Catch up on the biggest stories in Moorestown this week.
Moorestown’s Unified Team nabbed gold, and MHS students travelled to NASA. Catch up on everything from the past week in the Weekly Roundup.
MHS Unified Basketball team takes home gold
Last September, Moorestown High School was informed its Unified basketball team was selected to represent New Jersey in the 2018 Special Olympics USA Games. The news was a cause of celebration, and the school revealed the news at one of the first football games of the season. After journeying to the West Coast and competing in Seattle from July 1 to July 6, the team returned home with gold medals. Principal and one of the team’s three coaches Andrew Seibel said the first football game of the season will once again be a cause for celebration in Moorestown where they’ll celebrate the Unified team’s victory.
Council to upgrade facilities for police, municipal court and softball fields
The Moorestown Township Police Department and the township’s municipal court will have a new home on North Church Street. At its latest meeting, council authorized approximately $4 million in bonds for the purchase of a property located at 1245 N. Church St., which will be the site of an expanded municipal facility. The property is adjacent to where the police department currently resides. When the ordinance authorizing the purchase was introduced in late June, Township Manager Thomas Merchel said the plan is to expand the police department’s current facilities, and this property will give it an additional 5,000 square feet.
MHS class launches students passion for science
Moorestown High School science teacher Richard Wilczewski is all about making his lessons real for students. So real, in fact, that the culmination of his engineering class was a trip to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida where eight students presented a year’s worth of engineering research to NASA professionals.
