Christopher Smidt of Colonia and Deniece Depriester Kok of East Windsor both miraculously survived a freezing plane crash into the Hudson Sunday night.
The icy, pitch black waters of the Hudson River was probably the last place Christopher Smidt thought he was going to be when he started out on a sightseeing tour January 27. On Sunday night, 43-year-old Smidt had taken a ride in a small plane piloted by Deniece Depriester Kok of East Windsor. Wpix.com reported that the plane, a single-engine Piper PA-32, took off from Trenton-Robbinsville Airport. It wound up in the Hudson River near Yonkers around 5:20 pm Sunday when the plane crashed, according to a CBSlocal.com report. Smidt, who lives in the Colonia section of Woodbridge, survived the crash with Depriester Kok. Both were still in the plane, which was barely floating in the frigid water, and both had life preservers on, the CBSlocal.…
The creator of a controversial documentary on NJ schools is holding a conference in East Windsor this weekend, open to anyone with questions about the school choice movement.
School choice is an issue that's coming into its own in New Jersey, and Hoboken resident and filmmaker Bob Bowdon has had something to do with that. "The Cartel", Bowdon's award-winning 2009 documentary on what he sees as the low quality and runaway spending of the state's schools, has had a large part in changing the conversation on how schools should operate. That question is going to be the centerpiece in one of the first-ever conferences on school choice in New Jersey. That conference, the New Jersey School Choice Summit, takes place this Sunday, January 27, from 3 pm to 6 pm at the Central New Jersey Conference Center at the Holiday Inn in East Windsor. "It's going to be kind of cool," Bowdon said. "Ordinary people can ask questions …
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Al McDorman
11:43 am on Tuesday, January 29, 2013
I'm happy for them. It could've turned out a lot differently if she didn't do a textbook water landing. It's good to hear accounts of those who make it through such calamities alive. There aren't any good emergency landing spots in that area, and she probably had only a 1000 foot glide down in which to make decisions. Good call! more ›