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embraced by the DOH for informing local educational decisions displeasure and frustration with can’t be used for ending the extenuGovernor Phil Murphy’s resistance ated pause on our businesses.

In reopening our schools, the to further reopening the economy, the governor has added to their an- governor noted that only those ger with his proposed budget that schools which can certify that they can meet the state guidelines can adds $1.4 billion in spending.

Last week, in a joint statement open. This is exactly the protocol from Michele Siekerka, president that the Business Coalition has adand CEO of the New Jersey Busi- vanced for the reopening of our ness and Industry Association businesses, as well — putting pub(NJBIA), and Tom Bracken, presi- lic health first.

Advancing the continued redent and CEO of the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce, they sponsible opening of New Jersey’s businesses is not about recommended a regionprioritizing the ability to al approach to allowing Between go out to eat, as the govbusinesses to reopen. ernor has contended in The governor promptly The his response to the Busirejected that strategy.

Lines ness Coalition’s regionTheir statement read: al approach.

It appears that deferIt is disheartening that the govring to industry experts and local ernor fails to acknowledge that the officials for COVID-19 reopening decisions is the proper process, ex- reopening is more critically about cept when it comes to the reopen- the return of livelihoods for thousands of our business owners. It is ing of our businesses.

On Monday, Governor Murphy about saving their personal investdeferred decisions on fall sports to ments borne of years of sweat eqthe NJSIAA, saying that, as ex- uity, the hundreds of thousands of perts, they know best. And, last jobs they provide and all they bring week, the governor and the state to the state’s economy. It’s about Department of Health released predictability and being able to guidelines for school reopenings, plan — the hallmarks of any busiusing data from six regions to in- ness endeavor. And it’s also about form local decisions and deferring the mental health of those strugto local health officials and school gling to survive, and those who are districts as the experts because ‘no shut in.

If “data determines dates” and one size fits all.’ “public health creates economic The New Jersey Business Coalition has repeatedly called for a re- health,” and we have improved gional approach to the reopening of COVID-19 numbers, but continNew Jersey’s economy. In doing ued lagging economic numbers, we so, the Coalition noted the DOH’s call on Governor Murphy to end current reporting of COVID-19 the pause of reopening New Jersey cases on a county-by-county basis. businesses.

If not statewide, then through It recommended that a grid of ‘safe’ the regional approach that has alvs. ‘cautious’ counties can easily ready been adopted elsewhere in be developed.

“We strongly maintain that there the state, with input from local ofis no reason why the same approach ficials and experts in their industries.

operations. Business owners have tapped their own savings and taken on new debt to keep from going under completely, and to continue paying their employees what they can. New taxes on the very same businesses that have already given so much and are the only ones that can drive our future recovery is inconceivable considering that the state was just given $9.9 billion in borrowing authority.

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nd the state chamber followed with its own criticism, which read, in part: The governor is doing what this state government always does when there is a revenue shortfall — propose new taxes — especially on the business community.

He is proposing these taxes while the state is still in the throes of a partial economic shutdown.

Businesses across the state have been economically decimated and many are still waiting for clarity as to when they can reopen. They are struggling to stay afloat and keep their employees on payroll. For the Governor to propose new taxes in this environment is cruel and irresponsible.

The new taxes proposed by the governor do not make sense. They will not raise enough revenue to move the needle in a $40 billion budget. However they will further cripple existing businesses and keep away new businesses. This will only worsen, not improve, the problems the governor is attempting to solve.

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he NJBIA was also opposed to the governor’s proposed budget and issued the following statement: This budget simply does not reflect the stark reality of our times.

Instead of keeping expenses low for our taxpayers, Governor Murphy is raising taxes to make New Jersey businesses less competitive.

Instead of holding the line on spending, Governor Murphy has proposed spending $1.4 billion or 3.6 percent more than the prior year and $5.4 billion or 15.6 percent more than the budget three years ago before he took office.

And instead of taking the opportunity to pursue the structural reforms that are so desperately needed to right-size our state budget and make New Jersey more affordable, this governor offers more of the same tax-and-spend policies that have brought us here to the edge of the fiscal cliff in the first place.

New Jersey businesses have already sacrificed their revenues and livelihoods to prevent the spread of coronavirus by shutting down their

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s live mural painting continues at Front and Broad Streets, transforming a boarded-up garage into an extraordinary public art space, Trenton’s creative district prepares to welcome visitors back to its galleries and studios for a one-day, twoevent happening. This year’s Art All Day self-guided tours of

creative spaces will happen on Saturday, September 19th, from 12 to 6 p.m. and in conjunction with the Ciclovia street festival.

TDA will also be launching a new community-based arts initiative called “The Sidewalk Chalk Project” in the coming weeks. We look forward to seeing you around town!

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Starting in September, TDA will be hosting a LIVE Business Forum on Zoom, featuring special guests and topics top of mind to our business community.

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Chamber Seeks Gala Nominations

nity leader, a concerned and enGrant applications opened Augaged citizen or organization that gust 25, and grants will be awarded demonstrates the spirit of giving in three categories on a rolling bathrough volunteerism and/or phisis over the next three months. lanthropy and is dedicated to imThe Community Foundation proving the Princeton-Mercer Rewill fund small nonprofits, with he Princeton Mercer Re- gion.” budgets of less than $50,000 The Innovator of the Year Award through Neighborhood Needs gional Chamber of Commerce is grants. These grants will support seeking nominations for its annual “recognizes an individual, busiwork in specific neighborhoods of Business Leadership Awards Gala, ness, or organization that has been low-income or vulnerable popula- scheduled to take place in a virtual instrumental in promoting change setting on Thursday, December 3. and innovation in their industry, tions.

Nonprofits can also apply for Nominations are due by Friday, their field of interest, or in the communities of the Princeton-Mercer Wednesday, August 26 Continuing Relief & Unrestricted September 18.

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Operating Support for basic needs The Entrepreneur of the Year stemming from the pandemic or in that the COVID-19 pandemic has support of operations. Basic needs presented, the Business Leadership Award is given based on Small grants will be made to support re- Awards Gala will recognize and Business Administration guidelief efforts, similar to Phase 1, in- honor leaders in our community lines and takes into account factors Joanne Farina, a hucluding food insecurity and rental who are helping all of us navigate including sales, job growth, and assistance. Nonprofits may also ap- through the global storm,” the community contributions. man resources conhe Princeton Area Commu- ply for unrestricted operating sup- Chamber notes. “When making For more information or to nomsultant for Paychex, 2019port for new or existing programs your recommendations, we ask that inate a business or individual, visit nity Foundation has announced the presents a webinar tilaunch of phase II of its COVID-19 that respond to important commu- you give special consideration to www.princetonmercerchamber.

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What makes them so good? One key ingredient is excellent soil.

New Jersey has some of the best agricultural soils on earth, perfect for growing a wide variety of foods.

These “prime” and “statewide important” soils are an incredibly precious natural resource that should never be taken for granted or squandered.

That’s why a proposed law to encourage large utility-scale solar projects without provisions to keep it off our best farmland and open space is a bad idea, no matter how well intentioned it may be.

The proposed legislation, S2605, would toss out New Jersey’s existing solar siting policies, including provisions to restrict solar on farmland and redirect it to sites like brownfields, landfills, rooftops, and parking lots.

The proposed law would not only make it easier to build large, utility-scale solar arrays on the state’s best farmland, it would also

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allow forests to be clear-cut to make way for solar projects, which makes no sense. Forests store the equivalent of 8 percent of New Jersey’s annual greenhouse gas emissions.

Make no mistake, encouraging solar energy is essential, and it is a critical part of New Jersey’s clean energy future. By using a mix of solar, offshore wind, and other clean technologies, this state we’re in plans to transition to 100 percent clean energy by 2050 for its power supply. Reducing the state’s reliance on fossil fuels is critical to combating climate change.

But solar energy projects must be built in the right places. And high-quality farmland and forests are most definitely not the right places.

The state’s Farmland Preservation Program has permanently preserved more than 230,000 acres of farmland to date, out of New Jersey’s 720,000 acres of farmland.

An additional 220,000 acres of preserved farmland are needed to sustain the agricultural industry in New Jersey, according to the State Agricultural Development Committee (SADC).

Thousands of acres of highquality farmland have been designated by the state and counties as

“Agricultural Development Areas” and targeted for permanent farmland preservation.

It is counterproductive to encourage these high-quality agricultural lands, targeted for future preservation, to become available for utility-scale solar. For example, the proposed legislation could encourage projects like Dakota Power’s massive proposed solar facility on more than 800 acres of top-quality farmland that is a target for preser-

We can have both preserved and protected farmland and forests, and appropriately sited solar projects. vation in Pilesgrove Township, Salem County.

