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Township buys land for $4.6M
Writer finds his voice
Property originally slated for housing
Playwright working on four new projects despite pandemic
BY SAM SCIARROTTA
BY DAN AUBREY
Like many arts organizations finding their way through the pandemic, central New Jersey playwright, director, and actor David White is approaching a reduced yet busy schedule of four new projects. One is for White’s regional artistic home, Passage Theater, Trenton’s only nonprofit professional theater. The company’s former associate artistic director, White participated in a digital fundraiser to help Passage address COVID-19-related revenue losses. He took part in a recording White’s solo performance of “Panther Hollow.” Here’s how the show’s press pack describes it: “Storyteller and monologist David Lee White details his struggle with love, sex, and clinical depression at age 25 while living in a one-hundred-yearold house in Pittsburgh’s hidden neighborhood, Panther Hollow.” And while the theme seems a bit heavy, White, now 50, lightens the load in his opening, “Everything I’m about to tell you is true. And, fair warning, some of it is upsetting so I’m going to apologize in advance. There are eleven corpses in this show — eight See WHITE, Page 6
Bordentown soccer players Julie Wojcik and Victoria Wheeler are the core of the Scotties midfield this season. (Photo by Rich Fisher.)
‘The future’ of Scotties soccer Victoria Wheeler and Julie Wojcik ‘make things go’ for Bordentown BY RICH FISHER
It’s often said a soccer team is as good as its midfield and, taking it a step further, its center midfield. “Ever since I was playing, that area in the center and the back, that spine and backbone, has to be strong,” Bordentown High girls’ coach Dominic Castaldo said. “You can get away with things in
other places but not there. I’ve always been a firm believer of keeping your center strong. Keep that backbone strong, and they’ve come a long way there.” “They” are sophomore Victoria Wheeler and freshman Julie Wojcik, who have emerged to give the Scotties a stellar set of center-mids. Wheeler is the orchestrator and playmaker, while Wojcik is the scorer with 4 goals and 2 assists. Both have senior sisters on the team in Emily Wheeler and Kenna Wojcik, who helped with their transition to high school soccer.
“Basically, those two in the middle are what’s making things go, Castaldo said. “They’re the future. And honestly they work really well together and they’re making big impacts in just about every game we played. “The group itself is just about there, they still have lapses where they kind of lose their focus. But these two, I really think epitomize who we are. Everyone on this team is making impacts but these two are slowly starting to emerge as the part that is making things go.” With just five seniors and a See SOCCER, Page 8
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Bordentown Township announced last month that it purchased 72 acres of land originally reserved for highdensity housing. The property, sold for $4.6 million, was once part of the Bordentown Waterfront Development project—which includes Rivergate Apartments, Waterfront Village and QuikChek. “The township has seen significant residential and commercial growth over the past several years, so it carries extra significance when we can preserve areas like the waterfront that are so environmentally important,” said Mayor Stephen Benowitz. The township effectively cancelled the construction of 330 market rate residential units with the purchase. Bordentown also took out $14 million in Redevelopment Area Bonds for the construction of public roads, water and sewer infrastructure to support the remainder of the project. Upon borrowing the money, the township would partner with a developer to repay the bonds through PILOT payments. Since those funds are no longer needed, they will be removed from the township’s debt. The Bordentown Waterfront Development was approved in 2008 as a multi-phase residential and commercial project. Construction on the existing See PROPERTY, Page 10
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