Victory, tragedy mark Mount Olive in memorable 2013

MOUNT OLIVE TWP. The year of 2013 was marked with the tragedy of drownings and fires but also with progress on the development front.

Here are some of the more important and dramatic news stories of the year.

Boys Drown

As they had done before, Nicholas Michael Cianciotto III and Clyde Schimanski III, both 15, of Budd Lake, went out ice fishing.

But on this evening of Monday, Jan. 7, the ice was too thin and the two boys fell through the ice believed to be one or two inches thick.

Emergency workers donned immersion suits and entered the frigid water but were unable to find the boys.

The only signs of the boys were a cell phone and backpack found floating on the water.

The next day, rescue workers used sonar to help locate the Cianciotto boy but the body of the Schimanski teen wasnt found until the next day. It was the first time anyone had fallen through ice on Budd Lake and drowned.

A memorial to the two boys was soon erected at the western end of the lake.

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Victory, tragedy mark Mount Olive in memorable 2013