Clearing forests makes no sense.

In the battle against climate change, forests are powerful fighters. Forests pull carbon from the air and sequester it, they cool the air temperature in summer, provide habitat for wildlife, and filter rainfall to protect local water quality. New Jersey needs more, not less, forests.

While some forests in the High-

lands and Pinelands regions are excluded, the proposed legislation would open up forests in the Highlands Planning Area and places like the Sourland Mountains — a target of current open space preservation efforts — to large solar projects.

Forests in the Sourlands are among the most effective in the state at storing large amounts of carbon.

And what about the ratepayers?

As currently written, the law wouldn’t require solar developers to bid competitively for state financing, so an overly expensive project could potentially cost electric customers more money than necessary. That’s why New Jersey’s Ratepayer Advocate has raised concerns about the legislation.

New Jersey can do better. We can have both preserved and protected farmland and forests, and appropriately sited solar projects.

If we’re smart enough to plan and think this through, we can reap the benefits of clean energy AND protect our most valuable farmland and forests.

In order to ensure solar is sited appropriately, the state should better define areas that are considered marginalized, as called for in the Energy Master Plan — that is, those with constrained economic or social value.

For example, there are areas of non-preserved farmland that may have poor soil conditions, or nonpristine, non-forested lands that are underutilized, both of which could potentially host solar projects while not compromising the state’s commitment to preserve open space and farmland. This requires a thoughtful planning effort, which should not be hard in the age of computer mapping when so much knowledge of local soil and land use conditions can be evaluated online.

Let’s expand New Jersey’s commitment to renewable energy while still protecting the state’s most valuable farmland and open spaces. Our children and grandchildren deserve both clean energy and access to fresh produce and abundant forests.

Tell your legislators to fix or oppose S2605, to advance solar energy without sacrificing our best farmland and forests.

To learn more about preserving New Jersey’s land and natural resources, visit www.njconservation. org or email info@njconservation. org.

Michele S. Byers is executive director of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation.

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EVent Listings: E-mail events@princetoninfo.com All of the events listed below are taking place virtually unless noted otherwise. Visit venue websites for information about how to access the events. To include your event in this section email events@princetoninfo.com.

Wednesday August 26 In Person Wild Gentle Yoga: Yoga to Connect with Yourself and Nature, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, 1635 River Road, New Hope, PA. www.bhwp.org. Gentle yoga that builds body awareness, strength, flexibility and a better understanding of how humans connect to and reflect natural systems with Priscilla Hayes. Register. Pay what you can. 8 to 9 a.m.

Lectures

Summer Scholar Spotlight Se-

Screen Play Arm & Hammer Park in Trenton hosts a movie night on its big screen on Friday, August 28, featuring ‘Toy Story 4’ and ‘Field of Dreams.’

Proceeds benefit the Hamilton Area YMCA. ries, Princeton Senior Resource Center. www.princetonsenior.org. Eight-part series featuring academics from across the country via Zoom. Kenda Creasy Dean of Princeton Theological Seminary presents “Do Good, Feel Good, Make Good: Religion and Youth in a Secular Age.” What does the faith of American young people look like in 2020, and how does it compare to your own?

What does “spiritual innovation” look like in a secular age – and is that good news or bad news for traditional religious institutions?

Register. $75 for the whole series or $10 per lecture. 10 a.m.

Socials

Virtual Happy Hour, D&R Greenway Land Trust. www.drgreenway.org. Virtual happy hour celebrating the Garden State Watercolor Society’s 50th anniversary juried exhibition, “Out of the Wild.”

GSWS president Tess Fields discusses the role of art in 21st-century conservation and addresses

art in the time of COVID. Moderated over Zoom by Greenway CEO Linda Mead. Register by email to rsvp@drgreenway.org. 5 p.m.

Thursday August 27 In Person Comedy Night, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. 6 to 9 p.m.

Lectures

Summer Evening Series, New Jersey State Museum. www. statemuseum.nj.gov. Virtual conversations between museum curators and staff on a range of topics. Each program features a thematic drink creation, spirited dialogue, and a round of trivia. Topic:

Battle of the Ologies. Celebrate the end of summer with a debate to end all debates: which science is the best? Hear from experts in the fields of archaeology, paleontology, neuroscience and astronomy as they make their case as to why their chosen science should be considered the best. Register.

Free. 8 p.m.

Schools

Homeschooling 101, Jewish Center of Princeton. www.thejewishcenter.org. Joel Hammon, co-founder and director at Princeton Learning Cooperative, shares insight about what homeschooling really is. Register to info@thejewishcenter.org for Zoom link. 7 p.m.

Daily updates on TWitter @princetoninfo

Friday August 28 In Person Kayak Nature Tours, Mercer County Park Commission, Mercer County Marina, 334 South Post Road, West Windsor. www. mercercountyparks.org. Participants will kayak along the lake shore and in the coves to encounter basking turtles, feeding songbirds, and even carnivorous plants. Boats, binoculars, and life vests provided. Basic kayak instruction is provided before the tour. For ages 16 and up. Register. $30; $25 for Mercer County residents. 9 a.m. to noon.

Sunset Sips & Sounds, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton, 609-924-2310. www. terhuneorchards.com. Live music

by Bill O’Neal & Andy Koontz, light fare, and wines by the glass. Face masks required on premises. 5 to 8 p.m.

Story & Verse LIVE, Arts Council of Princeton, Pettoranello Gardens, Mountain Avenue, Princeton. www.artscouncilofprinceton. org. Story telling and poetic open mic event welcomes anyone to tell a well-prepared story or perContinued on page 10

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Trenton Police Director Coley’s Year in Review

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nlightening and dis- through Community Policing. tion. We identify bad heartening at the same time,” says She says it is the only practice apples and assess Sheilah Coley summing up her first that makes sense when “people are them with discipline year as director of the City of Tren- feeling they are over policed,” and and penalties, and ton Police Department. says the approach involves having termination. (But) The enlightening was discover- police on the street and developing the public does not ing “how far behind we are” re- dialogue with community mem- believe we do that.” garding technology and staffing. bers in order to learn what citizens That thought may The disheartening was that the de- expect and if those expectations are connect to Coley’s partment isn’t catching up. last year as Newark manageable.

One of the problems, Coley, 57, The practice also calls for build- director, a point when says during a recent interview at ing community partnerships and “excessive force alpolice headquarters at 225 North trust. Yet, for now, she says, “It is a legations against city Clinton Avenue, is Trenton’s status work in progress.” police officers have as a recipient of the State of New Part of that work has been to pin- declined in each of Jersey’s Department of Communi- point five crime hotspots and have the past four years, ty Affair’s Transitional Aid Pro- police officers walk the streets. falling from 90 in gram.

“The officers are on the same beat 2010 to last year’s The program and build trust 27, records show,” as provides state and recogni- noted by NJ Adsupport for ecotion,” Coley vanced Media.

‘This is an agency I nomically disTalking about posays. think I can help, and if tressed commuH o w e v e r licing as a profesI help the agency I nities. there are other sion, Coley says, “The biggest obstacles. Na- years ago “every kid can help the city. If challenge is the tional studies wanted to be a police I’m given the tools I DCA approvals, show that mem- officer or fire fighter. can move the agency which delay the bers of the vari- But they’re not as process so you ous Latino com- likely to sign up for forward.’ can’t move as munities can be the police, and that’s quickly as possileery of the po- because of how the ble,” says Coley, lice because of police are portrayed. I think we’re who has been in law enforcement immigration-related fears that dealing with an image issue.” since 1989. were stoked by President Trump’s The former chief of the Newark anti-immigration rhetoric, threats Police Department (2011-2014) to sanctuary cities such as Trenton, oley, however, sees policing and public safety director for East and fears of deportation. as an opportunity, and her life Orange (2015-2018) says it also Coley says Latinos need not shows it. hinders her ability to hire or to pur- worry about Trenton police in relaShe was born in Brooklyn but at chase at the right moment. tionship to immigration. “It has the age of four was an orphan who “If I need to do something, I been a standard within the State of lived with various relatives and can’t wait three weeks for approv- New Jersey to not ask about docu- foster families until she realized al” to address an immediate need, mentation. We look at people as law enforcement was a way to enter she says. victims. We respond, ‘How can we the middle class and build a better Officially becoming Trenton’s help you?’” life. police director in May, 2019, Coley According to a City of Trenton She also is looking for ways to says she took the $131,844 per year show Trenton Latino community biography, “Coley joined the Unitjob in order to implement success- members that the police are differ- ed States Air Force at age 17 and ful practices that helped Newark ent here than in some of their home served for three years. She then and East Orange and help change countries where police are habitu- went on to serve in the Newark Pothe capital’s city future. lice Department for 25 years, holdally brutal.

