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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Falon Irwin had to write a process essay for an AP English class when she was a student at Absegami High School. She wrote about what she knew best, the process of being a rower.

She is now a sophomore at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale and rows with the Division II women’s crew.

Rowing got her there, according to her mother, Renee Irwin of Galloway, who says she wants everyone to know about the love of rowing and the college opportunities Atlantic County students have.

She recommends seeing www.absegamicrew.com.

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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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Former township employee Kristen Manning has returned to Galloway, now as one of its top appointed officials.

She worked in the Galloway finance office, took a job in another town and went back to school for business.

She has come back to the township as its new chief financial officer.

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Welcome to Historic Galloway, our weekly feature that looks back through Galloway Township history.

Each week, we get a chance to learn or reminisce courtesy of Sarah Snow, librarian for the Galloway Township Historical Society, who shares information and early photos with our readers online and in print.

Here is a room at the "new" Seaview Country Club at its opening in 1914.

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Police Blotter information is supplied by local police departments and other law enforcement agencies. All persons named are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

During the period March 15-21 Galloway police answered 891 calls for service. Officers made 19 arrests, and issued 142 traffic summonses. Officers responded to 21 motor vehicle accidents, 16 domestic complaints, 90 medical assists and 22 fire calls.

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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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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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GALLOWAY – Plans for a Stockton University Island Campus at the Showboat casino site in Atlantic City may be sunk.

Trump Taj Mahal is invoking a 1988 covenant with Caesars Entertainment that the property can only be used as a first-class casino-hotel.

On Tuesday, March 24 University President Herman Saatkamp announced a stalemate in negotiations to transform the site into a campus with residential amenities, with a casino remaining as part of the school tourism and hospitality program. 

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

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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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The Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District was thanked at its board meeting Monday, March 23 by Stockton University.

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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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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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GALLOWAY – During PARCC testing at Absegami High School Monday, March 9, Absegami English teacher Kim Vasile had Norma Boakes, an associate professor of education at Stockton University, present a workshop on origami, the ancient art of paper folding, to her sophomore reading students.

Students learned about the history of origami and how it has grown from a basic hobby to a recognized art form with many applications to real life such as air bag design, satellite construction, and even soda can production.

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