returners, they are looking solid so far,” said Serverson. “They are working well together, they are

communicating well. They are incorporating the new defender, Sofia. She is doing really well for a sophomore.”

At goalie, senior Annie Callahan is looking to have a big final campaign for PHS.

“Annie has been doing a really good job keeping her head in the game,” said Serverson. “She has been working on her communication and I have noticed improvement in both areas so far. Somehow she pulls these crazy saves out of nowhere at the last second.”

With the Tigers slated to host Ewing in September 13 and WW/P-South on September 18 to get their 2023 campaign underway, Serverson is optimistic that her squad will do a good job of coming together.

“I think the key for us is to stay healthy, we have been really focusing a lot on how we do conditioning and rest,” said Serverson. “I also think it is just connecting on the field as a unit as opposed to layers or as individuals. When they go off to club out of season they are playing with different people and it takes a while for us to settle back as a squad. I have every confidence that we will be able to do that — it is just that is always the variable for us.”

—Bill Alden

Coming Off Unexpected Trip to State Final Last Fall, PHS Girls’ Tennis Looking to Maintain Winning Ways

Working five new players into its lineup last fall, the Princeton High girls’ tennis team appeared to be heading into a transition season.

Exceeding expectations, PHS caught fire down the stretch, winning the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Central Jersey Group 3 sectional title and advancing to the Group 3 state championship match on the way to a 15-3 season.

Heading into the 2023 campaign, the Tigers are again dealing with some roster turnover as it has lost a singles star and two doubles standouts from last fall but PHS head coach Sarah Hibbert is confident that the program will maintain its winning tradition.

“We bring back a strong core, we certainly hope to have a great season,” said Hibbert whose squad started the season with a 5-0 win over Steinert on September 5 and followed that up with a 5-0 victory over Hightstown last Monday.

“There are a lot of strong teams in this area as well — we can’t look overlook anybody. We need to just come out each day and do the best we can and hopefully have another strong season like we did last year.”

The Tigers feature a strong addition at first singles in freshman Phoebe Decker.

“She has a very consistent game,” said Hibbert of Decker. “She constructs points well and seems like she will fit well in our lineup.

We lost Johanna (Roggenkamp), we knew she was only going to be with us for a year. We were sorry to see her go, having Phoebe come in has been a pleasant surprise.”

Hibbert is happy to have junior Lada Labas at second singles.

“Lada has two years of singles experience so hopefully that will help her in tough matches,” said Hibbert. “She has been there before. She always brings power to the game.”

Sophomore Katie Qin brings a good game as she returns at third singles.

“Katie has a year of experience there as well,” said Hibbert. “She has worked on her game to improve her power and consistency.”

The pair of junior MayaAlexandra Todorov and sophomore Ashna Bushan will give the Tigers plenty of experience at first doubles.

“Maya and Ashna have teamed up, they both played doubles last year for us last year,” said Hibbert. “Ashna has worked really, really hard on her game in the offseason. She has played a lot and has really dedicated herself to tennis. Maya played first doubles last year, she and Ashley Chen had a great season at first. Ashna had a great year at second with Sophie Miller. Both of their partners graduated so they are teaming up this year. I think they have the potential to do really great things.”

At second doubles, senior Scarlett Cai and freshman

Sophia Bruhn are showing the potential to do well.

“This is Scarlett’s first year on varsity, she has been working hard and has just been a little bit out of the mix,” said Hibbert. “Sophia worked hard to come in and break into the lineup. The two of them seemed to have good chemistry in the preseason matches. It is a little early to tell if they can click. You need time playing with your partner to figure what they are going to do and how they are going to do it. I think they have the potential to be a solid second team for us.”

With the Mercer County Tournament starting on September 18 at the Mercer County Park Tennis Complex, Hibbert is hoping her squad can click at the competition.

“It is really hard to know, I know WW/P-North and WW/P-South bring back strong teams from last year,” said Hibbert, whose team plays at Hamilton West on September 13 and at WW/ P-North on September 15 to tune up for the MCT.

“PDS is strong, the private schools are all right in the mix. Pennington has a very strong team. I think it will be a very competitive tournament as it was last year. A lot of it really falls to the seeds and how they play out, as they say the luck of the draw. Last year we were unfortunate with some of our draws. We faced seeds very early, and we didn’t place as well as we could have. Yet when we were able to go head-to-head with some of the teams, we were able to beat them.”

—Bill Alden

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POWER HITTER: Princeton High girls’ tennis player Lada Labas warms up before a match last fall. Junior Labas is back at second singles for PHS this season. The Tigers, who improved to 2-0 with a 5-0 win over Hightstown last Monday, play at Hamilton West on September 13 and at WW/P-North on September 15 before starting play in the Mercer County Tournament on September 18 at Mercer County Park Tennis Complex. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

GOAL-ORIENTED: Princeton High field hockey player Erin Liggio dribbles the ball in a game last season. Liggio sparked the PHS forward line in 2022 as she scored a team-high 30 goals. The Tigers will be hosting Ewing in September 13 and WW/P-South on September 18 to get

2023 campaign underway.

(Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

Building on Surge that Saw it Make MCT, Prep B Finals PDS Field Hockey Upbeat About Prospects This Fall

Although the Princeton Day School field hockey team played to a 0-0 stalemate against Hopewell Valley last Saturday in a season opener that ended in the third quarter due to the thunderstorms that rumbled through the area, Heather Farlow liked what she saw from her club.

“We controlled possession most of the game, we were in our offensive end quite a bit,” said PDS head coach Farlow. “When it stopped we were in our offensive 25 and we had the ball. We had momentum.”

Bringing momentum from a late surge that saw the Panthers advance to the final in both the Mercer County Tournament and Prep B state tourney last fall, PDS is upbeat heading into 2023.

“The mood is positive,” said Farlow, whose squad

went 8-9 in 2022. “If we can keep everybody healthy, we will be competitive.”

Playing a full Colonial Valley Conference schedule for the first time, PDS will be competing against some different foes this fall.

“It is exciting, it is different because we are playing teams that we typically haven’t,” said Farlow. “I will be curious to see how we match up and what that looks like.”

The Panthers boast some exciting options on the forward line in senior Tessa Caputo, senior Lily Ryan, sophomore Amelia Lach, and freshman Sammy Dandy

“Tessa is doing well along with Lily, those two will be on the forward line,” said Farlow. “Amelia is playing some forward and some mid — we are rotating kids

into some different spots. Sammy is a great addition, she is an ice hockey player. I think we have the ability to score from the field and from our set pieces.”

The quartet of senior Kelly Christie, senior Logan Harrison, junior Charlotte Mullen, and freshman Reagan Falconi will be leading the midfield.

“Kelly and Logan are in the midfield,” said Farlow. “Charlotte is back, she was out last year. Amelia will see some time there. Reagan is getting some time. I feel like that is a strong unit.”

On defense, senior LeaJade Richards, senior Katie Zarish-Yasunas, junior Brynn Dandy, sophomore Arden Reilly, sophomore Alexis Huff, the younger sister of recently graduated star Jadyn Huff, and freshman Harkiran Sandhu should develop into a strong unit.

“We have Lea-Jade,

Katie, and Brynn playing back there,” said Farlow. “Arden is playing there. We have got Alexis, she hasn’t played much field hockey. This is her first year ever playing but she has seen a lot of it. She is picking it up and is doing great. Harkiran is also playing a little bit.”

Junior Molly Hall has been playing very well at goalie. “Molly has done a lot of work this summer,” said Farlow. “She had done a lot of clinics and training. She is solid in there.”

In Farlow’s view, PDS can produce a solid campaign if it fine-tunes things as both ends of the field.

“We have to really focus on possession of the ball and not waiting for the perfect opportunity,” said Farlow. “It is creating opportunities offensively and just playing high pressure defense. We are excited — it is a very, very coachable group.”

—Bill Alden

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New Faces,

Facing New Foes in

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to CVC, PDS Girls’ Tennis Primed for Exciting 2023 Campaign

Losing a trio of key seniors from last year’s squad to graduation, the Princeton Day School girls’ tennis team will be featuring some new faces in new places.

In addition to a revamped lineup, PDS will also be facing a new slate of foes as it’s playing a full Colonial Valley Conference schedule for the first time.

“As an independent school, the regular season matches you always want to win but they are more about maneuvering to get ready and seeded for tournaments,” said PDS head coach Michael Augsberger, whose program said goodbye to single stars Neha Khandkar and Amy Zhou along with doubles standout Josephine Baranski from a squad that went 9-6 in 2022 and advanced to the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Non-Public state final last year.

“Now they have that additional meaning of trying to win the league. And we’re lucky to be surrounded by such strong tennis schools. The league title means as much as the others we fight for. The girls’ schedule was always packed, and now it’s even more so. Getting enough rest and relying on depth in the lineup becomes even more important.”

At first singles, junior Arya Kalra has made a strong statement, going from second doubles to the top spot in the lineup.

is a team leader, she understands where tennis fits in the grand scheme of things.”

At third singles, freshman Prisha Tiwari appears ready to face the pressure of making the jump to high school tennis.

“There are people who are athletes and there are people who are tennis players. I say that as a positive both ways,” said Augsberger. “An athlete is someone who may not play USTA (U.S. Tennis Association) tournaments and who may not be fully technically there, but knows the game and knows spacing. Prisha is a tennis player. She plays tournaments, she knows the USTA system, and she is ranked. She has a big upside, she has great technique. To have a freshman that is confident and combative like that, you want that to infiltrate the rest of the team.”

Augsberger has a number of options at doubles as freshman Zarna Kalra, junior Kavita Amin, senior Ashlyn Du, senior Hannah Park, junior Vera Goliyad, and freshman Shuchi Vanga could all see action.

