To the Editor:

I have attended several Woodbridge for Mayor events recently, including the inspiring Princeton Community Barbecue on Saturday. The absence of party labels and the bipartisan tenor of the community gathering were remarkable and heartening. The barbecue was about a United Princeton and a bright vision of the future for our Town absent wider agenda state or national.

I was born in Princeton, attended elementary school on Nassau Street as did Dick Woodbridge. I ran a family-owned hardware store on Witherspoon Street that served the Princeton community for over 65 years. Dick and I served on the Borough Council together, each of us serving as council president in different years. As a Princeton local, I love this town, know its history from the ground up. Be assured Dick Woodbridge knows Princeton inside and out, has put heart and soul together with the better part of his life into serving his beloved hometown. He is a community leader with unmatched experience as a locally elected office holder and volunteer, both in the Borough and the Township.

It is with a strong sense of Community, personal knowledge, and trust in the experienced leadership and sterling character of a longtime friend and associate that this Democrat supports Dick Woodbridge to become the newly formed united town of Princeton’s first Mayor.

Irv Urken

Kennedy Court