To the Editor:

“Support your local merchants.” It’s kind of an old cliché. In a world of mega stores and the internet some of the old adages seem to ring hollow. Well, not this one. This morning my key broke in my office door rendering the lock inoperable. I was locked out of my own workplace with clients scheduled to start arriving within an hour. Now, you see, I had bought my aluminum office door from local merchants, Nelson Glass, years ago. And they have serviced the door for me a couple of times over the intervening period. When I walked into Nelson Glass’s Spring Street facility and explained my crisis, two craftsmen were immediately dispatched to extract my damaged lock and install a new one, all done within minutes. What could have been a major inconvenience ended up being nothing more than a lesson in the virtue of patronizing our neighbors. By the way I have always found Nelson Glass prices to be very reasonable validating another cliché that you always get the best for less in Princeton.

John Kuhn Bleimaier

Attorney and Counsellor at Law