Volume LXXVI, Number 41
Amazing Pumpkin Carve Is Hybrid Event . . . . . . 5 Point Breeze Estate Provides Produce for Local Eateries . . . . . . 8 From Ukraine to Littlebrook, Student Plunges Into New Life . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Singing the Baseball Blues With Randy Newman . . . 19 Theatre Intime Presents Celebration and Party Time . . . . . . . . 20 PU Orchestra Opens Season With Stellar Soloist . . . . 21 PU Football Defeats Lafayette 23-2, Improving to 4-0 . . . . 39 Hun Field Hockey Produces 7-2 Start, Primed for Postseason . . . . . . . . . .45
Ella McLaren Helps PDS Girls’ Soccer Make Prep B Semis . . . . . . 43 Art . . . . . . . . . . . . 25-28 Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . 29 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . 49 Fall Home & Design . . . 30 Mailbox . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Meet the Top Agents . . 50 New To Us . . . . . . . . . 38 Obituaries . . . . . . . 47, 48 Performing Arts . . . 22, 23 Police Blotter . . . . . . . 10 Real Estate . . . . . . . . 49 Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Topics of the Town . . . . 5 Town Talk . . . . . . . . . . 6
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Former PU Professor Ben Bernanke Wins Nobel in Economics Ben Bernanke, former Princeton University professor and economics department chair, has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in economic sciences. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the award on October 10 to Bernanke, along with Douglas Diamond of the University of Chicago and Philip Dybvig of Washington University in St. Louis, citing their work to enhance “our understanding of the role of banks in the economy, particularly during financial crises.” Bernanke, who was a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton from 1985 to 2002 and chairman of the economics department from 1996 to 2002, went on to serve two terms as chair of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014, leading the Fed through the 2008 financial crisis. He was also chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2005 to 2006. The Swedish Academy noted that work from the early 1980s by the three economists had provided insight into the role of banks in influencing the economy, especially in times of crisis. “Their analyses have been of great practical importance in regulating financial markets and dealing with financial crises,” the Nobel Committee wrote. Bernanke wrote a landmark 1983 paper about the Great Depression in which he showed how bank runs had turned a recession into a global economic crisis, explaining how bank failures can be the cause, not just the result, of crisis. Bernanke, who earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from MIT, received an honorary degree from Princeton University in 2016. He was cited at the graduation ceremony that year for his role in helping to steer the country through the 2008 economic crisis and “preventing Great Depression 2.0 from his command post at the Federal Reserve.” The Princeton University citation read, “When the house of cards crumbled in 2008, he and his colleagues first stabilized an epochal mess and then led the nation on a difficult path to recovery. His courage to act shored up America’s damaged financial foundations, and his steady hand at the helm inspired confidence when it was sorely needed. Continued on Page 10
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Council Endorses Resolutions for Dog Parks There was applause from the audience at a meeting of Princeton Council on Monday, October 10, following a vote by the Council in favor of two resolutions establishing dog parks in the municipality. The governing body voted unanimously to authorize installation of a temporary dog park in a section of Community Park South, and a pilot program for off-leash dogs at Quarry Park on Spruce Street. Several residents spoke, at the live meeting and over Zoom, in favor of the resolutions. “I’m thrilled that this is happening. It has been such a long time coming,” said a resident of Cedar Lane, who said her son advocated establishing a dog park for his bar mitzvah project and has now graduated from college. A presentation was most recently made to Council about establishing dog parks nearly a year ago. The 90-day pilot program for the Quarry Park site will go into effect November 1, and will be operational between 7 and 9 a.m. The second authorizes temporary fencing at a mostly unused athletic field at Community Park South, with separate areas for small and large dogs. The cost of the fencing is not to exceed $10,000. Mayor Mark Freda expressed concern about dogs being able to run without
being fenced in at Quarry Park, saying it is too close to Harrison Street and children are nearby. But that area has served unofficially as a dog park for several years, and there have been no incidents, said Councilwoman Mia Sacks, who was instrumental in bringing the resolutions forward. “There are about 20 to 30 dogs there each morning, and there is not been a single incident to either a child or a dog. Offleash is something that exists throughout
Manhattan and the five boroughs,” she said, adding that dogs act less aggressively when they are not leashed. Dog parks have not previously been established legally in Princeton, which is why the Quarry Park program is a pilot. “If there is any issue with it, we will terminate it,” Sacks said. “It has been a major success in New York City. I feel very confident it can work. If it doesn’t, after 90 days we can pull the plug.” Ideally, she said, there would eventually Continued on Page 15
Thomas Edison Presents 2,098 Degrees; Graduates Continuing Diverse Careers Thomas Edison State University (TESU) awarded 2,098 degrees to graduates with an average age of 37 at its 50th annual commencement ceremony at the CURE Insurance Arena in Trenton on October 1. The graduates came from 37 different states, all 21 counties of New Jersey, and from foreign countries including Chile, St. Lucia, and United Arab Emirates. “The beauty of our graduating class is what makes our institution so unique,” said TESU President Merodie A. Hancock. “There is no trend in our graduating class other than the fact that everybody
has a story. They all have some story, something they’ve come through to accomplish this.” She continued, “There was a graduate who went through breast cancer as she was working on her degree, and someone else who was diagnosed with an untreatable disease but still finished their degree. We have a tremendous military population and a lot of folks are deployed, and somehow still figure it out. They are all so driven.” Addressing the TESU graduates this year was Elizabeth “Bette” Ewing from Continued on Page 14
THE JOY OF BOOKS: Princeton Public Library’s Princeton Children’s Book Festival returned to Hinds Plaza on Saturday with a gathering of acclaimed authors and illustrators of children’s literature. Participants share their favorite part of the festival in this week’s Town Talk on page 6. (Photo by Weronika A. Plohn)