Volume LXXVI, Number 28
Film Shows Impact on Families Who Raise a Child with Autism . . . . 5 PDS Student Brings Chess Camp to Area Youngsters . . 8 New Plaque Marks Site Of Historic Reading in Trenton . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Looking for Ernest Hemingway . . . . . . . 14 PU Summer Chamber Concerts Continues Series With Manhattan Chamber Players . . . . 15 PHS Alum Goldsmith Playing For U.S. Men’s Soccer Team In Maccabiah Games . . . . 26 PFC Barcelona Wins Boys’ 16U Soccer National Title . . . . . . 27
Former PU Men’s Soccer Star O’Toole Looking to Make Impact in MLS . .24 Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . 22 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . 33 Luxury Living . . . . . . . . 2 Mailbox . . . . . . . . . . . 13 New To Us . . . . . . . . . 23 Obituaries . . . . . . . . . 30 Performing Arts . . . . . 16 Police Blotter . . . . . . . . 9 Real Estate . . . . . . . . 33 Religion . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Summer Senior Options. . .17 Topics of the Town . . . . 5 Town Talk . . . . . . . . . . 6
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Three Incumbents Set To Run For PPS Board of Education Three incumbents — Debbie Bronfeld, Susan Kanter, and Dafna Kendal — will be running in the November 8 election to keep their seats on the Princeton Public Schools (PPS) Board of Education (BOE) for another three years. As of Tuesday morning, July 12, no additional candidates had stepped up to challenge them. The deadline for candidates to file with the Mercer County Clerk is July 25, less than two weeks away. Bronfeld, who has lived in Princeton for more than 20 years and has two sons who graduated from Princeton High School (PHS), will be running for her third term on the Board. “My goals are to continue supporting the superintendent in not only keeping our schools clean, safe, and open for our students and staff, but to ensure every student reaches their full potential while attending PPS,” she wrote in an email. Bronfeld looks forward to continuing her work on the BOE Operations and Student Achievement committees and as chair of the Personnel Committee and co-chair of the Equity Committee. “In my next term I will also continue overseeing improvements in our departments and programs, creative ways to balance the budget, and creating more opportunities for our students to participate in all academic and extracurricular programs,” she added. Kanter, with three children who have graduated from PHS and more than 20 years in Princeton, wrote, “I am seeking a second BOE term for the opportunity to use my 20 years of experience in business, multiple community volunteer roles, and recent Board service to ensure continued excellence and meaningful changes in our district.” She continued, “Within 60 days of beginning my first term, our district pivoted to meet the unexpected challenges of COVID, which dominated our focus throughout much of my term. I look forward in a second term to supporting fiscally sustainable solutions that better serve the academic needs and wellness of all our students, sustainability initiatives, and participating in district planning so that we can successfully serve the needs of the PPS community in years to come.” Kanter has been a member of the Continued on Page 8
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Council Adopts Prospect Avenue Historic District At a meeting Monday night, Princeton Council voted to adopt an ordinance establishing the Prospect Avenue Historic District, designating the street that is home to Princeton University’s eating clubs as the 21st such district in the town. The unanimous vote brings to an official end a long, controversial process related to the University’s June 2021 proposal to demolish three Queen Anne Victorian houses on the north side of Prospect Avenue and move the 91 Prospect former Court Clubhouse across the street into their place, to make room for a Theorist Pavilion and entrance into the new Environmental Studies and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (ES+SEAS) complex. Extensive protests from members of the local community and alumni, hearings in front of the Historic Preservation Commission and the Planning Board, and encouragement from Council led the University to revise the proposal. The three houses will be preserved. The house at 110 Prospect will be moved to a space behind the other two, which are at numbers 114 and 116. The Court Club building will be moved to the space where 110 currently stands. During public comment on the ordinance, Sandy Harrison, who chairs the board of the Princeton Prospect
Foundation, said both the University and the eating clubs supported the designation of the historic district. The Princeton Prospect Foundation and the Graduate Interclub Council “met with the board chairs of the clubs to make sure they understood what it means to be a historic district,” he said. Author/historian Clifford Zink, who wrote a book about the eating clubs and often leads tours of the iconic buildings, spoke in support of the ordinance.
“Adoption will be a very positive outcome of well over a year of work by so many people to come up with a compromise solution on Prospect Avenue to maintain the quality of the historic character of the street, and also allow the University to do some very important and needed changes in a way that respects the historic character,” he said. Zink was among those to thank several people who worked on the compromise, Continued on Page 10
Scientific Advances, Programs Proliferate At Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
A National Academy of Sciences panel chaired by Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) Senior Physicist Richard Hawryluk has recommended that the U.S. move quickly to accelerate the development of fusion energy. According to PPPL, the panel presented the recommendation to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the sole body of non-governmental advisors charged with making science, technology, and innovation policy recommendations to the president and the White House. PPPL is rapidly advancing in support of this recommendation, which calls for collaborating with private industry.
Jon Menard, deputy director for research at PPPL in Plainsboro, said that fusion energy is the way of the future. A potential game changer in terms of providing clean, efficient, and environmentally-sound energy, fusion energy is something that the White House is currently focusing on. This form of energy has the potential to counteract climate change and become a self-sustaining energy source. So, what exactly is fusion energy? Menard explained, “All the energy from the sun that you see every day, that lights up our solar system and heats our Continued on Page 12
BLUEBERRIES APLENTY: Pick-your-own in Terhune Orchard’s two-acre blueberry patch was one of the many activities at the farm’s annual Blueberry Bash last weekend. Participants share their favorite ways to eat blueberries in this week’s Town Talk on page 6. (Photo by Weronika A. Plohn)