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Local group helps students catch up after the pandemic By IsABellA DArcy
A young boy who entered kindergarten during the COVID-19 pandemic experienced the majority his first year of school online. When he physically entered a classroom for the first time to begin first grade, the child encountered some reading and behavioral difficulties. The young boy, like some other children who were in elementary school during the pandemic, needed extra support to catch up
and meet the reading and behavioral expectations of students his age. Ewing-based LearnED Potential, an organization whose mission is to empower diverse communities through resources designed to maximize potential, started working with that young boy in March 2022. That child is now “the most dedicated student,” said Gabriela Timothy, the founder and CEO of LearnED Potential. Timothy and her partner,
Joseph Deacon, the CFO of LearnED Potential, have also cofounded The Diverse Learner Foundation—a non-profit that aims to create a healthier, more educated and safer community. Timothy and Deacon, both Ewing residents, serve as president and vice president of TDLF, respectively. “It’s a gratifying feeling to give back,” said Deacon. “It’s really the joy of seeing someone do well.” Both Timothy and Deacon See LEARNING, Page 6
Netflix show looks back at TCNJ cold case murder By Ally UhlenDOrF
Chloe Miller, Ewing High School girls’ tennis player at second singles, poses for a photo on the court. For more on Miller and the rest of the team, see story on page 16. (Photo by Pixels by Todd.)
The unsolved murder of The College of New Jersey student Sigrid Stevenson, which occurred nearly 50 years ago, was recently featured in a recent episode of a television show on Netflix that highlights the case and its impact on the college. The killing is the subject of Unsolved Mysteries Volume 4, Episode 4 “Murder Center
Stage.” The episode revisits the perplexities of the case, speaking to those who investigated it in the 1970s as well as the detectives who picked it up decades later. The case was recently reopened by the N.J. Attorney General’s Cold Case Network. In 1977, Stevenson was a 25-year-old graduate student at Trenton State College, now The College of New Jersey, in Ewing. The student was study-
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ing music and education, as she held a strong passion for music and performing, specifically playing the piano. “When she would play the piano, a completely different side of her would emerge that was just calm and powerful,” Carol Edson, a friend of the Stevenson family, told Unsolved Mysteries in the episode. On Sept. 3, 1977, Stevenson was playing the piano on the See STEVENSON, Page 8
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