• Redbirds look to handle pressure as field hockey season begins

    Redbirds look to handle pressure as field hockey season begins

    By Wayne Witkowski Defender Melanie Scibilia, a cornerstone to Allentown High School’s drive to the field hockey NJSIAA Group III state championship game last fall, is off to a collegiate career at Penn State University as one of nine graduated players from last year’s Redbirds — seven of them starters. Also graduated is Kayla Peterson,…

  • Sports Shorts

    Sports Shorts

    Michael Diecidue of Upper Freehold has been named to this year’s Kutztown University cross-country team. On the men’s side, Kutztown’s sixth-place run in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Championships last year was its best since 2004, and it gets the opportunity to host the PSAC Championships this year for the second time in four…

  • Thank America’s Teachers award ceremony slated Oct. 5

    Thank America’s Teachers award ceremony slated Oct. 5

    Music students at Colonia Middle School in Woodbridge Township will benefit from a $2,500 Farmers Insurance grant awarded by the company’s Thank America’s Teachers program. The award ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. on Oct. 5 in Room 117, Colonia Middle School, 100 Delaware Ave., Colonia. Mayor John E. McCormac is scheduled to attend…

  • Metuchen Library to hold Book Sale Oct. 1

    Metuchen Library to hold Book Sale Oct. 1

    Join The Friends of the Metuchen Library at the 2016 Annual Book Sale on Oct. 1 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Annual Book Sale will take place on the front lawn of the Metuchen Library,480 Middlesex Ave. in Metuchen. The rain dates are Oct. 8 and Oct. 15. The Book Sale is the…

  • Weichert reaches grand total donation of more than $1 million to American Cancer Society

    Weichert reaches grand total donation of more than $1 million to American Cancer Society

    Weichert, Realtors successfully raised $170,000 in donations for the American Cancer Society (ACS) to fund breast cancer research during its 16th Annual Charity Golf Outing. Proceeds from the event bring the grand total that Weichert has raised for the ACS to more than $1 million since the annual fundraiser began in 2001. Held annually at…

  • J.P. Stevens seeks better gridiron results in White Division

    J.P. Stevens seeks better gridiron results in White Division

    By Jimmy Allinder J.P. Stevens It’s been exactly one decade since the John P. Stevens High School football team has appeared in the NJSIAA playoffs. The postseason competition was instituted in 1974, and the Greater Middlesex Conference (GMC) Red Division team qualified 12 times, appeared in eight championship games and won six titles. In the…

  • Holiday Express Clambake to be held Sept. 18

    Holiday Express Clambake to be held Sept. 18

    LONG BRANCH-The ninth annual Holiday Express Sunset Benefit Clambake will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. on Sept. 18 on the beach at McLoone’s Pier House in Long Branch. The clambake, which is sponsored by Shore Point Distributing Company, will cost $250 per guest and includes a premium open bar and a lavish buffet…

  • ‘An Evening at Ross Fenton Farm’ dinner/dance slated

    ‘An Evening at Ross Fenton Farm’ dinner/dance slated

    The Township of Ocean Historical Museum announces “An Evening at Ross Fenton Farm” dinner-dance will be held from 4 p.m.-9 p.m. on Nov. 13 at the English Manor, One English Land, Ocean. Inspired by Wanamassa’s storied nightclub, the excitement of the Farm in the Roaring Twenties will be recreated. A full dinner, music from the…

  • Metuchen ignores public safety hazard

    Metuchen ignores public safety hazard

    At the southeast corner of Amboy/Eggert Avenues the sidewalk is badly damaged. The cause is the chronic traffic of big trucks jumping the curb as they turn onto Eggert. The intersection is poorly marked with No Big Truck Traffic signs — routinely ignored. The police do not patrol the site nor enforce the restriction despite…

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