PRINCETON: Park to get new equipment

By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer
   Princeton Borough Council has authorized spending $20,809 for new playground equipment for Barbara Sigmund Park.
   Ben Shaffer & Associates of Lake Hopatcong was awarded the contract for the equipment, which includes a play structure, slides and swings.
   The new equipment will be delivered in four to six weeks, and installed as soon as the weather allows, said Jack West, borough engineer.
   ”The existing equipment does not conform to safety standards,” he said. “It replacing the existing equipment.”
   The park is located at Hamilton Avenue and Walnut Lane.
   Borough mayor from 1983 until her death in 1990, Ms. Sigmund founded Womanspace, a Mercer County nonprofit agency that provides services — 24-hour hotlines, crisis intervention, emergency shelter, counseling, court advocacy and housing — to victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
   Ms. Sigmund died of cancer at 51 after an eight year fight with the disease.
   The resolution also sparked discussion of a master plan for the parks.