Although a preliminary needs Coley says programs to build ing each rank, including chief and assessment report to kick start her trust with Trenton youth have also director. She then went on to serve first full year as director of the $50 been started. as public safety director of East Ormillion department was delivered While newspaper reports show ange, overseeing police, fire, and to the city at the start of the year, her that she developed projects in OEM divisions. Coley earned her efforts have been hampered by the Newark that gave youths opportu- B.A. in criminal justice and her pandemic and its effect on city op- nities to keep them from joining M.A. in public administration from erations. gangs, she says her first year in Fairleigh Dickinson University.”

Other situations affecting Col- Trenton included gathering inforDeclining to provide any perey’s tenure include criticism of her mation before sonal informaactions during the May 31 riots that launching any tion except that followed two days of peaceful youth engageshe hasn’t yet Years ago, Coley Black Lives Matter protests and in ment programs. settled on a says, ‘every kid wantwhich Trenton police participated. home in TrenAlthough the ed to be a police offiA video recording Coley seem- coronavirus has ton, Coley says ingly telling a Trenton police unit affected that solving sericer or fire fighter. But such to do nothing rather than address a initiatives, she they’re not as likely to ous city probgroup of looters became a lightning says the departlems — such as sign up for the police, the street viorod for critics who called for her to ment’s commuresign. lence that has and that’s because of nity affairs diviColey responded publicly to the sion is working claimed 27 lives how the police are criticism at a July 14 Latino Sym- with youth serthis year as of portrayed. I think posium at Trenton City Hall. press time — is vice investigaShe told the approximately 50 tors in each ward more complicatwe’re dealing with an attendees she stopped the unit be- to ed than the comidentify image issue.’ cause information was unclear and youths who need munity fully ununit members were not trained for attention. derstands. crowd dispersal. She said partici“Everyone Progress for pating auxiliary units from the re- community partnership is also thinks that (crime control) begins gion were trained and present. dampened by a popular culture that and ends with the police depart“I didn’t tell (the Trenton police routinely depicts evil and corrupt ment,” she says. “(But) we have the unit) not to do anything. (I meant), cops. prosecutors’ office and the courts ‘Let me go see what’s going on, and Coley says the idea of bad cops (that release habitual lawbreakers). then I will tell you what to do next.’ “is nothing new” and has been None of those decisions are ours, Because that’s what leaders do. I there since the beginning of polic- but we shoulder the entire burden,” will not send them where I won’t ing. especially when citizens see the go.”

It is a point reinforced by an Au- same people committing the same She also told the audience, “I gust 10 Trentonian article detailing crimes day after day. will not be stepping down. Let’s be a “confidential” police report of 30 She says another problem is that clear about that.”

Trenton police officers disciplined in many communities — suburban Coley also made other headlines for alleged misconduct ranging to urban — people do “things on a in July when she threatened to sue from excessive force to falsifying daily basis and they don’t even the Trenton City Council for defa- criminal case records, drug and al- consider they’re breaking the law.” mation after Councilman George cohol abuse, and unauthorized car But when they get a summons, they Muschal labeled one of her person- pursuits. get angry, complain about the ponel actions gender and race moti“The way to fix it is for the good lice, and say they are being treated vated. cops to keep coming to work,” Col- unfairly.

Despite the friction, Coley, who ey says. “There are bad apples on “It’s a tough job,” she says. “It is still lives in Essex County, remains the news repeatedly. So that’s an a thankless job. We encourage and focused on improving Trenton image we learned through repeti- praise each other.”

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Sheilah Coley has had an eventful 15 months since becoming director of the City of Trenton Police Department in May, 2019.

Combined with the daily potential of violence and danger, it is not surprising the suicide and emotional problems within the ranks are mounting.

“They have all gone through resiliency training,” she says.

Admitting that she has no professional or financial need for serving as the Trenton director, Coley says, “This is an agency I think I can help, and if I help the agency I can help the city. If I’m given the tools I can move the agency forward. I think this department has been stagnant.

“I would like to stay and get this agency stable. East Orange is still using the strategies in place. You have to recognize when something is working and let it work.”

One thing that will help immediately is the positive response of the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office and Sheriff’s Department to Coley and Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora’s August request for additional law enforcement officers to be deployed in Trenton.

She also requested that Mercer County Police Academy double the number of new officers eligible for starting with the Trenton Police Department in the fall.

According to one news source, “In order to help investigate and deter future violent crimes, the city’s FY2020 budget includes $4.5 million to establish a real-time crime and intelligence center. This partnership between the Trenton Police Department, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office, the Mercer County Sheriff’s Department and the N.J. State Police will assist Trenton police officers in gunfire detection, video surveillance, and gathering criminal intelligence. The project is expected to be completed within a year.”

Coley says, as she looks ahead, “I know it seems a little dismal and gray in the city. But I think if we all do our part the outcome will be wonderful for the City of Trenton and we will see crime reduction like we have never seen it before and growth in this city.”

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Wind Down a Socially Distanced Summer with a Scenic River Stroll

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he calendar isn’t lying.

Summer is nearly gone. And with travel restrictions, social distancing, and a deadly virus alive in our midst, it just seems that area residents can’t get a break — especially a vacation break.

Yet our region provides a number of small outings where individuals, couples, and even families can get out for the day or evening and get a dose of summer — without spending a lot.

So take a look at some of my easy, pleasant, and sometimes offbeat tips pulled from my former columns, pack up your cooler, and get your last taste of summer along the Delaware River.

Following the river from the north to the south, we’ll start in Lambertville and the Lambertville Canal and Wing Dam, where one can get one of the most spectacular views of the river.

As I’ve reported before, the entrance to this beauty is hidden in plain sight — right off Bridge Street by a small bridge over the canal.

Okay, finding parking in Lambertville may be a problem, but there is a parking area behind the Lambertville Inn that connects to the towpath along the canal — where a vital train line that connected towns along the Delaware River once ran.

Some of the sites seen include the remains of a lock that let barges move between the canal and the Delaware River as well as abandoned passenger train cars, remains of the unsuccessful late-20th-century effort to restart train passage.

Further up are the unglamorous but necessary Lambertville Sewage Buildings and a weir where the canal water roars through and leaves behind branches and logs.

Then about a half-mile across from a bench on the right is a path leading down a bluff toward the river. Fraught with gnarled tree roots and rocks, it invites only the intrepid to enjoy its reward: the wing dam.

Built in the early 1800s to feed the canal and power Lambertville paper mills, it is now regulated by the Delaware River Basin Commission based in Trenton.

A combination of stone and concrete, the dam extends from both sides of the river in a chevron formation with an opening to let the water race through. Although often submerged after high waters resulting from heavy storms, the dam is usually slightly above the water line and provides visitors with the opportunity to walk close to the surface and into the center of the river.

There you can stand — or sit — with water running under foot and hear only the musical sound of the moving water. Look south and gaze at the white-capped water rushing over rocks and around small islands, then notice the river arching to the left and Bowman Tower on top of its mountain to the right.

Turn around and gaze at the silent traffic glittering in the sun as it travels across the LambertvilleNew Hope Bridge and the 19th and early 20th century buildings of both towns seemingly out of a vintage Bucks County painting.

The experience — especially in the summer — is like walking into a postcard.

However there are some warnings. First the downward path is steep and uneven, so people with mobility issues should be extremely cautious or avoid it completely.

And second, as observed during a recent visit, some visitors were not practicing social distancing and

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Clockwise from left, two visitors take in the Delaware River views from the picnic area at Goat Hill Overlook; visitors looking south from the wing dam in Lambertville, and pedestrians crossing the bridge between Lambertville and New Hope. wearing masks. The site is open daily from dawn to dusk.

While there, take an advantage of a walk on the New Hope-Lambertville Bridge. Built in 1904, the 1,053-foot truss bridge also replaced two wooden bridges and stands where the Coryell’s Ferry operated. The name New Hope is connected to the settlers’ optimism of rebuilding after several mills burned down in the 1700s. Lambertville is named in honor of early 19th-century U.S. senator and acting New Jersey governor, John Lambert.

