Moorestown

A lot of kids grow up falling for sports such as baseball, football, or soccer. But having played in the backyard with his father, Steve, since he was 3 years old, Ryan Dickerson learned to appreciate a different sport: tennis. The early start seems to have helped Dickerson. As a freshman last season, he led Moorestown with a 33-4 record at No. 1 singles and proved to be one of the best players in South Jersey. "I knew there were a lot of good players in North Jersey, but I really didn't know the competition that was out there and how I matched up," Dickerson said of last season.

As a teacher, Arthur Kenneth Peacock had a gift for guiding students through thickets of complexities on the way to clarity. In undergraduate mathematics, that was no small feat; in theology, arguably even harder. Through much of his professional life, Mr. Peacock designed computer systems, founding his own company. But he was grounded in education, first as a math instructor at Ohio Wesleyan University and later as a teaching elder at First Presbyterian Church in Moorestown.

WASHINGTON - Lockheed Martin Corp. won a contract Monday to keep its role as the primary systems engineer for the Aegis defense system, allowing the defense giant to continue work that helps account for thousands of jobs at its Moorestown facility. "It's a pretty exciting time here in Moorestown," Jim Sheridan, Lockheed's director of Aegis programs, said in a conference call with reporters. The Aegis anti-ballistic missile system has been with Lockheed or its predecessor companies for roughly 40 years, but the latest contract was put out to bid, and was contested by Boeing Co. and Raytheon Co. When the call Monday came in from Navy Rear Adm. Joseph Horn, "it was a lot of jumping up and down, a great deal of excitement.

On a recent afternoon last month, a man and his dog jogged down a peaceful, winding lane in Moorestown past a row of tidy $725,000 homes that exhibited tiered fountains and stone goddesses. Not on display in the Wexford development were about 58 monitoring wells that lie about 25 feet beneath the ground in the area, installed after hazardous, carcinogenic solvents were spilled at the nearby defense plant. "We're watching it," said Larry Hajna, spokesman for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, referring to tainted groundwater the agency says was caused by Lockheed Martin's predecessor, RCA Corp., nearly three decades ago. While some tests show improvement, the monitoring area off Borton Landing Road has widened.

Camden's Tavaris Headen talks about the win over Moorestown. rallyvideos

There always are echoes of old times in Clarence Turner Gymnasium, where the center circle is painted to commemorate 11 championship seasons and the tiled walls are adorned with banners that honor some of the best players and teams in state history. But the past truly comes alive when Tavaris Headen takes the court for the Panthers. It's not that Headen, a 5-foot-9 junior guard, has the same skill level of some former Camden greats, although the clever lefty generated 20 points, six steals, and six assists in Saturday's 71-59 victory over Moorestown in the South Jersey Group 3 semifinals.

There always are echoes of old times in Clarence Turner Gymnasium, where the center circle is painted to commemorate 11 championship seasons and the tiled walls are adorned with banners that honor some of the best players and teams in state history. But the past truly comes alive when Tavaris Headen takes the court for the Panthers. It's not that Headen, a 5-foot-9 junior guard, has the same skill level of some former Camden greats, although the clever lefty generated 20 points, six steals, and six assists in Saturday's 71-59 victory over Moorestown in the South Jersey Group 3 semifinals.

The most grueling match of the day wound up being in the lightest weight class. At 106 pounds, Moorestown's Max Rohan won a double-overtime match with a 4-2 decision over Vincent Foggia of Northern Burlington on Friday in the quarterfinals of the NJSIAA Region 7 wrestling tournament at Robbinsville. With the win, Rohan heads to the semifinals, where he will face Louis Arensberg of Audubon on Saturday. In the 145-pound bracket, Camden Catholic's Jeff Miller rode into the semifinals with a pin of Cherry Hill East's Patrick Swenson in 39 seconds.

Beau Sherry is not a new coach looking to drastically change the Moorestown football program. Sherry, 32, was named Moorestown's coach by the Board of Education on Tuesday night. He hopes to build on the foundation created by former coach Russ Horton, who resigned after last season. "I look at this as a continuation," Sherry said. "It's important that the kids know what is expected of them. We might have new wrinkles here or there, but I want to continue with what Russ has done.

Antonio goes for a run on the treadmill and gets a massage twice a week. But he'd rather chase a ball anytime. This peppy, personable golden retriever is having fun again, thanks to veterinarian Rebecca Fulton, massage therapist Lisa Madison, and canine rehabilitation practitioner Mary Alice Tolen. Antonio is a patient at V-Crest, the canine rehabilitation facility Fulton founded in Sewell four years ago and moved last month to Moorestown. The practice typically treats about 20 dogs, large and small, old and young, each week.