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Despite graduation losses, L.B. wrestlers are ready to compete
BYMATTHEW ROCCO Correspondent Even after three straight championship seasons, the Long Branch Green Wave has much to prove this wrestling season. Long Branch has won the Shore Conference Tournament and NJSIAA Group II championships each of the past three seasons. However, last year’s graduating class had a combined record of 256-56 in 2010. This season,…
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Hawks’ Gaitley registers her 450th career win
At Hawk Holiday Classic Monmouth University’s Alexis Canady (top) drives past Brown University’s Hannah Passafuime during the first game of their first-round game in the Hawk Holiday Classic hosted by MU in West Long Branch on Dec. 30. Brown held off a late Hawk rally to win, 75-71. ERIC SUCAR staff The Monmouth University women’s…
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Injuries aside, RFH boys remain optimistic
BYWARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent Optimism is high for the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School boys basketball team, despite a few injuries and a loss to Raritan in its first game. That’s because the Bulldogs are coming off an 18-9 campaign and boast a talented and deep roster. However, Rumson is playing without point guard Kevin “Pookie”…
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sports short
Cannon Sport & Social Club’s co-ed dodgeball is back and will be played 8-10 p.m. Tuesday nights beginning this week at the Red Bank Middle School. The league will be capped at eight teams on a first-come, first-served basis. Twelve players are recommended, but 10-14 players are acceptable. The fee is $750 per team, which…
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Holiday Classic
Left to right: Monmouth University’s Abby Martin (r) and Brown’s Hannah Passafuime (l) skirmish for a rebound during the first half of their first-round game in the Hawk Holiday Classic hosted by MU at the Multipurpose Activity Center (MAC) in West Long Branch on Dec. 30. Monmouth University’s Gena Broadus (c) has the ball deflected…
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Hospice volunteers sought to help others
All it takes is compassion and a little time to become a hospice volunteer for VITAS Innovative Hospice Care of New Jersey Shore, Eatontown. There is a need for volunteers in Ocean, Monmouth and Middlesex counties. Volunteers give their time to terminally ill patients and their caregivers during a critical time. In orientation classes, they…
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George E. Brush Jr.
Mr. Brush, 93, ofMiddletown, died Dec. 29, 2010, at Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank. A veteran of the Army Air Corps during WorldWar II, he was an electronic engineer for 30 years at NASAand later Fort Monmouth, retiring in 1981. Mr. Brush was the past president and member of the Sons of the American…
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Edna Behr Doucha
Mrs. Doucha, 101, died Dec. 17, 2010, at the Atrium at Navesink Harbor in Red Bank. She was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and moved to Union Beach when she was 7 years old. She and her husband, Otto, opened Daylight Bakery in 1933 in South Amboy and operated the business for 17 years. They also…
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Neva Malissa Houghtaling Brown
Mrs. Brown, 81, a resident of Tinton Falls for more than 50 years, died Dec. 18, 2010. She was a teacher for the Tinton Falls School District. She was an active member of the First Church of Christ Scientist, Red Bank, where she was a Sunday school teacher and a board member. Mrs. Brown was…
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