NOVEMBER 2022
Hamilton Post
The King of Hamilton
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Enough is enough
Mayor visits with high school students
Napoleon’s brother Joseph Bonaparte spent time in the township
DEP taking oversight role at Trenton Water Works By BiLL SANserViNO
By SUe FerrArA
If you haven’t heard the news, Bordentown City, D&R Greenway, and the NJ Department of Environmental Protection pulled off a miracle. Together, they purchased the 60 remaining acres of land once owned by Joseph Bonaparte, the ex-King of Spain and Naples, and the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. At the time of the sale, the acreage, which sits above the confluence of Crosswicks Creek and the Delaware river, had been owned by the Divine Word Missionaries for eighty years. Divine Word Missionaries could have commanded millions of dollars–there were developers wanting to build warehouses on the property; but, the Catholic fathers of Divine Word held true to a moral responsibility to see the land returned to the people of New Jersey, as well the responsibility to protect Crosswicks Creek and the Delaware River. Divine Word sold the land for $4.6 million. See BONAPARTE, Page 10
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Mayor Jeff Martin (center) recently visited the Hamilton High School West GALRE (Government and LawRelated Experiences) class to talk local politics. Pictured with Martin are Lexi Dawson, Morgan Dawson, Lexi Salazar, Hailey Cavanagh, Leif Simonelli, Brielle Maigue, Jardi Cotin, Zaariya Bajwa, Zeshan Dixon, Walter Cordero, Olivia Astbury, Austin Boddie, Mac Meara, Nicholas Jordan, Antonio Maldonado, Gian Garcia-Sanmartin, and teacher Jon Iorio. (Photo by Laura Geltch.)
Groups offer holiday support for those grieving lost loved ones By SUe FerrArA
A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association estimated that worldwide, 10.4 million children lost one or more parents, or caregivers, due to Covid-19. The authors noted the many consequences these children would face, including burdens brought on by trau-
matic grief. In Mercer County, the number of Covid deaths alone is close to 10,000 people. It is likely that each death has caused a ripple-effect of grief among family members and friends, but most of all children. Fortunately, our area has two organizations that can provide help. One is called Good Grief, a nonprofit based in Princeton and
Morristown. And the other is called the Traumatic Loss Coalition based at Rutgers University. The Traumatic Loss Coalition provides support to members of a community, or a school district after a traumatic event such as a suicide, a homicide, or another incident which seriously impacts a group of people. Trained cliniSee GRIEF, Page 8
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Enough is finally enough with Trenton Water Works. The state Department of Environmental Protection is intervening in the daily operations of TWW, which has failed to address numerous problems in the provision of safe drinking water for many years. The utility, which is owned and run by the city of Trenton, supplies approximately 29 million gallons of drinking water every day to more than 200,000 people—including all of Trenton and Ewing, and parts of Hamilton, Hopewell and Lawrence townships. In 2020, the state attorney general and DEP filed a lawsuit against TWW—which was joined the municipalities served by the water utility—seeking to compel the City of Trenton and the water utility to take the necessary actions after failing to comply with Administrative Consent Orders to provide safe drinking water. The takeover in TWW operaSee WATER, Page 14
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