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Vol. LXI, No. 18
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Wednesday, May 2, 2007
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Vol. LXI, No. 18
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Wednesday, May 2, 2007
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 (Photo by E.J. Greenblat)
COMMUNIVERSITY MIDWAY: Princeton's one-day community festival was in full flower Saturday (and so were the trees), making a carnival midway of Witherspoon Street. Borough police estimate a crowd of some 30,000 enjoyed the free outdoor event, which was sponsored by the Arts Council of Princeton and the students of Princeton University. |
Setting the scene for what appears to be a civilized contest for Princeton Borough mayor, candidates Kim Pimley and incumbent Mayor Mildred Trotman met last week in the first formal head-to-head of this short primary season.
At last week's meeting of the Princeton Regional Schools Board of Education, Tuesday, April 24, board secretary Stephanie Kennedy administered the oath of office to newly elected member for Princeton Township Dorothy Bedford and to returning members JoAnn Cunningham and Alan Hegedus, representing Princeton Township and Princeton Borough, respectively.
On several Tuesdays between November and March, Kim Pimley could be seen sitting near the rear of Council chambers at Borough Hall taking copious notes while assuming a straight face to mask her impression of the decision-making of the governing body she hopes to change.
A year and a month would amount to no more than a blip in the 104 years of Albert E. Hinds, but that's how long it took to find a name for the public square next to the Princeton Public Library.
As Princeton Borough, along with all New Jersey municipalities, has tied itself in knots attempting to comply with new housing mandates compiled by the state's Council of Affordable Housing, the Borough's Affordable Housing Board has offered a sobering, but hardly shocking, assessment that while towns continue to find new ways to design affordable housing for low- and moderate-income families, average market rate prices are skyrocketing.
Following a hearing postponement last month, the Regional Planning Board of Princeton is slated to examine a housing proposal that, if approved, would deliver what housing advocates say is much needed market-rate senior housing to Princeton Township.
Scott Sowanick hasn't focused that much on individual statistics during his career with the Princeton University men's lacrosse team.
Sal Iacono was determined to make his last regular season weekend with the Princeton University baseball team one to remember.
Last spring, David Holland fought through a bad case of cramps in gutting his way to the first singles title at the Mercer County Tournament.
What follows is the result of a chain reaction triggered by Don Imus’s offhand racist, sexist crack about the Rutgers women’s basketball team, which led me to Camden and Walt Whitman by way of Governor Jon Corzine’s near-fatal accident on the Garden State Parkway. Powered by Google, my progress toward a subject wound through an online bazaar of archives from mass murder at Virginia Tech to mass murder in Camden (Howard Unruh’s rampage in 1949 that left 13 dead); from the wearing of seat belts to the first drive-in movie theatre in the world (which opened in Camden in 1933); from Drumthwacket in Princeton (where the governor was on his way at 90-plus m.p.h. for Imus’s Apology) to the Good Gray Poet’s humble residence on Mickle Street, which became Mickle Boulevard, also known, since the 1990s, as Martin Luther King Boulevard. Enroute to Whitman’s house, I made side-trips to the Walt Whitman Theatre, which showed the first sound films in the Camden area, and to the Walt Whitman Hotel, where President Nixon and Governor Cahill engaged in a 1970 photo op (both establishments were demolished in the 1980s).
"My mind to me a kingdom is;"
This line from a poem by 16th century poet Sir Edward Dyer is emblematic of the work of Princeton resident Dr. Kenneth Gould. Exploring the intricacies of that "kingdom" and helping others to discover and uncover buried experiences within their own minds has been his life work. As a pediatrician, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, he has been dedicated to furthering the physical and mental health of children and of adults.