• It’s tournament time, and Colts are peaking

    Lacrosse team is on 11-game win streak BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent Christian Brothers Academy Streaking Christian Brothers Academy lacrosse punctuated its 10-game win streak coming into this week with an 11-3 victory over Red Bank Catholic High School on May 3. “It was a solid team effort. The defense was solid. We gave up just…

  • Gloucester stops Brookdale again in Region XIX final

    Softball team finishes 49-7 BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Above: Brookdale Community College’s Chelsea Alston slides home safely during the first inning of the Jersey Blues’ double-header with Morris County College in Lincroft. Left: Brookdale Community College shortstop Taylor McDonough starts a 6-3 putout with this throw to first during the double-header. The country’s second-ranked…

  • Lorraine McGuirl

    Mrs. McGuirl, 82, of Middletown, died April 25, 2012, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. She was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph McGuirl, in 1988. Surviving are a daughter and son-in-law, Karen and Jack Murphy of Belford; a son and daughter-in-law, Patrick and Yovana McGuirl of Ellington, Conn.; a son and daughter-in-law, Kevin…

  • Stephen C. Wheeler Sr.

    Mr. Wheeler, 59, a resident of Keyport for 37 years, died April 25, 2012, at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune. He retired from the Keyport Police Department as a sergeant after 30 years of service. Mr. Wheeler was the founder of the DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program in Keyport and was a life…

  • Mary Morrone

    Mrs. Morrone, 90, of Leisure Knoll, Manchester, died May 4, 2012, at home. She was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and had lived there for most of her life, moving to Manchester in 1986. Mrs. Morrone was a communicant of St. John’s Church, Lakehurst. She was predeceased by her husband, Matthew J. Morrone, in 2005. Surviving…

  • Catherine B. Hopwood

    Mrs. Hopwood, 78, of Holmdel and formerly of Keansburg and Colts Neck, died April 29, 2012, in Holmdel. She was a communicant and former Eucharistic minister at St. Ann’s Catholic Church, Keansburg. Mrs. Hopwood was preceded in death by husband, Walter Hopwood. Surviving are two daughters and sons-in-laws, Mary and Louis Femiano of Howell, and…

  • Margaret Vagle

    Mrs. Vagle, 76, of Hazlet, died May 1, 2012, at Bayshore Community Hospital in Holmdel. She was predeceased by her husband, Norman Vagle, in 2003. Surviving are her children, Norman Vagle Jr. and his wife, Carrie, of Indianapolis, Steven Vagle and his wife, Catherine, of Clifton Park, N.Y., Edward Vagle and his wife, Denise, of…

  • Thomas J. Booth

    Mr. Booth, 65, of Belford and formerly of Port Monmouth, died May 3, 2012, in Red Bank. He worked as a lithographer for Pictorial Offset in Carlstadt and was a member of Local 1 of Amalgamated Lithographers of America, New York. Mr. Booth was a veteran of the U.S. Marines and served during the Vietnam…

  • Frances M. Donaghy O’Gara

    Mrs. O’Gara, 80, of Hazlet, died April 29, 2012, at Regency Park Nursing and Rehabilitation in Hazlet. She retired in 1994 from Bayshore Community Hospital in Holmdel, where she was an admissions secretary. She was predeceased by her husbands, James Donaghy in 1987 and Harold O’Gara in 2005. Surviving are a daughter, Janine Okuszka and…

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