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South Jersey Teen Who Died Playing Frisbee Was Avid Programmer, Boy Scout South Jersey Teen Who Died Playing Frisbee Was Avid Programmer, Boy Scout
South Jersey Teen Who Died Playing Frisbee Was Avid Programmer, Boy Scout A memorial scholarship has been launched in memory of a 16-year-old boy from South Jersey who died suddenly while playing frisbee with family members. Owen Cotty, a student at Methacton high School, was tossing the frisbee with his dad when he fell to the ground on Saturday, Aug. 6, his dad, Adam Cotty said. CPR was administered before first responders arrived and, despite best efforts, could not resuscitate Owen. "Our son was a caring, sweet young man who loved to be silly," his obituary reads. "He was an avid programmer, coding games in his free time and had a goal to go to college and be…

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by Cecilia Levine
Obituaries
Report: Morris County Native Samantha Racz, 21, Dies In Florham Park Crash Report: Morris County Native Samantha Racz, 21, Dies In Florham Park Crash
Report: Morris County Native Samantha Racz, 21, Dies In Florham Park Crash A recent news report has identified a 21-year-old Morris County native as the victim of a Florham Park weekend crash. Whippany Park graduate and University of Delaware student Samantha Racz died in the Columbia Turnpike crash on Jan. 16, MorrisFocus reports. The two-car crash occurred on the 300 block of Columbia Turnpike, around 11:25 p.m., Florham Park police said. Racz graduated from Whippany Park High School in 2018 and was a junior majoring in graphic design with a communications minor at the University of Delaware in Newark, her obituary says.  She was also a member of the…

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by Valerie Musson
Lifestyle
Dance Scholarship Fund Honors Maywood Instructor Who Died In Labor Dance Scholarship Fund Honors Maywood Instructor Who Died In Labor
Dance Scholarship Fund Honors Maywood Instructor Who Died In Labor A scholarship fund has been established in memory of dance teacher Tana Quigley, who died March 14 in labor with her new baby who also passed away. The Tana Quigley Scholarship Fund will be awarded to a dancer at Maywood Dance Center this fall. The expecting mom was a licensed clinical social worker formerly practicing in Hackensack. She had been working at a counseling center in Monmouth County, specializing in trauma therapy. Quigley, a Woodcliff Lake native, was a professional dancer who competed for years and taught classes through her pregnancy at Maywood Dance Center. She was remem…

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by Cecilia Levine
Schools
Hackensack Non-Profit Helps Student ‘Idols’ Follow Music Dreams Hackensack Non-Profit Helps Student ‘Idols’ Follow Music Dreams
Hackensack Non-Profit Helps Student ‘Idols’ Follow Music Dreams ENGLEWOOD, N.J. – A dozen Englewood students will be cutting their own CDs, thanks to a grant from the Northern New Jersey Community Foundation. The $1,200 grant is being awarded to the Dr. John Grieco Scholarship Fund at the Academies@Englewood for the 13th Annual Englewood Idol talent competition's program. Englewood Idol is an annual singing competition open to any high school student living or attending school in Englewood. The talent competition attracts students at Dwight Morrow High School, Academies@Englewood, and The Dwight-Englewood School. “What an extraordinary experi…

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by Lauren Kidd Ferguson