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Lenny Cathcart, the president of the Plainfield Board of Education, told me Wednesday that longtime assistant Reggie Robinson is now the head coach of the Plainfield High football team. Two summers ago, we witnessed a bizarre epic that included Robinson believing he was the head coach, then Clinton Jones being retained, then Jones resigning, then coming back after his players rallied for him. Well, now it looks like Robinson is going to take Jones' spot.

I wrote the story Wednesday afternoon. I can only go on what Board officials tell us and Cathcart says there won't be a repeat of what turned into a big top production in the summer of 2005. I hope he's right, but I'll miss Clint.

Franklin baseball coach Bill Nickel, a Brearley High School graduate, will be in his first year of coaching the Warriors. He said that the school is hoping that the team can play as many as nine home games behind the new high school on Elizabeth Avenue. Now, if only the township can get a referendum passed so the football team can get a new facility there. Ackerman Field is a worse than Brooks Field in Somerville and that's saying quite a bit.

We have one more head football coaching job opening remaining and that's at Bridgewater-Raritan. We should know about that in the next week or 10 days.