Although the Grover Homestead Restoration Committee has cancelled its last two meetings — Pete Weale of Fisher Place, vice chairman of the committee, wrote in a mass E-mail on August 29, that he and committee chair Rocky Procaccini are obtaining pricing for the commercial window replacements. The pair will also talk with the demolition contractor who removed artifacts from the house.
Weale says the committee, which will meet next on Thursday, September 13, at 7 p.m. in Room B of the Municipal Building, will soon generate a report of its findings. In addition Mayor Hsueh will publish the results of multiple independent investigations and a full timeline of the proceedings.
Weale expects information from Township Attorney Michael W. Herbert, the West Windsor Police Department from its investigation, and “other internal documentation authorizing the West Windsor Historical Society to help itself to public property,” he writes.
Others involved want to tell residents that recent comments at Council meetings criticizing the committee’s efforts are inaccurate and have no bearing on what will ultimately happen to the property. Debbie Hepler of 10 Dean Court, recording secretary for the committee, was disturbed to see and hear the positions taken by Louise Campi Carroll, Paul Eland, and the supporters of a petition circulating in West Windsor (WW-P News, August 24).
“If [Carroll] had taken the time to visit our website [https://groverfarmrestoration.webs.com/], she would have known that there are currently no plans to build a parking lot or spend tax dollars renovating the buildings on the farm site,” Hepler wrote in an E-mail to the News.
Hepler says Eland also has misplaced concerns about the West Windsor Community Gardens being relocated from its current spot at the Censoni tract, across from the municipal complex. She says the idea for a community garden on the Grover property was merely one thought mentioned during a group brainstorming session.
“As is the case with Mrs. Carroll, Mr. Eland has never attended a single Grover Farmstead Committee meeting, nor has he, to my knowledge, reached out to any member of the committee to get the facts before making public statements at the Council meeting [August 20] and in the newspaper,” Hepler writes.
