To the Editor:

This past Friday, September 1, Princeton Care Center on Bunn Drive, the only long-term care facility in Princeton, notified residents and their families and the facility’s staff that the Center was closing that very night, the Friday of a holiday weekend. The 72 residents and their families had a period of hours in which to make other living arrangements; the Center could not make payroll and all employees were being terminated.

Responsibility for the Center and its residents does not lie with the municipality. Despite that fact, many members of the municipal staff, particularly Municipal Administrator Bernie Hvozdovic, Health Officer/Deputy Administrator Jeff Grosser, Chief of Police Jon Bucchere, and a number of other municipal employees, emergency personnel and fire department members spent many, many hours at the Center on Friday assisting in the evacuation of the residents, many of them non-ambulatory. State Sen. Andrew Zwicker also spent many hours at the Center trying to obtain state resources and personnel to help in the evacuation. The last residents left for their new accommodations after 11 p.m. on Friday, as did the municipal staff and volunteers assisting them.

The Municipality of Princeton is so lucky to have such a dedicated and selfless staff and to be represented in the state Senate by a terrific public servant. I believe that this dedication deserves to be widely recognized and I wanted to bring it to your attention.

Eve Niedergang 
Princeton Councilwoman
Witherspoon Street