Harris, a senior from Atlantic City High School, scored a game-high 20 points, including four field goals from well beyond the arc, and flashed the kind of play-making and ball-handling skills that should serve her well as she continues her basketball career at Palm Beach State, a Division I junior college in South Florida.

"This is really just the beginning for me," said Harris. "It's sad (that her high school career is over), but I'm just glad that I got to be known as one of the best in the area through high school. I just love everything about the game."

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And the light is streaming through;

When the mists are slowly rising,

And the world comes into view,

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ATLANTIC CITY – The 32nd annual Atlantic Cape Community College Restaurant Gala held at Bally’s Atlantic City raised $125,000 for scholarships for students attending the college’s Academy of Culinary Arts.

More than 700 supporters attended the black tie affair, which offered the theme “Under the Sea.”

Students at the academy prepared a sumptuous array of mouth watering hors d’oeuvres served during the cocktail hour and the future chefs took a bow during a ceremony honoring Atlantic City Mayor Don Guardian and Food Network Star finalist Nicole Gaffney of Brigantine.

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The Vikings, also playing their first Cape-Atlantic League game on their artificial turf field, couldn't get anything going against a very good Lower team.

Pete Tomlin scored four goals while Cole Blackley and Matt Leonard added two each for Lower, which is coming off its first ever South Jersey Group I playoff appearance.

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Theme will be ‘Adventures in Music’

When the Atlantic Pops perform “Concerto for Drum set and Band” April 1 at the Egg Harbor Township Community Center, they will be joined by John O’Reilly, the drummer from the group Fun who has also played on Broadway.

The headline piece is a three-movement jazz concerto that pays tribute to swing drummers from different eras and uses a drum set in front of the band as a solo instrument.

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The fiscal year 2016 budget, which is $100,000 lower than the previous year’s budget, includes $8,407,171 in county appropriations contingent upon approval by the Atlantic Cape Community College Board of School Estimate, a group of college and Atlantic and Cape May County officials.

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Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno expected to attend

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP – Longtime Republican Mayor James “Sonny” McCullough is expected to announce his candidacy for another term on Egg Harbor Township Committee at a special event tonight, Wednesday, March 25 at which Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno is expected to speak as well.

 Republican Committeeman Frank Finnerty is also expected to announce his intent to seek a full three-year term. He is currently serving the remainder of the John Carman’s term. Carman vacated the seat in January to join the Atlantic County Board of Chosen Freeholders.

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The last day of the year and graduation will be Tuesday, June 23. The final three days of school will be abbreviated days.

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EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP – When Alexander Pearse was a student at Egg Harbor Township High School, he would blare music between classes from speakers mounted on his wheelchair. And though his disease claimed him March 15, it seems that his tune is being carried on by those who were touched by his upbeat approach to life.

Pearse, who graduated from the school in 2014, had muscular dystrophy – though staff and students said he was never one to let this condition define him.

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If it is approved, here is what the CAL might look like in 2016.

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The administration and the Board of Education stated at previous budget meetings in March that current employees would be unaffected by the plan they approved to outsource paraprofessionals and substitute teachers to save $240,000.

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A series of very interesting proposals came out of Tuesday's meeting of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletics Association public/non-public committee in Atlantic City.

The most interesting - some would say most necessary - change would create a parochial-only football league to start in 2016.

If approved, St. Joseph, St. Augustine Prep and Holy Spirit would leave the Cape-Atlantic League for football. Public schools could still play parochial schools in non-league games, but public schools would no longer have to keep getting hammered in league play by non-public schools that can recruit and draw players from throughout the region. Holy Spirit, St. Joe and St. Augustine are a combined 59-10 against CAL public schools the past three seasons.

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OCEAN CITY - Nineteen players from area high schools will put on their basketball uniforms one last time on Saturday March 28 to play in The 14th Annual All Star Saturday at the Dixie Howell Memorial Gymnasium.

Prime Events All Star Saturday will be held at Ocean City High School on Saturday with the best seniors from the Cape-Atlantic League facing off in the final two basketball games of four that celebrate the present and future of the CAL.

The two high school games, starting at 4:30 p.m., will match the best CAL seniors. Because the CAL is aligned into three conferences, the all star teams were drafted based on the all star voting of the league’s coaches.

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EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP – The Township Committee introduced a $38.5 million budget on Wednesday, March 18 that holds the local tax rate at the same level as last year.

The municipal tax rate will not increase in 2015 if the Township Committee approves the budget as it was introduced.

 The local tax levy would be $21,108,006, and the tax rate 51.8 cents per $100 of assessed value. For a home valued at $200,000, the owner would pay $1,036 per year for municipal services.

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The Lower Cape May girls won the South Jersey Group II title. It’s the fifth straight year a Cape Atlantic League team has won either a boys or girls state title and the 44th time in the past 45 years.

On the boys side, St. Augustine won its first CAL title since 2011 and its eighth CAL title overall. The Prep also reached the Non-Public A South Jersey final before running into an unusually hot-shooting Christian Brothers Academy.

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Such a call from Aunt Tess is the local equivalent of a command performance at Buckingham Palace. You dare not refuse, lest you be stricken off the list forever.

“What’s got her upset?” I asked.

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I will never understand the need to purposely misspell words in business names.

While I know and appreciate that language evolves, there are basic some rules to it, and in the cases when these businesses are marketing toward kids, I find it even more intolerable.

Why do we need to call a social group designed for kids a Kids Klub instead of a Kids Club? Don’t they have enough trouble figuring out when to use C or K appropriately anyway?  There are hundreds of others that add insult to injury. Klub 4 Kids, Kiddie Korner, Kidz Club and Kidz Klubhouse are just a few examples.

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The St. Augustine Prep boys and the Mainland Regional girls were the biggest winners of the day, capturing their respective varsity eight races. But several other schools - Atlantic City, Cedar Creek, Absegami - also had their moments in the (not-so-bright or warm) sun.

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