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─Photo courtesy Jeff Goodfellow The Brick Little League All-Stars took home the state championship. By Bob Vosseller JACKSON - It was a bit of a bittersweet victory for the Brick Little League All-Stars but they got to play ball and win the state tournament. However, in this year of the COVID-19 pandemic, they could not move on to compete in the Little League World series. It wasn’t just the players who came to grips with what might have
been but the families as well. Team Manager George Cavanaugh was a member of the Brick National Little League team 30 years ago. It was Brick’s first state championship. His son is among a roster of 15, 12-year-olds who made up this year’s New Jersey State Little League championship team. The Brick All-Stars beat Englewood Cliffs
8-3 to win the 2020 state championship in what has been a very unique season for all Little League players. This past week however would have been the time the state champs would have been heading off to Bristol, Connecticut, for the Mid-Atlantic tournament as Cavanaugh had done three decades prior when it was called the East Region tournament
for what he said was “one of the best times of my life.” “I wanted nothing more than to see them win the state championship. I wanted it so bad for them because now being 42 years old and looking back, you really do take your childhood for granted,” Cavanaugh said. “We’ve become such a tight group. They have (State - See Page 2)
Superintendent Gives Update On Hybrid Schedule By Bob Vosseller JACKSON – Superintendent Nicole Pormilli provided an update to the community on the status of which students were currently attending school. During a recent Board of Education meeting she reported “overall,
I’m pleased with starting the way we started. We k new we would have some bumps along the way and we did with schedules and transportation.” The school district, like many across the state, has a schedule involving in person learn-
ing and remote learning during the week. Pormilli said, “it was great to see our campuses come back to life. It has been six months since we’ve seen that. We have teachers who are happy to see our students back and our administrators were
glad to see the buildings reopened.” Screener forms verifying students are not sick or showing any symptoms of the coronavirus need to be filled out before class each day as part of the requirements. She urged parents to make sure
those forms were filled out before each day of school. “We all have to do that as well, so I put a reminder in my phone and it reminds me every day at 5:30 in the morning to complete my screener. We really
October 10, 2020
Four Candidates Vie For Three Council Seats
By Bob Vosseller JACKSON – Four Republicans are running for three council seats with four-year terms in the November 3 general election. Running on one ticket is Nino Borrelli, Steve Chisholm Jr. and Martin Flemming, while Robert Skinner will be a write-in candidate in the race. No Democrats are running this year. Flemming joined the council through an appointment by the all Republican council on January 2 taking over the vacant spot of Councilman Robert Nixon who resigned in November 2019. Chisholm was appointed to the council on June 9 following Barry Calogero’s resignation in April from the governing body. His appointment ends on December 31 and he is also seeking election to his first full term. Borrelli currently serves as a member of the Zoning Board of Adjustment. Absent from the ballot is Republican Councilman Ken Bressi who is not seeking re-election. He was first elected in 2012 and was sworn in January 2013. He was re-elected in 2016 and will complete his second term at the end of this year. While Jackson has a nonpartisan form of government and candidates do not run under the banner of a political party, candidates often adopt slogans to run under and the support of the two main political affiliations does have an impact on the municipal races. Flemming is the owner of County Line Hardware located in the township. He is seeking his fi rst full term. In addition to serving on the council, he is a member of the Planning Board. “I have lived in Jackson since 1963. My family has owned several hardware store/ power equipment stores in the central New Jersey area since 1964. I was approached to take over an open council seat last year and after years of saying I was too busy, felt it was time to take part,” Flemming said. “The idea of having multiple people on our Town Council who were born or grew up here seemed to make a connection with many townspeople. What I feel I can bring to the council is a sense of history and continuity.
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