Watchung News

The skinny: Bound Brook is out to gain its ninth sectional title and first since 2003.

Weight 170 Brain Bugler of Westfield tries to push Ben Gomes of Watchung to the matt during the NJSIAA North Jersey, Section 2, Group 4 semifinal between Westfield and Watchung Hills at Watchung Hills High School in Warren, NJ, on Wednesday, February 8, 2012.

The district joins a number of school districts in the state which have voted to move the elections, including Watchung and Green Brook.

In statewide testing conducted last year, most of Montclair 's public school students have scored well in mathematics, but many children and teens fell behind students in other districts in language arts.

Two students from Mount Saint Mary Academy in Watchung have been honored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars for their submissions to the organization's annual Voice of Democracy contest.

Getting ready to celebrate 55 years of fun with the Garden Club of Watchung are, from left, Pat Pacio, Rose Anne Barr, Tracy Jacobus, President Colleen Mehegan and Dianna Beck-Clemens The club was organized in 1957 and federated with the Garden Club of New Jersey in 1958.

Deadline approaches quickly but contestants still have time to enter for the 2012 Vocal Competition - NJ IDOL as long as their entries are postmarked by Saturday, Feb.

Editor's note: The Warren Township Police release information on significant events Monday through Friday, after review by senior officers.

WATCHUNG - On Jan. 14, New Jersey middle school students -- including a group from Watchung -- met at Rutgers University to plan for the future.

From left, Chris, Briana, Caden and Quinn Joralemon of Summit recently adopted Tax Cut, the 13th horse placed for adoption through the efforts of Watchung Stable and School Horses of Watchung volunteers.

Watchung Stable and the SHOW program would like to congratulate 'Tax Cut' on his recent adoption by the Joralemon Family of Summit on Jan.

Your teens are holding a car wash at the high school Saturday. The grandparents volunteered to take the younger children to a movie Sunday afternoon.

WHEN: 7 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Asbury Lanes, 209 Fourth Ave., Asbury Park TICKETS: $15 INFORMATION: 732-776-6160; www.asburylanes.com 'When they show a beard in the mainstream, they'll show Charles Manson,' said beardsman Matt Chrystal.

The condition typically runs in families and often causes people to have problems with night vision, as well as an average loss of vision of 3 to 6 percent per year.

Pianist Kenny Werner encourages his students to achieve "effortless mastery," and creates this sense of weightlessness in his own music by endowing his complex improvisations with meditative, songlike and sometimes whimsical qualities.

Update: Warren resident Steven Treich, 54, died Friday after he lost control of the vehicle he was driving on Liberty Corner Road, hitting a tree and overturning at 5:14 p.m. Initial reports placed the accident at Liberty Corner and Mountainview roads.