• Age-restricted development will not be converted in S.B.

    Units on Route 522 near Stouts Lane will not become market housing units BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer More than 100 homes in South Brunswick will not be converted from age-restricted to market housing after the Planning Board denied an applicant’s request to do so during its Oct. 5 meeting. With a unanimous vote, board members…

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    More than 2,000 people danced and prayed during the sixth annual Navratri Garba celebration in South Brunswick High School on Oct. 8. SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • Brookdale soccer team undefeated, ranked No. 4

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Coach Mike Costa calls his Brookdale Community College soccer team “the best kept secret on the Jersey Shore.” The Jersey Blues began the week 15-0 and ranked No. 4 in the United States among Division III junior colleges. “This is the best team I’ve had at Brookdale in my six…

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    The Central Jersey Hawks basketball team will be holding tryouts for its third-, fifth- and sixth-grade boys teams, which have two teams, and their fourth-grade team, which may have a second team. The tryout schedule is as follows:  Oct. 16 at 4 p.m. — Fifth-grade boys (2010 NJ State Champs, finished top four in…

  • Bucs head into bye week off big win over Raritan

    BYWARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent The Red Bank Regional High School football team has a week off to prepare for St. John Vianney after picking up a key Shore Conference Class A Central victory over Raritan, 14-7, on Thursday in Hazlet. Red Bank has struggled in recent years and after posting a respectable 4-6 mark last fall,…

  • RFH girls victorious at Manhattan Invitational

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Rumson-Fair Haven girls cross country co-head coach Tim McLoone wanted his harriers to get a taste of “iconic” Van Cortland Park. They got a little more than they bargained for Sunday at the historic 2.5-mile course in the Bronx, NYC. As McLoone told his harriers afterwards, “our cover is blown.”…

  • Shore Regional vs. SJV

    Shore Regional High School’s Samantha McDonough (r) tries to elude St. John Vianney’s Jessica Fernicola during a game held at Shore Regional in West Long Branch on Oct. 7. ERIC SUCAR staff Shore Regional’s Ellen Dougherty directs the ball toward a teammate during a game against St. John Vianney Oct. 7. ERIC SUCAR staff

  • Monmouth U. gender studies program to host film screening Nov. 8

    WEST LONG BRANCH — Monmouth University will host the screening of “Miss Representation” 10 – 11:15 a.m. Nov. 8, in Wilson Hall Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. A discussion with the film director, Jennifer Seibel Newsom, will follow after the screening at 1-2:15 p.m. This award-winning documentary reveals how media…

  • Tribute to prewar jazz and blues stars

    RED BANK — The music played by early jazz and blues giants Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith and Django Reinhardt never gets old. Nor do the standards that populate the Great American Songbook. That’s what’s on tap for another edition of the Jersey Shore Jazz and Blues Foundation’s “Reckless Steamy Nights” Friday, Oct. 28, featuring Mike…

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