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Volume LXXIX, Number 23

Cadwalader Park Alliance Invites Public To Share Memories, Photos of The Park . . . . . . . . . . 5 HPC Recommends Zinder Firm’s Addition Proposal To Zoning Board . . . . . 8 Stacy Young, “Homegrown” Princetonian, Named New Principal at Johnson Park . . . . . . 14 A Day of Recycling with Katherine Mansfield and The Lonely Hunter. . . 21 Westminster Community Orchestra Concludes Season with Tribute to Vienna . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Ending Her PU Open Crew Career on a High Note, Barry Helps 2nd Varsity Eight Take Third At NCAAs . . . . . . . . . 27 With Mathewson Showing Progress at 1st Singles, PHS Boys’ Tennis Advances to Sectional Semifinal . . . . . . . . . 30

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Tuesday, June 3 marked the start of keep our communities safe and support endorsed by their county’s political parearly voting leading up to Primary Elec- our most vulnerable residents,” said Lam- ties no longer given more prominent tion Day next Tuesday, June 10. With six bros. “The recent end of the party line placement on the ballot. The town of Princeton will be packed candidates in the Democratic guberna- in New Jersey was a historic step forThe core Democratic values that are on with residents and visitors on Saturday, torial primary and five candidates in the ward — one that empowers voters and the line in this election according to Sacks June 14, with the annual Pride Parade race for the Republican nomination for strengthens our democracy. It also makes include “protecting the environment, adstarting at 11 a.m. and marching up Withgovernor, the competition is fierce. this primary election especially important, vancing sustainability, standing up for the erspoon Street to the YMCA for an AfterMichelle Pirone Lambros and Mia with a diverse field of candidates offering rights of immigrants, ensuring due process Party; then from 3:30 to 5 p.m. there will Sacks, who are both running unopposed meaningful choices.” and an impartial judiciary, expanding access be a “No Kings Day: Nationwide Day of for the Democratic nomination for a third to affordable housing, and addressing longDefiance” rally in Monument Park at 1 The termination of the party line bal- standing inequities that disproportionately term on Princeton Council, with no ReMonument Drive sponsored by the Coalipublican opposition on the ballot, are em- lot design makes for a more competitive impact communities of color.” tion for Peace Action (CFPA), Indivisible Continued on Page 7 phasizing the importance of this primary race, with candidates who have been Princeton, and the Princeton Community and the general election in November. Democratic Organization. “The New Jersey gubernatorial race is “On June 14 we will stand up together,” more than just an election — it is a referstates the Indivisible Princeton press reendum on our core Democratic values,” lease. “No thrones, no crowns, no kings.” Among those who fought at the Battle from the school’s Black Student Union, Sacks wrote in an email. The anti-Trump demonstration will take of Princeton on January 3, 1776, were who are in grades 9-12, will begin work “We must protect our democracy at place in front of the Battle of Princeton at least 14 Black soldiers from differ- on the project in the fall. both the local and the state levels,” said Monument, which features a large image ent states. Little has been known about “We’ll explore the lives and contribuLambros. “Given the current administraof George Washington. these men, who marched from Trenton to tions of the African American soldiers, tion’s assault on democratic values, this Princeton in the freezing weather, wearing focusing on the battles of Trenton and “What an appropriate place to have a BELLE NJ 08502 election is critical — bothMEAD the primary, threadbare coats — and no shoes. No Kings rally,” said CFPA Executive DiPrinceton,” said Isiah Jones, who teaches where we choose the Democratic nomirector Rev. Robert Moore. “That’s what A joint project of the Princeton Battlesocial studies at Foundation Academies nee, and the general election, where we he was against. 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