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 school library will once again be transformed into a charming setting for a tea social. The morning events include brunch, a table etiquette lesson and an opportunity for guests to meet with each of the invited women. Andrea Lawfull-Trainer will be the keynote speaker.

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Mangels was presented with the Chairman’s Seashell Award by Chairman Keith Davis and Hamilton Township Mayor Roger Silva as the Atlantic County Republican of the Year.

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Music Together Class

The Jersey Shore Children’s Museum, in the Hamilton Mall, offers a Music Together Class at 10:30 a.m. Friday, March 27 hosted by Music Together of Galloway. Class is included with your museum admission. Registration is requested. For more information call 609-641-5726.

Yoga for Life

The Mays Landing branch of the Atlantic County Library, 40 Farragut Ave., presents Yoga for Life 10 a.m. Saturday, March 28. The free program is open to older teens and adults.

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After a lengthy discussion the board agreed to the amended budget, which calls for a school tax increase of 9.9 cents per $100 of assessed property value – a figure that is 2 cents less than the tax rate originally proposed.

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At a special council meeting  Wednesday, March 25, he explained why he suggested eliminating the process that’s been in use since 1957.

Gleason said that the average person uses 100 gallons of water a day, of which only one gallon is ingested. The rest is used for laundry, showers, etc.

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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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It is impossible to accurately or absolutely quantify what a student learns or does not on the basis of one major test, while negating or diluting the importance and credibility of the qualified professional analysis, evaluation and judgments made by the 40 or more teachers most students encounter during the typical k-12 public school experience.

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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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Finally, Hamilton Township School District presented student tests results, and Superintendent Cappelluti responded, “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not everyone is entitled to their own facts.” Instead of the New Jersey Department of Education's determined district’s goals, HTSD focused on its own benchmarks. After months of stalling to present the report and conveniently after negotiating a new contract, the superintendent managed to spin the results in comparing the district to the rest of the state.

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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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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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