“I can see a lot of rotation there, we will be trying a couple of different pairings in the next couple of weeks to see what fits,” said Augsberger, noting that assistant coach Jon Brown, the program’s doubles specialist, is entering his 15th season with the team and has played a key role in developing doubles depth for the Panthers.

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DISTINCTIVE SELECTIONS OF WOODS, FINISHES AND STYLES INSPIRING CUSTOM DESIGNS

MIDDLE OF THE ACTION: Princeton Day School field hockey player Kelly Christie, middle, goes after the ball last Saturday against Hopewell Valley in its season opener. PDS tied HoVal 0-0 in a game that ended in the third quarter due to the thunderstorms that rumbled through the area. The Panthers were scheduled to play at WW/P-North on September 12 before hosting Stuart Country Day on September 15 and Robbinsville High on September 18.

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DISTINCTIVE SELECTIONS OF WOODS, FINISHES AND STYLES INSPIRING CUSTOM DESIGNS

PROJECT MANAGEMENT FROM CONCEPT TO COMPLETION

“She has played a lot of doubles the last couple of years, she has proven herself,” said Augsberger. “I think this year from last year especially, she has made a big leap. She was second doubles last year, a little bit of first. She was able to defeat the singles players that we have, that is a big leap for someone who has played doubles the last couple of years. She has been playing in a lot of tournaments. She was clearly spending a lot of time on tennis in the offseason and improving.”

Junior Kristina Wang is one constant in the lineup as she returns at second singles.

“Kristina has gotten a little more perspective on the game now,” said Augsberger. “She can beat pretty much anybody at second or third singles. She play offensive tennis or she can moon ball it back and forth and adapt her style the way she needs to. It is about maintaining the composure for her and trying not to feel the pressure too much. I think that she has gained the perspective now being a senior. Now that she

“Zarna is a new addition, she is Arya’s sister. She is a very strong player, so do we pair her with someone who has experience, or do we pair her with someone who she has the best chemistry with? We are trying to sort that — there are a couple of different ways we can go. Kavita, Ashlyn, and Hannah are ones that we think are going to be starters. Ashlyn is the strongest singles player. Vera Goliyad came from Princeton last year; we know the strength of that team over there and how good she is with her volley. She and Shuchi Vanga are also in the mix.”

With the Mercer County Tournament starting on September 18, PDS will face a good test in the highly competitive event.

“At the counties, so much of it depends on the draw,” said Augsberger. “There are definitely a lot of teams we can beat and then there are teams that we run into that are a big challenge. The draw is a big factor in the counties.”

—Bill Alden

(Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

Bolstered by Returning Veterans, Strength in Numbers, PDS Girls’ Soccer Poised for Major Breakthrough

Heading into his third season at the helm of the Princeton Day School girls’ soccer team, Chris Pettit believes the program is poised for a major breakthrough.

“We did OK the first year, last year we were much more successful and the aim this year is to be even more successful than last year,” said Pettit. “I have high hopes for this season, we have a lot of returning players. We have grown the program a little bit to go from 17 in my first year to 27 now. It is getting a little bit of a consistency there which I hope will improve because the way we play, the possession style, is not your typical high school style. It takes a little time to get some of those concepts across.”

The Panthers will need that strength in numbers as they are playing a full Colonial Valley Conference schedule for the first time.

“I am excited for it; it is lot of local rivalries which will be established or built upon, that is an exciting element,” said Pettit of the move to CVC. “I think having the additional ability to get power points will obviously help us. We had a good record last year but we still ended up on the road in the state tournament. It will require a slightly different approach because certainly this year the way the games fell we have a lot of three-game weeks. I said this to the girls, they are going to have to step up. We can’t have the same players playing 80 minutes three

times in five days, it is just not going to happen. Bigger squads will help with that. My hope is that those extra opportunities will spur and foster a healthy competition within the club as well.”

The squad’s forward unit of senior Abby Weed (6 goals, 3 assists in 2022), sophomore Mackenzie Brodel (2 goals, 1 assist), junior Makena Graham (1 assist), and freshman Ava Katz should keep the Panthers competitive.

“Abby chipped in with some goals and assists last year, I think she will hopefully continue to increase those numbers this year,” said Pettit, whose team topped Lawrenceville 3-0 last Friday in its season opener as Ella McLaren, Adriana Salzano, and Graham each scored goals. “Mackenzie is returning, so she is going to have a greater comfort level, so I hope she will increase her numbers as well. Makena gives us a different look, she is very pacy, a plan B almost. I think that will unsettle a few teams. We have got Ava who is an attacking midfielder or forward. She is technically strong and physically she will be able to handle high school. She has the mental capacity to understand it and deal with it as well. I think she will score goals but also create chances for others. She is a perfect fit for our possession style of play.”

Senior midfielder Adriana Salzano, who scored a teamhigh 12 goals along with five

assists last fall, gives PDS a strong offensive threat.

