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Mission accomplished.

Top-seeded Newark Academy, No. 1 in the NJ.com Top 20, added to its grand history on the courts with a 5-0 victory against second-seeded and No. 4 East Brunswick in the NJSIAA Tournament of Champions final on Thursday afternoon at Mercer County Park in West Windsor.

The team championship is the Minutemen’s (24-0) state-leading 14th all-time. The Bears (20-3) were searching for their second-ever T of C crown. This was a rematch of the 1992 T of C final when East Brunswick topped Newark Academy.

“It feels great. It’s been a while we since won,” Newark Academy senior

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Photograph by Jae Calanog

Practice breakdance maneuvers alongside b-girl Melissa Adao.

  • Breakdance with Olympic prospects
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Breakdancing will be an official sport at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, and local b-girls and b-boys have been practicing breakdance maneuvers in hopes of repping Team USA. Throughout the county, breakers are “spontaneously” linking up via “social media,” according to b-girl Melissa Adao, and more formally at the Apex School of Movement and Culture Shock Training Academy.

Photograph by Matthew Suárez

For the recent Olympic qualifiers held on Instagram and Zoom, Adao, a 41-year-old Golden Hill dweller, busted funky grooves

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Commencement exercises for the Shady Side Academy Class of 2021 were hosted June 4 at the Senior School’s Farrell Stadium.

This year’s ceremony was limited to administration, faculty, graduates and their guests in order to keep gathering numbers down and allow for seating on the field with chairs spaced 3 feet apart.

There were 117 students who received their diploma.

Graduates will attend 77 colleges in 26 states plus Washington, D.C., France and Scotland this fall, school officials said. Nearly 80{482a34b76424617b5d3a0277f042584de6a25db0c4296b01664a4767ca7d299e} will attend colleges out of state and 14{482a34b76424617b5d3a0277f042584de6a25db0c4296b01664a4767ca7d299e} will play college athletics in eight sports.

The graduates are:

Abhishek

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1 Stock To Buy, 1 To Dump When Markets Open: Academy Sports, New Oriental

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Stocks on Wall Street rallied on Friday, with the major averages all closing within sight of their recent records. This, after the latest boosted optimism a bit over the U.S. economic recovery.

The blue-chip and the benchmark climbed about 0.7{482a34b76424617b5d3a0277f042584de6a25db0c4296b01664a4767ca7d299e} and 0.6{482a34b76424617b5d3a0277f042584de6a25db0c4296b01664a4767ca7d299e}, respectively, on the week for their second straight weekly gain. The tech-heavy , meanwhile, advanced roughly 0.5{482a34b76424617b5d3a0277f042584de6a25db0c4296b01664a4767ca7d299e} over the same timeframe to record its third winning week in a row.

This week is lining up to be another busy economic one with more high-profile earnings reports from companies like GameStop (NYSE:), Chewy (NYSE:), and Stitch Fix (NASDAQ:), coming

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Jun. 8—Instead of being a summer couch potato, area youngsters this week are being coached on staying healthy by engaging in sports that they can play throughout the rest of their lives.

The 25th annual Children’s Lifetime Sports Academy at Missouri Southern State University is an inclusive camp for children of all abilities ages 7 to 12 that runs the first full week of June. The event is sponsored by the university’s kinesiology department.

The event aims to teach and promote the appreciation of selected lifetime activities that may not be offered competitively or at schools.

“It’s all about lifetime

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