I am New Jersey 101.5's Senior Producer for Morning News and Special Programming, also serving as lead reporter and fill-in anchor for "New Jersey's First News." I was formerly the station's Evening News Anchor from 2013 to 2016. I'm proud to be a member of our on-air and digital teams which were honored by the New Jersey chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, for coverage of the 2016 Seaside Park bombing, and by the New Jersey Broadcasters Association, for the 2015 fatal Amtrak derailment. I got my start in radio at The College of New Jersey, on student-run WTSR-FM, and graduated from TCNJ in 2009. Before coming to 101.5, I did news and sports for WGHT-AM in Pompton Lakes and WYNY-FM in Milford, PA. In a previous life as a child actor, I appeared in the Broadway cast of "Beauty and the Beast" from 1994 to 1996. I live in Hunterdon County with my wife, Kristen, and our 6-pound toy poodle and life of the party, Archie.
Patrick Lavery
Lucy the Elephant, and group protecting her, still standing tall
It takes more than you might think to keep a 138-year-old structure, made of cedar wood covered with tin, looking young.
NJ midterm turnout in ’18 hasn’t increased civic engagement: poll
The casual political observer might be led to believe that Garden State residents are becoming more civically engaged, but that isn't necessarily so.
Cops’ & firefighters’ hockey game honors 7-year-old who died of cancer
The Holmdel-based Frances Foundation for Kids Fighting Cancer will partner with the two organizations in memory of one of the foundation's "angels" who succumbed to brain cancer last year.
New Jersey 101.5’s Bob Williams heading 5K fundraising team
Bob and his donor Kim Roumes are continuing to "pay it forward" by participating in an event familiar to any follower of the "What's So Great About the Garden State" segment.
First of summer’s ‘First Fridays’ coming up along Delaware River
Only in the past decade or so have these fireworks become a concentrated effort to pump up tourism in the Lambertville-New Hope area.
Newton teen provides kids much-needed food, supplies for weekends
When Isobel Costello began her freshman year at Newton High School, she and her new friends began discussing how many students go home for the weekend without adequate food or basic hygiene products.
‘Pawsitive’ reinforcement spurs cat adoptions in Mercer County
Cats both old and young, either shy or feisty, are learning how to transition out of shelter life and into healthy, safe homes, thanks to a nationwide program in which one Mercer County nonprofit has been participating this spring.
A tree grows … and grows … and grows … in Audubon
A 226-year-old, 105-foot-high American elm tree, which DEP officials say was planted circa 1793, has been certified as the oldest of its kind in Camden County, and in fact, in all of New Jersey.
NJ students win national contest applying math to drug solutions
A team of five students from High Technology High School has taken home the grand prize of $20,000 in college scholarships in a nationwide competition, to recommend solutions to substance abuse problems by using mathematical modeling.
Sun is so close to returning to our forecast — you can almost see it!
I joke a lot — a LOT — about the absurdity of the 1980s Broadway musical "Starlight Express," but its finale rings true to me at the end of an often gloomy weather week: There's a light at the end of the tunnel.