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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Fair Lawn Cutters Voted Best Mascot in New Jersey

The Cutters cruised to a first-round win in the USA Today Top High School Mascot competition, which ended Tuesday at 3 p.m.

The Cutters' prospects have looked good for a few days, but now it's finally official: Fair Lawn is home to the best high school mascot in New Jersey. Fair Lawn faithful voted their beloved Cutters to an incredible 30,284-vote victory in the first round of USA Today's Top High School Mascot contest, which finished up Tuesday at 3 p.m. The Garnet Gulls of Point Pleasant Beach got off to an early lead over the Cutters in the contest's first two days before the Fair Lawn community became aware of the contest. As soon as they did, however, it was game over for the Gulls. Within 24 hours of the contest details appearing on this site, Fair Lawn stormed past Point Pleasant Beach and never looked back. The Cutters ended up besting the Garnet Gulls…

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Cutters Vie for Title of Nation's Best High School Mascot and How Fair Lawn's Athletic Teams Got the Name 'Cutters'

Peter Loffman

4:19 pm on Thursday, March 7, 2013

Currently Hartford has 125,000 votes compared to our 9900. Doesn't look good for the second round of voting   more ›

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Cutters Vie for Title of Nation's Best High School Mascot

USA Today has selected Fair Lawn High School as one of five New Jersey schools in consideration for the nation's best high school mascot.

Named for a half-dozen football players who ditched class to catch a movie in Paterson some 70 years ago, the Cutters of Fair Lawn High School possess one of the more unique nicknames of any school in the state, according to USA Today. The Cutters are one of 255 schools across the country -- five from each state and the District of Columbia -- up for the title of "Best High School Mascot" in a USA Today contest that began Monday. The state round of the contest, which pits Fair Lawn against the Phillipsburg Stateliners, Point Pleasant Beach Garnet Gulls, Red Bank Catholic Caseys and Trenton Catholic Iron Mikes, runs until March 5 at 3 p.m. Anyone at least 13 years of age is eligible to vote as many times they like (full disclosure: I've …

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How Fair Lawn's Athletic Teams Got the Name 'Cutters'

Greg Muller

6:26 am on Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Cutter Nation Unite! We're heading to next round!   more ›

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