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MARCH 9–15, 2016
Coming together to read? A fun time, indeed!
Students and staff at Community Park Elementary enjoy a day of Seuss-ified activities, reading together
By ERICA CHAYES WIDA
The Sun
One Wednesday in March at
Community Park,
The kids lined up to make a big
spark.
They walked out of classrooms
as Thing Ones and Thing Twos,
As Loraxes, students, Hortons
and Whos.
March 5 is a birthday, a party
for Seuss,
“Read Across America Day”
makes it fun, too.
Librarian Bevan Mullowney
planned the day,
At CP Elementary, to specially
say:
“Reading together with staff
and students on Read Across
America Day creates an atmosphere that encourages participation, makes reading fun and exciting, and shows that people of all
ages can find joy from books.”
Mullowney, the school’s librarian/school media specialist, put
together the event at Community
Park Elementary School in honor
of Read Across America Day.
“The National Education Association developed Read Across
America Day. It is held every second day of the month in March,
to coincide with Dr. Seuss' birthday,” she added.
Instead of just making it about
America, however, Mullowney
ERICA CHAYES WIDA/The Sun
Some second-grade boys settle down and sink into some good books! From left are Julian Rossi, Matthew
Lopez-Marroquin, Mason Sass and Lincoln Sandoval Strausz. For more photos, please see page 10.
made the celebration unique, and
perhaps a bit more educational,
by deeming the theme, “Read
Across the Universe.”
“We created all sorts of fun
projects related to our solar system in the library. We also made
Dr. Seuss characters, read a variety of Dr. Seuss books, had a little
Dr. Seuss party and played a Dr.
Seuss trivia game,” Mullowney
said cheerily.
At 2:25 p.m., CP coordinated
every student, teacher and staff
member to flood the hallways
with a book in hand. Some wore
clever costumes, others had decorated a paper pinned to their shirt
marked “Thing 1,” “Thing
100,000” or “Thing 5.”
“This event was created to cultivate students' love of reading
and create a learning activity that
the whole school can participate
in,” Mullowney said.
Principal Dineen Gruchacz
also voiced how reading in unison as a student body was significant:
“At CP, we are a family/community of learners. As such, we
do as many things together as a
whole school as we can. Reading
together supports this notion.
Furthermore, this activity is a
long-standing CP tradition on Dr.
Seuss' birthday. We also have the
sixth graders for JW visit and
read books that they write to our
first graders.”
“It’s great,” exclaimed secondgrade teacher Ellen Hale, who
was dressed from head to toe as
Thing 1 – blue wig and all.
“It’s a wonderful way to get
kids excited about reading and
reading together,” added Lauren
Tucker, AIS teacher.
Mullowney voiced how special
it was for the staff and students to
have all the kids’ projects hanging
in the hallways, and moreover to
see the students’ excitement and
love of reading shine.
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A new voice
Council to establish Youth
Advisory Committee. PAGE 6
Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Police Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Editorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2 THE PRINCETON SUN — MARCH 9–15, 2016
Going behind the curtain of ‘The Mousetrap’
Actors Emily Young and Richard Gallagher dive into McCarter Theatre’s newest production
By ERICA CHAYES WIDA
The Sun
McCarter Theatre, with Director Adam Immerwahr at the
helm, is steering through the
mystery-thriller maze crafted by
the “queen of crime.” Agatha
Christie, the renowned British
crime novelist and playwright,
swirls suspense in “The Mousetrap” like white weather. The
guests at Monkswell Manor are so
too surrounded by snow… and
murder.
Emily Young and Richard Gallagher are both new to the
Christie phenomenon and dove in
deeply to capture their characters, Miss Casswell and Detective
Sergeant Trotter.
“For those who have seen ‘The
Mousetrap’ before, I’d say, you
haven’t seen this one,” Gallagher
said. “Adam is a terrific director
with such a specific goal in mind
– making it very real. It’s a different production; it’s immediate.”
“I think the immediacy of the
production is a testament to
Adam and the company we have
that were interested in going that
deep,” Young added. “There are
probably assumptions about what
this play has been, what it is and
what it will be. It's been running
so long in London. What’s special
about this production is we’ve
given it the time it deserves to un-
MATT PILSNER/Special to The Sun
The company of Agatha Christie’s ‘The Mousetrap’ with Director Adam Immerwahr, center, on the stage
at McCarter Theatre through March 27.
pack it. We’re discovering the
scenes anew in an authentic and
human way.”
Young expressed that some
comedy seems to come from that
as well – attesting that the humor
doesn’t feel “canned.”
“There’s definitely funny in
this, and definitely scary as well,”
Gallagher chuckled. “Death isn’t
funny, but there are some oddball
characters and wonderful humor
in those characters and how they
relate to each other in a snowstorm. It plays on our interac-
tions, who really gets on our
nerves and who doesn’t.”
Young said Immerwahr and
the company spent a “luxurious
amount of table time” dissecting
“The Mousetrap,” which has been
running on the stage for more
than 60 years. She feels this allowed each person to individually
make discoveries of each of their
characters.
“The big surprise is that
Agatha Christie can bear that;
she’s worth the time, and I think
that’s really cool. It’s like our Net-
flix talk shows back then. It’s fun
and enthralling and juicy,” Young
said. “And I do believe it can bear
human investigation. The tone of
the piece is not all one thing – a
testament to the group that we
can ride the wave of tone.”
Gallagher voiced how gratifying it was watching everybody
work and seep into their complex
characters.
“The whole Agatha Christie experience is new to me. I’m loving
getting to be some young, optimistic detective guy trying to take
IF YOU GO
To learn more about “The
Mousetrap” or to purchase
tickets, visit www.mccarter.
org/themousetrap/ or call
(609) 258–2787. Tickets start
at $25. Runtime with intermission is 2 hours, 30 minutes.
care of it all,” Gallagher said.
“The puzzle of it all is fun.
[Christie] gives him a lot of language, words to discover this motley crew of characters. She does a
please see PRODUCTION, page 12
Woman reports being groped by man while walking on Linden Lane
The following reports are provided by the Princeton Police Department.
On Feb. 24, police received a report from a female who stated
that while walking on Linden
Lane, she was approached by a
male, described as approximately
5'6", 30 to 35 years of age wearing
a gray shirt and gray wool hat,
who then grabbed her on her buttocks. The victim quickly turned
around and observed the un-
known male had fled on foot toward Nassau Street. Patrols
checked the area with negative
results. The incident remains
under investigation.
Feb. 29
Subsequent to a
motor vehicle stop, a
20-year-old Hamilton
male was arrested on
active warrants issued
by the Robbinsville Municipal
Court, West Windsor Municipal
Court and Hamilton Township
Municipal Court. The total bail
was set at $2,200. He was transported to headquarters where he
was processed and released after
posting bail.
Subsequent to a
motor vehicle stop, a
32-year-old Princeton
female was arrested
on an active warrant
issued by the Westhampton Municipal Court, and bail was set at
police
report
$500. She was processed at headquarters and released on her own
recognizance with a pending
court date.
Subsequent to a motor vehicle
stop,
a
45-year-old
New
Brunswick male was arrested on
active warrants issued by the
East Brunswick Municipal Court,
and the New Brunswick Municipal Court. The total bail was set
at $1,250. He was transported to
headquarters where he was
processed and released after posting bail.
Feb. 27
Subsequent to a motor vehicle
stop, a 30-year-old Lawrenceville
male, was arrested for driving
while intoxicated. He was transported to headquarters where he
was processed and released with
a pending court date.
please see ROUTE, page 9
MARCH 9–15, 2016 – THE PRINCETON SUN 3
Tough competition
during Dillon Youth
basketball semifinals
The Dillon Youth Basketball
League played in the semifinals
Feb. 27. Sixth- and seventh-grade
Boys Division had a close game
with an overtime win.
