Author: Claire Reed, Managing Editor

  • Monroe’s Filiault ready to be focal point of hoops team

    Monroe’s Filiault ready to be focal point of hoops team

    By Jimmy Allinder It’s going to be a different Casey Filiault when the guard for the Monroe Township High School girls’ basketball team steps on the court this season. A member of the rotation for teams that won 20-plus games the past two seasons, Filiault showed flashes of potential. However, according to head coach Leigh…

  • Performers of the Week

    Performers of the Week

    Thanksgiving Day football rivalries capped the season for most of the area teams this past week. So it was a time when players delivered sparkling efforts that increased their appetite for what was to be served on the dinner table later that day. Shore Regional High School was bounced from the NJSIAA state football sectional…

  • Lions look to end state football championship drought

    Lions look to end state football championship drought

    By Wayne Witkowski Donald Glenn and two-way standouts Brandon Kube and Dwight Wilkerson have been playing hard for four seasons as starters for this moment: the NJSIAA state sectional championship game. Middletown High School North, which takes on Sayreville War Memorial High School in the North Jersey, Section II, Group IV finale at Rutgers University’s…

  • Police force sports hairy faces to promote cancer awareness

    Police force sports hairy faces to promote cancer awareness

    By VASHTI HARRIS Staff Writer SOUTH RIVER — Officers of the South River Police Department (SRPD) have been participating in activities that bring attention to cancer. During the past two months, the department has been using its active community platform to help raise awareness for cancer, from sporting pink shirts under their uniforms for Breast Cancer Awareness Month in…

  • Keyport hopes to cap win streak with state football title

    Keyport hopes to cap win streak with state football title

    By Matthew Rocco The Keyport High School football team is on an eight-game winning streak. If they make it nine in a row, the Red Raiders will be state champions for the first time in 14 years. With a late go-ahead touchdown, the Red Raiders knocked out Point Pleasant Beach High School, 27-14, in the…

  • Bulldogs aim for fourth straight state football crown

    Bulldogs aim for fourth straight state football crown

    By Warren Rappleyea There was never any doubt prior to the season that the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School football team’s goal was a fourth straight state sectional championship. The Bulldogs (8-3) are one win away from doing just that. Coach Jerry Schulte’s team earned the fourth seed for the NJSIAA Central Jersey, Group III…

  • New Egypt closes football season with loss to Bordentown

    New Egypt closes football season with loss to Bordentown

    By Wayne Witkowski Bordentown Regional High School continues to make a tough ending to the football season feel even worse at New Egypt High School. For the fourth straight year, Bordentown ended the season with a victory over New Egypt — this time, 34-22, Nov. 24. It could’ve looked even worse if not for two…

  • Pop Warner Warriors heading to Orlando for showcase

    Pop Warner Warriors heading to Orlando for showcase

    By Wayne Witkowski It’s off to Florida again this late fall for players on a New Egypt youth football team. Members of the New Egypt Pop Warner Pee Wee Warriors leave Dec. 3 for Florida to compete in a two-game Division III showcase at Walt Disney World in Orlando. Coach Larry Peslak hopes that the…

  • 2 incumbents, 1 write-in win seats on Freehold Borough school board

    2 incumbents, 1 write-in win seats on Freehold Borough school board

    By Matthew Sockol Staff Writer FREEHOLD – Annette Jordan, Paul Ceppi and Tyler Jordan have won three-year terms on the Freehold Borough K-8 School District Board of Education. Annette Jordan and Ceppi are current members of the board; Tyler Jordan is a newcomer who will join the panel in January. Annette Jordan and Ceppi were…