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until the wrestlers were done, and sometimes the middle schoolers would come over,” Wheeler said. “There were times we had to throw at 6 or 7 o’clock at night and it might be the same time as a big basketball BY JUSTIN FEIL game or his friends were doing stuff. He was always there. He Brock Schenck has made was normally there before I got big sacrifices and important here. Such a strong work ethic, that definitely helped him get changes over the last year. where he is today.” Those paid off Making that comfor the Bordentown mitment paid off Regional High School when he qualified senior when he qualifor indoor nationals. fied in boys shot put He threw a personalfor the New Balance record of 54-feet-8 in Nationals Indoors the indoor shot in JanTrack and Field meet uary before an injury held March 7-10 in cost him further Boston. Schenck advancement. He “It was really big placed 52nd at indoor for me, just being in nationals. my first year throw“The environment was really ing shot put,” Schenck said. “It was hard, but it was a big cool,” said Schenck of the meet in Boston. “It was a good learnaccomplishment.” Bordentown indoor track and ing experience. I kind of know field coach Brian Wheeler has how those big level national been impressed by Schenck’s competitions are and what to evolution, but he has seen first expect going in better. I think hand how he developed so that’ll transfer to outdoors this quickly. He credits Schenck for year and help me do a lot better.” Schenck is back to work for putting his time into his training. “For indoor, you have to train the spring. He saw his training inside, so we had to use the aux- efforts rewarded over the winter See SCHENCK, Page 8 iliary gym, and we had to wait
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COMMUNITYN Bordentown Township police officers Sean Ferrari and James Chiarello were promoted to the rank of sergeant at the Bordentown Township Committee meeting on March 26, 2024. Pictured are committee members Bill Grayson, Eric Holliday, Ferrari, Mayor Eugene Fuzy, Chiarello, Deputy Mayor Aneka Miller and Kelly Lozito.
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Township, city welcome new members to governing bodies BY JOE EMANSKI Most people who hold a position of elective office in New Jersey cities and towns are, well, elected to those positions. Most, but not all. Every year, some percentage of elected officeholders resign for one reason or another. When they do, state law holds that the remaining members of the board, council or committee in
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that municipality select a successor who shall hold the position until the next time elections are held. This scenario has played out a number of times in the Bordentown area recently. Bordentown Regional Board of Education members Larry Braasch and Ryan Cody both resigned their seats on the board in 2023. Cody was replaced by Richard Shenowski, and Braasch by
Raquel Parker. Shenowski was subsequently elected to serve the remainder of Cody’s former term, through the end of this year. Parker will have to run to keep her seat if she wants to remain on the board after this year. Bordentown City and Bordentown Township have both welcomed new members to their governing bodies in 2024. See OFFICE, Page 6
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