While the view of the river and towns is splendid, this two-lane bridge is just part of a tale of two bustling towns. In fact Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission information says more pedestrians use this bridge than any other span along the entire length of the Delaware River and its “walkway — which was widened in 2004 — can be especially crowded on pleasant summer evenings, with tourists, restaurant-goers, antique hunters, and local residents crossing between the two riverside communities. The Commission has recorded as many as 14,000 pedestrian crossings on the bridge on a single weekend day.”

Choosing an early weekday morning may be good way to cut down on the crowd and to find a parking space in the two towns that have limited metered or paid parking.

Couples looking for an easy romantic evening can watch the sun set, the stars sparkle, and the town lights glisten on the water.

Wear a mask and keep a good pace, and it can be a socially distanced fine outing.

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oat Hill Overlook outside Lambertville is a small New Jersey State Park where easy and short hikes lead to a spectacular view of the Delaware River. Make that two views. One is an easy and family friendly walk that leads to an open

area with picnic tables. The other leads to an extended rock formation and is for the more sure-footed and adventurous. Nevertheless both provide commanding views of the Delaware River, the towns of Lambertville and New Hope, and the bridge that connects them.

To get to Goat Hill Overlook, take Route 29 to just south of Lambertville and take Valley Road, and then turn left on Goat Hill Road; follow up about a mile and then on the left turn on Washington Road.

Follow it to the parking lot.

Incidentally, the Washington name comes from the belief that General George Washington had visited the area at least twice: once in the early days of the Revolution-

More pedestrians use the New Hope-Lambertville bridge than any other span along the entire length of the Delaware River.

There have been as many as 14,000 pedestrian crossings on a single weekend day. ary War to gather information and plan attacks and later when he and General Marquis de Lafayette made a visit to the stone promontory.

Open daily from morning to dusk. It’s free, has easy parking, and is easy for socially distancing.

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aldpate Mountain Park is about a five to six-mile trip south in Hopewell Township. Formerly known as Kuser Mountain, this park owned and operated by Mercer County has more than 12 miles of trails. Some are short loops at the top of the mount. Others are steep and include climbs up rocky hills.

In addition to the beautiful over-

look of the Delaware River, on a clear day visitors willing to search will be able to locate the gold dome of the state capitol in Trenton as well as the tips of Philadelphia’s skyscrapers. Picnic areas and restrooms are available.

Baldpate Mountain, open from dawn to dusk, is located off Route 29 North. Turn on Fiddlers Creek Road and look for the entrance on the left.

Open daily from morning to dusk. Free, has easy parking, and is easy social distancing.

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ashington Crossing State Park, five miles south on Route 29, is the place where the Revolutionary forces crossed the Delaware River on December 25, 1776, and turned the tides of the American Revolution with victories in Trenton and Princeton. In addition to housing the Colonial-era Johnson Ferry House, the 140-acre natural area features a nature center and 15 miles of moderate trails through forests and fields. It also includes picnic areas, restrooms, and a museum.

Open daily from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., the park is free from Labor Day through Memorial Day. It is located on Route 29 and Washington Crossing-Pennington Road in Titusville.

Next to the park and connecting it to Washington Crossing Historic Park in Pennsylvania is the Washington Crossing Bridge. The 877-foot metal truss bridge was built in 1904 to fill the span where two former wooden bridges operated before being swept away in floods.

The bridge also stands in the place where Colonial-era ferries operated, including McKonkey’s Ferry. That line was commandeered by General George Washington for the famous Delaware River crossing to surprise the British forces in Trenton and Princeton and turn the tide of the American Revolution.

And that is just one of the magi-

cal parts of this bridge. Not only can one see tree-lined riversides and 18th and 19th-century buildings, but one can imagine the ragged Revolutionary forces mustering their strength and resolve to engage the most proficient military force known in the world in a fight for liberty.

The bridge not only connects two states, it also connects two state parks, both with exhibitions and restrooms. There are also restaurants on both sides of the bridge, though pizza and ice cream are just a quick ride on both sides too. Free parking is available in the state parks on both sides.

The river side of Washington Crossing State Park is free with free parking. Here visitors can find a trail along the Delaware and Raritan Canal, access to the river, picnic areas, and a path that leads into the main park (where visitors pay $5 per carload through the main entrance).

Afternoons tend to get busy with picnickers, waders, and kayakers and canoers, so social distancing may be a bit of a concern. Mornings and evening may be a better choice.

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n Trenton, 10 miles south, is South River Walk Park. Located over the Route 29 tunnel in Trenton, the park that makes a good destination for city lovers and adventurous souls was built by the State of New Jersey and given to Mercer County in 2004.

The 6.5-acre park provides an easy walk that has a wonderful view of the Delaware River. It also provides history lessons on the region through signage and public art, including a series of arches that represent Trenton’s history from its Native American origins through the American and industrial revolutions and beyond.

It is open dawn to dusk, every day of the year. Parking is on the adjacent street. It’s free, and there is street parking next to or near the park. Not as busy as the other parks, social distancing is easy.

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Clockwise from above, the view from the top of Baldpate Mountain; arches at South River Walk recounting Trenton history; views of Washington Crossing State Park from the tow path; and the walkway along the Trenton Makes bridge.

There is also the opportunity to bridge to the south, an evening walk on the bridge will cast you in walk across two nearby bridges.

One is the 1,022-foot-long Tren- the sign’s red glow and take you ton Makes Bridge — formally into another realm.

That goes for the panorama of named the Lower Bridge — that connects Trenton and Morrisville, the city’s skyline. The New Jersey State House’s gold dome and buildPennsylvania.

The Lower Bridge is the site of ings sketching the history of late the first bridge ever to span the Del- 19th and 20th century architecture aware River. The original opened — from Victorian church tops to in 1806 and over the next three de- brutalist concrete structures — are cades was modified to resist floods. interesting during the day, reflectThen it became another first — the ing on the river. But watching the first in the nation to accommodate city slowly light up at night is a quiet enchantment. interstate railroad traffic.

The bridge, however, is accessiToday’s manifestation was built in 1928 and stands on the original ble from the Morrisville side. Drive bridge’s stone support. It uses a on Bridge Street over the bridge metal Warren Truss design — Eng- and immediately turn right onto lishman James Warren’s 1848 in- Park Avenue, where there is parknovation of using a metal arch ing.

The other frame with trianbridge is the gular shaped The walkway on the Calhoun Street beams to support Calhoun Street bridge Bridge, less weight — and than a mile to consists of two presents a view that the north from lanes and a walkbelies the reality that the Trenton way on the north you’re in the capital Makes Bridge. side. There one It can be reached can pause and of the most densely by walkwatch water rush populated state of the easily ing along the over rocks, nation. raised towpath seagulls roost, on the Morrisand large turtles ville side of the sun.

On the south side are the famous river, with an attractive and com10-foot-tall letters that spell the manding view of Trenton and the slogan “Trenton Makes — The river as a bonus. Or one can drive World Takes,” which the city ad- back to Bridge Street, turn right, opted early in the 20th century turn right onto Delmorr Avenue, when Trenton was a center for steel and follow it straight. When you and pottery. The sign has continued see the bridge clearly, get ready to as a logo of sorts for Trenton and park on the right.

The 1,274-foot Calhoun Street has appeared on everything from the album cover for internationally Bridge also connects Trenton and known Trenton saxophonist Richie Morrisville and boasts its own Cole’s “Trenton Makes,” films in- claims to history. As the Delaware cluding John Sayles’ 1983 “Baby, River Joint Toll Bridge CommisIt’s You” and the Janet Evanovich sion (DRJTBC) notes, the original novel-inspired “One for the Mon- wood bridge — then called the City ey” in 2012, numerous postcards Bridge — was built in 1861 by the and posters, and even part of a mu- Trenton Bridge Company on a ferral in New York City’s Penn Station ry site. After that bridge burned in a featuring a poem by nationally rec- “spectacular” fire in 1884, it was ognized and formerly Trenton- replaced by a metal bridge built by the Phoenix Bridge Company of based poet Pablo Medina.

The sign lights were originally Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.

Today that bridge — standing on placed on the bridge in 1935, replaced in 2005, and are now under- the original stone piers — is the going a remake. And while the best only of the DRJTBC’s 20 bridges spot to see the bridge sign is from a made of wrought iron and the oldtrain traveling across the railroad est roadway structure in continu-

ous use between New Jersey and Pennsylvania. It was also part of the original 3,389-mile-long Lincoln Highway — America’s first transcontinental roadway, connecting New York City with San Francisco. A Lincoln Highway sign with arrows indicating the directions New York City and San Francisco can still be seen next to the active guard station near the Pennsylvania side.

