• Making state tournament topped Redbirds golf season

    BYWAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent The Allentown High School boys golf team achieved its goal of qualifying for the state tournament this spring, where they finished fourth in their section. A llentown’s golf team enjoyed one of its best seasons in recent years. Now co-coaches Doug Hunt and Joe Monticello are preparing for a promising season in…

  • Scheuerman leads East to Sunshine Classic win

    BYWAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent ALLENTOWN — Ross Scheuerman ended his high school football career at Allentown fittingly with the best players in the western part of the state when he earned the Most Outstanding Back award in the 15th annual Sunshine Classic All-Star game at The College of New Jersey on June 30. Scheuerman, embarking next…

  • SBOANJ golf outing slated for July 11

    The annual midsummer golf outing to benefit New Jersey horsemen will take place July 11. The Standardbred Breeders & Owners Association of New Jersey’s (SBOANJ) annual event will be held at the Gambler Ridge Golf Course. For more information, contact the SBOANJ at 732-462-2357 or visit www.sboanj.com.

  • Memorial scholarship fundraiser July 8

    The Kathy Ward Memorial Scholarship Fund will hold its annual fundraiser July 8 at the Lakewood BlueClaws game at First Energy Park in Lakewood. Gates open at 6 p.m. and the game starts at 7 p.m. Created in memory and honor of Kathy Ward, wife and mother of St. John Vianney alumni Jeff ’01 and…

  • Local students to lead teen safe driving summit

    Six members of Freehold Township High School’s Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) chapter will help lead New Jersey’s first statewide, peer-to-peer Teen Safe Driving Summit, GDL4U: Good Driving for Life, on July 15 at Rutgers University’s Busch Campus in Piscataway. Designed to help teens stay safe behind the wheel, the summit is sponsored by the…

  • DEP holds photo contest for Green Acres properties

    The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has launched a photo contest in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the signing of the first Green Acres Bond Act by Gov. Robert B. Meyner. Since that first bond referendum was signed on June 3, 1961, voters have approved every bond act put before them, resulting in the…

  • Jewish museum to sponsor juried photography exhibit

    The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County is issuing a call for entries into an open juried photography exhibit which will be held at the museum from Sept. 20, 2011 to March 4, 2012. The goal of the exhibit is to capture in pictures, through the art of photography, Monmouth County’s Jewish experience. Subject content,…

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    Senior members of the choir sing the commencement song while other members of the graduating class listen during Allentown High School’s commencement ceremony in Patriots Theater at the War Memorial of New Jersey in Trenton on June 22. ERIC SUCAR staff

  • Kind Heart Rescue seeks homes for rabbits

    Now that Easter has come and gone and the “newness” of that cute little Easter bunny given to a child as a gift has passed, the calls have started coming in from owners and shelters about rabbits in need of a place to go to save their lives. Kind Heart Rescue is bursting at the…

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