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Weekly Roundup: Local rock game, Relay for Life top this week’s stories

Check out the biggest news in Moorestown this week with our Weekly Roundup.

A resident is bringing a family game to Moorestown and Relay for Life of Moorestown returns on June 9. Check out the biggest news in Moorestown this week with our Weekly Roundup.

Rocking around town: Moorestown Rocks gets kids out of the house and into nature

If you’ve stumbled upon a painted rock hiding in Moorestown recently, you’re not alone. Maybe you left it alone, or maybe you picked it up and placed it somewhere else later. You may have been playing a game without even knowing it.

Relay for Life of Moorestown to return for a third year on June 9

Hundreds of community members from Moorestown and surrounding areas will come together this June for a common cause — to join the fight against cancer.

Moorestown High School will host the annual event on Friday, June 9 from 6 p.m. until midnight. Relay for Life of Moorestown ambassador Jason Hicks, who has been involved from the start, hopes to surpass last year’s totals in terms of both participants and funds raised.

Council to request traffic studies at North Church Street, Westfield Road

Moorestown Township Council adopted a pair of consent agenda resolutions last week that will allow traffic studies to be performed at two locations.

If the Burlington County traffic engineer complies, one study will be performed on North Church Street between Main Street and Flynn Avenue to consider reducing the speed limit, and another will be performed at Westfield Road between Borton Landing Road and Bridgeboro Road for speed as well as requesting a pedestrian crosswalk be installed between the Swedes Run Dog Park and the adjacent walkways. Council voted unanimously to approve the resolutions.

Moorestown BOE’s Brandon Pugh shoots with Olympians

Pugh with two members of the US Army’s Marksmanship Unit, who both competed in the Olympics. Photo credit: Chris Camacho, Public Affairs Specialist, US Army.

Four Philadelphia area education leaders recently went shooting with Olympic athletes of the US Army’s Marksmanship Unit at Ft. Benning, Ga. Attendees were from leadership positions in both K-12 education and higher education from Philadelphia and South Jersey. This was part of the US Army’s Community Partners Program as a way for the Army to foster ties with community leaders.

Moorestown boys track 4×400 relay shatters school record

At the Penn Relays, the Moorestown boys 4×400 relay shattered the school record with a new mark of 3:22.65. The relay quartet was Zion Howard, Kevin Fox, sophomore Nick Cartwright-Atkins and Brandon Outlaw. Outlaw ran a sizzling 46.62 anchor leg, by far a personal best. The relay broke the previous record of 3:24.50 set last year by Outlaw, Fox, Howard and Skylar Clark, who is now at James Madision University.

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