The walkway on this bridge is also on the northern side and presents a view that belies the reality that you’re in the capital of the most densely populated state of the nation. Trees line both sides of the river, and in addition to being able to see turtles and large carp swimming below, there are even a few uninhabited islands to create a sense of being far away.

Both bridges have light pedestrian traffic, so social distancing is easy.

Bonus Delaware River Bridge & Park

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he Lumberville-Raven Rock Pedestrian Bridge, 13 miles north of Lambertville, has the distinction of being the only pedestrian-only bridge on the Delaware River.

But that wasn’t by design. The original vehicle wood bridge was constructed by the Lumberville Delaware River Bridge Company in 1856. It operated until 1903, when a portion was destroyed by a flood. A steel truss replacement was installed the following year, and the bridge continued to operate until 1944 when its timber portions were deemed unsafe.

The current 689-foot bridge started its life when the DRJTBC hired the Trenton-based John A. Roebling Company to design a pedestrian suspension bridge in 1947.

Built on the original piers, the bridge is part of a heritage of Roebling bridge-building that includes the Brooklyn Bridge and the 1847 Delaware Aqueduct, the nation’s

oldest suspension bridge connecting New York State and Pennsylvania.

The easiest access to the Lumberville-Raven Rock Bridge — which in 1993 underwent major rehabilitation — is by visiting Raven Rock, part of New Jersey’s Bull’s Island State Park. Once there, simply park and follow the road towards the bridge. Then there’s the leisurely and quiet stroll over the water that leads to two dining venues. The first is the historic Black Bass Hotel, where adults looking for a romantic getaway may be able to spend time in the glass-walled riverside restaurant or with outdoor dining. The other is the quaint Lumberville General Store where families can find snacks and beverages.

By the way, the name Lumberville connects to the town’s sawmill past. Raven Rock’s nomenclature is less clear and has been linked to a possible Leni Lenape name.

Parks on both sides of the river provide opportunities for picnics, hiking, fishing, and even boat launching. It is as close to one-stop summer fun as one can find.

Free, with free parking, and open from morning to twilight, the park also gets busy in the mid-afternoon. But there is plenty of room for social distancing and a pause on the pedestrian bridge over the Delaware River may just be ticket for a brief summer break.

For more information on Bulls Island State Park, visit www.state. nj.us/dep/parksandforests/parks/ bull.html.

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Opportunities

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, above, discuss their new book on Tuesday, September 1, in a virtual event hosted by Princeton Public Library. The Jewish Center hosts former SNL writer Alan Zweibel, right, in an August 31 discussion of his book, ‘Laugh Lines.’

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form their poetry inspired by this month’s theme: “After Midnight.”

Performers must present their own work and are invited to interpret the theme as broadly as they wish. Masks are required. Register. Seating is limited. Rain date August 29. 6 to 8 p.m.

Music and Vino, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com.

Deb and Mike with classic rock. 6 to 9 p.m.

Outdoor Movie Night, Trenton Thunder Ball Field, Arm & Hammer Park, 1 Thunder Road, Trenton. www.milb.com/trenton.

Screening of “Field of Dreams” and “Toy Story 4.” Purchase tickets in advance. $10. Proceeds benefit the Hamilton Area YMCA. 6:30 p.m.

Open Mic/Open Jam Music, Hopewell Valley Bistro & Inn, 15 East Broad Street, Hopewell. Plug and play outdoors. Amps provided. House band available for backups. 7 to 9:45 p.m.

Socials

Zoom Bingo, Lawrence Township Presbyterian Churches. bit.ly/lawrencebingo. Build community spirit by joining a free, community-wide bingo game.

Prizes ranging from $10 to $50 include gift certificates to local restaurants and businesses. Participants are asked to make a donation to Homefront, Womanspace, Lawrenceville Main Street, or the Lawrence Senior Center. Register. 5:30 p.m.

Saturday August 29 In Person Outdoor Flea Market, Princeton Elks, 354 Route 518, Blawenburg, 609-466-9813. Weather permitting. Vendor spots are $10 each. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Farmers Market, Montgomery Friends of Open Space, Village Shopping Center, 1340 Route 206 South, Skillman, 609-915-0817. www.montgomeryfriends.org. Jersey Fresh produce and farm products, baked goods, chicken, eggs, sausage, and more. One person per family. Face covering and social distancing required. 9 a.m. to noon.

Pennington Farmers Market, Rosedale Mills, 101 Route 31,

Call for Art

Pennington. www.penningtonfarmersmarket.org. Face masks required for everyone over age 2.

Social distancing measures in place. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

West Windsor Community Farmers’ Market, Vaughn Drive Lot, Princeton Junction Train Station. www.westwindsorfarmersmarket. org. Vendors sell fresh produce, meats, baked goods, and more.

Yes We Can! food drive ongoing.

Face masks required. Bring your own bags. Limit of two shoppers per family. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Miki & Friends OPEN AIR Walk, Attitudes in Reverse, West Windsor Community Park, Bernt Midland Boulevard, West Windsor. www.air.ngo. Socially distanced 5K walk, live music, and annual butterfly release. Register. $10 and up. Benefit for the nonprofit focused on youth mental health awareness and suicide prevention. 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Summer Music Series, Palmer Square Green, Princeton. www. palmersquare.com. Deni Bonet, pop/rock singer/songwriter and classically trained violinist, performs. Free. Noon to 2 p.m.

Courtyard Cabaret, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA. www. buckscountyplayhouse.org. Free 30-minute show featuring a mix of traditional and contemporary musical theatre and popular classics.

Take-out food available from the Deck Restaurant and Gazebo Bar. 1 and 4 p.m.

Sangria Weekends, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton, 609-924-2310. www. terhuneorchards.com. Live music

by Roundabout. Wines by the glass with outdoor seating in the apple orchards. Sangria available with Terhune’s own wine and fruit.

Limit of two hours and six guests per table. Face masks required on premises. 1 to 4 p.m.

Music and Vino, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com.

Catmoondaddy with pop/rock. 6 to 9 p.m.

Carpool Cinema, Acme Screening Room, 204 North Union Street, Lambertville. www.acmescreeningroom.org. Parking lot screening of “Palm Springs.”

Opening live music act TBA. Register. $35 per car. 8 p.m.

Film

Saturday Night at the Movies: Shakespeare in Love, Mercer County Library. www.facebook. com/mclsnj. Borrow the featured title from the Hoopla catalog with a Mercer County Library card and watch it in the virtual company of your community. 8 p.m.

The Princeton University Art Museum is hosting a Museum Challenge with entries open through Sunday, August 30. It’s fun and easy.

Choose any artwork, from the Princeton University Art Museum’s collections, or from another museum, and re-create it at home using anything on hand, the more imaginative the better. Think dogs with books, a ketchup bottle

Gardens Knowing Native Plants, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve. www.bhwp.org. Naturalist Mary Anne Borge presents “The Amazing Aster Family Part 1, Confusing Yellow Composites.” Register. $20. 10 a.m. to noon.

Sunday August 30 In Person Hopewell Farmers Market, , 62 East Broad Street, Hopewell. www.fairgrownfarm.com/ hopewell-farmers-market. Locally produced foods, plants, wines, and more. Masks and social distancing required. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Courtyard Cabaret, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA. www. buckscountyplayhouse.org. Free 30-minute show featuring a mix of traditional and contemporary musical theatre and popular classics.

Take-out food available from the Deck Restaurant and Gazebo Bar. 1 and 4 p.m.

Summer Carillon Concerts, Princeton University Carillon, 88 College Road West, Princeton, 609-258-7989. Paul Stelben, Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs.

Free. 1 p.m.

Sangria Weekends, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton, 609-924-2310. www. terhuneorchards.com. Live music

by Jerry Steele. Wines by the glass with outdoor seating in the apple orchards. Sangria available with Terhune’s own wine and fruit.

Limit of two hours and six guests per table. Face masks required on premises. 1 to 4 p.m.

Songs and Stories of the American Revolution, Washington Crossing State Park, 355 Washington Crossing Pennington Road, Titusville, 609-737-0623.

Dressed in Colonial clothing, Matthew Dodd performs period songs and stories on guitar, banjo, mandolin, and recorder. Park entry fee applies. 2 p.m.

Sunday Afternoon Music and Vino, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. HVV Jazz performs. 3 to 6 p.m.

Lectures

Electronic Environmental Detectives, The Sarnoff Collection, College of New Jersey. davidsar-

standing in for wine, a bathrobe in place of a cape. Then simply snap a photo and submit your entry, through the museum’s website, artmuseum.princeton.edu/nss.

