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Naval Academy Runs Football Through NJ On 463-Mile Trek To Army-Navy Game In New England Naval Academy Runs Football Through NJ On 463-Mile Trek To Army-Navy Game In New England
Naval Academy Runs Football Through NJ On 463-Mile Trek To Army-Navy Game In New England It’s fitting that a group of marathoners from the U.S. Naval Academy are running a game ball all the way up to the home of the New England Patriots for this weekend’s grudge match with the U.S. Military Academy. There’ll be plenty of rushing and relatively few passes from both sides in the 124th Army-Navy football game at Gilette Stadium in Foxborough, MA, on Saturday, Dec. 9. The USNA marathoners shoved off from Bancroft Hall on their campus in Annapolis, MD on Tuesday, beginning a traditional dash that dates back to the 1980s. A slight flurry of snowflakes fell just after lunchtime Thurs…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Meet Clarence, 90-Year-Old Korean War Veteran And Beloved Flemington Crossing Guard Meet Clarence, 90-Year-Old Korean War Veteran And Beloved Flemington Crossing Guard
Meet Clarence, 90-Year-Old Korean War Veteran And Beloved Flemington Crossing Guard Have you ever driven safely past the Flemington fire department on a weekday morning? Then you’ve probably seen Clarence, 90-year-old Korean War veteran and beloved crossing guard. Clarence can be seen on school day mornings and afternoons exchanging daily waves, smiles and pleasantries with hundreds of drivers and pedestrians. Clarence fought in the Korean War within a segregated US Army unit and later became among the first black employees in his home country’s park system. He moved to Jersey City in 1958 and settled with his family in Flemington, where his son went to Hunterdon Central, …

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by Valerie Musson
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Cessna Intercepted In Temporary No-Fly Zone Over GWB Was Piloted By West Point Instructor Cessna Intercepted In Temporary No-Fly Zone Over GWB Was Piloted By West Point Instructor
Cessna Intercepted In Temporary No-Fly Zone Over GWB Was Piloted By West Point Instructor UPDATE: A single-engine plane that drew a pair of Air Force fighter jets when it inadvertently strayed into temporarily restricted airspace over the GWB during the UN General Assembly was being flown by an Army instructor pilot from West Point. The soldier was conducting a "civil and mechanical engineering" flight lab for cadets, an academy spokesperson said, when the aircraft "briefly violated" a Temporary Flight Restriction Area around 2 p.m., following President Joe Biden's address to the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly. The West Point Civil & Mechanical Engineer…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Business
Shark Tank Winners, Hunterdon County Army Sisters Launch Holiday Pop-Up Shop Shark Tank Winners, Hunterdon County Army Sisters Launch Holiday Pop-Up Shop
Shark Tank Winners, Hunterdon County Army Sisters Launch Holiday Pop-Up Shop A pair of Hunterdon County sisters who launched their business with help from NBC's "Shark Tank" are holding a holiday pop-up in Flemington. East Amwell natives Paige Dellavalle and Ashley Dellavalle Jung got a $150,000 cash infusion in exchange for a 35 percent share of the business in 2013. The sisters both attended West Point with a major in management and minor in systems engineering.  Although Jung was deployed in Afghanistan between March 2007 and 2008, a sudden shoulder injury kept Dellavelle from serving in a combat zone. When Jung gave her sister an outdated charm bracelet, just…

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by Cecilia Levine