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Volume 6, Issue 4 www.thebreezenj.com April 2014

The Hometown Newspaper of Bridgewater and Raritan

Several schools around the district celebrated Read Across

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The Shimon and Sara Birnbaum Jewish Community Center held its annual Purim carnival to celebrate

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BRHS Grad Wins $100K in ‘Jeopardy!’ ChampionshipsTerry O’Shea took the top prize in the game show’s recent college championships.By Audrey Levine

A question about Gibraltar, which only she could answer, made Bridgewater resident The-resa O’Shea the newest win-ner of the “Jeopardy!” College Championships.

O’Shea, a student at Princeton University, won $100,000 after beating out students from across the country in all rounds of the competition.

“The experience was surreal,” she said. “While New Jersey was in the throes of the polar vortex, L.A. was balmy. I met Alex Tre-bek and members of the Clue Crew team, and they’re just like they are on tv — welcoming and nice.”

“As for playing in the actual rounds, you quickly forget that you’re going to be on televi-sion across the country and that you’re playing for thousands of

dollars,” she added. “You just get in the zone.”

It was luck and a Facebook group, plus a love of “Jeop-ardy!”, that led O’Shea to the show. The Princeton Class of 2016, of which O’Shea is a part, has a Facebook group, and someone posted that more stu-dents should apply for the col-lege championships because the school hadn’t shown well in past tournaments.

“The post reminded me that I’d always loved and wanted to be on the show,” she said. “From there, a whirlwind of good luck took me to the Sony Studios lot in Los Angeles.”

To qualify, O’Shea said, she took an online 50-question test.

“People who do well enough on that test are selected at ran-dom to have an interview and mock game in front of the show’s

producers,” she said. “From the interview stage, 15 people are chosen to appear on the show. So I was very lucky to have gotten on the show in my first try.”

To prepare, O’Shea said, she quizzed herself on the online archive of questions that have been asked on the show, and she read articles on Wikipedia. Plus, she said, she spent time on a quiz website to get small facts.

“I was worried about my re-flex speed as well, so I practiced buzzing in by clicking the button on my ‘Jeopardy!’ pen over and over,” she said. “Everyone who auditions gets a free pen with the game logo on it, and the but-ton on these pens is supposedly in the same shape as the actual buzzer used on the show.”

O’Shea said she was wor-ried before the show began that

Terry O’Shea with “Jeopardy” host Alex Trebek See JEOPARDY, Page 5

BOE Approves Early ‘14–’15 BudgetThe budget will go to the county superintendent for approval.

By Audrey LevineThe Bridgewater-Raritan

Regional School Board of Ed-ucation approved a tentative 2014–2015 budget that includes funding to assist with the new state regulations for teacher observations.

The budget will now go for approval from the county super-intendent. From there, the ad-ministration and board of educa-tion will have the opportunity to review it again before an April 24 public hearing and potential final approval.

The biggest source of con-tention in the budget concerned a proposal to include $100,000 in the budget for administrative changes that would help with a state-mandated 104 percent in-crease in evaluations and other similar requirements each year.

According to interim super-intendent Cheryl Dyer, the dis-trict currently has 14 positions that are under consideration for change – 10 educational teach-ing specialists (ETS) and four 12-month supervisors.

In the budget, Dyer has pro-posed changing that to 16 po-sitions. They would be five ETS staff or five curriculum and assessment specialists; two 12-month supervisors of spe-cial education; four 10-month supervisors; four 10-month vice-principals; and one 12-month supervisor of special education.

There will also be a new health and physical education supervisor – a position eliminat-ed in budget cuts several years ago – but that is covered in the budget by a retirement.

“Most work is to support teaching and learning, and teachers are here 10 months, not 12,” Dyer said.

Dyer said the role of the 10-month vice principal differs from that of an ETS in that a vice principal can observe and evaluate teachers and manage

a building when the principal is out. The vice principal would have administrative duties that an ETS would not.

And, Dyer said, the district is missing some vice principals that would be beneficial in the district for disciplinary purpos-es, taking care of the building when the principal is out and more.

Positions being replaced by 10-month ones, Dyer said, result in a decrease in costs, and oth-er new positions would replace those who are retiring.

Dyer said they have also ac-counted in the budget for return-ing five ETS positions to teach-ing positions.

For many board of education members, and community mem-bers, it wasn’t the additional $100,000 in the budget they ob-jected to, but the loss of the ETS staff.

“I don’t support cutting half of the ETS, they are especial-ly important through sixth grade,” said board member Jill Gladstone.

Instead, Gladstone said, she would rather see if any teachers have supervisory certificates, and have them serve in place of vice principals.

“I think we should think out of the box,” she said. “I think this is a lot of changes too soon.”

Many board members, and See ETS, Page 7

Moretti to Serve as 2014 Basilone Grand MarshallBy Bruce [email protected]

The Grand Marshall of the 2014 John Basilone Memorial Parade is World War II army veteran Gene Moretti. During the war, he participated in the first three U.S. invasions onto enemy territory. With the army, he journeyed more than 1,000 miles across North Africa into Italy, fighting the Germans along the way. In combat, he saw men die and he rescued in-jured men. He experienced per-sonal tragedy when his brother, who was serving in the Navy, was killed off Okinawa. At the end of the war, he found ro-mance, meeting his future wife.

Moretti was born in Rari-tan in 1917. As a young boy, he attended the Raritan pub-lic schools, which were on the property where the municipal building is today. He attend-ed St. Ann Church, where he served as an altar boy. On hot summer days, he swam in the Raritan River. In 1929, when he was 11, his family moved to a house on South Bridge Street in Somerville.

With the start of World War II, both Moretti and his broth-er, Joseph, volunteered to serve their country. His brother joined the Navy, Moretti the Army. Af-ter a sendoff dinner at Orlando’s Restaurant in Raritan, Moretti was sent to Fort McClellan for

training. In November 1942, his unit

took part in the first U.S. inva-sion of enemy territory (known as Operation Torch) when they landed in Casablanca, Morocco. Moretti saw the mass confusion that plagued the U.S. Army in the early part of the war. After they established a position off the beach, they spent several days with no supplies, and were given no direction from officers on what the next step was. For-tunately, after a few days, lead-ership emerged and the troops were re-supplied and begin a long trek across northern Afri-ca, battling the Germans.

Along the way, Moretti took See MORETTI, Page 12

Moretti

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Rescue Workers Honored for Years of ServiceA number of volunteers among

the different rescue squads are be-ing honored through Bridgewater Township’s annual length of ser-vice awards program (LOSAP).

The township council recently approved a resolution that hon-ors those active members of the squads for length of service.

The program, according to the resolution, provides for fixed an-nual contributions of $1,150 per qualifying member to a deferred income account for those volun-teers with a minimum of 500 an-nual service points.

The honorees from the Fin-derne First Aid and Rescue Squad are:

• Adam Fulmore, Amanda

Ianniello, Brian Sowden, Carol Ianniello, Charles Dominguez, Dale Artfitch, Dhruvi Shah, Gary Lave-nia, Gina Puerari, Justin Rivera, Katelyn Sowden, Kathryn Sowden, Kyle Vac-caro, Marc Sowden, Richard Sowden, Ross Kovelman, Shawn Sowden and Steve Demair.

The honorees from the Brad-ley Gardens First Aid and Res-cue Squad are:

• Dan Calligaro, Kevin Gross, Chris Ireland, Robert Han-lon II, Judy Hanlon-Offen-burger, Jack Thompson, Wind Chen, Juliana Calliga-ro, Scott Woodruff, Jeffrey

Taylor, April McMorrow, Nick Rinaldo, Gabe Trepic-cione, Kyle William, Bri-anna Retsis, Phil Langon, Matthew Chaing and Jason Kreyling.

The honorees from the Green Knoll Rescue Squad are:

• David S. Carson, Michael S. Halperin, Stephan Landau, Dov Landau, Timothy Ring, Sabino V. DeRogatis, David Weedon, Craig Simon, Marc Vogt, Michael O’Brien and Sharon Pasewaldt.

The honorees from the Mar-tinsville Rescue Squad are:

• Robert Albano, Michael Alonso, Brian Atherton, Howard Bixler, JoAnne Bix-

ler, John Cowley, Georget-ta Denhardt, Donald Elias, Catherine Franco, Diane Gasko, Ana Geraldes, Rita Gonsalves, Yolanda Guz-man, Michael Hamerslag, Katherine Hixson, Susan Klein, Penelope Lynch, Debbie Manna, James Mec-ca, Peter Mone, William Mone, Inge Monticello, Lisa Pantano, Sara Rall, Scott Rappoport, William Rob-erts Jr., Margaret Samuels, Hank Schleckser, MaryEllen Schleckser, Judy Schnell, George Schofield, James Scott, Sherry Steger, Doris Zampella, Donna Zarelli and Susan Zweig.

Hillside Teachers Learn CPR to Save a LifeChris Ireland and Theresa

Salamone, two members of the Bridgewater-Raritan Educa-tion Association who work at Hillside Intermediate School, recently implemented a train-ing program in response to a new state law taking effect Sept. 14.

Janet’s Law requires that at least one faculty member trained in cardiopulmonary re-suscitation (CPR) and automat-ed external defibrillator (AED) use be present at school-spon-sored athletic events or team practices. A minimum of five staff members must be training in each school building.

The law was named after Jan-et Zilinski, a Warren girl who died after collapsing at a school event. After she collapsed, CPR was performed, but no AED was available.

Zilinski’s parents have been working since then to make

sure schools are required to have access to these life-saving devices for the future.

Hillside Intermediate School already had a CPR response team with 10 certified staff members who respond to loca-tions in the school when a nurse confirms that CPR is needed. Because Ireland, band teacher at the school, and Salamone, the school nurse, also work as CPR instructors for Somerset Medical Center, they believed more staff would want to be certified.

To date, 46 staff members and a district supervisor are getting certified in the American Heart Association’s Heartsaver CPR and AED course. The school has borrowed equipment from the Somerset Medical Center Life Support Training program, and Hillside principal Terry Pennington purchased limited supplies needed to complete the

training.In addition, retired school

nurse Tami Lane has come to the school to teach even more classes.

“The staff at Hillside has always had a lot to be proud

of, but they are now getting trained to literally help save lives,” Ireland said. “The ad-ministration and their CPR in-structors could not be happier with everyone’s commitment to cardiac excellence.”

Hillside Intermediate School teachers get certified in the American Heart Association’s Heartsaver CPR and AED course.

Bridgewater Girl to Sing National AnthemBridgewater resident Marisa

Dipaolo is one of several chosen by the Somerset Patriots to sing the National Anthem this season.

The competition was held at Menlo Park Mall in Edison March 8, and 100 soloists were asked to sing a minute-and-a-half of a song of their choice. Singers were judged on vocal talent, stage presence and their ability to perform in front of a large crowd.

In addition to Dipaolo, the se-lected singers for this year are

Caitlin Caporale, of New York; Nicole Johnson, of Piscataway; Clarence McLendon, of New Brunswick; De’Edria McKoy, of Plainfield; Monica Krishna, of Piscataway; Brianna Zonin, of East Hanover; Grace Montele-one, of Wanaque; Alexa Panta-leo, of Freehold; and Catie Hodic, of Springfield.

This was the 11th year the Pa-triots had held the contest to find National Anthem singers.

The event was also a fundrais-er, and each contestant donated

a minimum of $10 to Operation Shoebox New Jersey, which col-lects donated supplies to ship in care packages to U.S. troops based overseas. In total, the event raised more than $1,000 for Op-eration Shoebox.

Prizes were also awarded to mall patrons, and Patriots mas-cot Sparkee and his pal Slider were on hand to interact with the audience.

The Somerset Patriots 2014 season will begin at home at TD Bank Ballpark April 25.

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Local Kids Win Top Prizes in SkillsUSABridgewater and Raritan stu-

dents, plus many others, at Somer-set County Vocational & Technical High School won top prizes in lo-cal New Jersey SkillsUSA contests, and will take part in the SkillsUSA New Jersey Skill and Leadership Championships April 5.

