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Manzi, Mustangs top All-District volleyball
Jet Manzi Led by the irrepressible Jet Manzi, the Marlboro High School girls volleyball team enjoyed a breakthrough season in 2011. Coach Margie McNamara’s team took the sport to a new level by winning the Shore Conference Tournament championship over perennial state power Southern Regional High School of Manahawkin. The Mustangs became the first Freehold…
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Stevens Institute of Technology junior defender Paige Allen, of Manalapan, was named to the All-Empire 8 first team following the 2011 soccer season. Allen helped the Ducks win their second straight Empire 8 title and earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III tournament. Stevens was 14-3-4 overall and 6-0-1 in conference in 2011.…
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Burach competing for U.S. in Pan Am Maccabi Games
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Todd Burach Todd Burach thought his serious basketball days were behind him. The former Manalapan High School standout who earned a position on the Syracuse University team as a walk-on and was on the roster for three seasons (2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07), was playing pick-up games and in men’s recreation…
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Rebels remain team to beat in A North wrestling
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Howell High School’s Josue Pierre-Louis tries to break free of the hold of South River High School’s Jon Hart during their 126-pound bout at the Rebel Classic wrestling tournament held at Howell on Dec. 18. Howell won the team title at the season-opening event. ERIC SUCAR staff A s he…
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Jewish Museum will host folk song concert
The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County invites the community to an intimate afternoon of folk songs sung in Hebrew, French and English by educator, singer and multi-instrumentalist Lisa Frost- Goodall in concert on the Hayloft Stage on Dec. 25 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $15 for museum members and $18, for nonmembers. Frost-Goodall has…
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Howell woman honored as mother of the year
BY JAMES McEVOY Staff Writer Joy Walk HOWELL— When ElizabethWalk was born, her parents, Joy and Todd, were ready for the typical challenges of parenthood. Then, a few years later, came a doctor’s diagnosis that Elizabeth, now 8, was autistic. “It wasn’t the plan we laid out. We’ve been together 21 years,” said Joy Walk,…
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Businessman’s proposal raises residents’ hackles
IN THE NEWS MARK ROSMAN There has been some good give and take over the past few months as members of the Manalapan Township Committee and the Manalapan Planning Board have considered a businessman’s request to make an automobile dealership a permitted use in an office-professional zone at Route 9 and Taylors Mills Road in…
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Math teams excel in competition at CBA
MARLBORO — The Marlboro Middle School and the Marlboro Memorial Middle School had math teams compete and perform well in the annual Christian Brothers Academy math competition. The math competition was held on Oct. 15 at CBA in Lincroft. The Marlboro Middle School team, under the direction of adviser Marcia Wilson, placed first. Team members…
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And for her birthday? A new filter!
ARE WE THERE YET LORI CLINCH When Pat, my beloved husband of many years, walked in the door on a recent night, he was beaming with pride. “I’ve been thinking about you all day long,” he said. Then he smiled slyly, looked at me with love and reported, “And I’ve been considering an expensive gift.”…
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