š± How Boontonās Walter Hedblom-Green shined at the Meet of Champions
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- How Boontonās Walter Hedblom-Green shined at the Meet of Champions
- Do you really pronounce āBoontonā the way most locals say it?
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ā¢ Morris County throwers dominate Meet of Champions (dailyrecord.com) ā Boonton High School senior Walter Hedblom-Green capped his season with a personal-best 190 feet, 9 inches to place third in the Meet of Champions javelin, standing out among New Jerseyās top throwers. The article also recaps big wins by Montville and Roxbury athletes in discus and shot put. 
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ā¢ These are some of North Jersey's hardest to pronounce town names (northjersey.com) ā Boonton gets a fun spotlight in a roundup of North Jerseyās trickiest town names, with a quick history lesson on how āBoonetownā honoring Governor Thomas Boone evolved into todayās āBoot-in.ā The piece compares Boontonās pronunciation quirks with other hard-to-say New Jersey places like Bogota, Closter, and Pequannock. Ā Ā Ā
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