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Special to The Sun
On Mercer Lake in West Windsor, teens at the Princeton National Rowing Centers 2011 summer Resolute Racing Camp practice rowing.
Council
adopts
revised
budget
By JULIE STIPE
The West Windsor Sun
The West Windsor township
council at a recent meeting
adopted a slightly revised ver-
sion of its 2012-13 municipal
budget which trimmed the
original budget by $150,000.
The amendment brings the
tax-rate increase down from
1.86 percent, as proposed in the
original version of the budget,
to 1.36 percent.
The reduction means taxes
for the average household with
a residential assessment of
$523,950 will increase $26.20
per year instead of the origi-
nally proposed tax increase of
$41.92.
Despite the reduction, the
amendment fell far short of
what some council members
had hoped to achieve.
At a March 26 meeting,
town council members voted
to amend the proposed budget
by $463,000, which would have
resulted in a zero-percent tax-
rate increase over last year.
Since the vote was not taken
during or after the April 16
public budget hearing, howev-
er, the motion was not binding,
according to township attor-
Teen rowers flock to Mercer Lake
By JULIE STIPE
The West Windsor Sun
At the Caspersen Rowing Cen-
ter in Mercer County Park, its a
beautiful and perfectly still
morning.
Mercer Lake is glassy and
calm, and in huge, garage-like
boat bays, racing shells the
term used to describe the long,
sleek boats used in rowing are
stacked nearly up to the ceiling,
waiting for their turn on the lake.
This nearly perfect stillness is
shattered each afternoon, said
Kristopher Grudt, executive di-
rector of the Princeton National
Rowing Association (PNRA),
when hundreds of kids from the
Lawrenceville School, the Hun
School, Peddie School and those
who are part of the centers Mer-
cer Junior Rowing Club, come
pouring into the boathouse and
on to the lake for rowing practice.
Caspersen Rowing Center, run
by PNRA, is a world-class facility,
said Grudt, though many in West
Windsor may not realize it even
exists.
It is an Olympic training site,
the site of a number of Olympic
team trials for rowing, and has
hosted the International Rowing
Federations World Masters Re-
gatta, the NCAA Womens Row-
ing Championships and the
World Rowing Cup, among other
major regattas.
The center is outfitted for
major events with a seven-lane
racecourse, finish line tower,
spectator areas and start and tim-
ing facilities.
Grudt said the nature of the
please see CASPERSEN, page 9 please see REVISED, page 6
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leaders, supporters and elected
officials joined together in joy
and celebration on the new
Matthew and Staci Wilson Fami-
ly Jewish Community Campus on
March 28.
Marking the ceremonial place-
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onto this beautiful 77,000 square-
foot Jewish Community Center,
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Clarksville Road in West Windsor,
were representatives from all
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All participants had the oppor-
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Special to the Sun
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