Carpentry: Zach Scrape, of Bridgewater

Electrical Construction Wir-ing: Ryan Drumbore, of South Bound Brook

Plumbing: Jacob DePaola, of Somerset, and Paul Marinelli, of Pluckemin

Welding: Anthony Gallerani, of Princeton

Welding Fabrication: Jack Hambrick, of Raritan, Hunter Allen, of Branchburg, and Kyle Chalmers, of Bridgewater

State Banner Design: Lauren Bottino, of Bridgewater, and Kyle Hernandez, of North Plainfield

Screen Printing Technolo-gy: Noel Twombly, of Somerset, Ryan Lowndes, of Bridgewater, and Hannah Lukac, of Bound Brook

First Aid/CPR: Mackenzie Trotter, of Somerset

Health Knowledge Bowl: Joc-elyne Munoz-Campos, of Bound Brook, Teresa Markey, of Bound Brook, Jackie Ortega, of North Plainfield, and Ashley Michel, of Bridgewater

Wedding Cake Decorating: Emily Horta, of Green Brook, and Ashley Anello, of Bridgewater

Commercial Baking: Hanna Krilov, of Bridgewater

Restaurant Service: Alyssa Simone, of Basking Ridge

Cosmetology (Novice): Dan-ielle Russo, of Somerset

Cosmetology (Advanced): So-fia Quesada-Rojas, of Bridgewater

Esthetics: Alyssa Douglas, of Bridgewater, with model Victoria Triozzi, of Branchburg

Criminal Justice: Paula Yepes, of Bridgewater, Monica Carlton, of South Bound Brook, and Chris Yanoso, of Raritan

Criminal Justice Quiz Bowl: Emily Skeels, of Bridgewa-ter, Yamily Arellano, of Bound Brook, Chris Yanoso, of Rari-tan, Courtney Coleman, of North Plainfield, and Kevin Pidany, of Bridgewater

Auto Refinishing Technol-ogy: Fabian Alfaro, of Bound Brook

Custom Automotive Paint-ing: Alexandra Santa Maria, of Hillsborough, and Edgar Ceja, of South Bound Brook

Custom Automotive Paint-ing: Angelo Mel-tos, of North Plainfield, and Kevin Montouri, of South Bound Brook

Job Skills Demonstration A: Christopher Castro, of Somerville

Collision Repair Technolo-gy: Anthony Sibaja, of Basking Ridge

Automotive Service Tech-nology: Zachary Sperr, of South Bound Brook

Diesel Equipment Technol-ogy: Brett Redling, of Bernards-ville, Joshua Montero, of War-ren, and Wade Caruso, of Green Brook

Auto Maintenance: Janelle Roper, of Bridgewater, and Chris-topher Totorello, of Hillsborough

Motorcycle Service Technol-ogy: Cody Mutchler, of Raritan

Power Equipment Technolo-gy: Timothy Kraft, of Somerset, Kyle Fanurik, of Martinsville, and Stephen D’Armiento, of North Plainfield

Quiz Bowl: Daniel Marcinek (captain), of Green Brook, Made-line Kestenbaum, of Branchburg, Katie Furman, of Flemington, So-ham Shah, of Hillsborough, Noah Alsamadisi, of Bridgewater, Jean-Pierre Jacob (alternate), of North Plainfield, and Sarah Furman (al-ternate), of Flemington

Related Technical Math: Kennedy Ralston, of Annandale

Medical Math: Andrew Ker-rigan, of Hillsborough, Jonathon Garaffa, of Skillman, and Khush-ma Parekh, of Ringoes

Job Interview: Leia Chem-macheril, of Hillsborough

Prepared Speech: Sridivya Kavuru, of Bridgewater

Medical Terminology: Ye-sha Parekh, of Ringoes, Maya Schlesinger, of Martinsville, and Ian Dominic De Los Reyes, of Bridgewater

Chapter Display: Chloe Jen, of Bridgewater, Ruchi Patel, of Hillsborough, Aishwarya Anand, of Basking Ridge

Entrepreneurship: Alok Pil-lai, of Hillsborough, Satyakrishna Polavarapu, of Bridgwater, Parth Patel, of Raritan, and Robert Bender, of Hillsborough

Community Service: Mi-chelle Fishbeyn, of Ringoes, Em-ily Heathcote, of Branchburg, and Palak Shah, of Hillsborough

Extemporaneous Speaking:

Matthew Allen, of South Bound Brook

Career Pathways – Agricul-tural, Food & Natural Resourc-es: Apurva Swapnil, of Hillsbor-ough, Abhishek Shrinet, of South Bound Brook, and Shawn Young, of Martinsville

Career Pathways – Architec-ture & Construction: Swati Pa-tel, of Somerset, Ramya Kommi-di, of Franklin Park, and Julianna Kosty, of Somerset

Career Pathways – Health Science: Shanaya Shah, of Hills-borough, Alexander Shu, of Som-erset, and Matthew Calapatia, of Hillsborough

Career Pathways – Health Science: Victoria Shahinian, of Lebanon, Harleen Singh, of Bridgewater, and Nitya Kalidin-di, of Bridgewater

Career Pathways – Human Services: Geneva Magsino, of Raritan, Saloni Lad, of Princeton, and Karen Huang, of Martinsville

Career Pathways – Man-ufacturing: Mitali Shah, of Hillsborough, Claire Foster, of Flemington, and Alina Lou, of Hillsborough

Career Pathways – Market-ing, Sales & Services: Aaron Lee, of Raritan, Harini Prayaga, of Bridgewater, and Kiran Raja, of Bridgewater

Career Pathways – Science, Technology & Math: Suraj Pa-tel, of Somerville, Samyak Gupta, of Flemington, and Rohit Rusta-gi, of Hillsborough

Career Pathways – Trans-portation Distribution & Logis-tics: Masood Karimi, of Somer-set, Martyn Megaloudis, of North Plainfield, and David Sosidko, of Pittstown.

Bridgewater-Raritan High School graduate Louis Tri-andafilou was named to the

Dean’s List for the Fall 2013 semes-ter at Rar-itan Valley C o m m u n i t y College. He is majoring in exercise science, and,

after getting his Associate Sci-ence Degree, will be getting a Bachelors Degree in Sports Management at a four-year col-lege in New Jersey. Trianda-filou is the son of Monica Neu-mann and Lou Triandafilou.

A number of students in the local area were named to the Dean’s List for the Fall 2013 semester at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Students named to the Dean’s List have completed 12 credits of coursework with a GPA of at least 3.5. Honored this past

semester were Anna Anakhasyan, of Bridgewater; Jared Simon, of Bridgewater; Colleen Tighe, of Bridgewater; Colleen Yessman, of Bridgewater; and Matthew Cardinali, of Martinsville.

Nicole A. Wilferth, of Bridgewa-ter, was named to the Dean’s List at LIM College for the Fall 2013 semester. To earn a place on the Dean’s List, students must earn a GPA between 3.5 and 3.79.

Bridgewater native Stephanie Preite has been named to the Dean’s List at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston for the Fall 2013 semester. Preite is pursuing a Doctor of Pharmacy, and she will be a graduate from the Bos-ton, Massachusetts campus. The Dean’s List at the university rec-ognizes students with a full-time course load who have achieved outstanding scholarship for the academic term, with a 3.5 GPA or higher.

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Congratulations to Ray Torno, of Bridgewater, the winner of our ad symbol contest. Ray won a $100 gift card to Randazzo’s and Raritan Pastry Shop. Above, Ray (back right) stands with John Randazzo, one of the owners of the bakeries, as well as Ray’s sons, Raymond (left), 12, and Chris, 12.

At Randazzo Pastry Shop and Deli, we are not another franchise. We are third generation bakers and still use authentic recipes hand-ed down from family. Unlike some places that have cut corners by replacing ingredients with artificial flavors, we still use real almond paste and butter in our cookies. Quality and taste are never compro-mised to save a few pennies.

Never ones to shy away from hard work, the owners, Jerry and John, are hands on. They can usually be found at the stores, behind the counter serving customers or in the back baking. Originally from Brooklyn, they have been serving the community of Raritan since opening at 611 Route 202 in November 1996, and have recently ex-panded, taking over the old Raritan Bakery on Main Street.

At Randazzo’s, we are looking to bring back true classics like the “real” bakery doughnut, but are always adding to our menu with cus-tomer requests, and new favorites as well. We are always striving to make the community proud, and are thankful to our loyal customers that have allowed us to be part of their lives for the past 17 years. We look forward to serving you for the next 17 years!

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Poetry ReadingOn April 23 at 6:30 p.m.,

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Bridgewater History to Whet Your WhistleBy James KochSpecial to The BReeze

We’ll call April “tidbit” month – miscellaneous bits of Bridge-water history that you hopefully haven’t heard.

Most of us in this area are lucky enough not to be classified as living in poverty, even if we wish we had more wealth. But in the early 1900s, there was not as much affluence and there were those who were homeless.

The county’s solution was to build “poor farms,” and at least one was in Bridgewater. It was a house used as a shelter until the 1930s, then was vacant until the late 1940s when it was destroyed by fire.

The “farm” was across the road from Bridgewater-Raritan High School on Garretson Road. It was on the lot just to the west of what is now the current tennis courts. And the YMCA replaced a love-ly picturesque red barn with no swimming. The house and barn were on the Davis Farm, which stretched from Garretson Road to the dirt Talamini Road.

What saddens me is that we have lost all of nature’s critters that lived there – raccoons and

skunks and weasels and muskrats and sunfish in the stream that ran through the property.

Back to the Revolutionary War, General George Washington had problems, first being if the British forces decided to attack the Patri-ot positions on the First Watchung and surround them. He appointed American General Lord Stirling (William Alexander) to design a signal warning system in the form of fire beacons on the mountains. There were about 27 of them along the Watchung all the way to the Hudson River.

If the British were spotted ap-proaching the mountain, local residents would light the bea-con fires. Then the local Patriots would meet at prescribed loca-tions in the valley to protect the base of the mountain. Signal Bea-con No. 4 was at the top of Steele Gap Road above Foothill Road. I haven’t found the exact location.

The Battle of Bound Brook is April 12. For an inexpensive breakfast and to meet some of the forces on both sides, go to HeritageTrail.org. For details of the battle, go to Friends of the Abraham Staats House.


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“Of course everyone was com-petitive, but the prevailing trait was kindness,” she said. “We all went through an ordeal together, and that bonded us as friends re-gardless of the outcome.”

O’Shea said she believes luck was a big part of her win in that final game, and throughout the whole process.

Final “Jeopardy!” questions, O’Shea said, are a big part of the game — and were a big part of her ultimate win.

“Final ‘Jeopardy!’ questions are really the most important part of any game, and the fact that I was able to answer all four of my Fi-nal ‘Jeopardy!’ questions correctly was, I think, the biggest factor in my being able to win,” she said.

Going into the finals game, with a win already in the previous game and the most money going into the last round, O’Shea said she hoped to at least get second place.

“It’s still hard for me to be-lieve how lucky I was that day,” she said. “Going into the finals, I was hoping to get second place, and there’s no way I would have suspected that winning the whole thing outright was within the realm of possibility.”

Before Final “Jeopardy!” in that last game, which aired Feb.

21, producers paused the show to fact-check an answer. O’Shea said the three contestants were required to sit offstage while they awaited results.

“I realized that I was much less nervous than I’d been during my first and second games,” she said. “Having gotten that far in the tournament, I would have been happy with any outcome.”

“So I just decided that I would do my best with Final ‘Jeopardy!’ and accept the result with grace,” she added. “It ended up working out for me.”

O’Shea said she is currently majoring in English, and is not entirely sure what her future plans will entail. But, she said, there are several jobs that can come from that major.

“I’d like to work in govern-ment, the Department of State or the Department of Educa-tion, but I also really like liter-ature and writing, so maybe ac-ademia,” she said. “The future is wide open for me, especially now that I have some money to fall back on.”

Still, O’Shea learned a lot from the experience, including many of the facts that led to her win.

“I learned what string theory is, I learned that friendship is much more important than competi-tion,” she said, “and I learned that when you go on tv, literally every-one you know is excited for you.”

Final Question Big Part of Ultimate WinJEOPARDY from Page 1

Thru Lanes Being Considered for Rte. 22By Audrey Levine

Somerset County provided an update in February on the Route 22 Corridor long-term improvements, with a goal to have a plan in place by the end of the summer.

According to Joseph Fishinger, principal traffic en-gineer for the county, Somerset County is expected to de-cide on a plan for the chang-es to the corridor in terms of improving the thruway to Route 287. That decision and accompanying study will then go to the state cap-ital program committee for a final decision.

The purpose of the improve-ments, Fishinger said, is to make Route 22 safer in the vicinity of the businesses from Mercer Street to Route 287.

Currently, the county has three alternatives that it is investi-gating. The difference between them, Fishinger said, is the addi-tion of eastbound through lanes.

“They are for cars that don’t want to stop at the businesses on Route 22,” he said.

The first option brings the corridor up to standards set by the New Jersey Department of Transportation, but does not have the extra lanes. The total cost is $37.3 million.

The second alternative adds the lanes from Mercer Street up to Gaston Avenue, as well as ser-vice roadways between Moun-

tain Avenue and North Gaston Avenue, all separated by a medi-an barrier. The cost is estimated at $50.8 million.

The third alternative provides the through lanes almost all the way to Route 287, stopping around the Bridgewater Diner. The cost is expected to be about $59.9 million.

In all three alternatives are ac-celeration and deceleration lanes for major cross streets and busi-nesses; auxiliary lanes between closely spaced cross streets; a standard shoulder that is bicycle compatible; the removal of the Route 202/206 northbound ramp to Route 22 westbound; and the consolidation of driveways.

With regard to the Route 202/206 ramp to westbound Route 22, Fishinger said, only 50 drivers use that in a day during peak hours. That, he said, is part of the reason for its elimination.

There is also a plan for a Route 202/206 northbound to the Route 287 South ramp, be-tween Commons Way and Gar-retson Road. The planned ramp will go around the Best Buy on Commons Way.

In addition, Fishinger said,

a 10-foot shoulder between the road and pedestrians walking along Route 22 is included in the current plans.

