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Whether inspecting homes or working at his nonprofit, Carlo Vitale aims for satisfaction BY THOMAS KELLY
BY EDDIE YOUNG
A home inspection during the course of a home sale is an important step. A major purchase like a home, takes due diligence. One part is the discovering the true condition of the home that is about to be purchased. That takes trained inspectors to have hard looks at what we might overlook during our excitement to purchase a new home for our family. Carlo Vitale founded an inspection company in 2011 and recently expanded both his services and facility size by relocating in Hamilton. Vitale Inspections has remodeled the former PBA Hall on Klockner Road into a modern office and professional services building. Besides the office spaces and equipment storage needed for inspections, there is classroom space to host continuing education events and professional training classes for all in the See SMILES, Page 12
Rich Fisher has been covering all different sports for the past 44 years of his life. From baseball to basketball, golf to swimming, and even from skiing to horse racing, if there is a sport that you can think of, odds are Fisher has written a story on it. While he has written stories at all different levels of sports in the past, it is high school sports where Fisher has made his mark as a writer. On April 5, Fisher, or Fish, as he is known by everyone who has met him after his elementary school days, will be inducted in the Steinert High School Athletic Hall of Fame as a special contributor, adding another honor to his long list of accomplishments as a sports See FISH, Page 27
The Hamilton Township School District’s preferred location for a new districtwide preschool is on the grounds of Robinson Elementary School. (Photo courtesy of Hamilton Township Public Schools.)
Q&A: Schools superintendent Scott Rocco on district’s big plans BY JOE EMANSKI In January, Hamilton Township Public Schools revealed its 2025 Strategic Plan, a report seven years in the making. The plan is the result of nearly 30 meetings held since 2018 among a committee of administrators, board of education members, teachers and parents. In the strategic plan, the district offers 10 top-level initiatives, ranked by the plan committee in terms of potential
impact to the district. First on the list is a newly built preschool that would serve up to 900 students from across the district. Another proposal in the plan includes turning two high school pools into classroom/ learning spaces, and building a new pool at Crockett Middle School. The committee also considered a number of options for redistributing students among its 23 existing schools. The option it proposes in the strate-
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gic plan is to convert current elementary schools to K-4 schools, turn Grice and Reynolds Middle Schools into Grade 5-6 schools, and turn Crockett into a Grade 7-8 school that every student in the district would attend for two years. See SCHOOLS, Page 8
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