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Report details failures at TWW
Autumn artistry
BY BILL SANSERVINO
Ewing Township held its annual Community Fest at The College of New Jersey on Oct. 18, 2025. The event featured a number of family activities, including a pumpkin painting station. In the photo at left are Tim (left), Stacey and Ava Harshaw. In the photo at right are Sophia Brunson and Armana Kidane. For more pictures, see pages 6-8. (Photos by Bill Sanservino.)
Greig leads EHS football revival BY JUSTIN FEIL
Ryan Greig was in the middle of baseball season when Al-Majid Hutchins was hired as Ewing High School’s new football coach. Soon after, Hutchins met with the team to outline his vision for
the Blue Devils — one that featured a more aggressive, passoriented offense for Greig’s senior year. “It was hard not to smile, just knowing that I was going to have this opportunity this year, something I’ve been kind of itching for definitely since I started playing
varsity,” Greig said. “It just feels different this year for sure.” Through a 5–2 start, Greig had thrown for 1,279 yards — more than 100 yards more than his previous two seasons combined — with 12 touchdown passes and five rushing scores. The Ewing See GRIEG, Page 11
The bad news continues to flow out of Trenton Water Works. A sweeping report released in October by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection warns that persistent staffing shortages, bureaucratic delays and infrastructure failures continue to threaten the safety and reliability of the regional water utility — with even greater risk looming once its Pennington Avenue Reservoir is taken offline. The 164-page Comprehensive Performance Evaluation, completed in May 2025 by engineering firm H2M Associates of Parsippany, concludes that TWW remains plagued by “chronic deterioration” and a host of operational, administrative and physical vulnerabilities that “pose the most consistent and predictable threats to the efficiency and effectiveness of the TWW system.” The utility serves approximately 225,000 residents across Trenton, Hamilton, Ewing, Lawrence and Hopewell, and has been under state DEP oversight since 2022. According to the report, “the worst of the limiting factors stem
from staffing and communication issues.” H2M found that “TWW is short-staffed in both the operational and maintenance departments” and that Trenton’s system of public service contracts and state-imposed hiring restrictions has left the plant with too few licensed professionals and a workforce that is stretched thin. “This leaves the current licensed operators spread very thin, giving behavioral evidence and overtime labor records indicating a status of being overworked and burnt out,” the report states. Interviews with plant staff described a maintenance team with “a significant lack of training and relevant knowledge.” The report states that “almost no maintenance staff was observed around the plant despite equipment needing calibration, routine maintenance or repair being abundant.” The absence of a scheduling or task-tracking system has allowed even basic service needs to be overlooked. “Without a designated person to track and schedule repairs and required routine maintenance, important servicing is See TWW, Page 4
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