• Traditional services make Russian bathhouse unique

    Retired Goldman Sachs trader, son of late St. Vladimir priest, is part owner of the banya BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Alex Ross, one of the owners of the new Bear and Birch Russian bathhouse (banya) in Freehold Township, adjusts the Vichy soap scrub massage shower. Ross and his fellow owner Peter Kizenko said…

  • Aaman is Shore Coaches 2012 Player of the Year

    Colts Neck’s Piccola COY Raritan High School forward Michael Aaman and Colts Neck High School head coach Lou Piccola were honored by the Shore Basketball Coaches Association. Aaman, to no one’s surprise, was the Player of the Year in the Shore Conference while Piccola was chosen by his peers as the Coach of the Year.…

  • ICAT Academy set to host N.J. Golden Gloves finals

    ICAT Academy of Boxing, Fitness & MartialArts, Ocean Township, will host the Novice and Sub-Novice finals for the New Jersey Golden Gloves’ 2012 Amateur Boxing Tournament at 7:30 p.m. April 6. “We are very excited to sponsor this prestigious tournament,” Victor Lashley, the gym’s owner, said in a press release. “It showcases the best in…

  • Scannapieco is pleased with Brookdale’s start

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer I f coach Bo Scannapieco is happy, his Brookdale Community College softball players must be doing something right. “I’m very happy,” Scannapieco said of his Jersey Blues and their 16-2 start to the 2012 season. “We have played extremely well. We have talent and they are playing well together. There…

  • Eagles out to build on last year’s championships

    Baseball team won county, CJ III titles BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent Howie Brey (right) and the Middletown High School South baseball team are looking to build on last year’s double championship season. The Eagles won the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group III and Monmouth County Tournament titles en route to a 19-win season. The Eagles open…

  • Katherine M. Force

    Mrs. Force, 93, a lifelong resident of Holmdel and Red Bank, diedMarch 23, 2012, in Shrewsbury. She worked as an assembler of computer components at the Concurrent Computer Co., Long Branch, until her retirement in 1990. Mrs. Force was preceded in death by a sister, MaryAllocco, and brother, Theodore Soberanski. Surviving are a daughter, Kathy…

  • Kevin Coughlin

    Mr. Coughlin, 61, of Hazlet, died March 24, 2012, at JFK Memorial Hospital in Iselin. He was raised in Hazlet, moved to Ocracoke, N.C., and returned to Hazlet in 2005. He was a U.S. Navy veteran. Mr. Coughlin was predeceased by his parents, John F. and Jennie Barbetta Coughlin; and a nephew, Ryan Gleeson. Surviving…

  • Frances M. Patti

    Mrs. Patti, 90, of Middletown, died March 20, 2012. She was a parishioner of St. Anthony of Padua Church, Red Bank. Mrs. Patti was a cafeteria worker at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. She was recently predeceased by her husband, Joseph. Surviving are a daughter, Elaine and her husband, Vincent Soviero, of Red Bank; a sister,…

  • Natalie Pickering Béguelin

    Mrs. Béguelin, 87, of the Navesink section of Middletown, died March 15, 2012. She worked in NewYork City until marrying the late Dayton Béguelin and moving to Locust in 1958. Mrs. Béguelin was active in her community, serving on the boards of the Riverside Drive Association, Visiting Homemakers Association, Monmouth County Organization of Social Services…

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