Fishinger said that once the plan is approved, they are hoping to move to preliminary engineer-ing by the end of this year, and then investigate funding options, including grants. From there, he

said, the entire project will take between seven and 10 years to be completed.

“And we have to decide if the ramp behind Best Buy should be part of the project,” he said. “It is part of all three alternatives, but maybe we

will split it off as its own project if we can move it faster.”

“That will come down to envi-ronmental factors,” he added.

Fishinger said there will be traf-fic delays while the work is being done, but they don’t have those de-tails at this time because they are still in the planning stages.

“And we are evaluating the ef-fects on businesses,” he said, par-ticularly concerning those cur-rently in the median of Route 22, like Buffalo Wild Wings and the Bridgewater Diner, and whether they need to be removed. “We will look at the evaluation of the safety, or the value of the busi-nesses.”

Short term improvements on Route 22 are still continuing with the removal of the u-turns in the median expected to be done by July.

“[The new eastbound lanes] are for cars that don’t want to stop at the businesses on

Route 22. “—Joseph Fishinger


Student CornerEvery month, we will ask students around the district to answer one question about the school year or the time of year. This month, we spoke to students at Crim Primary School and asked them to complete this sentence: April Showers Bring …

“…birds chirping, ‘chirp chirp,’ rainbows, sun and sports like soccer

and tennis. They also bring a boatload of grass, baseball bats swinging and

time to spend with family.”— Courtney Kaiser, 2nd Grade

“…happiness and joy to the world. The kids all play in puddles. The grown ups say, ‘I wish that was me,’ and the joy

spreads throughout the world.”— William Meyer, 2nd Grade

“…umbrellas with some rain.”— Nicholas Gomes, 2nd Grade

“…rainbows, sunshine, happiness too. But don’t forget the wonderful

sounds we get from it like bicycle wheels, bats crushing balls out

of the park and the joy of people yelling, ‘Yippee, spring is here.’”

—Colin Woodring, 2nd Grade

“…lots of flowers. They also bring some floods.”

— Nick Jerkovich, 2nd Grade

“…summer powers.”—Stephanie Lewandowski,

3rd Grade

“…spring flowers./Daisies dancing, Roses prancing./

Blossoms blooming, breezes zooming./Dew dripping, leaves

flipping./Birds flying, grass lying./Streams moving, bugs grooving./

Spring’s forming everywhere.”—Sarah Walker, 4th Grade

“…the sun’s glowing beams to life. You can hear the hummingbirds singing and you can see the bright green leaves dancing in the warm breeze. The silky

grass is brushing against the clean roots of an old oak tree.”

—Carly McEntire, 4th Grade

“…fun hours!/We play in the grasses in the middle of May./We dance in

the sunshine of the beginning of the day./The clouds in the sky are always

cheerful./It makes you and me not ever fearful./The roses and violets

and apples and pears./Attract all the bears and everyone there./Fruits,

gardening, rain and heat./Everyone agrees that spring is sweet.”

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Superintendent Search Begins AnewBy Audrey Levine

As the district continues its search to find a new superinten-dent, the board of education has approved the hiring of a consul-tant to aid in the process.

The district already tried to find a new superintendent with the help of the New Jersey School Boards Association, but was unsuccessful, and deter-mined in December that a new search would begin.

The board is preparing to hire Hazard, Young, Attea and Asso-ciates to conduct the search.

According to board mem-ber Patrick Breslin, they inter-viewed two consulting firms and this is the one they chose.

“The objective was to see

if we would continue with the New Jersey School Boards or go to someone else,” he said.

Breslin said that throughout the country, and especially in New Jersey, superintendent ten-ures have been declining, with people staying in the position an average of four years through-out the country, and only three years in the state.

“There is a high turnover rate, and that is posing problems,” he said.

The hired company, Breslin said, will assist in advertising the position and the search. Hazard, Young, Attea and As-sociates will assign two people to work with the district, and they will interview applicants in

advance and do early reference checks.

“I was impressed with both groups we interviewed,” board president Jeffrey Brookner said. “But I prefer this one because they have people personal to us who will know our criteria and interview people.”

Breslin said the firm will get the surveys that have already been completed by residents and staff, as well as the information from the board on their criteria, to aid in the search.

The board authorized the dis-trict to enter into an agreement with the company at a fixed cost of $16,000, with other variable costs if more services are rendered.

B-REA President Talks Benefits of ETSSteve Beatty, Bridgewater-Rar-

itan High School teacher and president of the Bridgewater-Rar-itan Education Association, spoke at a New Jersey State Board of

Education meeting to challenge the new regulations for testing and evaluations in schools.

Beatty shared a personal sto-ry about the negative impact the

new regulations from TEACHNJ would have on students in the dis-trict, particularly in the Bridge-water-Raritan Regional School District.

The new regulations increase the number of observations re-quired at least in the local district by more than 100 percent, and the district has been working on plans to aid administrators in per-forming all the evaluations.

“We have 10 ETS positions in B-R,” Beatty said. “That stands for education and testing special-ists. Certified staff that have made a lateral move to be the conduit between the administrative cur-riculum team and the classroom. They provide direct and irre-placeable support each and every day to the staff and students in the district to ensure the best possible education is delivered to our near-ly 10,000 students.”

Beatty explained that the dis-trict unveiled a draft budget to eliminate those ETS positions to shift them for the hiring of new administrators to handle the in-crease in workload.

“We are replacing direct class-room resource and instruction with administrative overload,” he said. “Shameful.”

Beatty at the recent NJ School Boards meeting


April 3 – April 4: Hillside – Theatre Evening Performance, 7:30 p.m.April 3: Bradley Gardens – CSA/PTO Bingo NightApril 3: John F. Kennedy – Health Dance, 6 p.m.April 4: BRMS – Middle School Musical, 7 p.m.April 4: Van Holten – Craft Night and Game NightApril 4: Crim – PTO Meeting, 9 a.m.April 8: Wade Building – Board of Education Work Session, 8 p.m.April 8: BRMS – Scholarship Basket Bingo, 7 p.m.April 9: Hillside – Dance for African Education, 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.April 9: BRHS – Athletic Club Meeting, 7:30 p.m.April 9: Adamsville – PTO Meeting, 7:30 p.m.April 10 – April 11: Eisenhower – Drama ProductionApril 10: Hillside – Staff Volleyball Game, 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.April 10: Hamilton – PTO Meeting, 7 p.m.April 12: BRHS – ACT TestingApril 15: No SchoolApril 18: No SchoolApril 22: BRHS – Art Exhibit, 8 p.m.April 22: BRHS – Scholarship Committee Meeting, 7:30 p.m.April 23: Eisenhower – Grade 5/6 Vocal Spring Concert, 7:30 p.m.April 23: Eisenhower – PTO Meeting, 9:15 a.m.April 24: Wade Building – BOE Regular Meeting, Budget Hearing, 8 p.m.April 24: BRHS – Fine Arts Festival Visual Art Exhibit, 6 p.m.April 25: Hillside – Roots & Shoots Backyard Work Day, 3:30 p.m.April 25: BRHS – Art Exhibit, 8 p.m.April 25: Van Holten – Game and Craft NightApril 25: BRHS – Volleyball Game, Van Holten vs. Adamsville, 7 p.m.April 26: Bradley Gardens – Clothing SaleApril 28: Eisenhower – Grade 4 Instrumental Parent Meeting, 7 p.m.April 28 – May 1: BRMS – NJASKApril 28: BRHS – PTO Meeting, 7 p.m.April 30: Hillside – Grade 4 Parent Orientation, 7:30 p.m.

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teachers who spoke before the board, said the ETS staff are more approachable than the ad-ministrators and provide a wealth of assistance in the classroom, which they do not want to lose.

Board president Jeffrey Brookner said he understands the value of the ETS staff, but also believes the administrative changes are necessary.

“We desperately need more administration, and unless we are layering more money into the budget, we have to get it some-where,” he said. “The things the ETS are doing should be admin-istrative. They were teachers, they should be administrators because they involve supervising teachers.”

Board member Patrick Breslin said he believes they are doing the

district a disservice by operating with too few administrators.

The board discussed the possi-bility of simply budgeting in the $100,000 for additional admin-istrators right now, but not des-ignating that money in any spe-cific way at this time. That way, the budget could be submitted to the county superintendent, but the district could look into ways of spending it that would not re-quire eliminating so many ETS positions.

That motion was voted down by a 5–4 vote against.

Dyer said she believes that this change is the best option to pro-vide more support for both teach-ers and the administration.

“Each observation takes half a day,” she said. “When someone has a need, if an administrator is tied up for four hours in a day

any given day, they are not ac-cessible to the teachers.”

Still, teachers said at the meet-ing that they believe the district should move slowly with respect to the new state regulations. They said the ETS staff serves as a support system, and the dis-trict should keep that structure in place.

“We are in the business to do what is best for the kids,” said Steve Beatty, president of the Bridgewater-Raritan Education Association. “What won’t teach-ers be able to do? What won’t students be able to accomplish?”

In the end, the board, in a split vote, moved to approve the budget as is for now. The ad-ministration will be looking into more options for the budgeted $100,000 prior to the April 24 public hearing.

Loss of ETS Staff a Major ConcernETS from Page 1

The Bridgewater-Raritan Re-gional Board of Education ap-proved a tentative 2014–2015 budget that does not increase the tax levy by the full 2 percent as allowed by the state – and one board member said that could be harmful to the desire for full day kindergarten.

The budget as a whole is currently set at $143,063,905, a 2.55 percent increase from the 2013–2014 budget of $139,515,108.

The tax levy for the up-coming year’s budget is at $124,875,621, a 1.86 percent increase over the 2013–2014 budget. This is under the cap of 2 percent, as outlined by the state.

The district is also receiving $9,307,659 in state aid, a 1.73 percent increase over the state figures last year.

For taxpayers, this means that for Bridgewater residents with an average home assessment of about $400,000, the tax rate will stand at 1.42, translating to $5,652.41. This is an increase of $22.30 per $100,000 of home assessment.

In Raritan, residents will see a decrease of $36.06 per $100,000 of land assessment in

their taxes. This translates to a tax rate of about 1.26, making taxes $4,022.64 for residents with an average home assess-ment of $319,545.50.

Board of education presi-dent Jeffrey Brookner said he believes that not bringing the tax levy to cap is actually a hit against the request for full day kindergarten.

Parents have been asking for full day kindergarten throughout the district as soon as possible.

“If we are serious about full day kindergarten a couple years from now, we need to look at it now,” Brookner said. “I think a vote for a 1.86 percent increase instead of 2 percent is a vote against full day kindergarten.”

Instead, Brookner said, the board should be voting to in-crease taxes to the 2 percent cap and put the extra money away for costs associated with full day kindergarten.

At this point, the board has not made any official decisions regarding full day kindergarten because it is looking into the de-mographer’s report and all costs associated with the facilities, teachers and more.

But other board members were not so sure about raising taxes higher.

Board member Arvind Mathur said that, in a few years, if they need to increase over the cap because of full day kinder-garten, they could always go to the public for a vote on the budget.

“Don’t give a government body money before it is need-ed,” said board member Pat-rick Breslin. “I think that’s well-intended, but I think it will end up being spent some-where else.”

Board member Evan Lerner said he thinks they should be in-stituting full day kindergarten as soon as possible, but the addition-al money at this point wouldn’t go very far anyway.

Still, Brookner said, he be-lieves that it is important to start raising money and planning now for what they want to do in the future. And, he said, a required vote later to increase the budget may end up backfiring.

“People who support the school don’t out-vote those who want to vote no,” he said. “We all need to be aware that if we vote on the budget (as is), we are voting to delay full day kindergarten.”

Despite Brookner’s concerns, the board did vote to approve the budget with only a 1.86 per-cent increase in the tax rate.

Board Pres: Vote on Current Levy Increase is Vote Against Full Day KindergartenBy Audrey Levine

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BReeze Be ThereApril 3

The Shimon and Sara Birn-baum Jewish Community Cen-ter is hosting a Night to Cele-brate Israel at 6:30 p.m. at the Raritan Valley Country Club in Bridgewater. The evening’s dis-tinguished guest speaker will be Israel Ambassador Ido Aharoni, and U.S. Sen. Cory Booker will be an invited guest. Being hon-ored at the event will be Elaine Dunst, past president of the Jew-ish Federation, and Jacob Bin-stein, Rutgers Hillel student. A full buffet dinner will be avail-able, as well as a cash bar. Costs are $50 per adult and $18 for stu-dents. Register online at www.ssbjcc.org, or by calling 908-725-6994, ext. 201.

April 5Bridgewater Baseball and

Softball will be holding its opening day ceremonies at Prince Rodgers Field from 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. The event will feature a parade of players onto the field, followed by a ceremony with local officials.

April 5Boy Scout Troop 84, in

Somerville, will host a Pan-cake Breakfast from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the Immaculata High School cafeteria, on Mountain Avenue in Somerville. The cost of the breakfast is $5 per per-son, and children under 6 years of age are $4. For ticket requests or more information, email [email protected]. Funds raised from the event will help purchase equip-ment and supplies for Troop 84.

