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Gyrlband marks 7 years of songs
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Eagle scout helps BLL score new batting cage
Hugs for the grad
Bordentown-based Sandy Zio a group mainstay
By JULiA MARNiN
By RichARD J. sKeLLy There is an adage in the music business: “When the musicians on stage are clearly having a good time, so does the audience.” That is certainly true of Gyrlband, a quartet of women who celebrated their seventh anniversary last month. The group was the idea of Bucks County-based singersongwriter Lisa Bouchelle, no stranger to the TrentonPrinceton-area nightclub and coffee house scene. While she is the only full-time musician in the band, she heaps praise on her bandmates. “The greatest thing about Gyrlband is we’re a democracy. We all bring our own talents to the band, including original songs, but then everybody adds to it and puts icing on the cake to our sound,” says Bouchelle on the patio at Hamilton’s Nottingham Tavern, where she is joined by the group’s newest member, drummer Dori Sabella. “It’s kind of like we’re four best friends. We’re sisters. We have four strong women in the band, yet it has lasted,” Bouchelle says, adding that those early critics who said Gyrlband wouldn’t last were wrong. Sabella, who will also be singing backup harmonies, agrees See GYRLBAND, Page 8
Graduate Havyn Feeney gets hugs from Ryder Feeney and Emersen Price at the Bordentown Regional High School graduation ceremony June 19, 2019. For more photos, turn to Page 12. (Photo by Suzette J. Lucas.)
The art of restoration Hopkinson portrait gets a makeover By sAMANThA sciARROTTA When Bordentown Historical Society co-president Doug Kiovsky came across a painting of Francis Hopkinson in the society’s archives, he knew it couldn’t be shown in the state he found it. The portrait, painted by Bordentown artist Henry Hartman in the 1970s, was riddled with scratches, discoloration
and punctures in the canvas— hardly befitting of Hopkinson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, composer and designer of the first American flag. So, with some teamwork, Kiovsky and the historical society started a GoFundMe to raise money to restore the painting in April, and the painting was returned good as new in mid-June. Kiovsky said he was thrilled with the final result, which was unveiled at the historical society’s meeting in June.
As younger residents have started to join the historical society, Kiovsky said the group has introduced more modern ideas, like raising money online through GoFundMe and establishing a social media presence. One member, Sharon Murray, had the idea to film Kiovsky as the Hopkinson painting was taken to Lawrence Art and Frame Company. “I’ve only been president since last fall, but we decided even though we had a lot of older members, the younger See PAINTING, Page 7
Like all Boy Scouts working toward the Eagle Scout rank, Nick Cutrupi had to complete a service project. He set his sights on the Bordentown Little League, an organization that both he and his younger brother have participated in. Cutrupi, a 15-year-old student at Notre Dame High School and Bordentown resident, raised over $2,300 to build a batting cage for the Bordentown Little League as a part of his Eagle Scout service project. Cutrupi, who is a member of Boy Scout Troop 13 in Bordentown, invested over 228 service hours in the building of the cage that he now gets to see young athletes enjoy. He has been involved with Boy Scouts for the past five and a half years, officially making Eagle Scout status last month. Eagle Scout is the highest rank that can be reached within the Boy Scouts of America, and it has been a goal of Cutrupi’s since grade school. “Ever since I joined on the first day I knew I wanted to become an Eagle Scout,” saidCutrupi, who is a sophomore at Notre Dame High School and has been a Bordentown resident his entire life. To become an Eagle Scout, a boy scout must first rise through the ranks of Scout, See CUTRUPI, Page 10
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