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On the mend South basketball player rebounds from serious injury BY JUSTIN FEIL Nine months after a pop in her knee changed everything, Anvi Agarwal returned inspirationally to the High School South girls basketball team. “We were preparing for her not to be ready for the beginning of the year,” said Pirates third-year head coach Mike Hussong. “She’s made a pretty quick recovery and we’ve managed to insert her in the lineup. The girls love having her on the court. She’s a very stable figure for our team. She’s always really steady for us.” Agarwal still isn’t quite up to full speed, but the Pirates senior point guard is still ahead of where some would have predicted after tearing her ACL in the final game of last season. Agarwal stole the ball from a Princeton Day School player in their Mercer County Tournament consolation game and was on a fast break. When she stopped to shoot a layup, she heard a pop and her knee gave out. “I was kind of in denial,” Agarwal said. “I was hoping it was just a sprain. It hurt a lot. I couldn’t put weight on it, but the swelling wasn’t too bad. I was kind of in denial until I got the MRI results back.” The diagnosis was devastatSee AGARWAL, Page 10
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Superfan organizing performance by acclaimed violinist BY ROSS AMICO
When violinist Xiaofu Zhou arrives in Princeton on Sunday, Feb. 3 for his recital at Princeton Theological Seminary’s Miller Chapel, it will not be through the efforts of an agent or a professional organizer, but rather through the tireless advocacy of those who have been changed by his playing. “The first time I heard him in concert, I just felt that his Former West Windsor Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh was named the new director of Trenton sound was not like anything I Water Works in December. He is pictured in his office with a wooden water main that have heard before, not even in was installed in the ground in Lafeyette Street in Trenton in 1801 and replaced in 1985. recordings,” says West Windsor resident Yun Duan. “I real(Staff photo by Bill Sanser vino). ized this was an amazing artist.” Duan, really an enthusiastic amateur, has taken it upon herself to promote Zhou, who had been doing everything himself, out of pocket, following first the death of his agent and then that of a helpful colleague. “His artistry really deserves to be noticed,” Duan says. “He BY BILL SANSERVINO A chance meeting shortly after Council. In 2017, decades of neglect of deserves to be on the major he retired as mayor with thenWhen Shing-Fu Hsueh offi- Assemblyman Reed Gusciora in the utility by several city admin- stage. On the other hand, he cially hung up his hat as mayor of an area gym wound up throwing istrations resulted in customers doesn’t want to be on tour all receiving a number of violation the time. He doesn’t want to West Windsor on Jan. 1, 2018 he a wrench in Hsueh’s plans. Gusciora would go on to be notices from the state Depart- lose his focus. He prefers to had big plans for his retirement elected mayor of Trenton a few ment of Environmental Protec- focus on the music.” from public office. Zhou, who makes his home He was going to paint, do months later and he would con- tion. This resulted in officials in sculpture and write his memoirs. vince Hsueh to take on the monu- the towns served by TWW to call in Ambler, Pennsylvania, is a He also planned to spend more mental task of turning around for a state takeover or privatiza- graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where time with his wife, Sue, his chil- one of the most troubled water tion to be considered. Meanwhile, customers in he studied with Jascha Brodsky utilities in the state. dren and his grandchildren. After a few months of serv- Ewing, Hamilton, Hopewell and Arnold Steinhardt of the He also planned to work with a retired art professor from Tulane ing as acting director, Hsueh Township, Lawrence and Tren- Guarneri String Quartet. He University at Grounds For Sculp- was officially appointed to the ton (West Windsor and Plains- pursued graduate studies with ture in Hamilton who had agreed role of director in December by boro are not serviced by TWW) Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard a unanimous vote of Trenton City to have him as his apprentice. See HSUEH, Page 8 See DUAN, Page 6
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