April 5The North Branch Reformed

Church Preschool will host a silent auction from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., with bidding ending at 6:30

p.m. All are welcome to attend. Prizes will be valued from $25 to $500, and will include pho-to sessions, dental certficates, restaurant gift certificates, Lego baskets, Devils tickets, Rutgers football tickets, jewelry, hand-made items and more. Admission is $5 per family, and a light dinner will be available.

April 6The Martinsville United

Methodist Church, on Wash-ington Valley Road in Martins-ville, will be holding its Lenten Breakfast at 11 a.m. in the Fel-lowship Room at the church, fol-lowing the 10 a.m. Morning Wor-ship Service. All are invited for the breakfast, and a free-will of-fering will be accepted. For more information, contact [email protected], or call 732-356-1326.

April 7Richard Pierce, of White-

house Station, will be present-ing a program on the early Stars and Stripes and the his-tory of Old Glory from fabric stripes to embroidered stars. Pierce, a well-known historian, will show his extensive United States Flag collection and pres-ent a powerpoint presentation in a program for the Bound Brook Woman’s Literary Club at 1 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Rennell Hall on Church Street in Bound Brook. The meeting will also feature the yearly food collection to benefit the Food Bank, and guests are invited to bring a food donation.

April 8The Bridgewater-Raritan

District Scholarship Com-mittee will be holding its 14th Annual Basket Bingo, with 14 bingo games, a 50/50 and grand

basket raffles, with all proceeds benefiting scholarships. The event will be held from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., with doors open-ing at 6 p.m., at the Bridgewa-ter-Raritan Middle School. A value pack is $25 and includes 14 game sheets and four grand raffle tickets. Additional game sheets and tickets can be pur-chased throughout the night, with bingo sheets for $1 each, and grand raffle tickets at $3 each. All bingo winners will receive a prize, and coffee, tea, water and dessert will be avail-able for purchase. For more in-formation, contact Susan Galla-gher at [email protected].

April 8The Holistic Moms Net-

work is holding a meeting at the Bridgewater Township Library, on Vogt Drive, at 7 p.m. with a program called, “Yoga & Well-Eating for Mind-Body-Spirit Spring Cleaning.” Lori Arrechea, a certified yoga teacher and therapist, will share tips, including breathing exer-cises and Ayurvedic principles. Wear loose comfortable cloth-ing and bring a yoga mat if you have one. All are welcome. For more information, call 908-203-1422, or email [email protected].

April 9The Central Jersey Resource

Center is offering a nationally recognized financial education program, “Money in Motion,” from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the center’s conference room on First Avenue in Raritan. The program is free, and participants will learn how to budget and start saving, and get help reaching their finan-cial goals. Clients who complete the program will gain a number of advantages, including a sol-

id background in understanding how credit works. Pre-registra-tion is requested by April 4, and a light dinner will be served. To register or get more informa-tion, call 908-704-9649, or email [email protected].

April 10The Shimon and Sara Birn-

baum Jewish Community Cen-ter is hosting the Irma Horowitz Film Series, as part of Jewish Life, with four different films presented by the Ma’aleh School of Televi-sion Film and the Arts in Jerusa-lem. The program will be at 6:30 p.m. at the facility on Talamini Road in Bridgewater, and the fee is $10 in advance or $15 at the door. Register online at www.sbjcc.org, or call 908-725-6994, ext. 201.

April 11Online registration for the

2014 Bridgewater Sing-Off in support of the Kimberly A. Nelson Foundation will open for Bridgewater-Raritan High School and Bridgewater resi-dent Somerset County Voca-tional & Technical High School students wanting to audition. Registration will be open until May 2 at www.kimsway.org. Singers must be able to audi-tion on May 10 in Bridgewa-ter, and be part of the event on June 9. The fifth annual concert will again feature judges from Broadway and other vocal mu-sic backgrounds.

April 13The RoboCupJunior NY/

NJ competition will be held at the Bridgewater-Raritan Middle School, on Merriwood Drive. Visit http://www.rcjnynj.org for more information.

April 13The Raritan Valley Sym-

phonic Band will present its annual spring concert at 3 p.m. in the Bridgewater-Raritan High School auditorium. Admission is free and the concert is open to the public. The concert, called “Folk Festival,” is under the musical direction of Meredith S. Boyan, and will feature folk melodies from England, Russia, Korea and the United States. Bridgewater resident Dennis Mancl, who has been playing in the band for 25 years, will play oboe during the concert. He also plays English horn, clarinet, tenor saxophone and flute, and plays with the Mer-cer County Symphonic Band. The concert is made possible, in part, by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State.

April 15The Society of Retired Reg-

istered Nurses will be holding a meeting from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Human Services Building, Conference Room 2A, on Warren Street in Somerville. The speaker will be Debra Hoppel, associate director of hospice at the Visiting Nurse Association of Somerset Hills. The meeting is open to all retired and semi-retired regis-tered nurses.

April 20Gateway Church will be

hosting a special Sunday Ser-vice to celebrate Easter Sun-day, the Resurrection. Service starts at 10:30 a.m., at 324 Mill-town Road in Bridgewater. All are welcome to join in this cele-bration. For more information, go to www.gatewaychurchnj.org.

April 21The Washington Valley Gar-

den Club, Inc., will be holding the eighth meeting of the 2013–2014 season at 10 a.m. at the Bridgewater Township Library on Vogt Drive. Christal Wood, a naturalist from the Environ-mental Education Center at Lord Stirling Park will present “Holy White Nose, Bat Girl.” Light refreshments will be served at 9:30 a.m., and new members are always welcome. This is the last public meeting for the season, and meetings will resume in Sep-tember. For more information, email [email protected].

April 26The Bradley Gardens Pri-

mary School PTO will be hold-ing its annual Spring $1-2-3 Clothing and Bargain Bicycle Sale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the school’s all-purpose room. The sale will feature good qual-ity, gently-used infant through adult clothing, all organized by size and gender. Shirts are $1; shorts, sweatshirts and skirts are $2; pants, jackets, shoes and bathing suits are $3; and bicycles are $10 and up. The sale helps the community recycle useful items and assists families in the tough economy. It also raises money for school projects. Donations will be collected April 24, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.; and April 25, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Please bag clothing by size and gender. For more informa-tion, email [email protected].

April 27The Martinsville United

Methodist Church, on Wash-ington Valley Road in Mar-tinsville, will be holding a Soup for the Soul Breakfast at 11 a.m. in the Fellowship Room at the church. The breakfast will be held following the 10 a.m. Morning Worship Service. All are invited to attend the event. For more information, contact [email protected], or 732-356-1326.

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Blum 4-H Center, on Milltown Road in Bridgewater, is hosting the 4-H Science-Sational Day April 5.

The event will include hands-on workshops for kids to en-courage them to explore topics like space, mechanical science, environmental science, chemis-try and more. About 200 chil-dren and parents are expected

to attend.The event is sponsored by the

Somerset County 4-H Youth De-velopment Program, but partici-pants do not need to be in 4-H, or live in Somerset County, to attend the festivities.

The program will offer 13 choices of workshops, and those participating get to choose three of them. The day begins with a large group activity called “Po-

tions,” presented by Piccirillo Sciencetelling of Hillsborough, followed by the science activity workshops.

Advance registration is re-quired, and the cost is $25 per child for one child, and $20 for each additional sibling for the three-workshop program. Parents can attend with their children for free.

Registration is expected to

be filled before the deadline, so those interested in attending are advised to call early to reserve a spot.

Participants are accepted on a first-come first-served basis, with a maximum of 200 participants.

Fees for the program are non-refundable.

“4-H Science-sational Day is a major event that supports the 4-H program’s involvement in hands-

on science education,” said Lisa Rothenburger, 4-H agent, in a re-lease about the event. “We want people to know that 4-H today is for all types of kids and that 4-H makes it fun for them to discov-er science, technology and other interests.”

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Bradley Gardens Celebrates Warm Fuzzies — Bradley Gardens Primary School counselor Ellen St. Pierre recently led students in the annual Warm Fuzzy Day celebration. According to St. Pierre, a warm fuzzy is a way to share kindness and compliments with those who make people feel warm and fuzzy. The students created adorable pom pom warm fuzzy friends, and then shared them with a peer while also giving a compliment. Featured in the photo are fourth grade students Kate Delmonico and Camille Wong.

Auditions Being Held for Sing-OffBridgewater-Raritan High

School is holding its annual au-ditions for the 2014 Bridgewater Sing-Off.

The show will feature singers from Bridgewater-Raritan High School and the Somerset Coun-ty Vocational & Technical High School.

The talent show will be held June 9, and, to be considered, singers must select a song for the competition and audition on May 10.

Contestants can register on-line to be part of the show from April 11 through May 2.

The Bridgewater Sing-Off is an annual fundraising event that is held by the Friends of the Kimberly A. Nelson Foundation.

The foundation was formed in memory of Kim Nelson, a member of the Bridgewa-ter-Raritan High School Class of 2010. The foundation was established to support vocal music programs, especial-ly choir and musical theater, through scholarships and pro-gram support.

First, second and third prize winners in the solo and ensem-

ble categories will receive cash awards.

In addition, judges with pro-fessional experience will pro-vide feedback for all performers, including giving guidance on how to take their talents further.

The 2012 and 2013 winner of the talent show was Bridgewa-ter resident Cailin Marie Toole,

who just released her first EP.Original songs have even

debuted at the show in the past, and the event is fun for all.

This is the fifth annual benefit concert, and the third one with a successful judged format.

Go to www.kimsway.org to register to be part.

The 2013 Bridgewater Sing-Off ensemble second prize winners Dustin Zhao, Joshua Acampado and David Fernandes pose for the camera.

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JCC Celebrates Purim With Epic Game-Filled CarnivalBy Bernard DeLierre

The Shimon and Sara Birnbaum Jewish Community Center, on Talamini Road in Bridgewater, held its annual carnival to cel-ebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim. The car-nival included animals, a rock-climbing wall, costumes and much more.

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The Trustees of the Michael Bruce Fund (MBF) thank you for your financial support in 2013. Total donated funds for the last four months of 2013 was $23,000.

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Smoking Banned During Park EventsBy Audrey Levine

The Bridgewater Township Council recently approved an or-dinance that will prohibit smok-ing on outdoor municipal prop-erties where people gather for recreational activities.

According to the ordinance, this will apply to public parks, playground or ball fields that are publicly owned and leased by Bridgewater. It will only take affect when the organized events are being held.

The township’s board of health, which recommended the ordinance, said it does not favor a blanket prohibition of smoking on municipal proper-ties, but just recommends that be enforced during activities being sponsored on township

properties.Those not attending the pub-

lic events, and spending time in other areas of the parks away from the recreation, will still be allowed to smoke.

“For example, with Chim-ney Rock Park, under our or-dinance, we will have signs that there is no smoking at ball fields during games,” said council president Matthew Moench. “But if you are on the trails not at the game, you can smoke.”

The only change made to the ordinance before final approv-al was lowering the penalty for violating the ordinance to $200, from the originally recommend-ed $500.

According to the ordinance,

this will be enforced by the town-ship police department, but coun-cil members wondered whether it can be enforced.

“I don’t see this as a heavy- handed enforcement issue,” council member Howard Nor-galis said.

Council member Allen Kurdy-la said he is concerned that this issue cannot be enforced.

“The problem I have is we are creating something that is not enforceable,” he said.

Moench said he believes the ordinance will actually be self-regulated.

“Other people will be around, and I think peer pressure could curb the issue,” he said. “It is limited to municipal owned property.”

Rita’s Recognizes Start of Spring — Rita’s Water Ice, on Prince Rodgers Avenue in Bridgewater, celebrated the beginning of the season with its opening March 10, followed by a free day of water ice to celebrate the first day of spring March 20. Above, Kaitlyn Zayle, 9, and J.P. Zayle, 7, commemorate the opening with their first Rita’s custard of the year.

Bradley Gardens Collects Food for Charity — Students at Bradley Gardens Primary School held a school-wide charity food collec-tion to celebrate the 100th day of the school year. The collected food was carefully counted by several girl scouts who attend the school, and it will all be donated to the Somerset Food Pantry. Each grade level was assigned an item, with kindergarten bringing pasta, first grade bringing canned vegetables, second grade bringing soup, third grade bringing canned fruit and fourth grade bringing sauces or tomato pasta. Pictured with some of the items are Tyler Chester, Anna Madsen, Brandon Fisher, Allison Fischer and Sohithesh Chevireddy.

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A coffee hour will begin at 9:30 a.m., with the business meeting at 10 a.m.

As a volunteer community organization, the club will be hosting a representative from the Woman’s Resource Center of Somerset County. Speaker Veron-ica Finlay will explain the mis-sion of the center, as well as many

ways members can contribute to its success by assisting those in need.

In the coming months, the Bridgewater Woman’s Club will be participating in many events, including the Spring Conference of the College District of NJSF-WC on April 24 at the Elks Club on Union Avenue in Bridgewa-ter. From May 5 through May 7, the club will take part in the NJSFWC Convention in Atlantic City.

On May 24, the club will hold a fashion show by Dressbarn at the

Presbyterian Church in Plucke-min, with basket raffles and door prizes.