Jeremy Sallade scored 20
points and Bram Silva added nine
as Princeton Pi topped Princeton
Dental Group, 37-34, in the semifinal round of the playoffs in the
fourth-fifth grade Boys Division
of the Princeton Recreation Dillon Youth Basketball League.
Joshua Trotman added eight
points in the win. AJ Surace had
22 points, and Jason Singer added
eight in the loss.
In the other semifinal, Princeton Youth Sports topped Lependorf & Silverstein, 39-21, as
Matthew Land scored 15 points.
Kian Bragg and Isaac WriteMiller added six apiece in the
win. Will Pittman had five points
in the loss.
In the semifinal round of the
sixth-seventh grade Boys Division playoffs, Andrew Friedman
scored 17 points to lead University Orthopedic Associates to a 3938 overtime win over Princeton
Orthopedic Associates. Ryan
Cruser had nine points, and Gabe
Majeski added seven in the win.
Patrick McDonald scored 15
points, and Drew Petrone added
six in the loss. In the other semifinal, Baldino & Brothers topped
Princeton
Pediatrics,
60-39.
Charles Hamit scored 16 points,
Will Doran had 14, and Tommy
Delaney added 12 in the win. MarShawn Ferguson had 14 points,
and Dylan Riddal added 13 in the
loss.
In the eighth-ninth grade Boys
Division semifinals, Thomas Reid
scored 24 points to lead Princeton
Pettoranello to a 36-34 win over
Princeton PBA No. 130. Ben
Amon had seven points in the
win, while Judd Petrone had 11,
and Adam Rothstein 10 in the
loss. In the other semifinal,
Jaylen Johnson scored 16 points
and Thomas Bocian added 10 as
Cross Culture topped Metropolis
Salon, 47-32. Grant Luther had
nine points, and Mustafa Zaman
added eight in the loss.
In the Girls Division semifinals, Milan Couillens scored 11
points, and Myla Wailoo added
six as the Wings topped the Liberty, 21-18. Yayla Tur had 10 points
in the loss. In the other semifinal,
Hillary Allen scored 10 points,
and Sarah Granozio added eight
as the Mercury topped the Storm,
28-13. Marcela Nearing scored six
points, and Kate Delaney added
four in the loss.
Two Princeton children win
The Sun coloring contest
The Sun newspapers announced the winners of their
Valentine Coloring Contest. Readers were asked to color a picture
and send it to us for entry into a
contest. Each winner received a
four-pack of tickets to Sahara
Sams.
There were 134 total entries,
and two winners from Princeton.
They are: Matthew H., 6, and
Maryann Mian, 10.
To see the winning entries,
please visit our Facebook page,
www.facebook.com/theprincetonsun.
Congratulations to the winners!
Email us at [email protected]
4 THE PRINCETON SUN — MARCH 9–15, 2016
After fireworks canceled, community
hopes to reignite Princeton tradition
Residents share fundraising ideas with Spirit of Princeton vice chair
By ERICA CHAYES WIDA
The Sun
“We know it’s almost spring
when Ray Wadsworth comes to
speak,” Mayor Liz Lempert said
at the last council meeting.
Along with spring, Wadsworth,
Spirit of Princeton chair, also
brings his plans for the four annual events that decorate Princeton in nationalism from Memorial Day to Veterans Day. This time,
however, Wadsworth brought
news that one of the town’s favorites has sizzled out.
“This is our 20th year of me
coming in here and having permission to do the Spirit of Princeton,” Wadsworth said when he approached the podium. “It’s heartbreaking to say that after 19 years
of doing the fireworks, we have to
stop because it’s draining our
funds.”
When the organization was
first formed, Herb Hobler, a
Princeton man who remains on
the Spirit of Princeton board,
raised a significant amount of
money that laid the foundation
for the Spirit of Princeton to do
its four annual events. Later last
week, Vice Chair Mark Freda explained how these initial funds
provided a solid endowment that
was expected to last. Until this
year, it did.
The Spirit of Princeton’s four
annual events include the Memorial Day Parade, which starts at
the corner of Princeton Avenue
and Nassau Street and marches to
Princeton Monument Hall; the
Flag Day Ceremony at Princeton
Witherspoon Hall; the Fourth of
July Fireworks; and the Veterans
Day Ceremony at the All Wars
Monument at the corner of Nassau and Mercer streets.
“We realized if we continued to
do all four events, our endowment
would only last about three or
four more years,” Freda said.
Wadsworth told council that
Hobler released a survey to some
of the organization’s biggest
donors from Princeton University asking whether the fireworks
should stay or go. The most common response was, “Why keep
the fireworks when the university
hosts a fireworks show every year
for its reunion celebration close
to July 4?”
If that was not the convincing
factor, Freda also explained the
fireworks cost a little more than
$20,000 a year while the parade
only costs about $9,000. The other
events, including the flags that
Spirit of Princeton decorates
Nassau Street with during its pa-
triotic season, run the group no
more than a couple thousand dollars each.
“I want to see the Spirit of
Princeton after I leave this planet,” Wadsworth said about the difficult choice to cease the Independence Day celebration
“We had to keep the Spirit of
Princeton alive. If we didn’t cut
out the fireworks, we’d cease to
exist,” Freda said.
But it seems there may be a
glimmer of hope for the fireworks
afterall.
“Now that people are finding
out we’re not doing them,” Freda
continued, “there already seems
be an effort from individuals in
the community to help keep the
fireworks, at least for this year.”
Thus far, six to seven people
have approached Freda with
fundraising ideas.
“The question is,” Freda said,
“if we raise more money, do we
bring back the fireworks for one
year or use the money to build
our endowment to ensure the
Spirit of Princeton remains for a
much longer time? I don’t think
we’ve totally done away with the
fireworks, but we’ll have a better
idea over the next couple weeks.”
Freda continued that while it
was a challenging decision to
“suspend” the fireworks, which is
such a popular event, he feels the
Memorial Day Parade through
the center of Princeton is a “true
Princeton event.”
“I know these events are some
of the things that really make
Princeton, Princeton,” Lempert
told Wadsworth at the meeting.
“We look forward to them every
year. We’re all sad about the fireworks, but the parade is one of
my very favorite events throughout the year.”
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BOE opposes pension liability
By ERICA CHAYES WIDA
The Sun
Last year, the New Jersey Pension and Health Benefits Study
Commission appointed by Gov.
Christie issued a report called “A
Roadmap to Resolution.” This
“roadmap” proposed changes to
how public employee benefits, in
both the Teacher’s Pension and
Annuity Fund and the School
Employees’ Health Benefits Program, are financed and administered.
On Feb. 11, the Study Commission conducted a follow-up report
titled “Supplemental Report on
Health Benefits,” which included
additional changes. The two reports together aim to shift the responsibility of retiree pensions
and medical benefits from a state
level to a local level – placing the
financial burden on the public
school districts.
At the last Princeton Board of
Education meeting, the board
voiced its opposition to the report
and passed a resolution regarding
pension obligation.
“The purpose of the resolution
is for the board to demonstrate to
state politicians that it is not in
favor of the proposed shift of pension liability to school districts,”
said Stephanie Kennedy, BOE
business administrator and secretary.
Copies of the resolution were
sent at the end of February to
Gov. Christie, state Senate Presi-
dent Stephen M. Sweeney, Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto, the
16th Legislative District’s representatives in the state Senate and
General Assembly, as well as the
board secretaries of each public
school district in Mercer County
and the New Jersey School
Boards Association.
“While the resolution does not
have any binding legal authority,
it is intended to send the clear
message to those in Trenton
whose job it is to solve the state’s
pension crisis that any so-called
‘solution’ which jeopardizes the
current or future financial security of our employees or shifts financial responsibility for the
state’s obligations onto local
school districts should be a nonstarter,” board President Andrea
Spalla said. “It is also my hope
that the New Jersey School
Boards Association – whose job it
is to represent and lobby for
school boards’ interests at the
state level – will read this and
similar resolutions from other
boards around the state and realize that the problem is an urgent
one, and that it must immediately
and aggressively advocate for
local school boards and their employees on this issue.”
