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WINNING HOCKEY SEASON: The Livingston middle school ice hockey team finished the year with a 14-2 record.

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TOURNAMENT WINNERS: The Giants 13U baseball team won the United States Amateur Baseball League (USABL) Father’s Day Tournament, held at Tevlin Field in Livingston this past weekend.

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The Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School Cobras baseball team won the Yeshiva League Championship on Sunday, June 20, defeating the Frisch Cougars at Smith Field in Parsippany. This was the third time in the last four seasons that Kushner had faced off against Frisch in the title game, with Kushner winning in 2017.

The game featured Frisch’s sophomore pitcher, Jack Ruditzky, matching up with Kushner pitcher, Ilan Cohen. The two aces pitched perfect first innings before Frisch took the lead in the second, scoring the first run of the game.

Cohen coasted through the top of the third inning with help from a leaping catch by Kushner senior second baseman Eitan Kaynan. In the bottom of the third, third baseman Eli Fishbein hit a leadoff double and, after advancing to third on a groundout, scored on a bunt by right fielder Ben Orbach.

The Joyce family of Livingston – Walter and Dorothy Joyce and their daughters, Marilyn Joyce Lehren, Mary Ellen Joyce Stewart, and Jeanne Joyce Silberman – this week wrote to the Tribune to applaud the Livingston High School softball team, which won the state championship.

“Thank you to the Livingston High School girls’ softball team for making the entire town believe again,” they wrote. “We loved watching this magical team perform at such a top level. The team’s grace on and off the field is modeling for all young female athletes.

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Congratulations Graduates

It is a very special day for many of our Livingston families. Today, Thursday, June 24, students from Livingston High School’s Class of 2021 will attend their graduation ceremony, in person, and receive their diplomas. We are thrilled to see our hundreds of seniors experience a relatively normal ceremony. It is well-earned after what can charitably be described as an unusual, and challenging, final two years of high school.

Despite the strangeness and uncertainty, students have been able to finish out the school year in person with their peers and teachers. Thankfully, the final memories of high school for many of these students will not be of staring at a laptop and their bedroom walls, but rather of roaming the LHS halls with friends, signing yearbooks, and saying farewell to their favorite teachers.

MY GRADUATION MOMENT: Throughout the week leading up to Livingston High School’s graduation, students have gathered with their families and friends to celebrate their “Graduation Moment,” allowing them time to take photos outside of the ceremony.

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The Township Council discussed opening Northland Pool, construction of the new Department of Public Works garage, and the return to inperson meetings at its Monday, June 21, meeting.

Township manger Barry Lewis noted that he, along with the Council and township employees, have heard from a number of residents about their desire to see the Northland Pool opened to the public this summer.

Lewis said that, since American Rescue Plan funding can be used to reimburse for lost revenues from utilities, including pools, that money could be used to open Northland on the weekends.

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Council members introduced a blanket “opt out” ordinance, prohibiting all classes of cannabis use licenses in town at the Monday, June 21, Township Council meeting. Additionally, another ordinance establishing an inclusionary development zone and new directives for homeowners pertaining to sidewalks were among the items passed at the meeting.

The meeting was livestreamed and is viewable on the Livingston Township, NJ Facebook page.

Ordinances Introduced

Three ordinances were introduced at the meeting.

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The Livingston Board of Education was expected to vote, at its June 21 meeting, on whether or not to add a question to the November 2021 ballot about expanding the size of the Board.

The previous week, each of the five Board members had reported in detail about his or her research and interviews about the advantages and disadvantages of increasing the size of the Board – or keeping it the same.

Three versions of the resolution were on the agenda:

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The Livingston High School varsity softball team won the Group IV State Championship last Thursday, June 17, by defeating Hillsborough, 3-2, in extra innings. This marked the first softball state championship in LHS history.

The Lancers won the North 1 Group IV state sectional title on June 12, and then two days later, defeated Westfield, 2-1, in the Group IV state semi-finals. In the finals, the Lancers, currently ranked as the #3 team in New Jersey, faced Hillsborough, ranked eighth in the state. The game was played at Seton Hall University in front of a large crowd of fans, parents, current high school students and future players.