Finally, from June 9 through June 12, the club will sponsor two Bridgewater-Raritan High School juniors at the Girl’s Institute at Douglas College. A hodge-podge luncheon will be held June 10 at the Green Knoll Rescue Squad on North Bridge Street.

For more information about the organization and to get in-volved, contact membership chair Helen Horun at 908-526-7643 or [email protected].

Lyle to Join Diabetes Fundraising EventSparky Lyle, a Major League

Baseball Cy Young Award win-ner and Manager Emeritus of the Somerset Patriots, is joining Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabe-tes as the Corporate Recruit-ment Chair.

According to a release, Lyle, who was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, will drive fundraising and raise awareness around three events in New Jer-sey, one of which will be at TD Bank Ballpark in Bridgewater.

The Bridgewater fundraiser will take place Oct. 11, while the other two will be Sept. 28 at BD in Franklin Lakes and Oct. 19 at Novo Nordisk in Plainsboro.

Lyle had a 16-year Major League career and played for the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Texas Rangers, Phil-adelphia Phillies and Chicago White Sox. He won the World Series with the Yankees in 1977 and 1978.

Under Lyle’s guidance as manager, the Somerset Patri-ots won five Atlantic League Championships, 12 Half Cham-pionships and eight Division Championships. He won more than 1,000 games while serving as manager of the team.

“I found out first hand that diabetes is a serious disease and it affects nearly 26 million American children and adults,” Lyle said in the release. “I am proud to be part of the Stop Diabetes movement by being the chair of this year’s Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabetes in New Jersey. It is a wonderful event for family, friends and co-workers to come together and help raise money to change

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Moretti Found His New Wife in Italy After War Endedmany photographs with a cam-era he had packed. An advanced photographer for his era, he knew how to develop the pho-tos himself and even trained others to do so. His scrapbook today contains more than 300 photographs from his war-time journey.

Moretti was then assigned to an armored division. He rode along with the convoy of tanks in a truck that contained sup-plies for the tanks. Moretti was assigned to a mounted machine gun that was in the front pas-senger side of the supply truck. That weapon would need to be fired many times at the enemy. While he personally was never hit, the tanks in his outfit were, and those tanks, using gasoline for fuel, burst into flames. He, along with others, had to try and get the severely injured and of-ten badly burnt men out of the tank to give them a chance at survival.

After taking North Africa from the Germans, they partic-ipated in the invasion of Sici-

ly in July 1943. The Germans held Sicily and had thousands of troops and fortifications to try to prevent the Americans from landing. To keep losses to a minimum, Moretti said, only 10 men from a unit could be in any one boat that was landed at the hostile beachhead. The U.S. commanders could not afford to lose an entire outfit.

After Sicily was secured, the Army invaded southern Italy in December 1943. The Germans fiercely defended the beachhead, but the U.S., after sustaining many casualties, was eventually able to bring the army into Ita-ly. The Italian campaign moved northward slowly over the next 15 months, encountering heavy German resistance and rough terrain. The soldiers seldom slept inside. Their shelter was sometimes a pup tent, but oth-er times they just slept under a truck.

On June 5, 1944, the U.S. Army had advanced to the out-skirts of Rome. Here, the U.S. outnumbered the Germans, and the Germans decided to abandon

the city without a fight. Moretti said that when they drove into Rome, the Germans, just 200 yards away, were driving out. Neither side fired on one another as an unofficial temporary cease fire agreement seemed to have arisen between the two opposing sides.

With all the insanity of war, the peak of insanity may have been due to an act of nature. In March 1944, while they were around Naples, the previously dormant volcano Mount Vesu-vius erupted. Lava and smoke filled the landscape for miles around. A U.S. airfield was hit by hot lava, resulting in 80 planes being destroyed, and the eruption lasted for five days. Moretti’s scrapbook has sever-al pictures that he took of the Mount Vesuvius eruption.

Along the journey, the U.S. Army sometimes stopped to rest and regroup, and, when they did, the soldiers often got to know the civilian population. The U.S. Army members were liberators, so, for the most part, they were warmly welcomed. Moretti said that while the other soldiers spent a lot of their free time drinking in any tavern they could find, he chose to spend a lot of his time socializing with the local people. Moretti became good friends with some families. His scrapbook has many pho-tos of families that he became friends with. After the war, he stayed in contact with two of the families, writing letters for sev-eral years.

While Moretti survived the war, he did not escape without an injury. One day, when he had

duty on a “Liberty Ship,” the USS Lewis Morris, a shell burst very close to the boat. While it did not damage the boat, the re-sulting blast caused him to per-manently lose hearing in one ear.

One day toward the end of the war, two special purpose mili-tary personnel visited their lo-cation. Moretti knew what their main duty was – to deliver bad news to someone. But he did not think that someone would be him. Sadly, they informed Moretti that his brother had been killed while serving on the USS Bunker Hill off the coast of Okinawa. Moretti later learned that Joseph had bravely stayed at his post when the battle situation would have allowed him to flee. In that battle, three Japanese kamikaze planes hit the ship, resulting in 300 dead American sailors.

Germany surrendered at the beginning of May 1945, when Moretti’s unit was in the town of Livorno, Italy. He remained there and was assigned to a desk job in a temporary U.S. head-

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young local Italian girl named Maria, who spoke English. Moretti found her charming and he began to see her outside of work. In November 1945, he was given orders to return home. Maria said to Moretti, “You are coming back for me.” He asked her, “How can you be sure?” Maria responded, “Because I have your heart.” She was in-deed correct, as in 1947, Moretti, after keeping in touch with her for 18 months, returned to Italy to marry her. They then returned to America, where a party was held in their honor. Today, 66 years later, they are still mar-ried. They now have two daugh-ters, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, and they live in Somerville.

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With major snowstorms hit-ting New Jersey over the past few months, municipalities are deal-ing with massive potholes in the roads and declining salt storage — but Raritan Borough is fortu-nately not as bad off as others.

“All things considered, things have not been too bad,” said bor-ough administrator Dan Jaxel. “I don’t want to sugarcoat it.”

Jaxel said the borough has worked to take care of potholes with cold patches along the road.

“Even if it was not such a bad winter, we would be buying cold patches and putting them in,” he said.

And as for the salt supplies, Jaxel said they have not run out, although more money has had to be allocat-ed for overtime costs for plowing.

“We have spent more than nor-mal, but we don’t expect it to be a budget buster, unless we get more

snow,” he said. Jaxel said they have spent about

70 percent of what they normally budget for salaries for snow remov-al. If there is no more snow this season, and the winter is not terri-ble in November and December, the borough will be fine, he said.

The borough has not gone over its allocation for snow costs in the budget for salaried work, but they will have to increase other expense projections for non-salary projects, including salt and more.

“That is for plow parts, calci-um and more,” Jaxel said.

With relation to the 2014 bud-get, which Jaxel said should be in-troduced in April, they will prob-ably want to increase salary costs because they don’t know how November and December of this year will be. Non-salary costs will probably be increased too.

“It won’t be to a point where it is budget busting,” he said.

With snow having fallen con-tinuously throughout the winter months, Bridgewater Township has recognized that many of the roads have suffered the brunt of the damage.

Mayor Dan Hayes said the roads are filled with potholes throughout the township.

“We have increased the num-ber of crews to fill the holes,” he said. “We have dedicated hotlines to rank where to go.”

Hayes said there are thousands of potholes, and they are using cold patches to fill them in.

“There is nothing to do to work in the cold, so we are putting in cold patches to fill them,” he said. “They will loosen in a thaw.”

Plus, Hayes said, if the pot-hole is on a road that is pitched, the cold patch will wash out in a heavy rain.

Using hot asphalt or tar is im-possible when the temperatures are still cold, Hayes said.

In addition, Hayes said, the township has authorized overtime work for taking care of potholes for now.

“We encourage people to drive slow, and report potholes,” he said.

Hayes said the administration will be assessing the damage to roads around the township, and will return to the council to make recommendations for road improvements in the coming months.

Aside from that, Hayes said, the township’s salt situation has been alleviated, despite earlier concerns.

“We did have to go to a point where we were only salting plac-es where the police department said to,” he said.

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Cub Scouts Celebrate Awards — The Bridgewater Cub Scout Pack 96 held its Blue & Gold dinner Feb. 22 at Bridgewater-Raritan High School. All of the scouts received their Arrow of Light awards. Pictured above are (back row) Den Leader Darren Rydberg, Bridgewater Township Council President Matthew Moench, Pack Master Michael Minades and Den Leaders Hardik Patel, Barbara Dziedzic and Paul Dziedzic; and (front row) Mark Rydberg, Elijah Staats, Patrick Gambino, Garret Gerow, Tejas Lyn, Timothy Peng, Trey Spina, Eshan Pa-tel, Jaran Binning, Matthew Minades and Luke Dziedzic. Not pictured are Matthew Metzgar and Dylan Morse.

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Animals in NeedThis column features information about some of the animals that have been with the

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Lucky is 5 years old. She was surrendered to the shelter because her family was moving and couldn’t take her with them. Lucky is such a sweet kitty, she loves people and other animals. Lucky would make a great addi-tion to any family.

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St. Bernard’s Children Learn About the Stars — Preschool and kindergarten students at St. Bernard Preschool and Kindergarten, in Bridgewater, celebrated the stars when they visited the planetarium at Raritan Valley Community College. The time at the planetarium was a chance for the students to complete their unit on the solar system.

Bradley Gardens Celebrates Family FunBradley Gardens Primary

School beat the winter doldrums this past winter with Family Fun Nights.

They started with an Annual Family Movie Night Jan. 17, with a showing of “Despicable Me 2.”

More than 80 children and their families then showed for the first Bradley Gardens School Family Night of Magic on Jan. 31. The Magic of Steve Woyce provided an entertaining evening, with a mix of tricks, comedy and audi-ence participation.

On Feb. 7, faculty, students and families attended Jump Rope for Heart Disease Family Night in the all purpose room at the school. Students made donations to the American Heart Associa-tion, performed different exer-

cises, learned about heart disease and jumped rope. In addition, fruits and vegetables were served.

Then, on March 7, the faculty played a volleyball match against Crim Primary School faculty at the middle school. Bradley Gar-dens also provided entertainment from the Bradley Gardens School Bears Cheerleading Squad, and they did a dance and cheer to the song, “Everybody Talks” by Neon Trees.

Crim won the first game and Bradley Gardens won the second, but the third game came down to the last few points, with Crim be-ing victorious.

The last of the Winter Family Fun Nights was a night of trivia with the Brain Show on March 13. Students held an assembly during the day to show off dance moves and how to play, then, at night, at least four families went head-to-head to win a game.

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ry School recently dropped ev-erything to read during a Read Across America celebration of books March 2.

According to Becky Creswell, librarian at the school, the cel-ebration of books and reading is held in schools and libraries across the country on the anniver-sary of Dr. Seuss’s birthday.

“It was started in 2007, and is sponsored each year by the Na-tional Education Association,” she said.

Creswell said the school has done many different activities and events over the years, includ-ing dressing in the colors of the Cat in the Hat, making and wear-ing the signature hats and inviting celebrity readers (like parents, administrators and board of ed-ucation members) to read at the school.

“We have held Read Across Hamilton School reading chains in our hallways, partner reading where classes of older children read with younger children, Read

Across the Generations in which grandparents and other senior family and friends are invited to read to their grandchildren’s class and a PJ Story Hour at night, complete with stories, crafts and refreshments,” she said. “It’s al-ways a fun day for all.”

The 2014 celebration, Cre-swell said, included dressing like the Cat, hosting celebrity readers and participating in Stop, Drop & Read.

“Students and staff had to have

reading material with them at all times during the day so they would be ready for an announce-ment directing them to stop what they were doing, drop to a sitting position and read silently for 10 minutes,” she said.

In addition, Creswell said, she does a lesson in the library about Dr. Seuss, or Ted Geisel, as he was known to family and friends. She said they learn biographical information, including why he used the pseudonym Dr. Seuss.

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Adamsville Celebrates Read Across America — Students sat down in the hallways of Adamsville Primary School to take part in Read Across America, a celebration of reading.

Second Grade Reads to Celebrate — Students in Erin Hodg-don’s class at Milltown Primary School celebrated Dr. Seuss and the art of reading.

Van Holten Combines Olympics With Reading — Stu-dents at Van Holten Primary School celebrated Read Across America with a winter Olympic theme. Students took part in an Olympic Read-a-Thon, engaged in skits to reinforce the knowledge of being respectful to each other, sang songs about Dr. Seuss and danced to the song “Gotta Keep Reading.” In addition, teachers read books to different classes throughout the building.


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Bridgewater Budget to Increase 3%By Audrey Levine

If approved as is, the total 2014 Bridgewater Township bud-get will increase by 3 percent, from $38,978,639.46 in 2013 to $40,493,692.66.

The amount to be raised by taxes is in-creasing 1.9 percent, from $20,912,497.41 in 2013 to $21,330,747.34.

This new tax levy increase is still lower than the maximum al-lowed 2 percent.

The council recently intro-duced an ordinance that allows

the township to increase the mu-nicipal budget by 3 percent, more than the state-allowed 2.5 percent.