The board is a public employer
stipulating board employees be
enrolled in one of the state’s pension plans, and each of its board
employees is required by law to
contribute to a portion of a board
employee’s salary to the state pen-
sion fund until he or she retires.
“The board is concerned that
the uncertain financial position
of the current state pension funds
may cause its current or retired
employees to lose their expected
benefits from the fund or receive
a substantially reduced benefit,
through no fault of their own,”
the resolution reads. “Such
changes would have an unfair
and economically devastating effect on the lives and well-being of
the board’s employees and their
families.”
The resolution urges Christie
and the Legislature to not transfer the financial obligation of
teacher pensions and benefit programs to public schools. The
board added that while it supports reducing taxpayer costs, it
hopes the governing body will
“take a careful and comprehensive approach” without impacting local school districts.
“This will impact every school
district in the state if liability
shifts,” Kennedy said.
In other news:
• The board approved the
school calendar for the 2016-2017
school year. To view the full calendar, visit www.princetonk12.org.
• The board approved the purchase of the following copyrighted textbooks and related materials for Princeton High School
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6 THE PRINCETON SUN — MARCH 9–15, 2016
in our opinion
Hello, spring, are you here yet?
Our moods, our businesses, our livelihoods depend on your arrival
arch 20. Eleven more days. It
can’t come soon enough. Officially, that’s the start of
spring. Whether Mother Nature
agrees, though, is anyone’s guess at
this point. Early forecasts show she
will be good to us, but how much can
we actually rely on forecasts?
Spring is what we all need. We need
a nice stroll downtown, in the park or
on the boardwalk to reinvigorate us, to
get us out of the doldrum into which
winter plunges us every year, no matter how mild or extreme it is.
We got lucky this winter, with just
one major snowstorm that crippled us
for a week or so. It’s been bitter cold at
times, too, as any winter is, and we got
a sprinkling of wet weather last week.
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Your thoughts
What are you most looking forward to this
spring? While you are out and about
enjoying what hopefully will be beautiful
weather, send us the photos you take
along the way, and we’ll be happy to share
them with the rest of the town.
But, hey, it’s in the 70s this week!
No matter how bad it is, winter affects all of our moods, and it affects
our bottom lines, too.
We’ll most likely be paying more in
taxes, in some way, at some level, for
pothole repairs and salt purchases.
Snow and cold weather affect local
businesses as well, especially retail
shops. Bad weather keeps patrons in-
side. The arrival of spring weather on
a consistent basis will hopefully turn
that around, and quickly.
Cold weather keeps people in the
mindset of “no end in sight,” and prevents many from taking day trips to
our state’s wonderful good-weather
spots, or from planning future trips, as
well.
In a little more than 60 days, the official start of the summer beach season
will be here. Does that even sound
right?
The good news is that it started to
warm up this week. Spring really does
look like it’s right around the corner.
Let’s hope Mother Nature cooperates
and doesn’t reverse the tide back to
winter. Please spare us!
Youth will have ‘official voice in government’
Princeton Council adopts ordinance to establish Youth Advisory Committee
By ERICA CHAYES WIDA
The Sun
The Princeton mayor and council look
to many advisory committees on a widerange of topics. These agencies, boards,
commissions and committees give community members the opportunity to be heard
and encourage the municipality to listen.
There is one voice less prominent among
the governing body, and it is perhaps the
most necessary voice to accomplish
progress and determine the future of
Princeton.
Last Monday, council adopted an ordinance that will turn up the volume on
Princeton kids with something to say.
“I am very excited about establishing a
Youth Advisory Committee,” Lempert said
earlier Monday. “We’re giving youth an official voice in government.”
The Youth Advisory Committee will ad-
vise the mayor and council on all issues related to youth – from recommending policies to sponsoring educational, informational and/or social events. The committee
will consist of 12 students and up to five
adult liaisons appointed before June 1 of
each year. The students must be residents
of the municipality and must be high
school students entering grades nine
through 12 in the fall of the same year.
Lempert specified this year she and
council will likely appoint freshmen
through juniors. In the future, they will extend the application to eighth graders so
committee members can be on the board
all four years of high school.
“The term will last until you graduate,
unless you decide to come off the board
earlier,” Lempert said. “By having kids on
the committee from the start of school, we
hope to help build leadership skills. By the
time they’re older, they will have been on
the committee for some time, and the adult
liaisons can step back.”
Lempert, with the advice of council, will
select the student members from those
who have submitted applications. The ordinance states “every effort will be made to
appoint a diverse group of students and to
evenly distribute appointments geographically.”
The adult liaisons will consist of one
elected official, two staff members as nonvoting liaisons, including at least one staff
member from the Department of Health,
Youth and Community Services. Police
Chief Nick Sutter will appoint one officer
from the Safe Neighborhoods Unit as a
non-voting liaison, and there may also be
one non-voting liaison from the Princeton
Public Schools.
The Youth Advisory Committee will
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THURSDAY MARCH 10
Black Voices Book Group: The
group discusses "Lose Your
Mother: A Journey Along the
Atlantic Slave Route" by Saidiya
Hartman. Princeton Public
Library, 7 p.m.
“The Brief Life and Exciting Times
of Vulcan – the Planet that Wasn’t There”: Thomas Levenson,
professor of science writing at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discusses and signs
copies of his book "The Hunt for
Vulcan ... And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered
the Universe." Part of the History
of Science series. Princeton Public Library, 7 p.m.
Mercer County ID Program: All
Mercer County residents are eligible for the community ID card, a
photo identification card providing personal identifying information, medical risk factors and
emergency contact information.
The card is issued by the Latin
American Legal Defense & Education Fund, a nonprofit advocacy group. $10 per card/$5 youth
under 21 and seniors over 65. For
additional information, visit
www.laldef.org. Princeton Public
Library, noon – 2 p.m. and 5:30 –
7 p.m.
FRIDAY MARCH 11
Job Seeker Sessions: The library
and Professional Services Group
of Mercer County sponsor sessions for professionals who are
seeking new employment and
contracting
opportunities
throughout the region. Princeton
Public Library, 9:45 a.m.
Rock & Rhythm: Rock & Rhythm
blends
music,
movement,
rhymes, read alouds, fingerplays
and other interactive activities,
while enhancing early literacy
skills. This program is intended
for children 2 to 5 years old. Parent or caregiver must attend with
child. Princeton Public Library, 4
p.m.
SATURDAY MARCH 12
The Hot Sardines: Take a blustery
brass lineup, layer it over a
rhythm section led by a stridepiano virtuoso, and tie the whole
thing together with a one-of-theboys frontwoman with a voice
from another era, and you have
The Hot Sardines. Tickets: $55 on
sale now at the Box Office, by
phone at (609) 258–2787 or at
mccarter.org. McCarter Theatre,
8 p.m.
SUNDAY MARCH 13
Astrological Society of Princeton:
Meeting with guest speaker Sheri
Horn Hasan. “Chiron and Healing
in the Chart.” For more information, visit aspnj.org. Plainsboro
Public Library, 2 p.m.
Ceol agus Cairdel (Music and
Friends): In honor of St. Patrick’s
Day, Helen O’Shea presents an
afternoon of song, music and
dance in the Irish tradition. Featured performers include singers
and musicians: Paul Bejgrowicz,
Rich Bozic, Bob Cole, Mark O'Donnell, Helen O'Shea, Garry
Pearsall, Mike Sukhdeo, Fiona
Tyndall, Katherine Wessinger and
Fil Wisneski. With special guests
from "Rince O'Chroi" School of
Irish Dance. Princeton Public
Library, 3 p.m.
Verse Speaking Choir: The Verse
Speaking Choir celebrates their
30th anniversary. Free and open
to the public, freewill offering will
benefit Trenton Area Soup
Kitchen. For more info contact
(609) 924–1666. Witherspoon
Street Presbyterian Church, 3
Wilson-Apple Funeral Home
MARCH 9–15, 2016
p.m.
