Author: Claire Reed, Managing Editor

  • Vikings’ Campbell looks to improve on high jump win at MOC

    Vikings’ Campbell looks to improve on high jump win at MOC

    By Warren Rappleyea Although she only began competing a year ago, South Brunswick High School’s Courteney Campbell has had a meteoric rise that saw her win the high jump at the NJSIAA Meet of Champions (MOC). The junior’s personal best of 5-6 on her first attempt, which was also a team record, put her on…

  • Allentown’s Sensi continues to excel on Rider softball team

    Allentown’s Sensi continues to excel on Rider softball team

    By Wayne Witkowski Dana Sensi of Allentown continues to show the form that has earned her all-Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) first team honors early for this season’s Rider University softball team. “I’ve definitely been getting a lot better,” she said. Sensi is a senior first baseman who came in well prepared for the spring off…

  • Edison songstress advances on ‘The Voice’

    Edison songstress advances on ‘The Voice’

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer EDISON — Five years ago, Moushumi Chitre’s name rose to prominence as a senior at J.P. Stevens High School when she won the school’s annual JPS Got Talent. Chitre was one of eight students highlighted for their talent in the school’s newspaper “The Hawkeye” in April 2011. Five years later,…

  • Gambling addictions may fill a void in seniors’ lives

    Gambling addictions may fill a void in seniors’ lives

      By MATTHEW SOCKOL Staff Writer Gambling is often more than a game. The Wellspring Center for Prevention and the Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey (CCGNJ) sponsored a conference on gambling addiction on March 15. Entitled “Out of the Dark — Addressing the Hidden Addiction of Gambling Among Older Adults,” the conference provided insight…

  • Places to be

    Places to be

    Here are scholastic sport venues that you want to be at over the next few days March Madness reaches its crescendo for New Jersey high school basketball with the Tournament of Champions semi-finals and finals. On March 17 at the Pine Belt Arena in Toms River, the boys are up with No. 1 seed and…

  • Board appoints Tan to fill open seat

    Board appoints Tan to fill open seat

    COLTS NECK – Michelle Tan has rejoined the Colts Neck K-8 School District Board of Education. Tan previously served on the board from 2010-13. She did not seek re-election in 2013. In January, a seat on the board opened when Kimberly Eydelman resigned from the panel. District administrators invited interested residents to apply to fill…

  • Board honors outstanding teachers

    Board honors outstanding teachers

    By Andrew Martins Staff Writer PLUMSTED – The work of four teachers in the Plumsted Township School District was recognized by the Board of Education during a recent meeting. The recipients of Plumsted’s Teacher of the Year awards were Aileen Chaney, New Egypt Primary School; Helen Sipos, Dr. Gerald H. Woehr Elementary School; Caitlin Lynch, New…

  • Applicant revises plans for office building

    Applicant revises plans for office building

    By Jennifer Ortiz Staff Writer HOWELL — An applicant who wants to construct an office building on Ford Road presented revised plans to the Howell Zoning Board of Adjustment during a recent meeting. Representatives of Ford Road Equities returned before the board on March 14 seeking a use variance that would permit the development of a…

  • Bombers’ baseball team looks to continue last year’s success

    Bombers’ baseball team looks to continue last year’s success

    By Warren Rappleyea Sayreville War Memorial High School’s baseball team looks to pick up where it left off following its run to the Greater Middlesex Conference (GMC) Tournament finals last spring. After opening the season with a pair of losses, the Bombers rebounded to turn in a 17-11 mark and become a force to contend…