There will be a public hearing for the ordinance April 7.

As explained by chief financial officer Natasha Turchan, that in-crease is not real money that the township will have.

Turchan provided a presenta-tion at a recent council meeting

about the different cap laws that have been enacted since 2010 con-cerning the increase in the budget and the increase in the tax levy.

The one that requires an ordi-nance is about the increase in the budget appro-priations itself.

“(With the or-dinance), we can bank the ability to go up to 3.5 percent, and increase the budget if there is a big catastro-phe,” Turchan said. “It’s not actual money, it’s an ability to increase expenses by that extra 1 percent.”

Turchan said the township ap-proves this ordinance every year, but has never actually had to garner the funds, which are available to the township, by law, for two years.

The 2012 bank has $1.2 mil-lion, which will be unavailable after 2014, and the 2013 bank has $450,000.

“We have never needed to go to the max,” Turchan said.

As for the tax levy cap, Turchan said, that law limits the increase of taxes. That is set at a 2 percent max.

“We have not raised to the max allowed,” she said, citing that the township has stayed lower than the max in 2011, 2012 and 2013. “The only way to increase over the tax levy cap is through a referendum.”

The proposed budget sets the taxes to be collected at $21,330,747.34. With the tax levy cap, the township could have in-creased it to $21,889,717.

“The only way to increase over the tax levy cap is through a referendum. “

—Chief Financial Officer Natasha Turchan

St. Paddy’s Day: No Rest for the First Responders

Not even the promise of fun at the Somerville St. Patrick’s Day Parade could stop several fire companies from fighting fires.

En route to the parade March 16, the Bridgewater District Three fire companies were dis-patched into the Country Hills section for a report of smoke in a second-floor condo unit in the 3700 block of Graham Court.

According to North Branch Fire Chief David Hickson, fire-fighters found plastic burning in a dishwasher, and quickly took care of the situation.

While they were cleaning up that situation, a second call came through in the Green Knoll section in the 1000 block of Route 202/206 southbound, where there were mul-tiple calls of heavy black smoke coming from a second floor unit of a multi-unit residential dwelling on

the site of the Hindu Temple.According to Hickson, Green

Knoll Chief James Vitale was first on the scene, and he confirmed a working structure fire on the sec-ond floor of the building.

All occupants of the building were accounted for, Hickson said.

There were zero visibility conditions at the time, Hickson said, and the fire had vented itself through the roof to start a second-ary fire to the rear of the dwelling, involving patio furniture.

According to Hickson, fire-fighters found the seat of the fire in the kitchen area and were able to contain it with two hand lines.

Hickson said the unit became uninhabitable with heavy fire, smoke and water damage.

The total time in service for both fires was one hour and 22 minutes.


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High Tech Camps Added to Pingry Schedule

Pingry’s Summer Academic curriculum has once more ex-panded with the growth of the Hi-Tech Camp Program for ele-mentary and middle school stu-dents who want an enrichment experience in programming and robotics.

The camps will offer an inter-active platform to foster analyt-ic, mathematical and animation skills in computer science and engineering.

For the camps, students can participate in individual weeks or several of the sessions.

The camp begins the week of June 23, and is open for all stu-dents in the community in grades one through eight, and not just Pingry students.

On each day of camp, campers will have access to a computer in the Pingry’s Middle School Science Labs to code, document, create and program daily assign-ments and projects. Each session will have two dedicated instruc-tors from the fields of Computer Science, Engineering, Mathemat-ics, Economics and Business.

Weekly enrollment is limited to 40 participants, and tuition for each camp session is $650.

Students can choose to partic-ipate in the programming forum either with Scratch, Alice or Py-thon. Each camp, according to a release, will embrace the chal-lenges of distinct languages de-veloped by the MIT Media lab

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In the new “Think-Up” camp, students will apply skills in programming and robotics as aspiring entrepreneurs. It is a week-long program to expose a different element of developing and crystalizing ideas and foster-ing the entrepreneurial spirit for students who have completed at least one of the programs in the past.

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Sanford Discusses Dental Health With Kids

Bridgewater orthodontist Robert Sanford visited sever-al schools around the district, including Milltown Primary School, to discuss the importance of dental health and wellness.

Sanford spoke to students about the importance of oral hygiene.

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Brownie Girl Scouts Earn Philanthropist Badge — The John F. Kennedy Troop 60768 worked on earning their Philanthropist Badge, and learned that food bank supplies are at their lowest in Feb-ruary. To help with that, the girls organized a food drive and collected more than 50 pounds of food and household items. They then delivered the items to the Food Bank Network of Somerset County. The members of the troop are Jillian Zack, Alessandra Wallace, Julianna Arena, Nina Cirianni, Alaina Gust and Julia Gust.

Council to Get Radios for County 911By Audrey Levine

The Bridgewater Township Council approved an ordinance, by a vote of 4–1, to issue a bond of $2 million for the acquisition of 9-1-1 communications equip-ment to prepare for the migration to the county system.

The town-ship approved the migration to the county 911 dispatch system in Au-gust, meaning that all 911 calls will be directed through dispatchers hired by the county, who will then send out police of-ficers in the appropriate and cor-responding towns.

The township spent several years investigating the possibil-ity of moving to the county dis-patch system, and has estimated a savings through it of about $4.5 million over 10 years.

Most towns in Somerset Coun-ty are already using the 911 sys-tem, and Bridgewater was one of only a few that weren’t.

The township has held discus-

sions with the county to ensure that residents will see the same service they saw with the local 911 dispatch system.

This bond ordinance, which needed to be approved before the county could move forward with preparations for the mi-

gration, accounts for the need for $1.6 million in estimated costs for converting radios and getting more equipment for the migration.

Councilman Allen Kurdyla said there might be additional costs required for more radi-os, but the bond does allow for $400,000 more than originally predicted if more equipment is needed.

Kurdyla said he would recom-mend that the council move for-ward to get the project going.

“Holding up the project would

be counter-productive,” he said. “We should approve now, and work to determine if more fund-ing is needed.”

Kurdyla said the project will take about a year to complete for the full migration.

Rose said she has had many questions throughout the process, but does feel that the answers she has been given are sufficient at this point.

“I feel all my ques-tions posed have

been answered, and it makes me feel secure in moving forward,” she said.

But, Rose said, the county would not move forward in its preparations without an approval of the bond.

Rose said they do have to re-member that they may have to bond more money at a later date for more equipment, but that is still being investigated.

“The next step for the county is to work on the migration plans,” she said. “The important issues have been addressed.”

Council president Matthew Moench was the sole vote against the bond, having also been the sole vote against the migration to the county 911 system.

“I will not support this, we will not receive equal or better ser-vice and we will not see the kind of savings proposed,” he said. “I hope I am wrong.”

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Adamsville Children Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day — Adamsville Fourth Grade Junior Girl Scout Troop 60104 marched in the Somerville St. Patrick’s Day Parade March 16. In the photo above are (L-R) Emily Szopa, Aarsha Shah, Emily Yap, Bianca Burke, Amanda Bonastia and Jordan Baker.

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Kids Learn About Mardi Gras With Crafts — Students at St. Bernard Preschool and Kindergarten celebrated Mardi Gras with a party and crafts. They learned that, in French, Mardi Gras means “Fat Tuesday,” and that it is held the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. Students celebrated by making crafts and masks, and having a parade through the school.

St. Ann School Inducts National Junior Honor Soci-ety Members — St. Ann School inducted 10 new members into the National Junior Honor Society. The honorees are accepted based on their accomplishments in character, scholarship, leadership, service and citi-zenship, and they are required to maintain a GPA of 93 or above and perform individual and chapter projects for a minimum of 20 hours of service. Inductees are (L–R) Julia Benewiat, Nicole Kelly, Alexa Marsh, Kevin Sawtell, Kevin Ford, Matthew Williams, Evie Sullivan, Bridget Meisenbacher, Lauren Clouser, Erin McGovern and their moderator Su-san Sappington. Since the first induction in Spring 2011, members have contributed about 2,000 hours of service across a variety of chapter and personal projects.


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Hamilton Holds Spelling Olympiad — Hamilton Primary School held its Fourth Grade Winter 2014 Spelling Olympiad Feb. 21 through March 7 with 37 participants spelling hundreds of words in nu-merous rounds. A total of seven finalists participated in the final rounds on March 11, and Aarsha Shah and Reilly Rawls, both students in Chris-tina Eberhardt’s class, were declared the winners. The two were then given the opportunity to compete in the 2014 Somerset County Spell-Off for Grades 4–8 at the Bridgewater Township Library on March 26.

Somerville Changes Image for Main StreetSpitball Advertising recently

debuted a new marketing cam-paign and identity for Somerville in a presentation with residents, town officials and the Downtown Somerville Alliance Feb. 27.

According to a release, the new identity is to continue to foster economic development and in-vigorate local tourism.

“We knew that with all recent public and private investment in Somerville and with several more substantial projects underway, updating our logo and branding to reflect the changes and renewed energy in town was of critical im-portance,” said Beth Anne Mac-Donald, executive director of the Downtown Somerville Alliance, in a release. “We felt the timing was perfect, and are thrilled with the new look.”

In 2013, according to the release, Spitball rebranded marketing materials for annu-al town events, including the Holiday Jubilee, Summer Stage and Farmers Market. An identi-ty overhaul was pitched, with a new town logo and advertising campaign.

“We wanted something that embodied the culture and person-ified the energy this downtown exudes,” said Anthony Torre, Spitball co-founder, in the re-lease. “Our team spent a lot of

time with local business owners, government officials and literally hit the streets at all hours of the day and seasons to get a slice of life view of Somerville. That was critical to the process.”

The new logo highlights the history of the town and invit-ing unconventional personality with traditional and quirky fonts. Varying letter heights mimic the Main Street architecture, and the orange color used is a variation of the Somerville High School team color.

The new tagline for the logo is “Always Unexpected.”

In addition, a new ad cam-paign was implemented to raise awareness of the brand image and Somerville’s offerings. The concept of “Somer This … Somer That” was introduced to show the diverse event, shopping and din-ing opportunities in Somerville.

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Raritan Valley Celebrates One-Seat RideSomerset County Freeholder

Peter S. Palmer, who is also the chair of the Raritan Valley Rail Coalition, was among the first to board the first one-seat ride train leaving the Raritan Borough sta-tion bound for New York March 3.

The train left from the Raritan sta-tion at 8:43 a.m., and arrived in New York Penn Station at 10:09 a.m.

“This is the culmination of 15 years of effort by the Rail Coali-tion, county and local officials and stakeholders all along the Raritan Valley Line,” Palmer said in a re-lease about the ride. “I was thrilled to be part of this maiden voyage to celebrate the launch of off-peak direct service to Manhattan.”

Palmer was joined on the ride

by Rail Coalition vice-chair-man Tom Jardim and Hunterdon County Freeholder Matthew Holt, as well as Somerset County Plan-ner Kenneth Wedeen, who serves as the coalition’s staff support.

NJ Transit has recently pur-chased dual-mode locomotives that will be able to operate as diesels through Hunterdon, Som-erset, Middlesex and Union coun-ties. They will then operate as electric locomotives through the tunnel to Manhattan, making the one-seat ride possible.

A total of 10 trains will be part of the pilot program.

The Raritan Valley Rail Coa-lition, which is joined by a coali-tion of 30 mayors of towns along

the line, is looking to ultimately achieve a full one-seat ride Man-hattan service on the Raritan Val-ley Line. It would stop riders from having to change trains in Newark.

Currently, the one-seat ride is available on off-peak morning hours during the weekdays. Roll-outs of more rides throughout the day, and hopefully eventually during peak hours, is expected in the coming months.

For departure times from the High Bridge, Raritan, Bridgewa-ter and other stations going east-bound, and from Penn Station going westbound, visit http://bit.ly/OneSeatRide.

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JFK Holds Sweetheart Dance — The John F. Kennedy Primary School PTO held its first ever Sweetheart Dance Feb. 7. Students danced through the night with the sweetheart of their choice. Physical education teachers Michael Vidnansky and Michael Cipot provided the music and entertainment, and Emily Barnes provided photos for the participants.

Municipal Services Commission Earns GrantThe Somerset County Board

of Chosen Freeholders recently awarded $85,500 in the 2013 Municipal Youth Services Commission grant program to commissions around the 21 mu-nicipalities, including $5,000 for the Bridgewater/Raritan Municipal Youth Services Commission.

The grant money is for the lo-cal commission’s NewComers Club.

Ceremonial checks for the pro-grams were given to grant recipi-ents at freeholder meetings.

A total of 14 municipal youth services commissions received funding for 36 total projects.

“The Board of Freeholders is pleased to present funding for so many worthwhile, fun and educational programs for county youth,” said freehold-er director Patrick Scaglione. “Funds will be used to support

a wide variety of prevention programs for youth in these lo-cal communities.”

Grants were also given to the Bernards Municipal Youth Ser-vices Commission for the Project Adventure Peer Leaders project; Branchburg Municipal Youth Services Commission for its Teen Nights; Green Brook Odyssey of the Mind; I Run and Project Teen Zone programs in Hillsborough; and many more.