Avi Avital: Acknowledged by the
New York Times for his “stunning
agility,” Grammy-nominated mandolinist Avi Avital will present an
adventurous program supported
by accordionist Ksenija Sidorov
and percussionist Itama Doari.
Balancing between folk and classical music, Avital defies expectations with works spanning from
concertos by Bach and Vivaldi to
Bartok’s Romanian Dances and
traditional Bulgarian, Turkish,
and Israeli folk tunes. Tickets:
$55 on sale now at the box office,
by phone at (609) 258–2787 or at
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Letra Pequeña: Through engagement with books, activities and
crafts, children and adults
improve Spanish language skills,
for children 2-5 years old accompanied by a parent or caregiver, 11
a.m.
Poetry reading: Featured poets
Winifred Hughes and Lois Marie
Harrod read from their works for
20 minutes each followed by an
open-mic session. Hughes is the
author of “Nine-Bend Bridge,”
which won the Red Berry Editions
2015 summer chapbook contest.
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Reading Treehouse 1: This reading
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kindergarten and first grade
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Monday during the school year.
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Feb. 26
Subsequent to a motor vehicle
stop, a 22-year-old Pennsylvania
female was arrested for driving
while intoxicated. She was transported to headquarters where she
was processed and released with
a pending court date.
The victim reported that between Dec. 1 and 30, an unknown
actor stole an iPod 5 from a residence on the 100 block of Witherspoon Street. There are no suspects at this time, and the investigation is ongoing.
Police were called to a retail
store on the first block of Palmer
Square West to investigate a
shoplifting. The store reported
that on Feb. 25 at about 5:50 p.m., a
female with long dark hair stole
merchandise valued at $1,106
from the store. There are no suspects at this time, and the investigation is ongoing.
Subsequent to a motor vehicle
stop, a 21-year-old Pennsylvania
male was arrested on an active
warrant issued by the Princeton
Municipal Court, and bail was set
at $114. He was transported to
headquarters where he was
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needed to be made to the bridge.
A detour for both car and truck
traffic was erected by NJDOT and
is as follows – Route 206 southbound traffic diverted to Route
518 to Carter Road; northbound
traffic is diverted Carter Road to
Route 518. Additionally, Princeton Police implemented a secondary detour diverting southbound
traffic onto Hutchinson Drive to
Mercer Road to Lovers Lane and
northbound traffic vice versa.
Detour signs, road closed signs,
traffic cones and barricades were
placed in the area of the detours.
NJDOT reports the closure will
remain in effect until repair work
has been completed.
Feb. 24
Subsequent to a motor vehicle
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and staff at Community Park Elementary School celebrated in style! Clockwise from above: Students filled the
hallways to read together all at once.
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creates a clever Horton costume.
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together the CP event, ‘Read Across
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terrific job at the murder mystery.
I hope the audience has as much
fun as we’ve had.”
Gallagher has been sporting
the detective’s mustache for some
weeks now and described, in jest,
the peculiar looks he receives on
the New York subway – discerning the facially haired hipster in
straight-laced clothing. Young,
meanwhile, leaped into Miss
Casswell the day she put on a tie.
“Miss Casswell basically wears
men’s clothes. I remember one
day I woke and said ‘the tie is
going on,’ and it really changed
the spine of the character,” Young
said. “Something I’ve realized
and am delighting in is how com-
plicated this character turned out
to be… I’ve been threading the
needle of Miss Casswell, and
she’s a delicate balance – confident, smart and misunderstood.
Sometimes, the preconception of
Christie is paint by numbers, but
it’s anything but that.”
“This production doesn’t feel
like a museum piece. It’s not outdated theater,” Gallagher said.
“It’s vibrant and it’s real.”
Next BOE meeting set for March 15
NEXT
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$20,000; Precalculus with Limits,
$22,000; Pre-calculus $36,000; The
Practice of Statistics, $16,000.
• The board approved the appointment of LitLife West Hudson, Inc., of Washington Township for professional development
activities on the writing process
for elementary students at
Princeton Day School.
• The board approved the ESEA
Accountability Action Plan: 2015
Participation Rate and Assurances for John Witherspoon Middle School, Princeton High School
and the Princeton Public School
District that articulate how each
school will address the factors
leading to low participation rates
for PARCC testing.
• The board approved an
overnight school trip for PHS
Yearbook Staff Retreat to State
College, Pa., from June 23-24.
• The board approved Canon
Solutions America, Inc. under the
National IPA Cooperative Pricing
Program to provide multifunctional digital copiers for the
Princeton Public Schools administration building under a 60month lease contract.
• The board accepted the grant
for Asian Society’s Confucius
Classrooms Network in the sum
of $13,000 to be used to implement
the projects described in the district’s 2015-2016 proposal in support of the Mandarin program.
• The board authorized the
maximum amount of $56,300 for
school-related travel expenditures district-wide during the
2015-2016 school year. The board
authorized the maximum amount
of $8,963 of grant funds may be
spent on travel in the 2015-2016
school year (Confucius and NCLB
Grants).
• The board welcomed the following staff to the district for the
2015-2016 school year: Nicole
Hampton, LDTC, Johnson Park
Elementary, effective April 25,
and Jennifer Sanic, instructional
assistant-PT, Johnson Park Elementary, effective Feb. 16.
• The next meeting of the
Board of Education will be Tuesday, March 15 8 p.m. in the Board
Conference Room at Valley Road.
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meet every August for organization and will elect its own chair,
vice chair and secretary. It will
meet once or twice a month and
will present annual reports to
council regarding accomplishments and goals for the next
school year.
In other news:
• Approved events to be held for
2016 are: Memorial Day Parade,
May 28 at 10 a.m. from Princeton
Avenue to the old Borough Hall;
Flag Day, June 14 at noon at Witherspoon Hall; Veterans Day, Nov.
11 at 11 a.m. at the monument on
the corner of Nassau and Mercer
streets. American and POW flags
will decorate Nassau Street from
Memorial Day to Veterans Day.
• Council gave an award of
recognition to McCaffrey’s Food
Market for its work in the community. Lempert praised McCaffrey’s for becoming a gathering
safe place in the event of townwide power outages or storms, for
taking a leadership role in sustainability efforts with its compost programs and recycling bags
and also for being progressive in
inclusive hiring practices.
• Councilman Bernie Miller
made a presentation about a possible new solar array plant.
• Lempert proclaimed March as
American Red Cross Month and
encouraged Princetonians to donate blood and help those in need.
• Council adopted several ordinances to amend the codes of the
former borough and township.
“Many of these ordinances are
still part of code harmonization,”
Lempert said, referring to amendments to the codes of the former
borough and township. These include the authorization of direct
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employees as of March 1 to create
“paperless payroll” unless exemption is sought; a change to the
Princeton Public Safety Committee; a permanent, non-exclusive
easement for a sidewalk and retaining wall in front of the bank
on Cherry Hill Road not to exceed
the amount of $4,300; and metered on-street parking along
Paul Robeson Place.
• Council introduced the following ordinances with public hearings on March 28: The property at
22 Winant Road will be moved
from the residential zone to the
educational zone on the zoning
map – amending and supplementing the township code in connection with the Hun School of
Princeton; an umbrella advisory
committee will be created to connect Complete Streets, Bicycle
Advisory and Public Transit Advisory; and the mayor and council may in their discretion designate by ordinance such places in
the municipality that can be used
for the drop-off and pick-up of vehicles by valets. This amends the
code of the former borough.
Council also passed the following resolutions:
• Authorizing the award of a
non-fair and open contract for
professional services to the
Lafayette College Meyner Center
for assistance in preparing a
strategic plan for the Department
of Infrastructure and Operations,
not to exceed $12,000.
• Authorizing the sharing of
costs with Princeton Community
Housing in the preparation of a
financial feasibility study for the
provision of 40 additional affordable units at Princeton Community Village.