“She will play a host of different positions, primarily she will be in the attacking midfield,” said Pettit, noting that Salzano has committed to attend Monmouth University and play for its women’s soccer program. “My hope is that she is the glue that knits it all together, providing that sprinkling of stardust as someone who can just do things differently. She has that superior technical ability to just change games on her own. That is part of what we need to do, to make sure that she is in the right positions to get those moments. I think the players around her can do that.”

The quartet of junior Sophia Zhou (2 goals, 1 assist), sophomore Jules Hartman (2 goals, 1 assist), sophomore Ella McLaren (4 goals, 1 assist), and freshman Sophi a Vriesendorp will join Salzano in the midfield.

“Sophia will be getting a lot of minutes at defensive center mid,” said Pettit. “Jules and Ella will be there again. I think that is a good mix. Sophia is a really talented freshman who can play a range of midfield and attacking midfield positions. She will really help round out our midfield attacking line. Technically she is very strong and has a good work rate. I am hoping for big things from her as well.”

The pair of senior Tochi Owunna and sophomore Emma Burns will play a big role in the Panther defensive unit.

“Tochi is going to be big for us, she is a very experienced, talented, and technical,” said Pettit. “Between her and Emma, they are both are very technical and read the game very well and will hopefully give us the defensive platform to build on. Ella will probably play some time in the back.”

At goalie, junior Shelby Ruf is looking to build on the

progress she made last year in her first season playing the position.

“Shelby is back in goal, last year was her first year in goal; this time around, she is going to be much more conformable,” said Pettit. “She is more familiar and has been working very hard on stuff during preseason. The hope is that is an improvement for us from last year.”

In Pettit’s view, his players need to be more ruthless around goal in order to become harder to beat.

“I think the key this year for us is to be able to score early; last year we were out-possessing teams 500 passes to 200 passes and we would win 1-nil or win 2-1,” said Pettit, whose team plays at Nottingham on September 13, hosts WW/PNorth on September 14, and plays at Hightstown on September 18. “We would do all of the pretty things very well and not score and then it becomes kind of a mind game or a mental block. My hope is this year with some

of the new-found optimism and a little bit more quality in the attacking third that we get off to a faster start and score some goals and all of a sudden, we build on that. We also gave away too many goals, so my hope is that defensively we can be a bit more robust. The key for us will be putting the ball in the back of the net.”

—Bill Alden

FANCY FOOTWORK: Princeton Day School girls’ soccer player Adriana Salzano controls the ball in game last season. Senior star Salzano, a Monmouth University commit, figures to be an offensive catalyst for the Panthers this fall. PDS, which defeated Lawrenceville 3-0 last Friday in its season opener as Ella McLaren, Makena Graham, and Salzano each scored goals, plays at Nottingham on September 13, hosts WW/P-North on September 14, and plays at Hightstown on September 18. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

Featuring a Battle-Tested Group of Senior Stalwarts, Hun Boys’ Soccer Aiming to Continue Upward Trend

Over the last two years, the Hun School boys’ soccer has been on an upward trajectory, going 10-7 in 2021 and improving to 124-2 last fall.

Welcoming back a battle-tested crew of seniors, Hun head coach Pat Quirk believes his squad can continue that trend.

“The senior class has been part of the program for the last two, three years when we did really well in the MAPL league (Mid-Atlantic Prep League) and have been able to have some big wins off some good programs,” said Quirk, whose team tied for the MAPL title last fall with a 4-0-1 league record. “It has definitely given them a lot of confidence.”

Quirk has confidence that his forward unit of junior Luciano Verduci, senior Zachary Stark, junior Toba Olaleye, sophomore Donovan Hayes, sophomore Christian Wolfe, and sophomore Noah Silvestri can produce around the goal.

“During the preseason, Luciano Verduci, Mass’ younger brother, has stepped up into that role,” said Quirk, referring to Mass Verduci, a former Hun star who graduated this past spring. “He has been on JV for the last two years and scored a bunch of goals. He has that same talent as his brother, I am going to outwork you inside the box and I am going to score. We will play a couple of wingers. Zachary is going to be there on the wing. Toba will probably play out there. Donovan and Christian are

two sophomores as well as Noah, they are a little more inexperienced guys.”

Senior Conor Frykholm brings a lot of talent and experience to the midfield.

“Conor is huge, he will be a great leader in the midfield,” said Quirk of Frykholm, who tallied 12 goals and three assists in 2022.

“He has gotten a little more physical, he has gotten stronger. He is working on his work rate. He is committed to Babson and wants to play at a high level. It is our goal to send him off there as best prepared as we can. He will hit a bunch of our set pieces. He will have a lot of opportunity there and on corner kicks. He is going to be a target guy for us and he can shoot from outside.”

Another key guy for Hun in the middle of the field will be senior Michael D’Aulerio.

“Mike is going to move into the midfield and play more of an attacking role where he is going to be more comfortable,” said Quirk.

“He played awesome in the back for us last year when we asked him to. He is just a workhorse, he never stops. He is so good with the feet, he sees the field really well. He is going to be a guy that sets up a lot of goals.”

