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This was printed in U.S. 1 Newspaper on November 11, 1998.

Between the Lines

We managed to sneak away from home and office the other

night to attend the 30th anniversary gala of the MSM Regional Council

at the Hyatt. Among the dozens of business leaders, government

officials,

and all-around power brokers we bumped into was Sam Hamill, the former

MSM president.

We reminded Hamill of his advice to U.S. 1 many years ago — that

we not get mired down in the nitty-gritty of municipal politics.

Hamill’s

memory of the advice was slightly different: He remembered telling

us not to ignore the municipalities but rather to keep the regional

perspective foremost in our mind.

Either way, the biggest fallout of the 1998 election from the

perspective

of the greater Princeton business community may have been the Hopewell

Township victory of two committee members who have been critical of

the Township’s planning for a new eight-mile sewer pipeline —

a critical element in the proposed 3.5 million-square-foot Merrill

Lynch development off Scotch Road. The question now is whether the

sewer line is headed the same way as Newt Gingrich — out of sight

and out of mind.

In MSM’s 1998 Resource Book, distributed at the dinner, has chapter

and verse on the planning sessions over the past year involving

Hopewell

Township, Mercer County, the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed

Association,

as well as MSM. Whether you like it or not, Hopewell seems destined

for growth. We can only hope that the planning process associated

with the sewer line isn’t thrown out with the election bathwater.

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ever — featuring full color reproductions of original pieces of

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process.