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About Our District, Chester School District. Accessed February 12, 2020. "Students in grades nine through twelve go to the West Morris Regional High School District.The district is comprised of Dickerson Elementary School (K-2), Bragg Intermediate School (3-5), and Black River Middle School (6-8). Dickerson and Bragg Schools are located on Route 24, east of Chester Borough; Black River Middle School is on Route 513 (North Road), north of Chester Borough. The school district serves two municipalities, Chester Borough and Chester Township."
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Goldberg, an. "Chester merger panel puts off meeting until next year", The Star-Ledger, October 5, 2010. Accessed January 15, 2015. "Progress toward merging the two Chesters has slowed to a crawl, and the consolidation commission charged with studying the feasibility of it has decided not to meet again until 2011.... A DCA report delivered in May showed that the merger, based on 2009 data, would reduce borough taxes by approximately $570 on a home assessed at the borough average of $528,000. It would increase township taxes $128 on a home assessed at $826,000, the township average."
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Staff. "All American Jersey Girl"Archived September 2, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey Baseball Magazine, Fall 2005. Accessed April 28, 2015. "Fortunately for baseball purists everywhere, Tommie ate regularly enough while growing up in Chester, New Jersey to make it to tryouts for the All American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) in 1949."
Staff. "Thorlabs opens new facility in Newton", Star-Gazette, March 23, 2012. Accessed April 28, 2015. "The company has been growing dramatically since it was started by Alex Cable in the basement of his parents' Chester, NJ home in 1989."
Staff. "All American Jersey Girl"Archived September 2, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey Baseball Magazine, Fall 2005. Accessed April 28, 2015. "Fortunately for baseball purists everywhere, Tommie ate regularly enough while growing up in Chester, New Jersey to make it to tryouts for the All American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) in 1949."
