• Brookdale players named to All-America teams

    Four players from the Brookdale Community College softball and baseball teams have been named All-Americans for 2011. For Coach Bo Scannapieco’s Jersey Blues softball team, freshman Chelsea Alston (Matawan Regional High School) and sophomore Tracey Stern (Shore Regional) were selected to the National FastPitch Coaches Association (NFCA) and National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) All-American…

  • Shore AC holds on to state championship

    The Shore Athletic Club has been on a four-decade winning streak. On May 28, the Shore AC ran its winning streak at the USA Track and Field New Jersey Open Team Championships at Rowan University to 38 straight. The women made it a nice double for the Shore AC squad by winning the state title…

  • Breen’s Pants On Fire captures Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth

    Pants On Fire PHOTO: BILL DENVER/EQUIPHOTO George and Lori Hall’s Pants on Fire gained command around the far turn and held off the late charge of Concealed Identity to capture the Grade 3, $200,000 Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park on Saturday. Pants on Fire, a colt by Jump Start, was making his first start since…

  • JCC tennis players medal at Junior Maccabi Games

    Members of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Monmouth County delegation returned from the JCC Junior Maccabi Games on May 22 with two golds and one silver medal in tennis — and a strong sense of accomplishment and pride. They may have been the smallest delegation at the Games, which drew some 700 athletes from…

  • Whitall, Segal no strangers to Sheehan Classic victories

    BYWARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent Former Holmdel High School state champion Craig Segal looks spent after winning the George Sheehan Classic five-mile run on Saturday in Red Bank. It was the second win in the Classic for the ex-Hornet standout. ERIC SUCAR staff A gain and again. That’s the story of Toms River runner Noel Brock Whitall,…

  • Dennis A. Thiel

    Mr. Thiel, 62, of Monmouth Beach, died June 16, 2011, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. He was a graduate of Jersey City Prep and received his bachelor’s degree in finance from Rutgers University. Mr. Thiel was working for Larson Ford, Lakewood, in the finance department and had previously worked at Buhler Ford in Eatontown.…

  • John J. Lavelle

    Mr. Lavelle, 76, of Long Branch, died June 14, 2011. He earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Cornell University and went on to New York University, where he received his master’s and his doctorate, also in English. Mr. Lavelle served with the U.S. Army from 1958 to 1960. He was a professor of English…

  • Marjorie Eugenia Raynor

    Mrs. Raynor, 90, of Tinton Falls and formerly of Fair Haven, died June 7, 2011. She was a 1938 graduate of Red Bank High School and a 1942 graduate of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, where she received her bachelor’s degree and played field hockey for four years. Mrs. Raynor was a lifelong member…

  • Salvation Army to host annual Trombone Night

    Trombonists came from as far as South Wales, Australia, to perform at the Salvation Army’s annual BBQ and Trombone Night in 2010. RED BANK — The Salvation Army, 180 Newman Springs Road, will host the 11th annual BBQ & Trombone Night on Wednesday, July 13, at 7 p.m. According to a press release from the…

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