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Princeton expands into WW
Plainsboro sewer plant gets upgrades
University and government officials celebrate groundbreaking of massive project
$56M investment announced for Princeton Meadows wastewater facility
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Suez North America has announced that it will make substantial upgrades to its Princeton Meadows treatment plant that will bring greater resiliency and reliable service to customers. Construction at the at the facility, located at 31 Maple Ave., started in October. “The Princeton Meadows wastewater facility was constructed in 1971, upgraded in 1978 and again in 2003,” said Jim Mastrokalos, director of operations. “This next mandatory enhancement will result in a more sustainable plant by rehabilitating and modernizing aging infrastructure and equipment that has reached the end of its service life,” he said. The project upgrades are necessary to meet the future New Jersey Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit limitations, which become effective in January 2025 and sustain increased plant flow projections from 1.64 million gallons to 1.70 million gallons per day. See AROUND TOWN, Page 3
West Windsor resident Kevin Chapman with his award-winning book “Lethal Voyage.”
West Windsor author wins Kindle Book Award Kevin Chapman has written five books since 2018 BY REBEKAH SCHROEDER
Kevin G. Chapman scrolled through the Kindle Book Awards page, looking to see if the cover of his book, Lethal Voyage, would appear as the winner of the mystery/ thriller category. He checked the results with bated breath
and was met with the familiar image of a bloody knife, the drops cascading over the title text. He had taken first place. Announced as one of eight winners in the Kindle Book Review’s 10th annual contest on Nov. 1, the third novel in the attorney and author’s crime series continues the story of New York City Homicide detective Mike Stoneman. Accompanied by his partner, Jason Dickson, the two characters tackle everything
from cruise line murders to serial killers. “I’ve always been a closet author,” Chapman says. “COVID has been good for writers. You have nothing else to do, so you spend a lot of time working on your book.” Lethal Voyage is exclusively available on Amazon.com for Kindle, in paperback and in hardcover. The Mike Stoneman series started in 2018 with Righteous Assassin, succeeded by Deadly See CHAPMAN, Page 4
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Princeton University marked the start of construction on its new campus in West Windsor with a groundbreaking ceremony. Local officials joined members of the Princeton University community at the event, which took place on Dec. 7. The project, which was approved by the West Windsor Planning Board in 2020, will be located on a 107-acre tract of land owned by the university, and will be the first major development on the university’s property in West Windsor. “The West Windsor Lake Campus will be a lively community with space to support academic partnerships, graduate student housing, varsity athletics, recreational uses, and parking,” says the Princeton University facilities website. “The Lake Campus will provide a place that is experienced as a natural, yet distinctive extension of the existing campus.” Princeton owns a significant amount of land in West Windsor and Plainsboro, including 400 acres bounded See LEADERS, Page 6