Bridgewater Woman Talks Heart Disease

Bridgewater resident Eliza-beth Andolino, manager of the Matheny Center of Medicine and Dentistry, co-coordinated fund-raising efforts for the American Heart Association through the Matheny Medical and Education-al Center in Peapack.

In 2004, the American Heart Association created Go Red for Women to educate women on heart disease, help women come together to show their support and increase funding for heart disease research and treatments for those in need.

Andolino coordinated the ef-forts with Joan Ray, an employee health nurse.

According to a release, Lori Bertoline, a regional director for the American Heart As-sociation, recently stopped by the Matheny Medical and Edu-cational Center to thank them for the $352 raised during GoRed/Heart Health month in February.

Matheny itself is a special hos-pital and educational facility for children and adults with med-ically complex developmental

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ObituariesBridgewater — Alice P. Weiden-er, 89, died Feb. 19. Funeral ar-rangements were handled by the Bridgewater Funeral Home. She is survived by her brother, Tru-man Peterson; daughter, Kathryn Weidener and her husband Peter Szego; daughter-in-law, Maria Rodriguez; grandsons, Steven Yadlosky, and Daniel and his wife Kaitlin Yadlosky; and great-grand-daughter, Allison.

Bridgewater — Jirina Kateri-na Racek, 99, died Feb. 16. She was a cafeteria worked for Rut-gers University in New Bruns-wick until her retirement. Funeral arrangements were handled by the Bridgewater Funeral Home.

Bridgewater — Iwan Wen-her, 81, died March 16. Funeral arrangements were handled by the Bridgewater Funeral Home. Wenher is survived by his wife, Ivone Wenher; son, Paulo Wen-her, of Bound Brook; daughter, Jacqueline Wenher, of Hamilton; and four grandchildren, Michelle, Kevin, Paula and Christopher.

Bridgewater — Valija Reijers, 84, died March 4. Funeral ar-rangements were handled by the Somerville Funeral Home. Valija is survived by her sons, Raimonds Reijers, of Bridgewater, Arnis Rei-jers, of Linden, and Dainis Reijers, of Cedar Grove; grandchildren;

and several children she helped raise.

Bridgewater — Dolores G. Bath-mann, 69, died March 13. Funeral arrangements were handled by the Bridgewater Funeral Home. Bath-mann is survived by her husband, Kenneth Bathmann, of Bridge-water; daughter, Kim Bathmann, of Bridgewater; and 12 siblings, Spencer, Leora, Marleen, Leroy, Geraldine, Ruby, Royal, Dorothy, Alvorice, Gordon and Karl.

Bridgewater — Leo F. “Buddy” Carroll Jr., 79, died March 12. Carroll was a lieutenant with the Raritan Borough Police Depart-ment. Funeral arrangements were handled by the Bongiovi Funeral Home. Carroll is survived by his wife, Barbara A. “Bobby” Sena Carroll; his children, Bart Carroll and his wife Karen, of Fleming-ton, and Judy Capuano and her husband Tom, of Bridgewater; brother, Thomas Carroll and his wife Kathy, of Manville; sister, Peggy Yourkowski, of Manville; grandchildren, Jill Sohler and her husband Jeff, Andi Capuano, Ali-cia, Amanda and Shannon Carroll; brother-in-law, Bart Sena and his wife Charalena; and nieces, neph-ews, cousins and friends.

Bridgewater — Kevin G. Daily, 48, died March 4. Funeral arrange-ments were handled by the Branch-

burg Funeral Home. Daily is sur-vived by his mother, Marguerite, of Bridgewater; his brother, Jason, of Livingston; niece, Alexa, of Bay-ville; nephew, Garrett, of Bayville; maternal grandmother, Marguerite Snyder, of Kearny; aunt and un-cle, Mary Jane and Arthur Hackett, of North Arlington; aunt, Elaine McDonnell, of Lakewood; cous-ins, Missy, Rob, Mark, Sean and Meghan; and best pal, Rico.

Raritan — Crystal A. Haupt, 29, died Jan. 22. Funeral arrange-ments were handled by the AAA B Cremation Service.

Raritan — Ann Scarpone, 96, died March 5. She was co-own-er of Somerset Liquors in Rari-tan. Funeral arrangements were handled by the Bongiovi Funer-al Home. Scarpone is survived by her grandchildren, Annama-rie Montante, of Florida, Sandra Kephart, of Florida, and Rocco Gerard, of Raritan; great-grand-children, Rocco Jr., Nicholas, Mi-chael, Jason and Rachnel; niece, Debra Scarpone; and sister-in-law, Phyllis Scarpone.

Raritan — Helen T. Zaninelli Hoey, 92, died Feb. 17. Funeral arrangements were handled by the Bongiovi Funeral Home. Hoey is survived by her husband, Edward A. Hoey; her children, Dr. Stephen E. Hoey and his wife Kellie Fauls, and Gracellen Soliwoda and her husband James Nigro; her cous-in, Bernadine Zaninelli; grand-children, Dr. Courtney Hoey and her husband Dr. Clint Schlenker,

S. Edward Hoey and his fiancée Jessica Petrens and Theodore So-liwoda; great-grandchildren, Riley Schlenker and Adrianna Hoey; her sister-in-law, Dolores Zaninelli; and nieces, nephews and cousins.

Raritan — Nicholas “Big Nick” Cicero, 67, died March 1. Ci-cero raised tropical fish during his whole married life, and he designed and patented his own fish tank in 2005. Funeral ar-rangements were handled by the Branchburg Funeral Home. Cice-ro is survived by his wife, Gerry Filiano Cicero; his son, Nick Jr.; his daughter-in-law, Jennifer; his grandchildren, Kara and James; his brothers, Frank, Larry, Ronny and Teddy; many aunts, nieces, nephews and cousins; and scores of “love” nieces and nephews.

Somerville — Deborah Cavale-ar, 52, died March 6. Funeral arrangements were handled by the Bridgewater Funeral Home. Cavalear is survived by her moth-

er, Bette Janos and step-fa-ther, John; husband, Wil-liam Cavalear; daughters, Sa-mantha Cavale-ar and Chris-tine Cavalear; sons - in - l aw,

Justin Moyer and Steve Andusko; brother, Robert Sackie Jr.; sister, Susan Dunleavy; grandchildren, Brayden and Connor; a grand-daughter on the way this month; and cousins, nieces and nephews.

Branchburg — Cynthia Chap-man Willis, 52, died March 3. Wil-lis was the author of two children’s books. Funeral arrangements were handled by the Branchburg Fu-neral Home. Willis is survived by her husband, William Willis; her step-children, Jessica Willis and Alexandra Willis, of Branchburg; her mother, Judith Chapman, of North Carolina; her sister, Carolyn Kopf and her husband Richard, of

Pittstown; and her niece and neph-ews, Emily, Andrew and Derek Kopf, of Pittstown.

Branchburg — Joseph DiLid-do, 100, died March 2. DiLiddo served in the United States Army 602nd Field Artillery Battalion during World War II. Funeral ar-rangements were handled by the Branchburg Funeral Home. DiLid-do is survived by his wife, Sadie Cozzoli DiLiddo; his daughters, Nancy Eastlund and her husband Bruce, of Middlesex, and Barbara Jaeger and her husband William, of Pennsylvania; grandchildren, Kelly, Robert and his wife Laura, and Brian; nephew, Raymond Co-lucci, of Georgia; and his niece, Anita Brown, of Michigan.

Branchburg — Stephen Robert de Poortere, 58, died March 15. Funeral arrangements were han-dled by the Branchburg Funeral Home. De Poortere is survived by his wife, Terri Bolink de Poor-

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Skillman — Edna W. Willis, 84, died March 1. Funeral arrange-ments were handled by the AAA B Cremation Service. Willis is survived by her husband, Sidney L. Willis; two sons, John Willis and his wife Patricia, of Florida, and Robert Willis and his wife Suzanne, of Ridgewood; two grandchildren, Ryan Willis and his wife Sherry, and Sarah Willis; and brother-in-law, Edward William-son, of California.

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Bound Brook — Deborah A. Cozza, 61, died Feb. 28. Cozza was elected to the Bound Brook Borough Council in 2002. She also served as a municipal and county committeewoman, police

commission-er and acting mayor. Funeral arrangements were handled by the Bridge-water Funeral Home. Coz-za is survived by her broth-

er, Robert J. Cozza and his wife, Sheila, of Florida; sister, Kathleen Bolmer and her husband Kurt, of South Bound Brook; nieces, Rebecca Lamb and Erica Bol-mer; nephew, William Bolmer; great-nephew, Robert Lamb; and many extended family and friends.

Bound Brook — William M. Olesky, 84, died March 16. Fu-neral arrangements were handled by the Bridgewater Funeral Home. Olesky is survived by his wife, Susan Olesky, of Bound Brook; daughter, Wendy Bottone and her husband Anthony, of Plainfield; daughter-in-law, Denise Doyle, of Pennsylvania; grandchildren, Luigi Bottone and his girlfriend Dana Jonas, Nichole Frischkorn and her husband Robert and their daughter Ninamarie, Tonimarie Bottone and Jenna Olesky, Nicole Doyle, Nicole Ardolino and her three children.

South Bound Brook — Meleveet-il L. Nair, 92, died Jan. 29. Funer-al arrangements were handled by the India Funeral Service.

South Bound Brook — Jeanne Agnes Savaryn, 88, died Feb. 22. Funeral arrangements were handled by the Bridgewater Fu-neral Home. Savaryn is survived by her son, Fred “Rick” Savaryn, of South Bound Brook; grandson, Mark Savaryn and his wife Beth, of Hillsborough; and great-grand-son, Tyler.

North Plainfield — Maria C. Mendez, 63, died Feb. 10. Funer-al arrangements were handled by the AAA B Cremation Service. Mendez is survived by her hus-band, Otilio Mendez; and three

children, Rickarda, Harry and Marisol Mendez.

Hillsborough — Marek Stepi-en, 62, died Feb. 25. Funeral ar-rangements were handled by the Bridgewater Funeral Home. Stepi-en is survived by his wife, Czesla-wa; and sons, Paul and Piotr.

Basking Ridge — Gulab Kin-turkar, 76, died Jan. 17. Funeral arrangements were handled by the India Funeral Service.

Warren — Florence Faust, 82, died March 2. Funeral arrange-ments were handled by AAA B Cremation Service.

New Brunswick — Keith Wil-cock, 77, died March 5. He served as a lieutenant in the British Armed Forces, light infantry, stationed in Germany and Cypress before coming to the United States in

1966. Wilcock was the owner and operator of Keith Wilcock & Co. central vacuum ser-vice. Funeral arrangements were handled by the Bridge-

water Funeral Home. Wilcock is survived by his wife, Beverly Si-cora Wilcock; his children, Jackie Brower and her husband Fred, An-drew Wilcock and his companion Susan, Stacie Bitacolo and her husband Larry, Charles Kobezak and his wife Sandra, and Cher-yl Rakauskas and her husband Thomas; 12 grandchildren; and his siblings, Brian Wilcock and Ann Trotter.

Kendall Park — Vidyagau Shah, 83, died March 14. Funeral arrangements were handled by the India Funeral Service.

Morristown — Bhikhabhai P. Patel, 70, died March 3. Funeral arrangements were handled by the India Funeral Service.

Middlesex — Carl J. Graf, 74, died Feb. 16. Funeral arrangements were handled by the Bridgewater Funeral Home. Graf is survived by his children, Paul Graf and his wife Jessica and her daughters Nichole

and Olivia, of Piscataway, Charles Graf and his wife Meghan, of New York, and Susan Jacobs and her husband James, of Florida; three grandchildren, Kristen, Kyle and Carter Jacobs; and his companion, Rosalie Dahms.

Iselin — Prumila Jariwala, 92, died March 6. Funeral arrange-ments were handled by the India Funeral Service.

Edison — Shantiben C. Patel, 85, died Feb. 8. Funeral arrange-ments were handled by the India Funeral Service.

Edison — Ramesh P. Patankar, 79, died March 1. Funeral arrange-ments were handled by the India Funeral Home.

Piscataway — Mrudulaben A. Patel, 79, died March 6. Funeral arrangements were handled by the India Funeral Service.

Union — Sammydave B. Estil-lore, 37, died March 7. Funeral arrangements were handled by the Bongiovi Funeral Home. Estillore is survived by his wife, Ritchell Estillore; his father, Simplicio Estillore and step-mother, Alma Padios; and his sister, Sheree Ann Estillore and step-sister, Angel Ann Estillore.

Brick — Alice Howe died March 8. Funeral arrangements were

handled by the Br idgewater Funeral Home. Howe is sur-vived by her daughter, Mar-garet Gibson, of Florida; her son, Thom-as Howe, of

Brick; daughter, Kathleen Wojcik, of Piscataway; six grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

Middlesex — Carl J. Hambrick, 76, died Feb. 11. He was a truck driver for the Borough of Bound Brook for 37 years. Funeral ar-rangements were handled by the Bridgewater Funeral Home. Ham-brick is survived by his wife, Mar-gurite Kleber Hambrick; his chil-dren, Carl “Jr” and his wife Laura, of Raritan, Carol Baumann and

her husband William, of Green Brook, Cathy Tobin, of Pennsyl-vania, Cindy Jablonski, of Geor-gia, and Chrissy Dashkavich and her husband Craig, of Brick; eight grandchildren, Billy, Amanda, Jes-sica, Jennifer, Catrina, Jake, Con-nor and Colin; his sisters, Wilma Jean Hambrick, of Tennessee, and Geraldine Sims, of Tennessee; and many nieces and nephews.