The trio of sophomore Chris Meehan, junior Marius So, and junior Max Frost will also see time in the midfield.

“Chris played a little bit last year,” said Quirk. “We have a new junior Marius who came from China who is a really nice surprise and a good technical player. Max came

up through the JV program.”

On defense, senior Alden Hill , junior Bradford Barnes , senior Shea Braun, and junior Austin Rollins will spearhead the back line.

“We have got Alden who is back, he played one of our center backs last year and will continue there,” said Quirk. “Bradford also returns, he was in and out of the starting lineup last year. Shea was with the varsity last year but didn’t see much time. He has been looking really good as an outside attacking guy. Austin is back with the program, he has been looking really good. He is another guy who will look to get dangerous — I wouldn’t be surprised if he scores a bunch from back there.”

Junior goalie Diego Pena emerged as star last fall in his first season as a starter.

“He is a huge asset for us,” said Quick, noting that Pena missed the beginning of preseason to train in the Dominican Republic where he is with their national program. “He is going to keep us in a ton of games. He is somebody the kids trust. They are not afraid to play back to him, his footwork is as good as anyone else’s on the team. He will move into a more leadership role as a junior.”

With Hun slated to start its 2023 campaign by playing at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy (Pa.) on September 12, hosting Delran High on September 15, and then facing the Pingry School on September 17 in the Mainline Jamboree in Downingtown, Pa., Quirk is expecting

the Raiders to have a very good season.

“We have a very strong group of guys that have really come together during

preseason,” asserted Quirk. “We have to continue to stay healthy. It is also trusting in each other. We talk a lot about finding the next guy,

making the extra pass and trusting your teammate that he is going to do the same.”

—Bill Alden

GOING PLACES: Hun School boys’ soccer goalie Diego Pena clears the ball in a game last season. Junior Pena emerged as a star last fall for Hun. The Raiders were slated to start their 2023 season by playing at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy (Pa.) on September 12, host Delran High on September 15, and then face the Pingry School on September 17 in the Mainline Jamboree in Downingtown, Pa.

(Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

Football : Quarterback

Miles O’Neill triggered the offense as Hun defeated Mastery High School of Camden 51-8 in its season opener last Saturday. O’Neill hit on 11 of 13 passes for 295 yards and four touchdowns for the Raiders as they posted their 19th straight victory. Hun hosts Avon Old Farms School (Conn.) on September 16.

Girls’ Soccer : Unable to get its offense going, Hun opened its season by falling 4-0 to Westtown School (Pa.) last Sunday in the Hill School (Pa.) Showcase. In upcoming action, the Raiders host Seneca High on September 14 and Villa Joseph Marie High (Pa.) on September 19.

Hun Lawrenceville

Football : Starting its 2023 season on a high note, Lawrenceville defeated the Gilman School (Md.) 21-10 last Saturday in its season opener. The Big Red play at Archbishop Curley High (Md.) on September 16.

Boys’ Soccer: Moving to 1-1 on the season, Lawrenceville fell 1-0 the Haverford School (Pa.) last Saturday. The Big Red host the Hotchkiss School (Conn.) on September 16 and then play at Springside Chestnut Hill (Pa.) on September 19.

Girls’ Soccer: Falling short in a defensive battle, Lawrenceville lost 1-0 to Agnes Irwin School (Pa.) last Monday. The Big Red, now 0-2, play at Springside Chestnut Hill (Pa.) on September 13 and hosts the Hotchkiss School (Conn.) on September 16.

Pennington PHS PDS

Football : Giving new head coach Michael Watkins a win in his debut, Pennington defeated Morrisville High (Pa.) 14-0 last Saturday in its season opener. Watkins has taken the helm from Jerry Eure, who had been guiding the program since 1992. The Red Hawks will look to keep on the winning track when they host Poly Prep (N.Y.) on September 14.

Boys’ Soccer : Bacary Tandjigora and Felix Shapiro each scored two goals as Pennington routed the Mercersburg Academy (Pa.) 11-0 last Saturday in its season opener. In upcoming action, the Red Hawks play at the Peddie School on September 13 before facing Gill St. Bernard’s on September 17 in the Mainline Jamboree at Downingtown, Pa.

Girls’ Soccer : Morgan Kotch led the way as Pennington topped the Mercersburg Academy (Pa.) 6-0 last Saturday. Senior star and Villanova commit Kotch scored three goals to help the Red Hawks improve to 3-0. Pennington plays at the Germantown Academy (Pa.) on September 13 before hosting Archbishop Wood High (Pa.) on September 19.

the annual event is a local round-robin tennis tournament open to all levels of play to raise funds for area youth tennis programs.

The event will take place from 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. with registration available that day. A dinner with awards and scholarship presentations will take place at the Mercer County Park Boathouse from 2-4 p.m. The cost is $90 per person for the tournament and $130 for the entire event, including dinner. The cost for dinner only is $50. Sponsorships and donations are welcomed.