• Professional service agreement for planning board legal
services with Miller Porter &
Muller, PC not to exceed $34,000.
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Coming together to read? A fun time, indeed!
Students and staff at Community Park Elementary enjoy a day of Seuss-ified activities, reading together
By ERICA CHAYES WIDA
The Sun
One Wednesday in March at
Community Park,
The kids lined up to make a big
spark.
They walked out of classrooms
as Thing Ones and Thing Twos,
As Loraxes, students, Hortons
and Whos.
March 5 is a birthday, a party
for Seuss,
“Read Across America Day”
makes it fun, too.
Librarian Bevan Mullowney
planned the day,
At CP Elementary, to specially
say:
“Reading together with staff
and students on Read Across
America Day creates an atmosphere that encourages participation, makes reading fun and exciting, and shows that people of all
ages can find joy from books.”
Mullowney, the school’s librarian/school media specialist, put
together the event at Community
Park Elementary School in honor
of Read Across America Day.
“The National Education Association developed Read Across
America Day. It is held every second day of the month in March,
to coincide with Dr. Seuss' birthday,” she added.
Instead of just making it about
America, however, Mullowney
ERICA CHAYES WIDA/The Sun
Some second-grade boys settle down and sink into some good books! From left are Julian Rossi, Matthew
Lopez-Marroquin, Mason Sass and Lincoln Sandoval Strausz. For more photos, please see page 10.
made the celebration unique, and
perhaps a bit more educational,
by deeming the theme, “Read
Across the Universe.”
“We created all sorts of fun
projects related to our solar system in the library. We also made
Dr. Seuss characters, read a variety of Dr. Seuss books, had a little
Dr. Seuss party and played a Dr.
Seuss trivia game,” Mullowney
said cheerily.
At 2:25 p.m., CP coordinated
every student, teacher and staff
member to flood the hallways
with a book in hand. Some wore
clever costumes, others had decorated a paper pinned to their shirt
marked “Thing 1,” “Thing
100,000” or “Thing 5.”
“This event was created to cultivate students' love of reading
and create a learning activity that
the whole school can participate
in,” Mullowney said.
Principal Dineen Gruchacz
also voiced how reading in unison as a student body was significant:
“At CP, we are a family/community of learners. As such, we
do as many things together as a
whole school as we can. Reading
together supports this notion.
Furthermore, this activity is a
long-standing CP tradition on Dr.
Seuss' birthday. We also have the
sixth graders for JW visit and
read books that they write to our
first graders.”
“It’s great,” exclaimed secondgrade teacher Ellen Hale, who
was dressed from head to toe as
Thing 1 – blue wig and all.
“It’s a wonderful way to get
kids excited about reading and
reading together,” added Lauren
Tucker, AIS teacher.
Mullowney voiced how special
it was for the staff and students to
have all the kids’ projects hanging
in the hallways, and moreover to
see the students’ excitement and
love of reading shine.
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Going behind the curtain of ‘The Mousetrap’
Actors Emily Young and Richard Gallagher dive into McCarter Theatre’s newest production
By ERICA CHAYES WIDA
The Sun
McCarter Theatre, with Director Adam Immerwahr at the
helm, is steering through the
mystery-thriller maze crafted by
the “queen of crime.” Agatha
Christie, the renowned British
crime novelist and playwright,
swirls suspense in “The Mousetrap” like white weather. The
guests at Monkswell Manor are so
too surrounded by snow… and
murder.
Emily Young and Richard Gallagher are both new to the
Christie phenomenon and dove in
deeply to capture their characters, Miss Casswell and Detective
Sergeant Trotter.
“For those who have seen ‘The
Mousetrap’ before, I’d say, you
haven’t seen this one,” Gallagher
said. “Adam is a terrific director
with such a specific goal in mind
– making it very real. It’s a different production; it’s immediate.”
“I think the immediacy of the
production is a testament to
Adam and the company we have
that were interested in going that
deep,” Young added. “There are
probably assumptions about what
this play has been, what it is and
what it will be. It's been running
so long in London. What’s special
about this production is we’ve
given it the time it deserves to un-
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The company of Agatha Christie’s ‘The Mousetrap’ with Director Adam Immerwahr, center, on the stage
at McCarter Theatre through March 27.
pack it. We’re discovering the
scenes anew in an authentic and
human way.”
Young expressed that some
comedy seems to come from that
as well – attesting that the humor
doesn’t feel “canned.”
“There’s definitely funny in
this, and definitely scary as well,”
Gallagher chuckled. “Death isn’t
funny, but there are some oddball
characters and wonderful humor
in those characters and how they
relate to each other in a snowstorm. It plays on our interac-
tions, who really gets on our
nerves and who doesn’t.”
Young said Immerwahr and
the company spent a “luxurious
amount of table time” dissecting
“The Mousetrap,” which has been
running on the stage for more
than 60 years. She feels this allowed each person to individually
make discoveries of each of their
characters.
“The big surprise is that
Agatha Christie can bear that;
she’s worth the time, and I think
that’s really cool. It’s like our Net-
flix talk shows back then. It’s fun
and enthralling and juicy,” Young
said. “And I do believe it can bear
human investigation. The tone of
the piece is not all one thing – a
testament to the group that we
can ride the wave of tone.”
Gallagher voiced how gratifying it was watching everybody
work and seep into their complex
characters.
“The whole Agatha Christie experience is new to me. I’m loving
getting to be some young, optimistic detective guy trying to take
IF YOU GO
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care of it all,” Gallagher said.
“The puzzle of it all is fun.
[Christie] gives him a lot of language, words to discover this motley crew of characters. She does a
please see PRODUCTION, page 12
Woman reports being groped by man while walking on Linden Lane
The following reports are provided by the Princeton Police Department.
On Feb. 24, police received a report from a female who stated
that while walking on Linden
Lane, she was approached by a
male, described as approximately
5'6", 30 to 35 years of age wearing
a gray shirt and gray wool hat,
who then grabbed her on her buttocks. The victim quickly turned
around and observed the un-
known male had fled on foot toward Nassau Street. Patrols
checked the area with negative
results. The incident remains
under investigation.
Feb. 29
Subsequent to a
motor vehicle stop, a
20-year-old Hamilton
male was arrested on
active warrants issued
by the Robbinsville Municipal
Court, West Windsor Municipal
Court and Hamilton Township
Municipal Court. The total bail
was set at $2,200. He was transported to headquarters where he
was processed and released after
posting bail.
Subsequent to a
motor vehicle stop, a
32-year-old Princeton
female was arrested
on an active warrant
issued by the Westhampton Municipal Court, and bail was set at
police
report
$500. She was processed at headquarters and released on her own
recognizance with a pending
court date.
Subsequent to a motor vehicle
stop,
a
45-year-old
New
Brunswick male was arrested on
active warrants issued by the
East Brunswick Municipal Court,
and the New Brunswick Municipal Court. The total bail was set
at $1,250. He was transported to
headquarters where he was
processed and released after posting bail.
Feb. 27
Subsequent to a motor vehicle
stop, a 30-year-old Lawrenceville
male, was arrested for driving
while intoxicated. He was transported to headquarters where he
was processed and released with
a pending court date.
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MARCH 9–15, 2016 – THE PRINCETON SUN 3
Tough competition
during Dillon Youth
basketball semifinals
The Dillon Youth Basketball
League played in the semifinals
Feb. 27. Sixth- and seventh-grade
Boys Division had a close game
with an overtime win.
Jeremy Sallade scored 20
points and Bram Silva added nine
as Princeton Pi topped Princeton
Dental Group, 37-34, in the semifinal round of the playoffs in the
fourth-fifth grade Boys Division
of the Princeton Recreation Dillon Youth Basketball League.
Joshua Trotman added eight
points in the win. AJ Surace had
22 points, and Jason Singer added
eight in the loss.
In the other semifinal, Princeton Youth Sports topped Lependorf & Silverstein, 39-21, as
Matthew Land scored 15 points.
