Author: Greater Media

  • Brookdale softball team adds speed for more potent lineup

    By TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Weather was an early-season opponent for the Brookdale Community College softball team. Veteran head coach Bo Scannapieco said 1994 was the last time he remembered field conditions being as bad as they were this year. The Jersey Blues weren’t able to play a home game until April 1 and hadn’t…

  • RE/MAX of New Jersey partners with Move for Hunger

    RE/MAX of New Jersey has recently partnered with the New Jersey based nonprofit organization Move For Hunger. Move For Hunger was established in 2009 when brothers, Adam and Max Lowy of Lowy’s Moving Service, wanted to make a difference with the food that was left behind by the clients they moved. Adam and Max began…

  • Deadline for grant application is May 31

    OCEAN — The Community Hope Fund has announced its request for proposals for its Youth Development Grant Program, which supports local, innovative programs and research-based models to promote youth development. The application deadline is May 31. The Community Hope Fund is seeking local programs that build developmental assets in youth. Grants will be awarded to…

  • Wine market flourishes in state economic sectors

    By CHRISTINE BARCIA Staff Writer Laurita Winery, which produces up to 16,000 cases of wine annually, offers wine tasting and tours of the New Egypt vineyard and winery. SCOTT FRIEDMAN New Jersey vintners have managed to quiet the skeptics who did not believe that the Garden State could produce quality wines. With award-winning wines on…

  • Looking to make contact

    MATT DENTON Monroe Township High School’s Nick Payero gets ready to turn on a pitch during the Falcons’ April 1 home opener against Old Bridge High School. The Falcons got the season off on the right foot by doubling up the Knights, 4-2.

  • Rams pick up a win as softball season finally opens

    SOUTH RIVER By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent It took over a week into the regular season, but the South River High School softball team finally played a game. The Rams opened with a 14-2 victory over Highland Park High School April 6, highlighted by pitcher Mackenzie Garrick’s two-hitter and team-leading three hits. Whether South River plays…

  • Bears eagerly await return of Assennata to the mound

    EAST BRUNSWICK By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent Four games into the season, two-year starter Lauren Assennata has yet to throw a pitch for the East Brunswick High School softball team (23-4 last year), and her absence finally caught up with the Bears. Following two impressive victories — 15-0 over Edison High School and 14-7 against Colonia…

  • SPORT SHORTS

    East Brunswick’s Frank Esposito will have two weeks to rebound from what were two tough Champions Tour tournaments in March before he swings back into action. Esposito, 51, in his first full season on the tour, finished 74th at the Tucson Conquistadores Classic in Tucson, Arizona, and followed that by placing 73rd at the Mississippi…

  • Coldwell Banker Cares Day to benefit local communities

    All 55 Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage offices in New Jersey and Rockland County, N.Y. will be giving back to local communities throughout both states and in Middlesex County via charitable efforts as part of the third annual Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Cares Day event. Each office has selected a Cares Day project, with most of…