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For trainer Breen, Kentucky Derby never gets old
BY JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent By now, trainer Kelly Breen is a Kentucky Derby veteran. No matter how many horses the Marlboro native, who now lives in Howell, may saddle for the nation’s most prestigious race, he treats it like the first time. He never takes it for granted. “Any time you get to race the…
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On May 18, Navesink River Rowing (NRR) will hold a special 30th Anniversary Open House on its recently reopened site at the end of Maple Avenue in Red Bank. Activities, which are free and open to the public, will run continuously from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and include site tours and hands-on rowing demonstrations.…
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How to get your sports news in the paper
If you would like your sports news published, please submit a press release at least two weeks in advance of an event such as team registration or tryouts. Results of youth games and tournaments may also be submitted, as well as collegiate news about former high school athletes. Give complete information, such as dates, full…
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Old Bridge High School’s Sam Potts (l) races upfield with the ball as South Brunswick High School’s AnneMarie Rolwood gives chase. The teams played on April 27 at Old Bridge’s Geick Park. South Brunswick won, 7-4. ERIC SUCAR staff
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Bears aim to be top boys volleyball team in GMC
BY JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent East Brunswick Last year notwithstanding, Greg Rutz has been around volleyball long enough to know what qualities make for a winning team. Rutz has coached the East Brunswick High School boys for nearly 10 years, but he missed the 2012 season due to injuries suffered in an automobile accident. He is…
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State Theatre celebrates 25 years of rebirth
Performing arts center was reopened in 1988 as an expanded live venue More than 2.5 million people have walked along Livingston Avenue in New Brunswick over the past 25 years. They were all walking toward the State Theatre, which celebrated its 25th anniversary of its grand reopening as a performing arts center on April 24.…
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Talk to shed light on ‘Becoming American’
Michael Aaron Rockland, Ph.D., will offer a presentation titled “FUSION 2013 — Ethnicity in America: Becoming American” at 7 p.m. May 6 at the East Brunswick Public Library, Jean Walling Civic Center. Rockland will offer an examination of how various ethnic groups struggle to become American while simultaneously maintaining their identity and integrity. He will…
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Alborada to present dance, music, speech
“The CommonGround Festival,” Alborada Spanish Dance Theatre’s intergenerational dialogue of flamenco dance, live music and the spoken word, is set for 3 p.m. May 5 at the Crossroads Theatre, 7 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick. Tickets cost $20 and may be ordered through Brown Paper Tickets at brownpapertickets.com/event/357939 or 800-838- 3006. For more information and discounts,…
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Auxiliary to sponsor trip to Atlantic City
The East Brunswick Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 133 Ladies Auxiliary will offer a May 19 trip to Trump Plaza Casino, Atlantic City. The bus will depart from the post home, 485 Cranbury Road (behind University Radiology), East Brunswick. Cost is $22, with a $30 return from the casino. To reserve or for more…
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