As a nonprofit 501(c)(3) community tennis program whose motto is “Tennis for All,” PTP promotes affordable accessible to tennis throughout central New Jersey. Proceeds from the PTP Classic are returned to the communities through outreach programs, financial aid, scholarships, and tennis programs in Princeton, Hamilton Township, and Bordentown.

fall hoops programs.

Players will have an opportunity for competitive travel play, individualized instruction, skills development, and fundamentals through the offerings. The BBA is led by former PDS girls’ hoops coach and Philadelphia 76ers International Camps clinician Kamau Bailey.

The BBA fall program will include two competitive boys’ travel teams (2nd-8th grade), weekly practices, Shot King Shooting Program, and Player Development Skill Sessions for elementary through high school players (boys and girls) along with a new addition, the High School Power Hour.

BBA programs stress fundamentals and team play with emphasis on ball handling, shooting, passing, footwork, speed, agility, movement with and without the ball, one-on one moves, defense, and other basketball skills. All BBA activities will be held in the Princeton Middle School gym.

track including moderately technical rocks, roots, logs, and whatever else nature has wrought in the woods. Due to the technical nature of the trail, parents should consider whether this event is appropriate for young children. The race is limited to 200 participants.

Online registration and full details regarding the event are available at

www.princetonac.org . The entry fee through September 20 is $38 with a T-shirt on an as-available basis. Sign up at the event will be $48 and is credit card only, subject to availability.

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 running events each year.

300 Years of Service to God & Community – 1723 - 2023

September-October 2023

Worship & Celebrations

Friendship Sunday, September 17th — 11:00 am Join us & celebrate friends who have been KPC members for 50+ years.

Boys’ Socce r: Failing to find the back of the net, PDS lost 2-0 at the Lawrenceville School last Friday night in its season opener. The Panthers host WW/P-North on September 14 and Ewing on September 18.

Boys’ Soccer : Sparked by Pasquale Carusone, PHS defeated Ewing 3-0 last Friday evening. Senior newcomer Carusone scored two goals to help the Tigers improve to 2-0. PHS plays at Hightstown on September 14 and then hosts Hopewell Valley on September 19.

Local Sports

Princeton Community Tennis Holding PTP Classic on Sept. 29

The Princeton Community Tennis Program will be holding its annual tournament and charity fundraiser on September 29 at the Mercer County Tennis Center in West Windsor.

Known as the PTP Classic,

This year’s tournament is dedicated to the late great Bill Humes, who joined the legendary Eve Kraft in developing the Princeton Community Tennis Program, the first of what has become more than 1,000 community-based programs in the country. Passing away in February 2023, Humes received a number of local and national honors over the years. He was named to several tennis Halls of Fame, including the Princeton High Athletic, Mercer County Tennis, and USTA Middle States. He was awarded the prestigious USTA Eve Kraft National Community Tennis Award, and the Mangan Award, the highest award for volunteer service in tennis.

For more information, contact Gina Pileggi at Gina@ ptp.org , (609) 520-0015, or visit ptp.org to register for the event.

Bailey Basketball Academy

Offering Fall Programs

The Bailey Basketball Academy (BBA) has set the schedule for its upcoming

For more information, contact Bailey at (917) 6265785 or kamau.bailey@ gmail.com.

Princeton Athletic Club Holding Trail Run Sept. 23

The Princeton Athletic Club (PAC) is holding a trail run and walk at the Mountain Lakes Preserve, 57 Mountain Avenue, on September 23.

The event will start at 9 a.m. and consists of a 5-kilometer-plus trail run and walk.

The course is comprised about 10 percent paved park trail, 30 percent unimproved service right-ofways, and 60 percent single

Saturday, October 14th — Cemetery Tales Meet Kingston’s Ancestors on an afternoon stroll through KPC’s PreRevolutionary Era Cemetery.

Sunday, October 15th — 11:00 am Worship at KPC’s first site at the KPC Cemetery.

Saturday, October 28th — Friends for Health in Haiti Luncheon — 10:30 am to 1:00 pm. Food, Shopping, & Dr. Katie’s presentation. 4565 Route 27 • PO Box 148 • Kingston, NJ 08528 609.921.8895 kingstonpresnj@gmail.com www.kingstonpresbyterian.org pastorsharyldixon@gmail.com

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BACK IN THE FLOW: Princeton High girls’ soccer player Casey Serxner, right, goes after the ball in a 2021 game. Coming back from an injury that sidelined her last year, senior midfielder Serxner tallied a goal and two assists as PHS defeated Ewing 3-0 last Saturday. The Tigers, now 1-1, host Hightstown on September 14 and Haddonfield Memorial on September 16 before playing at Hopewell Valley on September 19. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

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The Antonin Scalia Constitution Day Lecture

Setsuko Faith Yim

Setsuko Faith Yim of Princeton, NJ, passed away peacefully on August 20, 2023, at age 90.

