Boys golf: Miners roll, repeat as Division I North champs (watch video)

Fellow high school golfers weren’t the only opponents at the Division I North Region boys golf championship at Red Hawk’s Lakes Course on Monday and Tuesday.

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Miners finished 1-2-3 — Harrison Holetz as the medalist at 3-over-par 147, followed by Jens Verhey and first-day leader Nick Turner at 149— as the tournament went to a shotgun start for the first time in at least 10 years. Verhey finished second by way of a scorecard tiebreaker.

Manogue didn’t put up the gaudy numbers it did a year ago at Dayton Valley, when it set a regional record with a 25-over-par 745 in winning by 65 strokes, but it still lapped the competition.

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“The kids did it,” said Manogue coach Chris Trevino, who also runs Trevino Golf Institute. “They know how to play, and even though the conditions were bad, they kept the double bogeys off the card and found a way to get the ball in the hole.”

Manogue and Reno will represent the Division I North Region in the NIAA Division I state tournament at Sierra Sage next Tuesday and Wednesday.

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Holetz was three shots behind Turner after Monday’s first round. He started the second round Tuesday on the 11th hole and opened his round with six birdies in his first 12 holes to move into the lead. He shot a tournament-best two-under 70, matched only by Damonte Ranch’s Ralph, who also had his 70 in the second round.Shop our selection of designer shoes, including Manolo Blahnik, christian louboutin shoes.

There were only three sub-par rounds in the tournament (Verhey’s 71 in the second round).

“It’s great,” Holetz said of winning. “Playing alongside Nick is always a pleasure. He’s a great kid. I always want the best for him. I was just going to go out there and play for myself and not worry about what anyone else is shooting. ... I ended up shooting a good score. It always feels good to win.”

Holetz said the weather played in his favor.

“The rain makes the greens a lot softer and the fairways a lot softer, so you can go over the bunkers and attack the pins,” he said. “I always feel like I can play good in the rain. I fee like I can keep my composure and hit some good shots.”

Trevino wasn’t surprised to see him play well, either.

“He’s been trending in the right direction for a while,” Trevino said. “He’s starting to make some birdies and even some eagles. I expect big things out of him, and I know he’s going to do well.”

The Division I North (formerly Northern 4A) will be looking for its first state title since Spanish Springs won in 2009.

“We’re a great team and we’re only going to get better with experience,” Holetz said. “... Sierra Sage is a short course. It’s very getable. We’ve played it a lot. That gives us quite an advantage. We have a very good chance of pulling it out next week.”

Local letter carriers stick together through Postal Service upheaval

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The residents know him, too. They know peanut butter cookies are his favorite. They know the birthday of his 17-year-old daughter, Danielle. They call him "Monkeyman" because of the tattoo on his left shoulder.

The familiarity is built on thousands of visits, week after week, year after year.

For almost three decades, Connell, 48, has delivered 3,000 to 4,000 pieces of mail each day to local businesses, houses and apartment buildings.

Despite massive technological upheaval and financial chaos that threaten the future of the U.S. Postal Service, Connell’s routine has remained relatively unaffected.

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“We are part of the community,” Connell said. “It’s what we do. When I adopted my daughter, I took a week off. When I came back there were presents, like tiny pink sleepers and blankets. People on my routes had been shopping for the mailman.”

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“I have had to deliver bees more than a couple of times,” he said. “Once, there was a hole in the crate and there were bees flying everywhere. I made sure to deliver that as quickly as I could to get them out of the car. I’ve also delivered snakes, ashes from the crematorium and coconuts.”

On a Tuesday in early spring, Connell’s cargo was a bit more mysterious.

He dislodged a thin, oblong box from the back of his truck, stopping to check the address before shoving it in his mailbag. A corner of the package fell through a gaping hole in the bottom of his bag. Walking into Jerry's Instrument Repair Shop, Connell speculated on its contents.

“It’s probably a trumpet,” he said, giving the box a slight shake. “Or maybe a trombone?”

He handed the package to the shop owner, pausing to scan its bar code, an extra step for insured deliveries. The machine spit out a string of high-pitched squeals.

“It’s saying, ‘Don’t rush me. I’m a 1995 version,’” Connell joked to the shop owner.

The man meticulously signed his name on the blinking screen and then reached for a pair of scissors to open the box. Inside: a violin.

In 1958, jeweler Harry Winston wrapped the Hope Diamond in brown paper and mailed it from New York City to Washington, D.C., for $2.44. The jewel was a present to the Smithsonian Institution.

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Mantoloking Mayor George Nebel said Monday that Harry, an heir to the British throne, will take a short walk along Barnegat Lane, along the town’s bay front, during a brief visit on May 14. The prince will accompany Gov. Chris Christie to Seaside Heights afterward.

During a council meeting held in Point Pleasant Beach because Mantoloking’s municipal building was wrecked by the storm and attended by The Associated Press, Nebel revealed part of the prince’s itinerary for his visit to the U.S. East Coast.

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The prince and Christie are scheduled to take “a brief walk” along the roadway, which is in the less-seriously damaged section of the borough.

“He wanted to see the hardest-hit town in New Jersey,” Nebel said. “He’ll arrive by car, walk along the road to see 10 houses, back in the car with the governor and gone.”

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A Dover, N.H. man charged with strangling Westborough High School graduate Elizabeth Marriott to death allegedly told police he killed her during the course of a consensual sex act involving erotic asphyxiation.

Thirty-year-old Seth Mazzaglia, of Dover, N.H., is facing first- and second-degree murder charges in connection with Marriott's death. He is accused of strangling Marriott with a rope inside his apartment on Mill Street on Oct. 9, 2012.

Police say after initially lying about the encounter, Mazzaglia admitted to his involvement during an interview at the Newington Police Department on Oct. 12, 2012. His statements to police were recounted in a police affidavit attached to an arrest warrant in the case.

The affidavit was among hundreds of pages of information unsealed Monday at the circuit court in Dover, N.H. Foster's Daily Democrat, the New Hampshire Union Leader and The Portsmouth Herald had all petitioned the court for access to the records, which had remained shielded from public view for more than six months.

The release followed Mazzaglia's indictment on murder charges in April by a Rockingham County grand jury.

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Gerkin claimed that “Lex” and McDonough then discussed “dumping the body,” but Gerkin wasn't specific about the exact statements she heard, according to the police affidavit.

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Written by actress Laoisa Sexton, who also plays the role of Bee, For Love has already enjoyed a successful run in New York and comes to Galway as part of an Irish tour.

“We did it for the First Irish Festival which was on last September in New York,” Sexton tells me. “I submitted it and it got in. I didn’t think it would because I wrote it very fast. My first play took me a year and a half and this one was done in a month. We sold out on the run and it was a big success and then we did it off - Broadway and then the tour came along and it’s just been gathering momentum, it’s been quite an experience, I have learned so much.”

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“Val is overweight but optimistic and goes out on all these one-night stands trying desperately to find someone.” Sexton replies. “Bee is a single mother who is about to be a granny at thirty-two and the third woman, Tina, is unhappily married and she fills her life up with shopping and superficial things.

“All the male roles are played by John Duddy, including a married guy that Bee is debating about taking things to the next level with. It’s funny and dark, it’s a dark-blue comedy.”

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