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Beloved Sparta High School Grad, Johns Hopkins Research Technologist Dies Suddenly, 26 Beloved Sparta High School Grad, Johns Hopkins Research Technologist Dies Suddenly, 26
Beloved Sparta High School Grad, Johns Hopkins Research Technologist Dies Suddenly, 26 Beloved Sparta High School graduate and Johns Hopkins research technologist Erin Julia Beebe died unexpectedly on Monday, April 4. She was 26. Erin attended Reverend George A. Brown Memorial School and Pope John XXIII High School before graduating from Sparta High School in 2014, her obituary says. She then used her love of science to pursue higher education at Muhlenberg College, where she graduated with a Neuroscience degree in 2018. Erin went on to earn employment as a Laboratory Research Assistant in the Department of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine at the…

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by Valerie Musson
Lifestyle
Garfield Baby Missing Chunk Of Skull Is First Ever To Survive Garfield Baby Missing Chunk Of Skull Is First Ever To Survive
Garfield Baby Missing Chunk Of Skull Is First Ever To Survive A Garfield baby born missing part of his skull was given one day to live. Well, it's been seven months -- making him the first in the world with the rare condition to survive, according to several recent reports including this one in the New York Post. Maria Santa Maria, 30, originally of Clifton, discovered her son's condition in the first trimester of her pregnancy.  Doctors suggested the mom and her husband, Augusto Santa Maria, 31, abort the baby. The couple decided to go through with the pregnancy and explained to their three daughters that Lucas' first day on earth would likely be …

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by Cecilia Levine
News
NJ To Alaska: Chester Man With Heart Condition Rides 3,700 Miles For Science NJ To Alaska: Chester Man With Heart Condition Rides 3,700 Miles For Science
NJ To Alaska: Chester Man With Heart Condition Rides 3,700 Miles For Science When John Schwenck's dad was 25 years old in 1990, he rode is bicycle more than 3,700 miles from New Jersey to California and camped out along the way. A few years later, Schwenck's mom joined his father for another bike trip to Alaska. This one, though, was cut short, though, when the couple found out their son was planning an arrival much sooner than they expected. Now that the younger John is 25 years old, he's planning on making the same bike trip to Alaska. The only difference is that he's doing it with a rare heart condition for a goal of advancing scientific research. John Schw…

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by Cecilia Levine
Neighbors
Bloomfield High Senior Accepted To 15 Schools, Including Princeton Bloomfield High Senior Accepted To 15 Schools, Including Princeton
Bloomfield High Senior Accepted To 15 Schools, Including Princeton This can be a tense time of year for college-bound high school seniors, who are now learning where they’ve been accepted, where they’ve been wait-listed and which schools simply wished them well in their future endeavors. Emmanuel Odekunle of Bloomfield has a lot to think about too -- such as deciding which of the more than one dozen schools where he’s been accepted he’s going to attend. “As of this moment, I have not yet made a decision as to which university I will be attending,” the senior at Bloomfield High School said in an interview late last week. “God will direct us on the best one…

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by Paul Milo