Categories include Best Use of Food, Best Use of a Pet, Best Landscape, Best Still Life, Best Portrait, 13-and-under Best in Show, and others.

Winners will be announced during the Museum’s Nassau Street Sampler Virtual Festival on Thursday, September 3. The Fest will include online loteria, trivia, noff.tcnj.edu. Electronics has been enabling atmospheric and other environmental sciences since the early 20th century. Over Zoom physicist and Sarnoff volunteer Jonathan Allen discusses the evolution and current state of electronic instruments for atmospheric measurements, and analysis including both gaseous and particulate pollutants, as well as instruments developed by the author. Register. Free. 1:30 p.m.

Monday August 31 Literati Author Talk, Jewish Center of Princeton. www.thejewishcenter. org. Alan Zweibel discusses his new book, “Laugh Lines,” via Zoom. The books chronicles the original SNL writer’s 45 years in comedy. Register to info@thejewishcenter.org. Free. 7:30 p.m.

Farm Markets

Greenwood Avenue Farmers Market, , Corner of Hudson and Greenwood Avenue, 609-2789677. www.greenwoodavefm.org.

Fresh produce, vegetables, tropical fruit, meat, and eggs. Reserved for seniors and people with disabilities, noon to 1 p.m.

Free youth meals served 1 to 3 p.m. Noon to 4 p.m.

Tuesday September 1 On Stage ‘Dear Liar’ Reading, Bucks County Playhouse. www.bcptheater.org/DearLiar. Virtual benefit reading of Jerome Kilty’s play, “Dear Liar,” starring four-time Oscar nominee Marsha Mason and Emmy winner Brian Cox and directed by Broadway’s Mark Brokaw. Proceeds support the Bucks County Playhouse Pandemic Campaign. Register $25; $35 day-of. 7 p.m.

Literati

Author Talk, Princeton Public Library. www.princetonlibrary.org.

Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn discuss their latest work, “Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope” on the day of its paperback release. Access via Crowdcast. Register. 2 p.m.

An art re-creation submitted by Kristina Giasi, above, of William Merritt Chase’s ‘Landscape: Shinnecock, Long Island, 1896,’ left. art-making, chef videos, student performances, and a virtual dance party.

Good Causes Virtual Information Session, CASA for Children of Mercer & Burlington Counties. www. casamb.org. Information on the non-profit organization that recruits, trains, and supervises community volunteers who speak up in Family Court for the best interests of children that have been removed from their families due to abuse and/or neglect and placed in the foster care system. Register by email to jduffy@casamercer. org. 11 a.m.

Schools

Getting Our Children Back to School (Safe & Worry Free), Jewish Center of Princeton. www.thejewishcenter.org. Get advice on how to channel anxiety about your child’s school environment, feel comfortable with your decision, and help your children cope from Elizabeth W. Semrod, a Princeton-based licensed clinical social worker who specializes in anxiety. Register to info@thejewishcenter.org for Zoom link. 8 p.m.

Wednesday September 2 In Person Wild Gentle Yoga: Yoga to Connect with Yourself and Nature, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, 1635 River Road, New Hope, PA. www.bhwp.org. Gentle yoga that builds body awareness, strength, flexibility and a better understanding of how humans connect to and reflect natural systems with Priscilla Hayes. Register. Pay what you can. 8 to 9 a.m.

Pop Music

Broadway Summer Spectacular, Summer Music Series, Bristol Riverside Theater. www.brtstage. org. An evening packed with Broadway’s best from composers like Stephen Sondheim, Richard Rodgers, and Oscar Hammerstein II. Via YouTube. $35. 7 p.m.

Socials

Library Drawing Party, Mercer County Library. www.facebook. com/mclsnj. Follow along for a librarian-led drawing lesson, then share your finished work. For all ages. 7 p.m.

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Summer Fiction All Summer Long Lady in the Men’s Room

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by Ed Leefeldt

’m in line with eight other women, all dancing from one foot to the other, trying not to wet our pants while we wait our turn to get in the ladies’ room.

Across the hall is the men’s room. Nobody has come in – or out – for 10 minutes. What is it with guys? They guzzle those ball park brews like maniacs. Why don’t they have to go as often as we do? Do they all have 20-gallon tanks like those monster trucks they drive? Anyone with a brain knows women take longer. You don’t need an anatomy lesson for that. So why don’t we have potty parity? When will we finally go unisex?

Enough with philosophy. If this keeps up, what’s going to happen to me? Depends. Ha-ha. No! Don’t laugh. It’ll just make it worse.

Now I’m desperate. My sisters are all eyeballing that door, waiting for someone to get done checking their eyeshadow and come out.

Nobody’s watching the other side.

This is my chance! I run for the men’s room door like the woman warrior I know I am. It opens … and I’m inside … alone. No one is the wiser.

Whew! It brings back a memory, not a happy one, of the last time I was in a men’s room. It was a frat party and I was a bit tipsy. Heck, I was drunk. I had been hammered by four “tall boys” and I staggered into what I thought was the ladies’ room because I just saw a long-

haired blonde come out.

It wasn’t. I bounced right off the chest of the captain of the football team. We stared at each other for a second. Then he ignored my pleading eyes and burst out laughing. He laughed so hard that the whole frat house heard him as I bolted out the front door. And, by the next day, all the girls in my dorm were laughing. It was even worse than when I dropped my tray in the college cafeteria and everyone stood up and applauded.

But at least here, I’m alone. I walk cautiously past the urinals because there’s a puddle in front of each one. Guys, I’ve noticed, often

Shed the shoes! Hide ’em behind the toilet.

Yes, but my toenails are painted fuchsia. Can my toes pass for transgender? Get those feet up. have an erroneous presumption about themselves that it’s longer than it really is. But this is ridiculous. Stand up close, people. Hug it if you have to. A man’s pee should exceed his grasp, or what’s a toilet for?

At the end is salvation — a stall.

I duck in, slam the door, shuck my pants, and take the throne. And then, suddenly, I can’t go. What’s wrong with me! Then I realize: my bladder knows it’s in the wrong place. It’s scared. What can I do?

If I leave, I’ll only have to come back. Or, worse yet, I’ll have to

stand in that ever-growing line across the hall that’s now probably up to a dozen.

Hang in there, I tell myself. If you sit here, it will come. Finally, the waterworks. Ahhh … it’s heaven.

Then the door slams open. I hear footsteps. Multiple footsteps.

Then voices. Men’s voices, what else? They’re talking about some “hot babe.” Don’t listen! “And guess what I got her to do?” Don’t Listen. Remember, you’re behind the green door. You are water closet anonymous. Don’t flush.

They’ll think you’re coming out.

More footsteps. One heads toward the soggy urinals. The other comes … in my direction. Thank God, I’m wearing jeans. All he can see are my feet. I look down. I’m wearing hooker heels with ankle straps.

Shed the shoes! Hide ’em behind the toilet. Yes, but my toenails are painted fuchsia. Can my toes pass for transgender? Get those feet up.

He’s reached the stall and he rattles the door. Thank God, it’s locked. He tries to peer through the crack. I smell beer breath.

Brings back memories of that night with the football captain.

He bangs on the door. “Somebody in there?”

I muffle my voice. “Yeth.”

He bangs again. “What’s goin’ on?” his buddy asks.

“Friggin’ door’s locked.”

Why can’t guys just take “no” for an answer?

“Who’s in there?”

I reach deep inside for my baritone voice. “Go away!”

“Sounds like a chick to me.”

“She’s gotta come out sometime.”

“Yeah, I can wait.”

“Hey, get out your cell phone.

We can put this on YouTube.”

Desperation takes hold. It is the wind beneath my wings. Hey, I ran track in high school. I fling open the door, whizz past their dumb faces. I’m a blur as I head past this porcelain hell for the safety of the outside world. Almost there …

But wait. Don’t I have to wash my hands?

Ed Leefeldt, who has stumbled into a Ladies Room on occasion, works for Forbes.com and is the author of The Woman Who Rode the Wind, a novel about early flight.

make your arms look like cherry lollipops. And wearin’ those shiny, black patent leather shoes so anyone can see your underpants causin’ you to slip and slide on any horizontal surface. Fortunately flowered bonnets are out of fashion or you might look too close on his face and see nose hair and moles, maybe even a blister where he chawed his lip. A kiss is a close thing so I probably won’t get one, won’t get me catchin’ a cold neither. I never catch cold not even the sniffles. When Pretty Boy Ames stuck out his lips and closed his eyes, I stood on the porch and counted. 1-2-3-4-5 before he opened them again. He looked downright catfish and even being a good three yards away. I offered him lemonade which he refused, his mouth open, still suckin’ air.

