Author: Greater Media

  • Rivera leads CBA to wrestling title at District 22 tourney

    By MATTHEW ROCCO Correspondent Christian Brothers Academy (CBA) ruled the NJSIAA District 22 wrestling tournament for the second year in a row. Three Colts grapplers earned gold medals on Feb. 21 at Red Bank Regional High School. CBA’s Sebastian Rivera, a 113-pound junior, completed back-to-back District 22 titles when he defeated Jason Hernandez of Raritan…

  • Rumson boys basketball continues recent win streak in SCT

    RUMSON-FAIR HAVEN By WARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent The Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School boys basketball team scored 11 straight second-quarter points and then parlayed a 17-6, third-quarter run into a 54-43 victory over Freehold Township High School in the quarterfinals of the Shore Conference Tournament. Brendan Barry was superb as usual, scoring 19 points to lead…

  • Libraries, book clubs cater to niche interests

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer Libraries throughout central New Jersey host book clubs and discussion groups to suit a broad range of patrons’ interests. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR If New Jersey were hit with a zombie apocalypse, the odds for survival would not be great, according to Tyler Rousseau, emergent technologies coordinator at the Monroe…

  • Pushing through the defense

    STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR Long Branch High School’s Camarie Brown gains control of a loose ball between Freehold Township High School’s Sam Famulare, left, and Taylor Devlin during the Shore Conference Tournament’s second-round game played on Feb. 18 at Freehold Township High School. Freehold Township pulled away late to beat the Green Wave, 56-43.

  • Noise concerns sink motocross application

    By GREG KENNELTY Staff Writer The Tinton Falls Zoning Board of Adjustment denied a hotly debated motocross facility that was proposed off Shafto Road. After nearly 18 months of hearings, the board unanimously voted down the proposal by Jersey Shore Motocross to locate the facility on 21 acres next to Mazza & Sons Demolition and…

  • Red Bank Regional students embrace Black History Month

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer “Amazing Grace” was one of the songs and hymns from African-American culture that students in Red Bank Regional High School’s strings program performed at the Black History Month celebration on Feb. 18. FRANK GALIPO Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. are major figures in African-American history, but perhaps Americans…

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    STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR Children of all ages take advantage of a recent snowstorm by bringing their sleds to the hill at Glenwood Cemetery, West Long Branch, on Feb. 17.

  • Changes needed in Common Core standards

    I believe the Common Core curriculum is a disaster. It telescopes learning far too quickly; forces teachers to move rapidly; teach to the test; and, worst of all, frustrates students to the extent that school is no longer a place children want to go. Math and science topics that were taught in grades 10-11 are…

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    PHOTO COURTESY OF LYNNE RICHMOND Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, from left, New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Douglas Fisher, Julianna Ezzo of Kendall Park and State Board of Agriculture President Richard Norz recognize Julianna as a lead ambassador of the Middlesex County 4-H at the New Jersey State Agricultural Convention Delegates’ Feb. 4 dinner in Atlantic…