• Matrix baseball team showcases GMC talent

    BY WARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent Monroe Township High School’s Brandon Caccavale is the captain of the ice hockey team and could break the school’s scoring record this winter. ROY DeBOER PHOTO The Greater Middlesex Matrix Baseball Club’s prospects team completed its summer season with a 10-7 record, which included a third-place finish at the Best Show…

  • Asbury Park to host ninth annual 5K run on Aug. 11

    The streets of Asbury Park will be flooded with runners and racewalkers on Aug. 11 when the town hosts the Ninth Annual Asbury Park 5K. The race, conducted with the cooperation of the Jersey Shore Running Club and the Shore Athletic Club, will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Fifth Avenue between Ocean Ave. and Kingsley…

  • East Brunswick field hockey tournament reflects sport’s popularity

    BY JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent Sarah Acevedo (middle) and her East Brunswick High School teammates benefited from participating in the competitive summer preseason tournament that was held at East Brunswick High School. Cindi Todoroff, the veteran coach of East Brunswick High School’s field hockey team, has been touting how her sport has grown in popularity in…

  • Hector L. Reyes

    Mr. Reyes, 50, of Old Bridge, died July 11, 2012, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. He was employed with Gerard Sheet Metal Fabricators, East Brunswick, where he worked for 25 years. He was predeceased by his father, Antonio Reyes. Surviving are his wife, Vidalina “Lena” Reyes; a son, Hector L. Reyes II…

  • Joseph A. Mattera

    Mr. Mattera, 84, of Old Bridge, died July 26, 2012. Surviving are his wife, Vivian Mattera; a son and daughter-in-law, Anthony and Vivian Mattera of Mountainside; a daughter and son-inlaw, Maria and Harris Rosenthal of Old Bridge; and six grandchildren. A Mass was offered at St. Thomas the Apostle Church, Old Bridge. Interment was in…

  • Helen B. Schmidt Klockars

    Mrs. Klockars, 91, of Monroe, formerly of the Parlin section of Sayreville, died Aug. 1, 2012, at home. Prior to her retirement, she was employed as a fashion consultant for Lane Bryant in East Brunswick, where she worked for 15 years. She was a member of the Sayreville Commission on Aging. She was predeceased by…

  • Costabile “Gus” Fronzuti

    Mr. Fronzuti, 74, of East Brunswick, died July 31, 2012, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement in 2002, he worked in shipping and receiving for 40 years at Akzo Nobel, Edison. Surviving are his wife, Maria Teresa Valeri; a daughter, Vina Firmani, and her husband, Ermelindo, of East Brunswick; a…

  • Stella J. Truchan

    Mrs. Truchan, 93, of Sayreville, died Aug. 3, 2012, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy division. Prior to her retirement in 1988, she was employed by the Sayreville Board of Education in the cafeteria at Sayreville War Memorial High School, where she worked for 26 years. She was predeceased by her husband, Stanley; four…

  • Lynda Ann “Tishy” Bukovec

    Mrs. Bukovec, formerly of the Sewaren section of Woodbridge, died July 28, 2012, at Carolinas Medical Center (CMC)-Pineville in Charlotte, N.C. Surviving are her husband, Peter; two children, Marley and Max; her mother, Anna Marie Fortenbacher of Sewaren; her father, John Gilligan of Metuchen; two sisters, Kim Snyder of Spotswood and Dawn Kovacs; a brother…

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