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So. Brunswick publicizing gun amnesty program
Project Safe Surrender allows residents to relinquish firearms BY STELLA MORRISON Staff Writer The South Brunswick Police Department is publicizing the Project Safe Surrender gun amnesty program in the township. Project Safe Surrender will inform residents how to surrender firearms — both legal and illegal — to the township. The program’s reinvigoration came at the…
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Changing the world one child at a time
Big Brothers Big Sisters matches disadvantaged youths with mentors BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer Royce Winsten, 2013 Big Brother of the Year, listens as his “little,” Wayne, plays bass in Belmar on Jan. 15. ERIC SUCAR staff In 1998, Waldo Sainvilus was a student at Asbury Park Middle School struggling with coursework when he was…
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sport shorts
Central Jersey Umpire Association (CJUA) is looking for new or experienced baseball and softball umpires to join one of the largest umpire organizations in the state. It is looking for men or women ages 16 or over who like the game, want to make some extra money and would like to become certified umpires by…
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Red Bank’s Sickels plays in U.S. Army All-American Bowl
BY WARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent Garrett Sickels Several years ago, Garrett Sickels was watching the U.S. Army All-American Bowl with his dad. Sickels, who was 11 years old at the time, recalls saying that he would play in the game one day. On Jan. 5, the Red Bank Regional High School standout did just that, competing…
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Area athletes making an impact at Rowan
A thletes from Greater Media Newspaper area are making an impact at Rowan University. Tyler Coe, a freshman from North Brunswick, won the 100-yard (59.37) and 200 (2:15.02) breaststroke events for the mens swim team in a dual meet win over York College, 166-82. Coe also swam on the victorious 200 medley relay team. Rowan’s…
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Caseys improve winning streak to 13 games with recent victories
RBC’s girls basketball team defeats SJV, Manasquan and Jackson Memorial BY WARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent Red Bank Catholic (RBC) High School’s girls basketball team is coming off a highly successful week that saw the Caseys run their season-long unbeaten streak to 13 games while scoring an important victory over rival St. John Vianney High School (9-5).…
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Long Branch’s Morrison leads area winners at county indoor track meet
Ocean Township High School’s MacGregor Siegle competes in the pole vault at the Monmouth County Indoor Track and Field Championships held at the John Bennett Indoor Athletic Complex in Toms River on Jan. 18. ERIC SUCAR staff Long Branch High School’s Cleopatra Morrison made her claim as the county’s fastest girl. The Green Wave out-sprinted…
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Breakfast open house set in Oakhurst
The Greater Ocean Township Chamber of Commerce will be having a Breakfast Open House Networking event at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 30 in the auditorium of the Ocean Township Board of Education, 163 Monmouth Rd., Oakhurst. The Chamber’s new office is adjacent to the auditorium. In addition to eating a hot breakfast, making new…
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Colette “Charlie” Tripp
Mrs. Tripp, 74, of Eatontown, died Jan. 17, 2013, at her daughter’s home in Howell. She was born and raised on the Jersey Shore and moved to Eatontown in the early 1970s. She was employed as a bartender at Pine Tree Tavern in Eatontown. Mrs. Tripp was predeceased by her first husband, Robert Murray; and…
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