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Nutley archer is dominating New Jersey

Nutley High School Rising Junior Alexander Mason Irwin had an impressive winter/spring indoor archery season, claiming 2 state championships in his division, according to NutleyAthletics.org.

Irwin’s season opened with a first place finish in the USA Archery New Jersey State indoor Championships shooting an almost perfect 297 out of 300.

He then went on to the NFAA Mid-Atlantic Sectionals where he shot another 297 earning him a ninth place finish, competing against archers from New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware.

Irwin finished up his season with another first place finish in the New Jersey State Field Archery Association’s State Indoor Championships shooting a 293 out of 300. This marks his thrd year in a row claiming the top spot in New Jersey in this competition.

For Juneteenth, Historical Society cleans gravestones of ex-slaves, Civil War soldiers

The Belleville Historical Society observed Juneteenth in Belleville, Bloomfield and Montclair by cleaning gravestones. In Bloomfield and Montclair the gravestones of three individuals who were born into and had lived as slaves were cleaned and decorated.

Luvenia and Joseph Lloyd were slaves on a plantation in Barbara County, Alabama when they were married. They eventually moved north and lived in East Orange and are buried at Bloomfield Cemetery on Belleville Avenue.

Anthony Thompson was a slave in the household of Dr. Samuel Ward in Montclair. After being freed he moved to West

Orange and he is buried in Rosedale Cemetery in Montclair.

At St. Peter Cemetery in Belleville a team of young church volunteers cleaned the gravestones of all of the Union Army veterans buried there. More than 350,000 Union Army soldiers died in the war which brought an end to slavery.

Juneteenth commemorates the day, June 19, 1865, when Union Army Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas with 2,000 soldiers and announced the end of slavery in the rebellious southern states. Ironically slavery would continue that year in New Jersey until the end of December.