Faith is survived by her four children and their spouses: Helene, Mark (Peter Hare), David (Linda Yim), and Leila (Richard Surratt); and five grandchildren: Leah, Michael, and Alex Surratt; Michael Yim; and Emi Hare-Yim. She is predeceased by her husband Michael, a research scientist at RCA’s David Sarnoff Research Center. She was a resident of Princeton for 60 years until her move to Atria Senior Living in Riverdale, NY, in March 2023.

Faith was born in Raymond, Alberta (Canada), on February 10, 1933, to Ishimatsu and Mitsue Sugimoto, who had emigrated from Nagoya, Japan. Growing up on her parents’ wheat farm, she attended the

Bonnie View School, a oneroom schoolhouse, and Raymond High School. It was at the University of Washington (Seattle) where she met her future husband, Woongsoon Michael Yim, graduating with a bachelor of fine arts degree. She later obtained a master of library science degree from Simmons College (Boston) and did graduate work in art history at Princeton University.

Faith worked as an illustrator in Boston and then as a substitute teacher in the Princeton Regional School system while raising her children. She returned to work full time at the Mercer County Library System in 1987, becoming head children’s librarian at the West Windsor branch before retiring in 2008. She spearheaded and commissioned the library’s large “Rain Forest Mural” by Ilya Spirin and was fond of creating programs that responded to the changing demographics of the region, including Chinese New Year and Diwali. Faith spoke with pride on seeing children from her reading and arts programs move on to high school and college; years later, they and their parents would see her around town and thank her.

Faith enjoyed traveling, including several trips to Japan, Korea, and Canada. She was a lifelong lover of animals, especially her many cats over the years. She enjoyed printmaking and photography and enthusiastically used Facebook to connect with people from her past and present. Above all, Faith loved participating and sharing in the lives of her grandchildren.

A Celebration of Life is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Saturday, September 16, at the Present Day Club, 72 Stockton Street, Princeton. All who knew Faith and would like to gather to remember her are welcome. In lieu of flowers, donations by check to The Friends of the West Windsor Library, 333 N. Post Road, Princeton Junction, NJ, 08550 (memo line: Faith Yim Celebration) are kindly requested.

at the Princeton Art Association and the Princeton Packet and was an active and hands-on volunteer at Planned Parenthood, the Mercer Street Friends Food Bank in Trenton, and at Youth Employment Services.

Janet loved playing tennis and was a daily runner for many years. She also enjoyed playing bridge and Scrabble, attending concerts and plays, going to museums, and spending time with her grandchildren. She was an avid lifelong reader whose friends admired the depth and breadth of her knowledge of literature. She also loved to travel, and she and Charlie enjoyed many trips throughout the U.S. and Europe as well as to Asia, Africa, and South America.

and family enjoying performances by famed singers such as Placido Domingo.

Tomoko is survived by her brother, Haru. She was predeceased by her parents, Goro and Chikako. A memorial gathering to celebrate Tomoko’s life will be held at a future date.

many nieces, nephews, and cousins.

A memorial gathering will be held at Kimble Funeral Home, 1 Hamilton Avenue, Princeton, NJ 08542 on Friday, September 15, 2023 from 5 to 8 p.m. and Saturday, September 16, 2023 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. with a memorial mass following at noon in St. Paul Parish, 214 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ. Burial will be in Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Lustgarten Foundation for pancreatic cancer research (Lustgarten.org) Extend condolences and share memories at The KimbleFuneralHome.com.

Katherine Marie (Webster)

Dwight

(“Kathie”)

Longtime Princeton resident Janet Townsend passed away on September 7, 2023 with her three daughters by her side. Janet was born to Celestia (nee Davidson) and Edward R. Linner on September 13, 1932 in St. Paul, Minnesota, where her father was completing a PhD in Chemistry. The family moved to Poughkeepsie, NY, in 1935 when her father took a professorship at Vassar College. An only child, Janet grew up on the Vassar campus with a group of faculty children who enjoyed a carefree, unstructured childhood and remained close friends throughout their lives.

Janet graduated from Vassar College in 1954 with a B.A. in Art History and spent the following year studying in Marburg, Germany on a Fulbright Scholarship. On the boat over she met her future husband and fellow Fulbright Scholar, Charles Townsend. After completing her studies, she moved to Hawaii to take a job as a docent at the Honolulu Art Museum. In 1957 she and Charlie married and moved to Nuremberg, Germany, where Charlie completed his U.S. Army service and their first daughter Erica (1958) was born.

The young couple then settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Charlie earned a PhD in Slavic Languages and Linguistics at Harvard. They welcomed two more daughters, Sylvia (1961) and Louise (1964), and in 1966 moved to Princeton, where Charlie joined the faculty as a professor of Slavic Languages. In 1968 and again in 1971 the family spent a year in Prague, in what was then Czechoslovakia, where Janet skillfully navigated life behind the Iron Curtain, managing family life and their young daughters’ education and activities. Janet and Charlie developed a love of Czech culture, made many Czech friends, and continued to visit their adopted country for decades afterwards.

