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By rIcH FISHEr It’s a bond that started before kindergarten, and it has gotten stronger than ever much to the frustration of Steinert High boys soccer opponents. Senior defenders Elliot Morris and Jake Reilly have come up through the ranks together and were finally given the chance to play a full season together at the high school level this autumn. The result has been one of the stingiest defenses at Steinert since the Shawn Gardiner-led state championship team of 1988. “We entered this year and they were both healthy and we got back to what we were expecting,” coach Anthony Tessein said. “Both were day one starters and, knock on wood, they’ve been healthy all year. And the two of them, with Ryan (Checkowski) have exceeded any expectations I had for them.” See SENIOrS, Page 18
Bent Iron Brewing Company on Extonville Road in Hamilton Township. (Facebook photo.)
Bent Iron Brewing Company, Hamilton’s first brewery, opens By JOE EMaNSKI Hamilton finally has a brewery that it can call its own, although one must travel almost to the easternmost portion of the township to reach it. Bent Iron Brewing Company opened late this summer on Extonville Road, where the opposite side of the street is in Upper Freehold Township.
Not that anyone has had any difficulty finding the place so far. Since it opened in a summer thunderstorm Aug. 2, the brewery started up by three partners from Chesterfield has been packed every weekend. Head brewer Dave Ascione says he has all he can do to brew enough beer to keep the taps open — though fortunately, Bent Iron has managed not to run out yet.
Partners and Chesterfield residents Dave Sass, Peter Brittain and Jon Kanuck dreamed up the business over brews in 2020, while locked down for Covid. They talked about one day opening a brewery of their own, getting excited enough about it to actually sit down and write a business plan. And as it happened, Brittain See BENT IrON, Page 14
Bagels and burgers are both staples of New Jersey. Two couples — Krishna Mahida and Kaushal Chauhan of Robinsville, and Yogesh Reddy and Swapna Goli of Chesterfield — decided to combine two of the most popular food items in the state into one restaurant: Deerpath Bagels and Burgers. The restaurant held a grand opening celebration on Oct. 4, about seven months after its soft opening in March. Deerpath has a variety of breakfast and lunch options, such as breakfast sandwiches and wraps, french toast, waffles, pancakes, breakfast platters, omelet platters, breakfast sides, cold sandwiches and wraps, appetizers, chicken wings, kids meals, cheesesteak wraps, triple-decker club sandwiches, grilled sandwiches, paninis and salads, aside from their wide selection of bagels and burgers . Their burgers range from a classic cheeseburger to black See DEErPaTH, Page 16
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