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Victory in the World Correspondence Chess Championship made Jon Edwards a grandmaster — and a world champion
Soph Luke Caldwell looks to build on last year’s strong wrestling season
By Joe EMaNSKI
By RIcH FISHer Hopewell Valley Central High sophomore Luke Caldwell considers wrestling the third favorite sport of the three in which he competes. Thus, the fact he was the NJSIAA District 18 champion as a freshman last year says a little something about his athletic ability. “He’s a great athlete and a great kid, and we love having Luke Caldwell on our team,” Bulldogs coach “Super” Mario Harpel said. “He’s a three-sport kid, kind of the old school world. He’s a tough kid, great worker, great for the team, just a solid young man.” Caldwell’s favorite sport is lacrosse. As a freshman, he was second on the Bulldogs in goals (36) and third in assists (25) and points (61). He sees that as his future in college, and focuses See CALDWELL, Page 12
Hannah Putnam starring as lead character Sylvia Stewart in a scene from the short film “Pressed,” by Michelle Elise Harding and Scott Knowlton. The film was shot in Hopewell.
Short film ‘Pressed,’ shot in how far would HoVal, hits festival circuit By Joe EMaNSKI
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an award-winning short film, “Pressed,” a work of fiction that A familiar scene to anyone who ducers who do the work. Do they aims to offer viewers some insight regularly watches the nightly become inured to misfortune and into that end of the process. news on television: lights flash death? Overwhelmed by it? “Pressed” premiered last and yellow police tape flows as Scott “Silent K” Knowlton and month at the Wolf Tree Film Fesa TV news reporter explains to Michelle Elise Harding know tival in Marshall, Michigan. The viewers what is known about the something about this side of the eight-minute film starring Hanaccident or crime scene behind job. As behind-the-camera veter- nah Putnam and Adam Wahlberg them — often in sordid detail. ans of TV news, they have been was shot last year at the PenWelcome to Capital What most TV viewers probably a part of many such scenes.Health. And nington Shopping Center, with See PRESSED, Page 9 don’t know is the toll that this kind now they have collaborated on When someone you care about is sick, you’ll do whatever it takes to make sure they get the best care. And so do we.
Jon Edwards boasts a home library of more than 5,000 books. Chess books, that is. It’s the sort of collection one might have if one aspires to attain the most elusive status in the world of chess: that of grandmaster, a title bestowed upon only the very most accomplished players. The only title grander than grandmaster is world champion — and, since finishing first in the 32nd World Correspondence Chess Championship last October, Edwards can claim that honor as well. The Hopewell Township resident may not be as well known as the world over-the-board champion, Magnus Carlsen, but Edwards can say that he is one of very few recognized world champions in chess today. Carlsen’s status as world See CHESS, Page 10
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