Over the years Janet welcomed the families of many visiting scholars and helped them integrate into the Princeton community. She was a warm and supportive presence in the lives of Charlie’s many graduate students. Janet also worked

Janet provided endless support and love to her husband, her daughters, and their families. She was predeceased by her husband and is survived by her daughters Erica Appel (Charles), Sylvia Townsend (Charles Cowens), and Louise Townsend (Ben Schmidt). She leaves behind her five beloved grandchildren, Rose Cowens (Paul Koutsoukis), Alice Cowens, Justine and Stephen Appel, and Isabel Schmidt, and her nephews Ross Adler (Pam) and James Townsend (Jenny), and nieces Sara Poumerol (Gilles) and Laura McWright (Glen), and their children. She especially cherished her two great-grandsons, Alexandros and Nikolaus Koutsoukis.

A memorial service will be announced. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Mercer Street Friends, the ASPCA, Planned Parenthood, or another nonprofit of your choice.

Anthony D. Nini II

Anthony D. Nini II, age 71, passed away peacefully Monday morning, September 11, 2023, with his loving children and longtime companion Assumpta at his bedside.

Anthony grew up in Princeton and resided in Somerset, NJ. He was an adoring father and grandfather. He was incredibly proud of his children and grandsons and was looking forward to the arrival of his first granddaughter in November. Family was his priority and greatest joy.

Anthony attended Villanova University where he earned his bachelor’s degree and went on to get his MBA from New York University. Passionate about his work as a self-employed CPA, he was loved by all of his clients. Anthony had a smile that would light up a room and gave the best, most loving hugs. He was charismatic and made far reaching connections and friendships for life. His favorite hobbies included running, coaching, teaching, and networking. He could be found at Starbucks enjoying coffee and a nap. He and Assumpta loved to go ballroom dancing and shopping.

Most importantly, Anthony was guided by his deep connection to his Catholic faith. He loved spending time at church and was known to attend many masses during the week. Anthony left a great impact on many people through his kindness, generosity, faith, and important tax advice.

Tomoko Shimura, 63, of New York, NY, died on Wednesday, August 30, 2023 following complications arising from a stroke. Tomoko was born on May 1, 1960 in Japan. She grew up in Princeton, NJ, as the elder of two children and graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1982.

For many years, Tomoko worked as an editor at Abaris Books where her focus was on Western European art history. In 2008, she assisted her father, Goro, in editing and producing all photographic images for his book on her parents’ Japanese porcelain collection, The Story of Imari.

In the summers, Tomoko enjoyed spending time with her family at their mountain home in Nagano, Japan. She will be remembered as a great music lover and delighted in the many opportunities to attend the Metropolitan Opera with friends

Katherine Marie (Webster) Dwight (“Kathie”) passed away on May 19, 2023 at Riverwoods Exeter Retirement Community in Exeter, New Hampshire.

Kathie, born in Marion, Indiana, on April 15, 1936, was the eldest daughter of Jeanette and Lawrence Webster. She, however, grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, where her family moved when she was a small child.

Kathie attended Pine Manor College and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BA in English. Following college, she moved to New York City where she met her husbandto-be Theodore W. Dwight, Jr. They were married on April 27, 1963 and moved to Tenafly, New Jersey, where, as a devout wife and mother, they raised their three children and lived for more than 35 years.

Kathie was active in the altar guild at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Englewood, NJ, and enjoyed recreating at the Englewood Field Club. Ever learning, she acquired a masters of Individual Studies in Art History from Sarah Lawrence College in 1987. She enjoyed annual visits to vacation homes on the coast of Georgia, near Savannah, and in Kennebunk, Maine.

Anthony is predeceased by his parents Anthony D. and Joanne L. Nini, his son Anthony D. Nini III, and sister Kathleen Nini. He is survived by his children Melissa Nini (John Tenuto) and Andrew Nini; his longtime companion Assumpta Yau; grandsons Rocco and Westin Nini; sisters Janice Nini Weinberg (Fred), Lynda Petrocelli (Joe), and Patricia Biscardi (Tom); aunts Antoinette Nelson (Nils) and Gloria Hutchinson (Bob); and

Kathie is survived by her three children, Lawrence, his wife Julie and their two sons, Alexander and Ryan of Bethesda, MD; Charles, his wife Beata, their daughter Elisabeth, and son Benjamin of Toronto, Ontario; and Katherine (Katie) and her wife Meghan of Vacaville, CA; and by her sister Rosalind Webster Perry of Santa Barbara, CA.

A graveside service for family and friends will be held at Hope Cemetery in Kennebunk, Maine on September 16, 2023 at 11 am.

To share a memory or leave a message of condolence, please visit Katherine’s Book of Memories Page at bibberfuneral.com.

Arrangements are in the care of Bibber Memorial Chapel, 67 Summer Street, Kennebunk, ME 04043.

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