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Vol. LXIII, No. 23
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
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Vol. LXIII, No. 23
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
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 (Photo by Bill Allen/NJ SportAction)
LIGHT BRIGADE: Members of the Princeton University men’s lightweight first varsity boat muscle through a recent workout on Lake Carnegie. Last weekend, the Tigers capped a perfect season by winning the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) championship. For more details on the regatta, see page 27.
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University Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee made the case for the University’s proposed “arts and transit district” at a Township Committee work session Monday evening.
Princeton Future’s meeting at the public library on Saturday saw presentations on assembling salient information about the town, mobility and transportation, as well as zoning and development procedures. The ensuing conversation featured a brainstorming session regarding long-term and short-term efforts at engaging with the future of Princeton.
At a recent appearance in Newark, U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced that more than $891 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding is now available for New Jersey schools. The funding comes from the State Stabilization Fund designed to protect teaching jobs and modernize schools.
Through a program called “Creative Fridays,” Princeton Young Achievers (PYA) has collaborated with the Arts Council of Princeton to provide art-making workshops and curriculum for students enrolled in their three learning centers.
“Where is she?” anxiously asked one of the people milling around the buffet table set up next to Princeton Day School’s (PDS) vegetable garden one afternoon last week.
Faced with the effects of the economic downturn on businesses, merchants in town are forming a group to promote the benefits of buying local.
As Greg Hughes chilled out last Monday and enjoyed watching the waves lap up on the beach at Diamond Head in Hawaii, he had visions of gold.
It would have been understandable if Princeton University distance running star Michael Maag had gone into a funk last spring when he was sidelined by a fractured left foot.
It was a notion that first entered Casey Rahn’s head when he was warming up one day for a practice during his sophomore season on the Princeton High boys’ lacrosse team.
In New York the poets own the bridges: Paul Simon owns the 59th Street, Hart Crane the Brooklyn, Sonny Rollins the Williamsburg, and Faith Ringgold the George Washington, which was being built as she was being born in nearby Harlem Hospital on October 8, 1930. The George is hers; she’s claimed it in her art, flying over it 58 years later in the starlit rooftop summer night vision of her painted story quilt, Tar Beach. According to the notes for “Declaration of Independence: 50 Years of Art by Faith Ringgold,” which will be on display in New Brunswick’s Mason Gross Galleries through June 26, Ringgold’s father, Andrew Jones, helped hoist cable during its construction, and according to Ringgold, Tar Beach was inspired by Sonny Rollins blowing tenor sax cadenzas mid-span on his bridge so as not to disturb his Grand Street neighbors.
The Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra celebrated Princeton’s relationship with sister city Pettoranello this past weekend with a concert in Richardson Auditorium featuring all of the orchestra’s ensembles. Saturday night’s performance also showcased one of their own young violinists playing a not-often heard but elegant concerto movement.