Mountainside — Katherine Mo-schuk, 92, died March 11. Funeral arrangements were handled by the Bridgewater Funeral Home. Mo-schuk is survived by her daugh-ter, Dianne Grau and her husband Glenn Sr., of Middlesex; her grand-sons, Glenn Grau Jr., and Brett; her great-granddaughter, Victoria; and her nephew, William Kulick Jr.

Manasquan — Antonette Yanusz, 93, died March 16. Fu-

neral arrange-ments were handled by the Bridge-water Funeral Home. Yanusz is survived by her daughters, Elaine Weaver

and her husband Paul, of Blooms-bury, and Joanne Dosby, of Manasquan; grandchildren, Donna Chanto and her husband Marcos, and Cash Dosby; great-grandson, Marcos Chanto, Jr; and sisters, Angie Borum and Mary Vitaliano.

South Amboy — Lahori Ram, 77, died Feb. 1. Funeral arrange-ments were handled by the India Funeral Service.

Asbury —Daniel D. Santos, 33, died March 14. Funeral ar-rangements were handled by

the Branch-burg Funeral Home. Santos is survived by his parents, Manuel and Aida Tendeiro Santos, of As-bury; his son, Levi Nicholas,

of Bridgewater; his sister, Mi-chelle Santos, of Martinsville; his fiancé, Lauren Auriema, of Bridgewater; his niece, Micaela Santos-McDarby; his paternal grandfather, Manuel Santos, of Portugal; and aunts, uncles and cousins.

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The Bridgewater-Raritan Mid-dle School held its 16th annual tal-ent show, presented by the student council, March 6.

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• Teachers David Anderson, Robert Ambrose, James Ed-ward Brown, Charles Stickle and David Zas – Faculty Band

Rotary Holding Dinner to Benefit Scholarship

The Bridgewater-Bound Brook Rotary Club is holding its annual Pasta Festival dinner fundraiser April 12 from 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Bound Brook High School.

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Church to Celebrate Jubilee

St. Mary of Czestochowa Church in Bound Brook is cel-ebrating the 100th Jubilee of its founding.

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Varsity Sports ScheduleBoys Golf

4/1 — Home Match against Hunterdon Central Regional, 3 p.m.4/3 — Away Match against North Hunterdon, 3 p.m.4/9 — Away Match against Montgomery, 3 p.m.4/10 — Away Match against Hillsborough, 3:15 p.m.4/16 — Home Match against Watchung Hills Regional, 3 p.m.4/17 — Home Match against Gill Saint Bernards, 3 p.m.4/21 — Away Match, SCIAA Championships, 8 a.m.4/23 — Away Match, High Bridge Hills Classic, 8 a.m.4/24 — Home Match against Ridge, 3 p.m.4/28 — Away Match, Raider Invitational, 8 a.m.4/30 — Away Match against Hunterdon Central Regional, 3:15 p.m.

Girls Golf4/1 — Away Match against Hunterdon Central Regional, 3:15 p.m.4/3 — Away Match against Phillipsburg, 3 p.m.4/8 — Away Match, Cherry Valley Invitational, 9:30 a.m.4/9 — Home Match against Pingry School, 3 p.m.4/10 — Home Match against Hillsborough, 3 p.m.4/16 — Home Match against Ridge, 3 p.m.4/21 — Away Match, SCIAA Championships, 8 a.m.4/22 — Home Match against Mount Saint Mary Academy, 3 p.m.4/24 — Home Match against Montgomery, 3 p.m.4/29 — Home Match against Hunterdon Central Regional, 3 p.m.

Boys Baseball4/1 — Away Game against North Hunterdon, 3:45 p.m.4/3 — Away Game against Montgomery, 3:45 p.m.4/5 — Home Game against Woodbridge, 7 p.m.4/7 — Away Game against Westfield, 4 p.m.4/8 — Home Game against Hillsborough, 3:45 p.m.4/10 — Home Game against Watchung Hills Regional, 3:45 p.m.4/13 — Away Game against Saint Peter’s Prep, 3 p.m.4/16 — Away Game against Immaculata, 3:45 p.m.4/17 — Home Game against Phillipsburg, 3:45 p.m.4/21 — Away Game against Gill Saint Bernards, 3:45 p.m.4/22 — Away Game against Hunterdon Central Regional, 3:45 p.m.4/24 — Home Game against North Hunterdon, 3:45 p.m.4/25 — Home Game against Rutgers Prep, 4 p.m.4/26 — Home Game against West Win-Plains-South, 10 a.m.4/28 — Home Game against Franklin, 7 p.m.4/29 — Home Game against Montgomery, 3:45 p.m.

Girls Softball4/1 — Home Game against North Hunterdon, 3:45 p.m.4/2 — Away Game against Roselle Park, 4 p.m.4/3 — Home Game against Montgomery, 3:45 p.m.4/4 — Home Game against Old Bridge, 4 p.m.4/7 — Home Game against Westfield, 4 p.m.4/8 — Away Game against Hillsborough, 3:45 p.m.4/10 — Away Game against Watchung Hills Regional, 3:45 p.m.4/11 — Home Game against Somerville, 3:45 p.m.4/16 — Home Game against Immaculata, 3:45 p.m.4/17 — Away Game against Phillipsburg, 3:45 p.m.4/21 — Home Game against Delaware Valley Regional, 3:45 p.m.4/22 — Home Game against Hunterdon Central, 3:45 p.m.4/23 — Home Game against Gill Saint Bernards, 3:45 p.m.4/24 — Away Game against North Hunterdon, 3:45 p.m.4/26 — Home Game against McNair-Academic H.S., 10 a.m.4/28 — Away Game against Peddie, 4:30 p.m.4/29 — Away Game against Montgomery, 3:45 p.m.

Boys Lacrosse4/2 — Away Game against North Hunterdon, 4 p.m.4/5 — Home Game against Moorestown, 11 a.m.4/8 — Home Game against Hillsborough, 5:15 p.m.4/9 — Home Game against Montgomery, 4 p.m.4/14 — Away Game against Hillsborough, 5 p.m.4/16 — Away Game against Watchung Hills Regional, 4 p.m.4/19 — Away Game against Immaculata, 10 a.m.4/23 — Home Game against Pingry School, 4 p.m.4/26 — Home Game against Ridge, 11 a.m.4/30 — Home Game against St. Joseph’s-Metuchen, 4 p.m.

Girls Lacrosse4/1 — Home Game against Montgomery, 4 p.m.4/3 — Home Game against West Win-Plains-South, 4:30 p.m.4/5 — Away Game against Cedar Grove, 10 a.m.4/8 — Home Game against Hillsborough, 4:30 p.m.4/10 — Home Game against Ridge, 4:30 p.m.4/11 — Home Game against Hopewell Valley, 9:30 a.m.4/16 — Away Game against West Win-Plains-North, 4 p.m.4/17 — Home Game against North Hunterdon, 4:30 p.m.4/19 — Home Game against Middletown South, 10 a.m.4/22 — Away Game against Hunterdon Central, 6:30 p.m.4/24 — Away Game against Montgomery, 4:30 p.m.4/26 — Home Game against Pingry School, 9:30 a.m.4/29 — Away Game against Hillsborough, 4 p.m.

All matches are scheduled to change. Check brrsd.k12.nj.us for updates.

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Ice Hockey Players Earn State RankingsThis year’s Bridgewa-

ter-Raritan High School ice hockey team had an impres-sive season, making it to NJ-SIAA Public A Boys Tourna-ment of Champions in early March.

The team unfortunately lost to Morris Knolls, 3–0.

Senior forward Tyler Darby

was named as the No. 10 top New Jersey forward by MSG Varsity, leading the team with 17 goals and 38 points. He was named to the NJ State Pub-lic A All-Tournament Team, along with teammate Brett Goldstein.

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ey Avenoso ended his high school career with a .940 save percentage, 1.3 goal-a-game average and 9.33 shut-outs, two of them in the state f inals. He was ranked No. 7 by MSG Varsity among New Jersey’s top 15 goaltenders for 2014.

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BRHS Teen Ranked No. 1 in FencingBridgewater resident Char-

lene Liu is currently ranked No. 1 on the United States Fenc-ing Association (USFA) Cadet Women’s Epee Rolling Point Standings and No. 2 on the Team Point Standings.

A fencing student since 2009 at the Medeo Fencing Club in Bridgewater, Liu has taken part in many tournaments.

At the end of the 2014 Junior Olympic Championships, the USFA chose Liu to represent the United States in the Cadet World Fencing Championship in Plo-vdiv, Bulgaria, with two team-mates. She will compete against the best 17-and-under epee fenc-ers from around the world at the competition in April 2014.

Liu’s 2013–2014 fencing sea-son started with the Summer Na-tionals/July North American Cup (NAC). During the match, she dealt with leg cramps that did re-quire medical attention, and she finished the bout losing 14–15.

Then, in the Cadet event in Oc-tober in Milwaukee, Liu finished 10th, and vowed to train harder for her upcoming international

event in Austria.In her individual event in

Austria, Liu finished fifth.In the Division 1 event in the

November NAC, in Ohio, Liu finished sixth in the junior event, then, two weeks later, earned a bronze medal in the second Eu-ropean Cadet Circuit in France. Later, Liu lost early after reach-ing the round of 32 in Division 1 and Cadet events in December in Dallas.

“Those were devastating loss-es for me,” she said.

Liu then came back strong, finishing fifth and sixth, re-spectively, in the Division 1 and Junior events in January in Virginia, putting her in the sec-ond place position on the Ca-det Women’s Epee Team Point Standings and first on the Roll-ing Point Standings.

Despite almost not being able to compete in the third and final European Cadet Circuit in Swe-den, Liu gained additional in-ternational points to solidify her position.

Finally, Liu took part in the Ju-nior and Cadet events in the 2014

Junior Olympic Championships in Oregon in February, earning bronze in the Junior event.

After the Cadet event, Liu offi-cially learned that she had made the Women’s Epee Cadet World Team.

“Really, I couldn’t have done it without support from my coaches and my family,” she said.

Charlene Liu after a win Girls Soccer Team Honored for 2013 Championship Win

The Bridgewater-Raritan High School girls soccer team was recognized at a recent board of education meeting for its first state championship win.

The girls were recognized for their achievements this year.

“We had a great year and great seniors,” said coach

Christopher Gerber. “Hopefully we can do the same next year.”

Gerber said six of the seniors will be playing soccer when they head off to college next year.

The team, in November, cap-tured its first State Group 4 title at the tournament at The Col-lege of New Jersey.

Two of the team captains stand to be recognized when the team was honored during a recent board of education meeting.

Bowling Team Celebrates First Season — The Bridgewa-ter-Raritan High School bowling team celebrated its first season with a banquet March 6. The team was 5–6 on the season as of mid-March. On this first team are Shane Balmann, Greg Bulmer, James Clelland, Austin Crudo, John Jannone, Nick Lapadula, Mike Machonis, Thomas Moeller, Ian Moore, Matthew Resnick, Matthew Wing and Jake Ziek.

Patriots to Kick off 2014 SeasonThe Somerset Patriots are gear-

ing up for the start of the 2014 sea-son, beginning April 25 against the Long Island Ducks at 7:05 p.m.

Opening Weekend will in-clude family fun, promotions and giveaways.

Opening Night features a Post Game Fireworks Show and Mag-netic Schedules for all fans cour-tesy of the Somerset Medical Center Foundation.

The first 2,000 fans in atten-dance will receive a t-shirt cour-tesy of TD Bank on April 26 for the 7:05 p.m. game.

April 27 is Kids Opening Day with the first Sunday Autograph Session of the year courtesy of the Somerset County Park Foundation, beginning when gates open at 12 p.m. After the game, all kids get to Run The Bases in The Beez Foundation Diamond Derby. Game time is 1:05 p.m.

The Somerset Patriots will host

70 home games at TD Bank Ball-park throughout the 2014 sea-son from April 25 through Sept. 21. The calendar is available on line at www.somersetpatriots.com and includes 17 Fireworks Nights, promotional giveaway nights and theme nights.

The Somerset Patriots are fol-lowing up a record-breaking 90-win season and Freedom Division Championship in 2013. Several core players are joining a team fea-turing many new faces to represent

the Patriots on and off the field. The Patriots are looking to cap-ture their Atlantic League-leading sixth championship, last wining the title during the 2009 season.

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Wizards Defeat Heroes in Fundraising Basketball GameBy Audrey Levine

The Hometown Heroes duked it out March 21 against the Harlem Wizards in a game at Bridgewater-Raritan High School to raise money for Proj-ect Graduation.

A full gym turned out to cheer on the teachers and com-munity members who were part of the hometown team.

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