• Trinity Hall founders seeking home for all-girls high school

    Plans are moving forward to open an independent all-girls high school in Monmouth County in September 2013. In 2010, a group of parents and supporters came together with a shared goal of establishing an independent all-girls high school in Monmouth County, an educational option considered long overdue by many people, according to a press release.…

  • Welcome to summer in the country

    NYC youngsters kick off a week in NJ as part of Fresh Air Fund BY KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer Host families wait at Holmdel Park on July 13 for a busload of Fresh Air Fund participants to arrive from New York. The program gives city kids from underprivileged neighborhoods the chance to spend a week…

  • BRSA finalizes turbine delivery schedule

    200 tons of components to be shipped between July 23 and Aug. 1 BY KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer A s the Union Beach Borough Council waits for two court decisions that could decide the fate of a controversial wind turbine project, the Bayshore Regional Sewerage Authority (BRSA) and contractor Conti Enterprises are moving ahead with…

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    Mary Myers as Nerissa (l-r), Samantha Artese as Portia and Antonio Johnson as the Prince of Morocco perform in “The Merchant of Venice” presented by the Brookdale Performing Arts Center’s Summer Shakespeare Ensemble at the Lincroft campus on July 13. LAUREN CASSELBERRY

  • Former Brookdale president pleads guilty

    Burnham faces five-year state prison term for theft, misconduct BY KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office will be asking for a five-year state prison term in the sentencing of former Brookdale Community College (BCC) President Peter F. Burnham, who pleaded guilty to official misconduct and theft on Tuesday in Monmouth County Superior…

  • Superior Court issues injunction to block turbine delivery

    Shipment, construction must wait for appeals court decision By KEITH HEUMILLER The planned delivery of 200 tons of wind turbine components through the Bayshore area next week has been put on hold. On Wednesday, July 18, Judge Mary Catherine Cuff of the New Jersey State Superior Court granted the Borough of Union Beach an injunction…

  • Howell Heat wins Eye of the Storm fast-pitch softball tournament

    The 10U Howell Heat girls travel fastpitch softball team, a division of the Howell Girls Softball League, won the 2012 Howell Hurricanes’ Eye of the Storm softball tournament on July 1 in Howell. In A Division pool play, the Heat defeated the South Brunswick Vikings, the Jersey Flames and the Carteret Craze, which was good…

  • Jaguars excelling in college and American Legion ball

    BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent Bryant College, Smithfield, R.I., junior pitcher Pete Kelich was named the Northeast Conference Pitcher of the Year, and Fairleigh Dickinson-Florham sophomore second baseman Brandon Adams was named second team All-Mid- Atlantic Region following the 2012 college baseball season. Both players are former Jackson Memorial High School teammates, with Adams’ .401 average…

  • Howell’s Davies, Freehold Township’s Barthel win Kornman award

    Howell High School’s Ryan Davies and Freehold Township High School’s Stephanie Barthel are this year’s winners of the Leo Kornman Memorial Varsity Award. They received their awards at their school’s sports banquet. Davies will attend Moravian College in the fall. Davies, a record-setting passer on the Rebels’ football team, participated in several varsity sports over…

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