Kian Bragg and Isaac WriteMiller added six apiece in the
win. Will Pittman had five points
in the loss.
In the semifinal round of the
sixth-seventh grade Boys Division playoffs, Andrew Friedman
scored 17 points to lead University Orthopedic Associates to a 3938 overtime win over Princeton
Orthopedic Associates. Ryan
Cruser had nine points, and Gabe
Majeski added seven in the win.
Patrick McDonald scored 15
points, and Drew Petrone added
six in the loss. In the other semifinal, Baldino & Brothers topped
Princeton
Pediatrics,
60-39.
Charles Hamit scored 16 points,
Will Doran had 14, and Tommy
Delaney added 12 in the win. MarShawn Ferguson had 14 points,
and Dylan Riddal added 13 in the
loss.
In the eighth-ninth grade Boys
Division semifinals, Thomas Reid
scored 24 points to lead Princeton
Pettoranello to a 36-34 win over
Princeton PBA No. 130. Ben
Amon had seven points in the
win, while Judd Petrone had 11,
and Adam Rothstein 10 in the
loss. In the other semifinal,
Jaylen Johnson scored 16 points
and Thomas Bocian added 10 as
Cross Culture topped Metropolis
Salon, 47-32. Grant Luther had
nine points, and Mustafa Zaman
added eight in the loss.
In the Girls Division semifinals, Milan Couillens scored 11
points, and Myla Wailoo added
six as the Wings topped the Liberty, 21-18. Yayla Tur had 10 points
in the loss. In the other semifinal,
Hillary Allen scored 10 points,
and Sarah Granozio added eight
as the Mercury topped the Storm,
28-13. Marcela Nearing scored six
points, and Kate Delaney added
four in the loss.
Two Princeton children win
The Sun coloring contest
The Sun newspapers announced the winners of their
Valentine Coloring Contest. Readers were asked to color a picture
and send it to us for entry into a
contest. Each winner received a
four-pack of tickets to Sahara
Sams.
There were 134 total entries,
and two winners from Princeton.
They are: Matthew H., 6, and
Maryann Mian, 10.
To see the winning entries,
please visit our Facebook page,
www.facebook.com/theprincetonsun.
Congratulations to the winners!
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After fireworks canceled, community
hopes to reignite Princeton tradition
Residents share fundraising ideas with Spirit of Princeton vice chair
By ERICA CHAYES WIDA
The Sun
“We know it’s almost spring
when Ray Wadsworth comes to
speak,” Mayor Liz Lempert said
at the last council meeting.
Along with spring, Wadsworth,
Spirit of Princeton chair, also
brings his plans for the four annual events that decorate Princeton in nationalism from Memorial Day to Veterans Day. This time,
however, Wadsworth brought
news that one of the town’s favorites has sizzled out.
“This is our 20th year of me
coming in here and having permission to do the Spirit of Princeton,” Wadsworth said when he approached the podium. “It’s heartbreaking to say that after 19 years
of doing the fireworks, we have to
stop because it’s draining our
funds.”
When the organization was
first formed, Herb Hobler, a
Princeton man who remains on
the Spirit of Princeton board,
raised a significant amount of
money that laid the foundation
for the Spirit of Princeton to do
its four annual events. Later last
week, Vice Chair Mark Freda explained how these initial funds
provided a solid endowment that
was expected to last. Until this
year, it did.
The Spirit of Princeton’s four
annual events include the Memorial Day Parade, which starts at
the corner of Princeton Avenue
and Nassau Street and marches to
Princeton Monument Hall; the
Flag Day Ceremony at Princeton
Witherspoon Hall; the Fourth of
July Fireworks; and the Veterans
Day Ceremony at the All Wars
Monument at the corner of Nassau and Mercer streets.
“We realized if we continued to
do all four events, our endowment
would only last about three or
four more years,” Freda said.
Wadsworth told council that
Hobler released a survey to some
of the organization’s biggest
donors from Princeton University asking whether the fireworks
should stay or go. The most common response was, “Why keep
the fireworks when the university
hosts a fireworks show every year
for its reunion celebration close
to July 4?”
If that was not the convincing
factor, Freda also explained the
fireworks cost a little more than
$20,000 a year while the parade
only costs about $9,000. The other
events, including the flags that
Spirit of Princeton decorates
Nassau Street with during its pa-
triotic season, run the group no
more than a couple thousand dollars each.
“I want to see the Spirit of
Princeton after I leave this planet,” Wadsworth said about the difficult choice to cease the Independence Day celebration
“We had to keep the Spirit of
Princeton alive. If we didn’t cut
out the fireworks, we’d cease to
exist,” Freda said.
But it seems there may be a
glimmer of hope for the fireworks
afterall.
“Now that people are finding
out we’re not doing them,” Freda
continued, “there already seems
be an effort from individuals in
the community to help keep the
fireworks, at least for this year.”
Thus far, six to seven people
have approached Freda with
fundraising ideas.
“The question is,” Freda said,
“if we raise more money, do we
bring back the fireworks for one
year or use the money to build
our endowment to ensure the
Spirit of Princeton remains for a
much longer time? I don’t think
we’ve totally done away with the
fireworks, but we’ll have a better
idea over the next couple weeks.”
Freda continued that while it
was a challenging decision to
“suspend” the fireworks, which is
such a popular event, he feels the
Memorial Day Parade through
the center of Princeton is a “true
Princeton event.”
“I know these events are some
of the things that really make
Princeton, Princeton,” Lempert
told Wadsworth at the meeting.
“We look forward to them every
year. We’re all sad about the fireworks, but the parade is one of
my very favorite events throughout the year.”
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BOE opposes pension liability
By ERICA CHAYES WIDA
The Sun
Last year, the New Jersey Pension and Health Benefits Study
Commission appointed by Gov.
Christie issued a report called “A
Roadmap to Resolution.” This
“roadmap” proposed changes to
how public employee benefits, in
both the Teacher’s Pension and
Annuity Fund and the School
Employees’ Health Benefits Program, are financed and administered.
On Feb. 11, the Study Commission conducted a follow-up report
titled “Supplemental Report on
Health Benefits,” which included
additional changes. The two reports together aim to shift the responsibility of retiree pensions
and medical benefits from a state
level to a local level – placing the
financial burden on the public
school districts.
At the last Princeton Board of
Education meeting, the board
voiced its opposition to the report
and passed a resolution regarding
pension obligation.
“The purpose of the resolution
is for the board to demonstrate to
state politicians that it is not in
favor of the proposed shift of pension liability to school districts,”
said Stephanie Kennedy, BOE
business administrator and secretary.
Copies of the resolution were
sent at the end of February to
Gov. Christie, state Senate Presi-
dent Stephen M. Sweeney, Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto, the
16th Legislative District’s representatives in the state Senate and
General Assembly, as well as the
board secretaries of each public
school district in Mercer County
and the New Jersey School
Boards Association.
“While the resolution does not
have any binding legal authority,
it is intended to send the clear
message to those in Trenton
whose job it is to solve the state’s
pension crisis that any so-called
‘solution’ which jeopardizes the
current or future financial security of our employees or shifts financial responsibility for the
state’s obligations onto local
school districts should be a nonstarter,” board President Andrea
Spalla said. “It is also my hope
that the New Jersey School
Boards Association – whose job it
is to represent and lobby for
school boards’ interests at the
state level – will read this and
similar resolutions from other
boards around the state and realize that the problem is an urgent
one, and that it must immediately
and aggressively advocate for
local school boards and their employees on this issue.”
The board is a public employer
stipulating board employees be
enrolled in one of the state’s pension plans, and each of its board
employees is required by law to
contribute to a portion of a board
employee’s salary to the state pen-
sion fund until he or she retires.
“The board is concerned that
the uncertain financial position
of the current state pension funds
may cause its current or retired
employees to lose their expected
benefits from the fund or receive
a substantially reduced benefit,
through no fault of their own,”
the resolution reads. “Such
changes would have an unfair
and economically devastating effect on the lives and well-being of
the board’s employees and their
families.”
