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Knights hockey team has unfinished business in GMC
BYWARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent A fter falling in the Greater Middlesex Conference (GMC) Tournament championship game on a controversial goal last season, Old Bridge High School hockey coach Drew Campbell said his team has some unfinished business it wants to tend to this winter. “We definitely want to get back to the GMC championship game, and…
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St. Joseph High School’s Richie Johnstone (17) tries to control the puck along the boards during the Falcons’ Dec. 9 game against Colonia at the Woodbridge Community Center. The defending Greater Middlesex Conference champions started their season with a promising 9-0 win. JEFF GRANIT staff
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sport shorts
The East Brunswick Bears 12-U CooperstownAll Star Team will hold a benefit foul-shooting contest 6-9 p.m. Dec. 16 at the Raritan Valley YMCA in East Brunswick. Three co-ed divisions from fourth through ninth grades will compete for prizes that include $100 Sports Authority gift certificates, YMCA program memberships, and baseball tunnel rentals from The Fields…
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Youth gives Lady Knights foundation to build on
BYWARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent Old Bridge High School winter track coach Steve Gajewski welcomed more than 80 athletes to tryouts, and his team will have a decidedly youthful look this winter. Gajewski noted that the cooperative weather — so far, at least — has been a boon for his squad and they have been able to…
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Swim season
Sayreville War Memorial High School’s Kevin Andrews competes in the boys 200 individual medley during the Bombers’ meet against East Brunswick at Middlesex County Community College in Edison on Dec. 9. The host Bears won the meet, 123-47. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Sayreville’s Timothy Lopez competes in the boys 100 butterfly during the Bombers’…
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Area gymnasts named to All-State team
Gymnasts from the Greater Media Newspapers area dominated the New Jersey Girls Gymnastics Coaches Association’s 2011 All-State Team. All Around State Champion Danielle Verdon from Freehold, North Brunswick’s Alexis Gabel and Freehold’s Jen King, head the all around picks. They finished onetwo three at the state meet. Also on the AA team was Holmdel’s Kendal…
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fundraisers
Dec. 15 Narrated Horse-Drawn Holiday Carriage-Ride Tours of Historic Jamesburg, sponsored by the First Presbyterian Church of Jamesburg, the Jamesburg Historical Society and the Jamesburg Revitalization Coalition, starting every 15 minutes 7-9 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church of Jamesburg, Gatzmer Avenue, corner of Church Street. Free hot chocolate, smokedtomato soup, mulled apple cider,…
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Alfred Russo
Mr. Russo, 87, of Monroe, formerly of Spotswood and the Browntown section of Old Bridge, died Dec. 5, 2011, in Cranbury Center, Monroe. He was predeceased by his wife, Martha Hertzfeld Russo, and by six brothers and sisters. Surviving are a son, Stephen Russo, and his wife, Mercedes, of Hightstown; and a grandson, Daniel Russo.…
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Louis A. Cassiere
Mr. Cassiere, 80, of the Parlin section of Sayreville, died Dec. 5, 2011, at home. Surviving are his wife, Mary Dillane Cassiere; three children, Susan Fenton, and her husband, John, of Toms River, John, and his wife, Carol, of Old Bridge and Catherine Pisani, and her husband, Patrick, of Staten Island, N.Y.; two brothers, Albert…
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