• Allentown girls’ basketball team learning from its losses

    Allentown girls’ basketball team learning from its losses

    By Wayne Witkowski Allentown High School girls’ basketball coach Linda Weise believes things can be learned from losing that can benefit many teams later in the season. She believed that for her team after its seven-game unbeaten steak was snapped by Red Bank Catholic High School, 63-30, Jan. 9. “It was an eye-opening experience, but…

  • On Campus

    On Campus

    Michael Thomas Pascal, son of Mickey and Lisa Pascal of Monroe, was named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Seton Hall University, South Orange, where he achieved a 4.0 GPA. A graduate of Monroe Township High School, he is majoring in business/sports management while pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree…

  • Barrons suffering from injuries, lack of wrestlers this season

    Barrons suffering from injuries, lack of wrestlers this season

    By Jeff Appelblatt Woodbridge wrestling coach Mike Carbone knew his team had a number of voids in this year’s lineup. As a result, he didn’t expect this season to be anywhere as good as the last one. The biggest problem the Barrons are facing showed clearly in the team’s five-team meet at Kingsway Regional High…

  • Falcons excelling in pool against GMC, nonconference foes

    Falcons excelling in pool against GMC, nonconference foes

    By Jimmy Allinder St. Joseph The Saint Joseph High School of Metuchen swimming team really has no peer in the Greater Middlesex Conference (GMC), and that has been validated by this season’s 5-0 record (7-0 overall). Thus, it’s natural for the Falcons to seek out competition from other parts of New Jersey and even neighboring…

  • ‘Harlem Hellfighters’ to come to life at library

    ‘Harlem Hellfighters’ to come to life at library

    A program titled “The Harlem Hellfighters: The Jersey Connection” is planned for 2 p.m. Feb. 18 at the East Brunswick Public Library, 2 Jean Walling Civic Center. In 1917 the world was at war, and America was about to tip the balance of power on the Western Front. Among the first doughboys to go to…

  • Cougars halt skid with girls’ hoops win over Patriots

    Cougars halt skid with girls’ hoops win over Patriots

    By Jeff Appelblatt Colts Neck High School’s girls’ basketball team had lost a few games in a row, dropping the team down to the .500 mark. However, when the team went to Freehold Township High School Jan. 11, the Cougars immediately demonstrated the skid needed to come to a stop. It was their gym, but…

  • Cooking oil recycling program ‘has potential’ to reduce sanitation costs

    Cooking oil recycling program ‘has potential’ to reduce sanitation costs

    By VASHTI HARRIS Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK–Local officials aim to make recycling residential cooking oil easier and more convenient. The East Brunswick Township Council approved Middlesex County’s Pilot Cooking Oil Program, which aims to provide more dropoff locations for residents to recycle their cooking oil. “The program has the potential to reduce the exposure to blockages…

  • Milltown panel to offer free parenting series

    Milltown panel to offer free parenting series

    The Milltown Municipal Alliance will sponsor a free eight-week Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP) series beginning 6-7:30 p.m. Feb. 7 at Parkview School, Violet Terrace. Participants will learn effective ways to relate to their children and encourage cooperative behavior. To register, call Johanna Pagan at 732-254-3344, ext. 111, or email johanna.pagan@ wellspringprevention.org.

  • Kuhnert Classic scheduled for Jan. 19 in Freehold

    Kuhnert Classic scheduled for Jan. 19 in Freehold

    By Jeff Appelblatt Jack Kuhnert, one time basketball coach and math teacher at Freehold High School, left such an impact throughout Freehold that some of the people he made an impression on in his life want everyone to remember the man who meant so much to so many. When he died in 1997, one of…

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