As has been the case for years now, the thespians of Pinelands Regional High School took home a truckload of awards in the Speech and Theatre Association of New Jersey’s 2020 state high school theater competition in January at Montclair State University.

There are now 19 categories in the ever-growing annual competition. It is especially prestigious to take first place in seven of them because that also earns the winners a coveted New Jersey Governor’s Award in Arts Education.