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(Photo by George Vogel)
QUARK PARK GETS CORPORATE AID: Lee Maschler, CEO of Trillium Trading, LLC, a high frequency proprietary trading and algorithmic modeling firm, presented a $10,000 check to Katharine Schimmel Baki, right, and Tricia Rosenthal, marking the first corporate donation for Quark Park, the planned outdoor sculpture garden serving as a follow-up to 2004's Writers Block. Area architects have been teamed with 13 noted scientists, including Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman, a molecular biologist, and U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (D-12), a physicist, to create a "dialogue between a sculptor, a scientist, and a landscape designer," resulting in an "educational science labyrinth," according to Kevin Wilkes, one of Quark Park's three principal organizers. The park is slated to be on a vacant plot of land along the south side of Paul Robeson Place from July through November.
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Linda Arntzenius
Remember Milton Lyon who directed Princeton's Triangle Club shows? In 1973, when Princeton University transferred operation of the McCarter to the McCarter Theatre Company, Mr. Lyon was its very first executive producer and it flourished under his leadership.
No need to remind anyone of the late Albert Hinds, Princeton's most celebrated centenarian and the oldest alumnus of the Princeton Regional Schools.
But what of Harold "Sunny" Perrine, Princeton's "Candy Man," who once sold the sweet stuff from his wheelchair in front of the town's two movie theatres — at the time, The Princeton Playhouse and The Arcade.
Each of these three Princeton personalities has a seat in the new Princeton Performing Arts Center (PPAC) auditorium at the Princeton High School. Mr. Lyon's seat comes courtesy of Dana Communications. Albert Hinds received his seat in person from representatives of the Princeton Education Foundation's Take A Seat Campaign at a Black History Month celebration at the John Witherspoon Middle School in February. Mr. Perrine's seat was bought by Landau's on Nassau Street.
Linda Arntzenius
Matthew Hersh
Bucolic downtown Princeton?
Well, maybe once upon a time, but starting next week, downtown Princeton will have a more rural flavor as the country descends on the area that used to serve as a center for surrounding farming communities.
Matthew Hersh
Attempting to come into compliance with statewide stormwater mandates enacted in early 2004, Princeton Borough Council last Tuesday weighed in on a proposed municipal ordinance that would, if passed, establish management mechanisms for large scale developments, curbing the amount of runoff entering surface and ground water.
Matthew Hersh
In a continued, resident-driven effort to examine traffic along the Route 206 corridor between Cherry Valley Road at the Montgomery Township border and Nassau Street, part two of a Webcast outlining potential benefits and pitfalls of roundabouts — the structures proposed by a Township-contracted firm as a possible circulation solutions for the corridor — was aired at a public presentation at Township Hall on Tuesday.
