• Sharples prepares for first year as Liberty Lions’ head football coach

    BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent The face was familiar to the large gathering of Jackson Liberty High School football players meeting with their new head coach. Jim Sharples, the Liberty Lions’ defensive coordinator for the past two years, has the tough task of taking over a team that enjoyed the greatest season of its six-year history…

  • Jones repeats as state sectional golf winner

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Dawson Jones is just a sophomore, but he’s already done something no other golfer from the Freehold Regional High School District has done. The Howell High School golfer is a two-time NJSIAA sectional champion. The Rebels’ standout made district history when he successfully defended his Central/South Jersey Group IV title…

  • sport shorts

    On June 8, Josh Davis, a three-time Gold and two-time Silver medal-winning Olympian, will be leading a Mutual of Omaha BreakOut Swim Clinic at the YMCA of Western Monmouth County, 470 East Freehold Road, Freehold Township. The clinic will run 2-6 p.m. Freehold-area high school swimmers will have a unique chance to improve their competitive…

  • Howell’s Jones finishes second at state golf TOC

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer awson Jones went to the NJSIAA Golf Tournament of Champions (TOC) seeking to erase the memory of the 80 he carded there as a freshman. The Howell High School sophomore left the TOC, held May 20 at the Hopewell Valley Golf Club, with far more than he was looking for.…

  • Goetz has another successful boys track and field season

    BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent Carl W. Goetz Middle School’s boys track and field team went 11-0 for the second year in a row and repeated as Ocean and Monmouth counties’ Meet of Champions (MOC) winner. This year’s team showed it can improve perfection. It won every meet at least comfortably, and often convincingly, with no…

  • Photo

    The Jackson Memorial High School boys lacrosse team huddles for a pregame cheer before the start of the May 21 NJSIAA South Group IV quarterfinals against South Brunswick High School, held in Jackson. The Jaguars had a lot to cheer about: they advanced to the semifinals with a 15-3 triumph. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR

  • New Jersey International Film Fest to begin May 30

    The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center — in association with the Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies, Jungle Software, Johnson & Johnson, Footage Firm, New Brunswick City Market, Jimmy John’s, and Eastman Kodak Co. — will present the 18th annual New Jersey International Film Festival Summer 2013 from May 31 to June 16.…

  • business briefs

    Harmony Bank has named Thomas Lilley, of Manahawkin, the director of its new U.S. Small Business Administration loan department. Lilley, who has more than 20 years of experience in SBA lending, will oversee the development of Harmony’s SBA lending division and will foster its SBA portfolio growth throughout the state. His office is at Harmony…

  • in the service

    Army Pfc. Alex P. Trosky, son of Pat and George Trosky of Jackson, has graduated from One Station Unit Training at Fort Leonard Wood, Waynesville, Mo., which included basic military training and advanced individual training (AIT). During basic military training, the trainee received instruction in drill and ceremony, weapons qualification, map reading, tactics, military courtesy,…

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