The resolution urges Christie
and the Legislature to not transfer the financial obligation of
teacher pensions and benefit programs to public schools. The
board added that while it supports reducing taxpayer costs, it
hopes the governing body will
“take a careful and comprehensive approach” without impacting local school districts.
“This will impact every school
district in the state if liability
shifts,” Kennedy said.
In other news:
• The board approved the
school calendar for the 2016-2017
school year. To view the full calendar, visit www.princetonk12.org.
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in our opinion
Hello, spring, are you here yet?
Our moods, our businesses, our livelihoods depend on your arrival
arch 20. Eleven more days. It
can’t come soon enough. Officially, that’s the start of
spring. Whether Mother Nature
agrees, though, is anyone’s guess at
this point. Early forecasts show she
will be good to us, but how much can
we actually rely on forecasts?
Spring is what we all need. We need
a nice stroll downtown, in the park or
on the boardwalk to reinvigorate us, to
get us out of the doldrum into which
winter plunges us every year, no matter how mild or extreme it is.
We got lucky this winter, with just
one major snowstorm that crippled us
for a week or so. It’s been bitter cold at
times, too, as any winter is, and we got
a sprinkling of wet weather last week.
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What are you most looking forward to this
spring? While you are out and about
enjoying what hopefully will be beautiful
weather, send us the photos you take
along the way, and we’ll be happy to share
them with the rest of the town.
But, hey, it’s in the 70s this week!
No matter how bad it is, winter affects all of our moods, and it affects
our bottom lines, too.
We’ll most likely be paying more in
taxes, in some way, at some level, for
pothole repairs and salt purchases.
Snow and cold weather affect local
businesses as well, especially retail
shops. Bad weather keeps patrons in-
side. The arrival of spring weather on
a consistent basis will hopefully turn
that around, and quickly.
Cold weather keeps people in the
mindset of “no end in sight,” and prevents many from taking day trips to
our state’s wonderful good-weather
spots, or from planning future trips, as
well.
In a little more than 60 days, the official start of the summer beach season
will be here. Does that even sound
right?
The good news is that it started to
warm up this week. Spring really does
look like it’s right around the corner.
Let’s hope Mother Nature cooperates
and doesn’t reverse the tide back to
winter. Please spare us!
Youth will have ‘official voice in government’
Princeton Council adopts ordinance to establish Youth Advisory Committee
By ERICA CHAYES WIDA
The Sun
The Princeton mayor and council look
to many advisory committees on a widerange of topics. These agencies, boards,
commissions and committees give community members the opportunity to be heard
and encourage the municipality to listen.
There is one voice less prominent among
the governing body, and it is perhaps the
most necessary voice to accomplish
progress and determine the future of
Princeton.
Last Monday, council adopted an ordinance that will turn up the volume on
Princeton kids with something to say.
“I am very excited about establishing a
Youth Advisory Committee,” Lempert said
earlier Monday. “We’re giving youth an official voice in government.”
The Youth Advisory Committee will ad-
vise the mayor and council on all issues related to youth – from recommending policies to sponsoring educational, informational and/or social events. The committee
will consist of 12 students and up to five
adult liaisons appointed before June 1 of
each year. The students must be residents
of the municipality and must be high
school students entering grades nine
through 12 in the fall of the same year.
Lempert specified this year she and
council will likely appoint freshmen
through juniors. In the future, they will extend the application to eighth graders so
committee members can be on the board
all four years of high school.
“The term will last until you graduate,
unless you decide to come off the board
earlier,” Lempert said. “By having kids on
the committee from the start of school, we
hope to help build leadership skills. By the
time they’re older, they will have been on
the committee for some time, and the adult
liaisons can step back.”
Lempert, with the advice of council, will
select the student members from those
who have submitted applications. The ordinance states “every effort will be made to
appoint a diverse group of students and to
evenly distribute appointments geographically.”
The adult liaisons will consist of one
elected official, two staff members as nonvoting liaisons, including at least one staff
member from the Department of Health,
Youth and Community Services. Police
Chief Nick Sutter will appoint one officer
from the Safe Neighborhoods Unit as a
non-voting liaison, and there may also be
one non-voting liaison from the Princeton
Public Schools.
The Youth Advisory Committee will
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THURSDAY MARCH 10
Black Voices Book Group: The
group discusses "Lose Your
Mother: A Journey Along the
Atlantic Slave Route" by Saidiya
Hartman. Princeton Public
Library, 7 p.m.
“The Brief Life and Exciting Times
of Vulcan – the Planet that Wasn’t There”: Thomas Levenson,
professor of science writing at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discusses and signs
copies of his book "The Hunt for
Vulcan ... And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered
the Universe." Part of the History
of Science series. Princeton Public Library, 7 p.m.
Mercer County ID Program: All
Mercer County residents are eligible for the community ID card, a
photo identification card providing personal identifying information, medical risk factors and
emergency contact information.
The card is issued by the Latin
American Legal Defense & Education Fund, a nonprofit advocacy group. $10 per card/$5 youth
under 21 and seniors over 65. For
additional information, visit
www.laldef.org. Princeton Public
Library, noon – 2 p.m. and 5:30 –
7 p.m.
FRIDAY MARCH 11
Job Seeker Sessions: The library
and Professional Services Group
of Mercer County sponsor sessions for professionals who are
seeking new employment and
contracting
opportunities
throughout the region. Princeton
Public Library, 9:45 a.m.
Rock & Rhythm: Rock & Rhythm
blends
music,
movement,
rhymes, read alouds, fingerplays
and other interactive activities,
while enhancing early literacy
skills. This program is intended
for children 2 to 5 years old. Parent or caregiver must attend with
child. Princeton Public Library, 4
p.m.
SATURDAY MARCH 12
The Hot Sardines: Take a blustery
brass lineup, layer it over a
rhythm section led by a stridepiano virtuoso, and tie the whole
thing together with a one-of-theboys frontwoman with a voice
from another era, and you have
The Hot Sardines. Tickets: $55 on
sale now at the Box Office, by
phone at (609) 258–2787 or at
mccarter.org. McCarter Theatre,
8 p.m.
SUNDAY MARCH 13
Astrological Society of Princeton:
Meeting with guest speaker Sheri
Horn Hasan. “Chiron and Healing
in the Chart.” For more information, visit aspnj.org. Plainsboro
Public Library, 2 p.m.
Ceol agus Cairdel (Music and
Friends): In honor of St. Patrick’s
Day, Helen O’Shea presents an
afternoon of song, music and
dance in the Irish tradition. Featured performers include singers
and musicians: Paul Bejgrowicz,
Rich Bozic, Bob Cole, Mark O'Donnell, Helen O'Shea, Garry
Pearsall, Mike Sukhdeo, Fiona
Tyndall, Katherine Wessinger and
Fil Wisneski. With special guests
from "Rince O'Chroi" School of
Irish Dance. Princeton Public
Library, 3 p.m.
Verse Speaking Choir: The Verse
Speaking Choir celebrates their
30th anniversary. Free and open
to the public, freewill offering will
benefit Trenton Area Soup
Kitchen. For more info contact
(609) 924–1666. Witherspoon
Street Presbyterian Church, 3
Wilson-Apple Funeral Home
MARCH 9–15, 2016
p.m.
Avi Avital: Acknowledged by the
New York Times for his “stunning
agility,” Grammy-nominated mandolinist Avi Avital will present an
adventurous program supported
by accordionist Ksenija Sidorov
and percussionist Itama Doari.
Balancing between folk and classical music, Avital defies expectations with works spanning from
concertos by Bach and Vivaldi to
Bartok’s Romanian Dances and
traditional Bulgarian, Turkish,
and Israeli folk tunes. Tickets:
$55 on sale now at the box office,
by phone at (609) 258–2787 or at
mccarter.org. McCarter Theatre,
3 p.m.
