• How to get your sports news in the paper

    If you would like your sports news published, please submit a press release at least two weeks in advance of an event such as team registration or tryouts. Results of youth games and tournaments may also be submitted, as well as collegiate news about former high school athletes. Give complete information, such as dates, full…

  • Redbirds’ Rugo, Juba advance to state wrestling tournament

    With third-place finishes at Region VII Tournament BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent Two years ago Allentown High School’s football team got its first winning season inmore than 40 years, and this season they made the NJSIAA playoffs for the first time. Now the wrestling team has reached milestones it had not achieved in at least 30…

  • Peddie School’s Bailey to continue x-country, track career at Richmond

    The Peddie School’s Kelly Bailey, who lives in Cream Ridge, recently signed her National Letter of Intent to the University of Richmond. At the signing, she is flanked by her mother, Katie Bailey, and father, Paul Bailey. In the back (left to right) are coach Mark Gartner, Jackie Hart (widow of former coach Jerry Hart),…

  • Kids can make an edible cowboy boot

    “Make a Cowboy Boot Sandwich for Lunch” will be offered 4 p.m. March 8 at the Allentown Library, 16 S. Main St., Allentown, for children in first grade and up. The program is part of “Food for Thought: What’s on Your Plate?,” a month-long series offered by the Monmouth County Library that celebrates the roles…

  • PopWarner slates yearly A.C. fundraiser

    Millstone Township’s Pop Warner will host its third annual Atlantic City Road Trip fundraiser to the Tropicana Casino on March 31. The cost is $189 per couple or $95 per person, and includes luxury motor coach transportation (with food and beverage) and a $10 Diamond Card per person to be used in the casino. The…

  • Nominations sought for historic rehabs

    FREEHOLD — The Monmouth County Historical Commission is accepting nominations for its annual preservation awards program that recognizes the efforts and accomplishments of residents in preserving buildings and other structures that have historic value. Anyone, including a property owner, may nominate a structure that has historic value and has undergone preservation work that was substantially…

  • CentraState seeks Ball Queen contestants

    The CentraState Healthcare Foundation is seeking contestants to participate in its Ball Queen Contest in honor of its 51st anniversary ball. The contest is open to young women between the ages of 16 and 23. The Ball Queen Contest will follow in the same tradition that began in 1962 and ran until 1978. Young women…

  • Educational food festival arrives at library March 4

    On March 4, the New Jersey Center for the Book and the Monmouth County Library will present an educational food festival, Food for Thought: Food as Science, Food as Culture, Food as Career, Food as Community Service … What’s on Your Plate? Food for Thought … What’s on Your Plate? will begin at 12:30 p.m.…

  • Notre Dame H.S. will present ‘Footloose’

    ‘Footloose’ cast members Sabrina Campelo (l-r), a sophomore from Allentown; Kaitlyn Schmitt, a junior from Hamilton; Emily Novozinsky, a sophomore from Allentown; and Jessa Bedser, a freshman from Hamilton, are costumed in rural garb for their upcoming performance at Notre Dame High School in Lawrenceville. The performing arts students of Notre Dame High School, Lawrenceville,…

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