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Glover’s versatility helps young Scotties by JuSTIN FEIL Jumari Glover does a little bit of everything for the Bordentown Regional High School boys basketball team. In his first year of varsity play, the Scotties junior is starting and fourth on the team in scoring with the ability to shoot the 3-pointer or score inside, fourth in rebounding, third in assists, third in blocks, all while covering the opposing team’s best offensive option and balancing handling the ball some and playing forward some. “He doesn’t score a lot of points but he’s like my Swiss Army knife,” said Bordentown coach Steve Perry. The metaphor extends to Glover athletically. He’s not just playing basketball year-round. His first love is football, which he hopes to play in college in two years. He was a defensive back and wide receiver for the football team that went 7-2 and finished second in the West Jersey Football League National Division and reeled off seven straight wins. In the spring, he’ll rejoin the Scotties track and field program. It all goes hand in hand. “I started track just as a way to stay in shape,” Glover said. “But as I started to do it, it
became more special to me. And basketball, I’ve been playing since I was young. Football, it was my number one sport. But it means a lot. It keeps me in shape all year-round. It keeps me as a good athlete. I’m playing defense. You’ve got to have stamina. You’re guarding a guy backwards, so it’s not easy.” Glover takes something away from each sport. They help him competitively and athletically. He felt it this fall in football season. “I felt this football season, I had a pretty good year,” Glover said. “I really noticed that speed, I was faster than previous years. That was one thing that I needed. Even though I’m tall, I have the perfect size, I felt like my acceleration speed was just a little down. Track answered that.” Now Glover is enjoying his first season of varsity basketball for a team that’s loaded with junior talent. Last year, he was on the junior varsity and toward the end of the season, Perry could see his confidence growing. “I wasn’t always a big basketball guy, but last year, I saw I can stand with these guys,” Glover said. “There’s no one too, too better than me. So See GLOVER, Page 9
Aneka Miller, with hand raised, takes the oath of office as the new mayor of Bordentown Township on Jan. 3, 2026 as her family looks on. Administering the oath is Rep. Herb Conaway.
Aneka Miller makes history as township’s new mayor by JOE EMaNSKI There were two seats up for grabs on the Bordentown Regional Board of Education in 2018, but just one candidate on that November’s ballot: incumbent Salvatore Schiano. No one else in Bordentown Township had petitioned to be a candidate to seek a seat on the nine-mem-
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ber board. One person in the community launched a late campaign as a write-in candidate: Aneka Miller, then a 12-year resident of the township. And that is how Miller began her career as an elected official. In 2021, Miller ran alongside now-Burlington County sheriff James Kostoplis for a seat on the
Bordentown Township Committee. She was elected, and has served on the committee ever since. At the Jan. 3 township reorganization meeting, Miller reached a new milestone: she was nominated and then elected by her fellow committee members to serve as mayor of BorSee MILLER, Page 8
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