• Covin is back in charge of Green Wave basketball

    BY MATTHEW ROCCO Correspondent The last time Don Covin served as Long Branch High School’s head coach, the Green Wave boys basketball team made two consecutive trips to the NJSIAA Tournament of Champions. Thirteen seasons later, Covin returns to coach a young team looking to reclaim the program’s dark-horse reputation. Long Branch graduated its entire…

  • Playing puck

    Ocean Township High School’s Stephen Reu (14) brings the puck up-ice against Jackson Liberty during an early-season game at the Gold Coast Arena in Wall Township won by the Spartans, 7-1. Ocean is currently 3-2. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Ocean Township High School’s Eric Bolsch (l) and Jackson Liberty’s John Maikisch try to chase…

  • Hospice volunteers sought to help others

    All it takes is compassion and a little time to become a hospice volunteer for VITAS Innovative Hospice Care of New Jersey Shore, Eatontown. There is a need for volunteers in Ocean, Monmouth and Middlesex counties. Volunteers give their time to terminally ill patients and their caregivers during a critical time. In orientation classes, they…

  • Gretchen A. Green

    Ms. Green, 72, of Tinton Falls, died Dec. 15, 2011, at home. She graduated from Trenton State College in 1960 with a bachelor’s degree in education and received her English as a Second Language certification at Kean College. Ms. Green was employed by the Red Bank Board of Education. She was a member of the…

  • Rodney R. King

    Mr. King, 90, of Oakhurst, died Dec. 18, 2011, at the Jersey Shore Center, Eatontown. Prior to retiring, Mr. King was employed as a telephone repair and installation technician for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local No. 3, New York City, for 20 years. Prior to that, he was employed for New York Bell…

  • Juanita G. Doucette

    Ms. Doucette, 82, of Hazlet, died Dec. 12, 2011, at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. She was a retired cosmetologist for Abraham and Strauss in New York City. Mrs. Doucette was predeceased by a son, Evan Doucette. Surviving are her children, Scherene Romeo and her husband, Frank, of Tinton Falls, C.J. Doucette and his wife, Christine,…

  • in the service 

    Air Force Airman Chester Z. Barnett, a 2011 graduate of Ocean Township High School, Oakhurst, graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio. The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness and basic warfare principles and skills. Airmen…

  • Test your knowledge of the county Jan. 11

    How much do you know about the natural world that surrounds us here in Monmouth County? Find out as the Monmouth County Audubon Society presents “Test your Monmouth County Nature IQ.” The program will be held at the Monmouth County Audubon Society meeting 8 p.m. Jan. 11 at the Church of the Nativity, 180 Ridge…

  • Oakhurst woman admits embezzling from homeowners

    OCEAN TOWNSHIP— Atownship woman has pleaded guilty to embezzling funds from a homeowners association where she served as property manager. Theresa Tierney, of Oakhurst, entered a guilty plea Dec. 16 to embezzling more than $400,000 from the Strickland Farms homeowners association in Freehold Township, according to Monmouth County Prosecutor Peter E. Warshaw Jr. The plea…

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