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    • An adult bingo fundraiser will be held in the Manalapan Englishtown Middle School cafeteria, 155 Millhurst Road, Manalapan, on Nov. 19 from 7:30-10 p.m. Admission of $10 includes two bingo card and the chance to win gift baskets, gift cards and cash prizes. The public is welcome to attend. Coffee, tea and desserts will…

  • Chrise’s Dare to Dream 5K honors 1997 FTHS graduate

    Proceeds will support research in fight against lung cancer By Patricia Yoczis Chrise Briggs Murrell, a 1997 graduate of Freehold Township High School, was only 31 years old when she died from lung cancer in June, leaving her husband, Andy, and their son, Drew, 6, in Katy, Texas, where she lived. In her memory, the…

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    Grammar school students in grades 5-8 are invited to join Bishop Ahr High School’s middle school wrestling club. The group will meet from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays (mid-November to mid-February) at the school’s Catanzaro gym and will be supervised and coached by Bishop Ahr’s head wrestling coach, Nick Tonzola. The specific…

  • Bishop Ahr gymnasts claim ninth state championship

    BY SHAWN LAYTON Correspondent For the sixth time in head coach Brant Lutska’s 10-year career, the Bishop Ahr High School gymnastics team is state champion. The Trojans captured a state record ninth overall NJSIAA State Championship last week at Montgomery High School by knocking two-time defending champion Pascack Valley off the throne. Consistency was the…

  • Bishop Ahr’s Vacchio is state all-around champion

    BY SHAWN LAYTON Correspondent In European football, the rarest of achievements is the treble. Teams that win their domestic league, domestic cup and the Champions League have supreme bragging rights because it won the ever-elusive treble. Bishop Ahr High School’s Kyla Vacchio pulled off her own version of the treble this weekend at Montgomery High…

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    Metuchen High School’s Rachel Philbin tries to direct the ball to an open teammate during the second half of the Central Jersey Group I championship final played in Metuchen. The top-seed Bulldogs lost to Point Pleasant Beach, 1-0, on Nov. 12. ERIC SUCAR staff

  • Resident: BOE is ‘sticking it’ to Edison taxpayers

    These Edison Board of Education members never cease to amaze me. They just don’t get it. People are hurting. Maybe not you, because most of you have been educators and have a very plum pension with medical benefits, but most of us do not have that plum. Why don’t you listen to the people who…

  • Edison BOE commended for appointing new superintendent

    Congratulations to the Edison Board of Education in so diligently and expeditiously performing the most critical job of filling the position of superintendent for the Edison School District. The board made a concerted effort to select a superintendent with a strong focus on curriculum, datadriven instruction and decreasing the school tax levy. Edison board members…

  • Ways to conserve N.J’s land and natural resources

    Here in one of the most densely developed states in America, we still have lots of space for solar panels and other renewable energy facilities. Parking lots, rooftops and reclaimed industrial sites, or brownfields, are often ideal locations, since they are close to energy consumers and don’t harm natural resources. We don’t need to build…

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