But when I got my pole and my box of hooks, he followed me like

by Nancy Cathers a mangy, shamed, lapsittin’ cur to Demme the fishing hole. I’d rather be muckin’ frogs from the pond than wasn’t lookin’ for a first kiss. I hooked onto his grippy lips even if wasn’t lookin’ for a first kiss at he do have a Paul Newman dimple all. I mean what girl wants to on his chin. be wearin’ crinoline petticoats Nancy Cathanyway, all ers Demme, puffy and A kiss is a close thing so author of “The scratchy and Ride,” has had bringin’ up I probably won’t get her poetry and welts, makin’ one, won’t get me short stories one look like a catchin’ a cold neither. published in seafaring buoy.

Los GalesLike if you did I never catch cold not burg’s Weekget that first kiss even the sniffles. end Excerpts, with one of them The Kelsey Repetticoats on view, US1, the you must sailin’ the high seas, and then there’s sea- Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, sickness. I say calm the uneasy gut and Willard & Maple. She has been facilitator of the Twin Rivers gnawin’ by lookin’ to the horizon.

Writers’ Group for 27 years.

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Summer Fiction All Summer Long Short Stories & Poems from the readers of U.S. 1

U .S. 1 Newspaper extends its annual invitation to all writers and poets to present original short fiction, short plays, or poetry.

This is an opportunity to have your work published in hard-copy form and to be recognized in public for your effort.

To participate, submit your previously unpublished short story, play, or poem as soon as possible. Please: No more than two stories or five poems per writer.

Work will be considered for publication on a rolling basis.

Please submit work by e-mail to fiction@princetoninfo.com.

Authors retain all rights.

Preference will be given to central New Jersey writers whose work addresses a theme or place relevant to the greater Princeton business community. Submissions from children are not encouraged.

Questions?

E-mail fiction@princetoninfo.com or call 609-452-7000.

Important: Be sure to include a brief biographical summary with your submission, along with your name, address, and daytime phone number.

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rtists responded to U.S. 1’s invitation to share visual thoughts, feelings, and discoveries during our current health crisis.

This week Lambertville-based artist Annelies van Dommelen notes: This has been quite the ride of isolation and concentration. I’m very prolific, always, but never in my life have I spent months of uninterrupted time, real time like 10 hours a day in the studio, maybe more.

It’s hard to keep track. Mostly doing works on paper as my studio is full, and I have a lot of both studio and work. My motto, my mantra, my haiku has been since the beginning “can’t go out, go in deeper,” and as I’m drawn to detail anyway it’s become more so, ad nauseam sometimes.

I’ve done a few specific paintings infected by Covid but also many works starting with transfers and monotypes, which give me a specific beginning or a challenge to work upon.

Most of the artists, any discipline, don’t have a problem being alone for long periods of time so seemingly things are of slight difference.

My issue has not been being in my studio, it’s my safe space. My issue has been doing anything else, cleaning out drawers, organizing stuff, etc. Some of which has also been necessary but feels like a giant task with much procrastinating and stressful worrying about, so I retreat back to the overcrowded “womb room.”

I’m finding that every few weeks I need to change my medium, and, as I’m fully stocked, it’s been fairly easy. But lately I’m thinking clay or preferably sculptural papermaking, but I need to go elsewhere for these.

Other than making art, dog walks and swimming regularly.

Small gatherings of close friends at not close sittings. I find it hard to think about any sort of future, so I am really living in the present.

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Life in the Fast Lane Area Companies Named to Inc. 5000

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ore than 100 New Jersey companies appeared in Inc. Magazine’s annual list of the 5,000 fastest-growing companies, and two dozen of those firms are based in the greater Princeton area.

Two companies in Plainsboro were ranked in the top 500: BrainScale Inc., at No. 420, and TechSmart Global, No. 126.

BrainScale, which grew by 1,091 percent, assists companies with cloud computing needs using Microsoft’s Azure platform. The Plainsboro-based firm was founded in 2007 by former Microsoft services employees Vineet Bhatia and Phani Tipparaju.

BrainScale, 2 Research Way, Third Floor, Princeton 08540.

800-825-9036. Phani Tipparaju, founder and CEO. www. brainscale.com.

TechSmart Global, also based in Plainsboro, grew up 2,929 percent.

The firm, which also has offices in Hyderabad, India, specializes in technology consulting and software development.

TechSmart Global, Inc., 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite 1116, Plainsboro 08536. www. techsmartglobal.com.

Other area companies that appeared on the list include: Della Infotech, 5 Independence Way, Suite #300, Princeton 08540. 609-9644254. www.dellainfotech. com.

The provider of workforce solutions including IT, staffing, payroll, and healthcare, placed 1,017th on the list with 454 percent growth.

Saligram Systems Inc., 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite 1365, Plainsboro 08536. 609-5893900. www.saligrams.com.

No. 1,705, 251 percent growth.

The company provides IT staffing and consulting and has an additional office in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.

Fairbridge Partners, 30 Vreeland Drive, Unit 2-3, Skillman 08558. 609-580-1831. Dmitry Gordeev, founder and managing partner. www.fairbridgeusa.com.

No. 1,735, 247 percent growth.

The privately held real estate investment company founded in 2013 specializes in acquiring and managing undervalued office and industrial properties throughout the country focused on Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C., and Boston. ndVOR Solutions LLC, 168 Franklin Corner Road, Building 2, Suite 230, Lawrenceville 08648. 609-896-0907.

Jaikishen K, president. www. ndvor.com.

No. 1,951, 216 percent growth. ndVOR, which also has offices in Bangalore, India, provides technology services including content management, enterprise resource planning, enterprise application integration, and process outsourcing.

TerraCycle, 121 New York Avenue, Trenton 08638. 609393-4252. Tom Szaky, CEO. www.terracycle.com.

No. 2,475, 166 percent growth.

The company founded by a Princeton undergraduate in 2001 specializes in recycling hard-to-recycle materials with the goal of eliminating waste.

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CytoSorbents Grows U.S. Distribution of Filtering Device

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ASB Resources, 4365 Route staffing firm was founded in 2006 hile many Route 1 corridor 1, Suite 205, Princeton and has additional offices in New pharmaceutical companies have al08540. 609-423-4949. Mo- York City; San Antonio, Texas; and tered their focus to research vachamed Bakerywala, founder. Aventura, Florida. cines and treatments for COVwww.asbresources.com.

Internet Creations 2000, 2000 ID-19, one was able to immediately No. 2,506. 164 percent growth.

Water View Drive #100, Ham- put its technology into use.

The firm offers staffing, informaAs early as January CytoSorilton Township 08691. 609tion security, consulting, and busi570-7200. www.internetcre- bents, based on Deer Park Drive in ness intelligence services.

Monmouth Junction, published a ations.com.

Saransh, 666 Plainsboro Road, No. 4,063, 85 percent growth. paper showing the potential for its CytoSorbents presiSuite 1335, Plainsboro The company, founded in 1996, has CytoSorb blood-filtering device to 08536. www.saranshtech. worked with customer relationship help treat the cytokine storm imdent and COO Vincom. management program Salesforce mune response that can occur in cent Capponi. severe coronavirus cases.

No. 2,590. 158 percent growth. since 2004 and provides consulting In February CytoSorbents anThe company provides IT staffing to businesses on use of the plat- nounced that it had partnered with a form. services.

China-based company to gain fast- Surg to bring CytoSorb directly to RxLogix Corporation, 500 Compunnel Software Group, tracked regulatory approval for use these areas of the United States that 103 Morgan Lane, Suite, 102 of the device in hospitals in Wuhan, College Road East, Suite Plainsboro 08536. 609-606- the virus’ original epicenter. The have been hard hit by COVID-19.”

410, Princeton 08540. 609CytoSorb’s U.S. reach was ex9010. www.compunnel. device is already used in 58 coun910-1072. Raj More, chief arpanded again August 24 when a com. chitect and CEO. www.rxtries to treat sepsis. partnership with Terumo Cardiologix.com.

No. 4,286, 77 percent growth.

