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Short supplies lead to frustration for those hoping to get vaccinated
Briana Audet is expected to be a key part of the LHS girls’ basketball team
By BILL SanserVIno
By RICh FIsher
Briana Audet is a soccer player, first and foremost. While at Lawrence Middle School she was just hanging around, minding her own business in gym class, with basketball never on her mind. The problem was, Audet was too good to ignore. In 7th grade her gym teacher, Jaime Land, was also the girls’ basketball coach. After watching Audet play in class, she encouraged her to go out for her team. Land also told assistant coach Lisa Quarry (now the head coach) about her discovery, and Quarry would see Audet in the hallways and encourage her. In effect, she became one of Lawrence’s most intensely recruited girls’ basketball players to have never played organized ball. “I never played before that,” she said. Audet injured herself during soccer, however, and was in a boot for four months, killing any chance at hoops that year. Land and Quarry persisted and encouraged her to at least try out in eighth grade to see what she thought. “They reached out again, see AUDET, Page 8
Lawrence Township author and historian David Price recently released his third book, “John Haslet’s World: An Ardent Patriot, the Delaware Blues, and the Spirit of 1776.”
Revolutionary writer Lawrence Township author tells the story of littleknown war hero By Dan Aubrey
“The morning of January 3, 1777, was a bitterly cold one in Princeton, New Jersey,” writes Lawrence Township author David Price in the first chapter of his new book John Haslet’s World: An Ardent Patriot, the Delaware Blues, and the Spirit of 1776, just
released by Knox Press. As Price continues bringing local history alive, “Colonel John Haslet found himself on a frozen battlefield with the other soldiers of George Washington’s Continental Army who had faced one hardship after another, both before and during their grueling winter campaign, in pursuit of a young nation’s quest for independence from Great Britain.” Then he brings the reader closer to that day that unfolded 244 years ago. “Haslet would have been
able to see his breath in the frigid air as the British soldiers and their colonial counterparts engaged in yet another clash of arms, and with his last exhalation he attempted to rouse his fellow countrymen to stand against their advancing foe. “In that moment, this Irish immigrant’s American journey came to a sudden and violent end. The wrath of fate that created an abrupt encounter between an enemy bullet and lion-hearted colonel achieved see PRICE, Page 6
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While the COVID-19 pandemic continued to rage throughout the United States during the month of January, the government struggled to provide enough doses to those looking to be protected from the deadly virus. Across the country, states have struggled to meet demand, and the doses shipped have been significantly outweighed by the number of people looking to be vaccinated. When appointments do open up at vaccination sites, available slots are often booked up within hours or less. People have been left confused and frustrated—wondering how, when and where they will get inoculated. In New Jersey, the vaccine was first made available to healthcare workers, first responders and staff and residents of long-term care facilities starting in mid-December. Then at the beginning of January, the Trump Administration announced that it was releasing the stockpile of vaccines it was holding to ensure people would be able to get the required second dose. A few days later, on Jan. 14, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy opened up vaccinations to peosee VACCINE, Page 4
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