MONDAY MARCH 14
Letra Pequeña: Through engagement with books, activities and
crafts, children and adults
improve Spanish language skills,
for children 2-5 years old accompanied by a parent or caregiver, 11
a.m.
Poetry reading: Featured poets
Winifred Hughes and Lois Marie
Harrod read from their works for
20 minutes each followed by an
open-mic session. Hughes is the
author of “Nine-Bend Bridge,”
which won the Red Berry Editions
2015 summer chapbook contest.
Princeton Public Library, 7:30
p.m.
AARP Tax Help: free help preparing
and filing federal and state electronic tax returns by appointment on Monday mornings
through April 11. Call (609) 9249529, ext. 1220. Princeton Public
Library Community Room, 9 a.m.
Reading Treehouse 1: This reading
group for developing readers in
kindergarten and first grade
meets monthly on the second
Monday during the school year.
Stories, reading aloud, crafts,
games and more that reflect a
different theme each month are
featured.
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required.
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Feb. 26
Subsequent to a motor vehicle
stop, a 22-year-old Pennsylvania
female was arrested for driving
while intoxicated. She was transported to headquarters where she
was processed and released with
a pending court date.
The victim reported that between Dec. 1 and 30, an unknown
actor stole an iPod 5 from a residence on the 100 block of Witherspoon Street. There are no suspects at this time, and the investigation is ongoing.
Police were called to a retail
store on the first block of Palmer
Square West to investigate a
shoplifting. The store reported
that on Feb. 25 at about 5:50 p.m., a
female with long dark hair stole
merchandise valued at $1,106
from the store. There are no suspects at this time, and the investigation is ongoing.
Subsequent to a motor vehicle
stop, a 21-year-old Pennsylvania
male was arrested on an active
warrant issued by the Princeton
Municipal Court, and bail was set
at $114. He was transported to
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needed to be made to the bridge.
A detour for both car and truck
traffic was erected by NJDOT and
is as follows – Route 206 southbound traffic diverted to Route
518 to Carter Road; northbound
traffic is diverted Carter Road to
Route 518. Additionally, Princeton Police implemented a secondary detour diverting southbound
traffic onto Hutchinson Drive to
Mercer Road to Lovers Lane and
northbound traffic vice versa.
Detour signs, road closed signs,
traffic cones and barricades were
placed in the area of the detours.
NJDOT reports the closure will
remain in effect until repair work
has been completed.
Feb. 24
Subsequent to a motor vehicle
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hallways to read together all at once.
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terrific job at the murder mystery.
I hope the audience has as much
fun as we’ve had.”
Gallagher has been sporting
the detective’s mustache for some
weeks now and described, in jest,
the peculiar looks he receives on
the New York subway – discerning the facially haired hipster in
straight-laced clothing. Young,
meanwhile, leaped into Miss
Casswell the day she put on a tie.
“Miss Casswell basically wears
men’s clothes. I remember one
day I woke and said ‘the tie is
going on,’ and it really changed
the spine of the character,” Young
said. “Something I’ve realized
and am delighting in is how com-
plicated this character turned out
to be… I’ve been threading the
needle of Miss Casswell, and
she’s a delicate balance – confident, smart and misunderstood.
Sometimes, the preconception of
Christie is paint by numbers, but
it’s anything but that.”
“This production doesn’t feel
like a museum piece. It’s not outdated theater,” Gallagher said.
“It’s vibrant and it’s real.”
Next BOE meeting set for March 15
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$20,000; Precalculus with Limits,
$22,000; Pre-calculus $36,000; The
Practice of Statistics, $16,000.
• The board approved the appointment of LitLife West Hudson, Inc., of Washington Township for professional development
activities on the writing process
for elementary students at
Princeton Day School.
• The board approved the ESEA
Accountability Action Plan: 2015
Participation Rate and Assurances for John Witherspoon Middle School, Princeton High School
and the Princeton Public School
District that articulate how each
school will address the factors
leading to low participation rates
for PARCC testing.
• The board approved an
overnight school trip for PHS
Yearbook Staff Retreat to State
College, Pa., from June 23-24.
• The board approved Canon
Solutions America, Inc. under the
National IPA Cooperative Pricing
Program to provide multifunctional digital copiers for the
Princeton Public Schools administration building under a 60month lease contract.
• The board accepted the grant
for Asian Society’s Confucius
Classrooms Network in the sum
of $13,000 to be used to implement
the projects described in the district’s 2015-2016 proposal in support of the Mandarin program.
• The board authorized the
maximum amount of $56,300 for
school-related travel expenditures district-wide during the
2015-2016 school year. The board
authorized the maximum amount
of $8,963 of grant funds may be
spent on travel in the 2015-2016
school year (Confucius and NCLB
Grants).
• The board welcomed the following staff to the district for the
2015-2016 school year: Nicole
Hampton, LDTC, Johnson Park
Elementary, effective April 25,
and Jennifer Sanic, instructional
assistant-PT, Johnson Park Elementary, effective Feb. 16.
• The next meeting of the
Board of Education will be Tuesday, March 15 8 p.m. in the Board
Conference Room at Valley Road.
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meet every August for organization and will elect its own chair,
vice chair and secretary. It will
meet once or twice a month and
will present annual reports to
council regarding accomplishments and goals for the next
school year.
In other news:
• Approved events to be held for
2016 are: Memorial Day Parade,
May 28 at 10 a.m. from Princeton
Avenue to the old Borough Hall;
Flag Day, June 14 at noon at Witherspoon Hall; Veterans Day, Nov.
11 at 11 a.m. at the monument on
the corner of Nassau and Mercer
streets. American and POW flags
will decorate Nassau Street from
Memorial Day to Veterans Day.
• Council gave an award of
recognition to McCaffrey’s Food
Market for its work in the community. Lempert praised McCaffrey’s for becoming a gathering
safe place in the event of townwide power outages or storms, for
taking a leadership role in sustainability efforts with its compost programs and recycling bags
and also for being progressive in
inclusive hiring practices.
• Councilman Bernie Miller
made a presentation about a possible new solar array plant.
• Lempert proclaimed March as
American Red Cross Month and
encouraged Princetonians to donate blood and help those in need.
• Council adopted several ordinances to amend the codes of the
former borough and township.
“Many of these ordinances are
still part of code harmonization,”
Lempert said, referring to amendments to the codes of the former
borough and township. These include the authorization of direct
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deposit of net pay for municipal
employees as of March 1 to create
“paperless payroll” unless exemption is sought; a change to the
Princeton Public Safety Committee; a permanent, non-exclusive
easement for a sidewalk and retaining wall in front of the bank
on Cherry Hill Road not to exceed
the amount of $4,300; and metered on-street parking along
Paul Robeson Place.
• Council introduced the following ordinances with public hearings on March 28: The property at
22 Winant Road will be moved
from the residential zone to the
educational zone on the zoning
map – amending and supplementing the township code in connection with the Hun School of
Princeton; an umbrella advisory
committee will be created to connect Complete Streets, Bicycle
Advisory and Public Transit Advisory; and the mayor and council may in their discretion designate by ordinance such places in
the municipality that can be used
for the drop-off and pick-up of vehicles by valets. This amends the
code of the former borough.
Council also passed the following resolutions:
• Authorizing the award of a
non-fair and open contract for
professional services to the
Lafayette College Meyner Center
for assistance in preparing a
strategic plan for the Department
of Infrastructure and Operations,
not to exceed $12,000.
• Authorizing the sharing of
costs with Princeton Community
Housing in the preparation of a
financial feasibility study for the
provision of 40 additional affordable units at Princeton Community Village.
• Professional service agreement for planning board legal
services with Miller Porter &
Muller, PC not to exceed $34,000.
• Bid award for the Valley Road
Improvement Project to Integrated Construction and Utilities Authorizing Personnel Manual Updates of NJ not to exceed
$1,868,2923.
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