Emergency approval for use of vascular was announced to distribNo. 2,791. 143 percent growth. The custom software application CytoSorb to fight coronavirus in ute the purification device to hospiWith additional offices in Califor- development company also pro- the U.S. was granted by the Food tals in 10 coronavirus hot spots. nia, London, Tokyo, and India, Rx- vides IT staffing and corporate and Drug Administration in April. The Michigan-based subsidiary of Now CytoSorbents has announced the Japanese provider of cardiovasLogix is a global pharmacovigi- training. lance solutions company that spe- Princeton Mortgage Corpora- several partnerships to commer- cular surgery technologies will be cializes in software and consulting tion, 439 Grand Avenue, Ew- cialize the product across the coun- the exclusive seller of CytoSorb to to ensure drug safety. hospitals in Alabama, Arizona, ing 08628. 609-737-1000. try.

On August 17 the company an- California, Georgia, Louisiana, Rich Weidel, CEO. www.

Iris ID Systems Inc., Cedar nounced an agreement with Ten- Mississippi, New Mexico, Oregon, princetonmortgage.com.

Brook Corporate Center, 8 nessee-based Surgical Partners to Clarke Drive, Cranbury No. 4,415, 74 percent growth. market the product in Florida and Texas, and Washington.

08512. www.irisid.com.

The mortgage banking company with Massachusetts-based medical CytoSorbents Inc. (CTSO), 7 Deer Park Drive, Suite K, No. 2,947, 134 percent growth. also has locations in Charleston device distribution company InvoMonmouth Junction 08852.

The company, which started as a and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Surg Inc. to commercialize Cyto732-329-8885. Phillip Chan, division of LG focused on iris iden- and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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t is strange meeting famous TV personalities in person. It feels deceptively familiar. You know them well, but they don’t know you at all. The relationship is a one-way street. After all, a television does not look back at you.

But that was then, before COVID. Now that many meetings have migrated to Zoom, we suddenly have a screen with two-way traffic.

We look at the speaker, on a screen, just like in the old days, but the speaker also looks back at us. And, more importantly, we can look at each other. On small screens, it’s as if everyone in the audience has their own TV channel. All talk show hosts!

For many people, life on a crowded screen seems to take some getting used to. Not everyone realizes that his or her living quarters are on display. The video’s camera is unabashedly peeking through the wide open digital curtains. It is surprising how easy it is to forget that the screen is looking back. Only now do I understand all those reality shows, where the camera unashamedly broadcasts the most intimate moments.

This new world is a bonanza for born voyeurs like me. I can’t get enough of studying all the interiors, the bookshelves, the dogs, the idiosyncratic behaviors. The audience and their ambiance are so much more interesting than the speaker.

For example, I have gotten to know people I think of as Zoombies. During a lecture this month, I slowly but surely saw one of the participants sink deeper and deeper into his chair. At one point his mouth fell open. A while later, a thread of spit even dribbled out. He started to snore, which I could not hear, but could see by the nostrils moving up and down. The empty wine glass on the table in front of

him must have been the culprit. A lecture during cocktail hour might not have been a good idea.

On the screen next to him, a woman was eating dinner. Bare feet with long nails on the table.

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grid of Zoom screens someone worked on his cellphone all the time. It was clear that the lecture had completely passed him by. I even thought I saw him pick up the phone and start a conversation. The lecture largely escaped me too, fascinated as I was by the collection of McDonald’s Happy Meal toys behind the speaker. Toy Story’s Woody in his yellow-and-red plaid shirt held up one hand to me, his other hand on his pistol.

America has chatterati and literati — and now zoomerati. People who are online, all the time. All those postage-stamp windows on my computer screen with the unfathomable view of the domestic scenes remind me of a tall Dutch apartment building at nightfall. Everywhere the lights are glowing.

The curtains are wide open because we have nothing to hide. A whole life story behind every window.

The ultimate reality show.

Pia de Jong is a Dutch writer who lives in Princeton. Her bestselling memoir, “Saving Charlotte,” was published in 2017 in the U.S. She can be contacted at pdejong@ias.edu.

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In July the Arm In Arm and HIP coalition received a $100,000 grant from the Princeton Area Community Foundation’s COVID-19 Relief & Recovery Fund to ease the financial repercussions felt by households in the community.

Arm In Arm executive director David Fox says HIP’s partnership and the Community Foundation’s funding will “provide extraordinary rental assistance to help 50-75 families find a clear path to housing sustainability.”

“People who are struggling to pay their rent during this crisis will discover that it is much easier to get the help they need,” said HIP chair Carol Golden.

“We are supporting the partnership formed between Arm In Arm and Housing Initiatives of Princeton, as they have been working tirelessly to help our neighbors who have been devastated by the economic fallout from this pandemic,” said Jeffrey M. Vega, President & CEO of the Community Foundation, “By working together and sharing their expertise, we believe they will have a great impact in our region.”

So far, Arm In Arm, HIP and the Community Foundation, using less than 30 percent of the funding, say they have been able to provide assistance to 18 families at an average assistance level of $1,611. This

the mouth that didn’t close properly — she was enjoying a bowl of shrimp carbonara. Now and then a piece of shrimp fell next to it. She didn’t realize it or just didn’t bother to pick it up. Then she wiped her mouth with the tip of a tea towel and attacked the cheesecake. I wondered what she would do next.

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aid is more than three times what Arm In Arm or HIP could have offered if working individually rather than in partnership.

Arm in Arm, formerly the Crisis Ministry of Mercer County, helps secure the basic needs of food and housing and promotes long-term stability through work training and support. Today, more than 5,000 families are helped each year by Arm in Arm. Housing Initiatives of Princeton’s mission is to provide transitional housing coupled with supportive services. The organization provides temporary rental assistance, including arrears, first month’s rent or security deposit, to enable low-income families to retain existing housing or acquire affordable housing. HIP also works to raises awareness of insufficient housing options and challenges facing the working poor.

Arm in Arm, 123 East Hanover Street, Trenton 08608. 609396-9355. David R. Fox, executive director. www.arminarm.org.

Princeton Area Community Foundation, 15 Princess Road, Suite A, Lawrenceville 08648. 609-219-1800. Jeffrey M. Vega, president. www.pacf.org.

Housing Initiatives of Princeton, 33 Mercer Street, Princeton 08540. 609-921-2328. www.housinginitiativesofprinceton.org.

Deaths Richard Stockton Snedeker, 93, on August 16. The Navy veteran and 1951 Princeton University alumnus first worked as a technical illustrator for Princeton University Press before beginning a 40-year career with Aeronautical Research Associates of Princeton.

A fixture in the West Windsor community, he volunteered with many area organizations and served 12 years on the West Windsor school board, including four as president. From 2013 to 2017 he wrote a column, “Looking Back,” for U.S. 1’s sister paper, the West Windsor-Plainsboro News.

Robert Goslin, 71, on August 17. He worked for the state Department of Transportation for 34 years.

Leighton Laughlin, 93, on August 21. A 1949 alumnus of Princeton University, he worked for Opinion Research, Project Matterhorn at the university’s Plasma Physics Project, and Princeton Applied Research Cooperative. He later served as an investment advisor at various companies.

Lawrence L. Arcioni, 94, on August 18. He held numerous positions over a long career with the state Department of Labor and served six terms as president of the State Employees Association.

Tatiana Kwasow Smirniw, 78, on August 19. She worked for the General Motors plant in Ewing for 20 years.

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Remodel, renovate, repair. Prompt, professional detail service. Replacement windows, doors, decks, kitchens, baths, basement finishing, concrete work, all major/minor repairs. Fully insured, lic. #13VHO2183600. Call 732752-1287.

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INSTRUCTION String Lessons Online: Violin/Viola lessons, Fiddling, Traditional, & Suzuki Methods. Ms. D, Master of Music, violin/ viola pedagogy, teaches all ages/levels in Princeton Area since 1995. FREE INTRO LESSON until 9/20. Contact: 609924-5933 or cldamerau@yahoo.com.

MUSIC SERVICES Brass Instrument Teacher: Professional musician, University of the Arts graduate. Instruction on Trumpet, Trombone, Tuba, Baritone/Euphonium, Improvisation/Music Theory. 609-2408290. Frank.rein@yahoo.com

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS I Buy Guitars and All Musical Instruments in Any Condition: Call Rob at 609457-5501.

WANTED TO BUY Buying Baseball & Football cards,1909-1980 - Comic books, 1940-1980. All sports memorabilia, collectibles, and related items. Don 609203-1900; delucadon@yahoo.com.

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A Certified Home health aide with tons of experience with a lot of patients.

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I am looking for an internship in the Greater Princeton Area. My skills include: Intermediate Programming in C++, C#, Javascript, Python, HTML, Lua, Web Design, Serach Engine Optimization (SEO), Microsoft Office, WordPress, Pinegrow, Google Docs, Sheets, Google Sites, Github, Adobe Photoshop, OS X, Lunux (Debian), Windows.

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