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SEPTEMBER 2021 FREE
The numbers are in
Off the presses Madi Sinha, who grew up in West Windsor, releases her first novel
Census 2020 shows that WW-P continues to see steady population growth
BY DAN AUBREY
Madi Sinha’s first novel deals with a young Indian doctor struggling through her medical residency. Sinha was born in Princeton and raised and schooled in West Windsor, where her father worked at RCA/Sarnoff and Lucent technologies. Now a resident of Moorestown, the writer and practicing physician attended Villanova and Hahnemann Medical School. She completed her own medical residency at Thomas Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia and captures that world in the following excerpt from the novel: Sprinting up the stairs would be easier if my white coat didn’t weigh 15 pounds. Senior residents like to joke that interns carry their lives around in their pockets. Mine are filled with two miniature textbooks, three pens, a stethoscope, a reflex hammer, a hospital ID badge, a penlight, a laminated map of the hospital, and a protein bar. A wearable emergency preparedness kit. Unlike the embarrassingly short medical student’s white coat, which projects nothing but bewilderment and the deflection of responsibility (Me? Oh no, See BOOK, Page 10
BY BILL SANSERVINO
Button collectors like jewelry maker Susan Freeman of Plainsboro will be at the Titusville button show this September.
Button show set for Sept. 11 BY DAN AUBREY
The New Jersey State Button Society will lift its pandemicinduced pause button and celebrate its 80th anniversary tristate button show at the Union Fire Company and Rescue Square Hall in Titusville on Sept. 11. “It’s a very large banquet hall
with good lights and ventilation. We’ll feel safe there,” says NJSBS president Barbara Fox about the gathering that will employ COVID-related protocols: masks, reduced capacity, open doors, and outdoor tables. Fox doesn’t expect a huge crowd for the free event, just between 25 or 50, attendees, including member Susan Free-
man of Plainsboro. But she says they will all be big on the small objects bringing them together. The reasons are multi-layered and more than market value, which Fox says can range from 25 cents to $250. One point of collector engagement is the reality that See BUTTONS, Page 8
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Many towns within Mercer County area saw moderate levels of population growth over the last 10 years, according to information released last month by the U.S. Census Bureau. While some communities, such as Lawrence Township and Hopewell Borough, had small decreases in population, West Windsor’s grew faster than the county average between over the last 10 years. The statistics come from the 2020 Census Redistricting Data Summary File, and they provide the first look at detailed information about where people were living as of April 1, 2020. Numbers are available for the nation, states and communities down to the block level. Overall, the report shows that people are increasingly living in cities and the surrounding areas. The population of U.S. metro areas grew by 9% from 2010 to 2020, resulting in 86% of the population living in U.S. metro areas in 2020, compared to 85% in 2010. Overall, the population in Mercer County grew by 5.7% from 366,515 to 387,340—an See CENSUS, Page 4