• Patriots are building on last year’s state playoff appearance

    Patriots are building on last year’s state playoff appearance

    By Tim Morris The Freehold Township High School football team earned a state playoff berth in Cory Davies’ first year as head coach last season. This season, Davies wants to see his team back in the playoffs, making it a habit rather than a one-time blip. He also wants to secure a winning season, which…

  • Colonials looking to continue, improve on playoff tradition

    Colonials looking to continue, improve on playoff tradition

    By Tim Morris Having established themselves as a playoff team, the Freehold High School football team players would like to do more than just be there. After back-to-back seasons with records of 7-3 and 6-4 and state playoff appearances that have put the Colonials back on the map, Freehold would like to take the next…

  • Monmouth Arts executive director to step down, take new position

    Monmouth Arts executive director to step down, take new position

    RED BANK — After 19 years at Monmouth Arts, 17 as executive director, Mary Eileen Fouratt will be stepping down to take a position with the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Fouratt began as the community arts director in 1997 and became executive director in 1999 when the Monmouth County Arts Council and…

  • Places To Be

    Places To Be

    School is starting up and so will be the scholastic athletic season for the fall of 2016. Catch these final scrimmages of the summer. On Sept. 1, high school football teams are holding their final dress rehearsal before the season begins in earnest. The defending state champion and New Jersey’s top-ranked team, Middletown South, is…

  • Mayor grateful for support of Louisiana fundraiser

    Mayor grateful for support of Louisiana fundraiser

    North Brunswick is a wonderful, generous and caring community. The Cajun fundraising event on Aug. 31 for the Louisiana flood victims was a huge success. This joint effort between North Brunswick Township and Chartwells Food Services raised over $3,000 for families in Louisiana who desperately need help now. Residents also donated plenty of gently used…

  • Tri-Town News Datebook, Sept. 8

    Tri-Town News Datebook, Sept. 8

    • St. Aloysius Church, 935 Bennetts Mills Road, Jackson, offers support groups to help people better understand their feelings and to meet others who are dealing with the same life issues. A bereavement support group meets on the second Wednesday of the month at 7 p.m. and a divorced and separated support group meets on the fourth…

  • News Transcript Datebook, Sept. 7

    News Transcript Datebook, Sept. 7

    Collier Youth Services will host its 22nd annual golf classic at Eagle Oaks Golf and Country Club, Howell, on Sept. 19. Cost is $350 per person and includes golf, contests, barbecue lunch, cart, practice range, locker, on-course refreshments, open bar cocktail hour and dinner. Corporate and individual sponsorship packages are available. Details: 732-946-4771, ext. 213.…

  • Examiner Datebook, Sept. 8

    Examiner Datebook, Sept. 8

    • The Ladies of St. Joseph, Millstone Township, will sponsor a bus tour of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., on Oct. 11. The cost is $99 per person and includes a buffet lunch at the Thayer Hotel. Bus will leave from St. Joseph Church at 8:15 a.m. and return at 8…

  • Pallone opposes proposed parking hike at Sandy Hook

    Pallone opposes proposed parking hike at Sandy Hook

    By STEVEN VIERA Staff Writer At an open house event held on Aug. 31 at the Sandy Hook Chapel, Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. (D-Monmouth, Middlesex) objected to a potential increase of parking and camping fees at Sandy Hook National Park. “I am opposed to the proposed fee increase, which would dramatically increase the fees from…

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