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Community YMCA swimmers shine at national championships
The Community YMCA’s Aquarockets swim team earned top spots at the 2011 YMCA National Long Course Swimming Championships, held in Atlanta, Ga., over the summer. The boys’ team ranked ninth overall, and 13 local swimmers earned All American status (placing in the top 20 of an event). “Our swimmers continue to excel at Y Nationals,…
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Caseys, Bucs kick off football season tomorrow
BYWARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent Red Bank Regional High School’s Ross Gisondi delivers a straight-arm to a Jackson Liberty defender during the Bucs’ Sept. 1 scrimmage at home. RBR will be playing for real on Sept. 9 when the Bucs kick off the 2011 season against Central Regional at Count Basie Field. LAUREN CASSELBERRY photo There should…
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Jazz in the Park
Above: Members of the VooDUDES perform for the audience gathered at Jazz in the Park held at Riverside Gardens Park in downtown Red Bank on Aug. 11. Below: Band vocalist Andy B. performs. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff
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NOTES
The seventh annual “Autism Family Services of New Jersey Beach Bash” is scheduled for Sept. 11 in Belmar. This event is open to all New Jersey families living with a child with autism. The day is free for families and includes organized activities, arts and crafts, games, expo tent, and a surf camp in which…
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Event will celebrate life of young mother
Tara Hansen is survived by husband and newborn son BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Tara Deaver Hansen Brandon Ryan Hansen will soon be 5 months old, and he is an “amazing, happy, contented baby,” according to his aunt, Jamie Cone. Brandon’s mother, Tara Deaver Hansen, 29, of Ocean Township, who taught fourthgrade special education…
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Betty Franklin Gibson
Mrs. Gibson, 84, of Little Silver and formerly of Rumson, died Aug. 30, 2011. She was raised in California, where she attended the West Lake School for Girls and the University of California at Los Angeles. Mrs. Gibson was a member of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Little Silver, where she belonged to the Episcopal…
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Madeleine “Mado” Cassan
Mrs. Cassan, 91, of Red Bank, formerly of Shadow Lake Village, Middletown, died Aug. 26, 2011. She was a professional dressmaker for Saks Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, retiring after 25 years. Mrs. Cassan was predeceased by her husband, Albert Cassan, in 1996 and a daughter, Joan Winters, in 2011. Surviving are a daughter and son-inlaw, Jacqueline…
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Rosemary Fetzer
Mrs. Fetzer, 84, of Red Bank, died Aug. 25, 2011, at Kimball Medical Center, Lakewood. She had lived in Brick before moving to Naples, Fla., in 1970. She was an LPN Private Duty Nurse for Accu-Care, Naples, for 20 years. Mrs. Fetzer was predeceased by her first husband, Charles F. Ward, in 1979; her second…
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Inés Hidalgo
Mrs. Hidalgo, of Highlands, died Aug. 27, 2011, at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch. She was a longtime parishioner of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Highlands, and volunteered with the choir of St. Mary’s in Middletown for many years. Surviving are three daughters, Rita, Marie and Inés. A funeral Mass was celebrated at Our…
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