• Firkser puts Braves closer to crown

    Manalapan senior rushes for 318 yards vs. Howell; gridders clinch tie for A North title BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer The game plan was simple: pound the ball at a Howell High School defense that has had trouble stopping the run. For the Manalapan High School football team, that meant a healthy dose of Josh…

  • Monmouth University partners with Biotechnology High School

    Monmouth University, West Long Branch, announced that it has signed an articulation agreement with Biotechnology High School, Freehold Township. The partnerships will allow eligible students who have graduated from the four-year program at Biotechnology High School to enter the Monmouth University School of Science Bachelor of Science program in biology, chemistry, mathematics, computer science or…

  • Electronic readers make way to school

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO — With the ways that technology constantly changes, it is probably no surprise that today’s students would prefer to pick up an electronic reader rather than a paperback book. Members of the Marlboro K-8 School District Board of Education recently discussed students’ use of personal electronic devices in the…

  • John W. “Bebe” Higgins Sr.

    Mr. Higgins, 77, a resident of Hazlet for 52 years, died Oct. 17, 2010, at home. He worked as a freight handler with American Airlines, Newark, then as an insurance agent with Kirwin Insurance Co., Hazlet, and later as a photographer with Dupress Studio, Hazlet, before retiring in 1995. Mr. Higgins was a member of…

  • Evelyn M. Ludwig

    Mrs. Ludwig, 88, of Freehold, died Oct. 14, 2010, at Bartley Healthcare, Jackson. Mrs. Ludwig was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and was a homemaker. She was predeceased by her husband, Howard Ludwig; and a sister, Lillian Ludwig. Surviving are four daughters, Constance Rosso, and her husband, Robert, of Fullerton, Calif.; Evelyn Ludwig of Forest Hills,…

  • Minnie D. Sparapani

    Mrs. Sparapani, 75, of Marlboro, died Oct. 14, 2010, at home. She was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and resided in Marlboro for the past 11 years. Prior to retiring, Mrs. Sparapani was a bank teller for Manufacturers Hanover Trust in Brooklyn. She was predeceased by her husband, Patsy, in 2001. Surviving are three sons and…

  • Stella Murano

    Mrs. Murano, 91, of Texas, formerly of Freehold Township, died Oct.16, 2010, at her daughter’s home in Spring, Texas. She worked in the garment industry and in the cafeteria at Fort Lee High School before retiring. Mrs. Murano was predeceased by her husband, Alfred, in 1998. Surviving are a daughter and son-in-law, Maria and Patrick…

  • Bessie Mae Warren

    Mrs. Warren, 72, of Freehold, died Oct. 14, 2010, at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune Township. She was a certified nurse’s aide. Surviving are her husband, Sylvester Warren; two sons, Altyrick Warren and Mallet Warren; a daughter, Jasmine Warren; a sister, Cathy Gaynor; two nephews; a niece; a brother-in-law; and three sisters-in-law. Funeral services…

  • Robert G. Birmingham

    Mr. Birmingham, 75, of Freehold Township, died Oct. 18, 2010, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. He was a U.S. Army veteran. Mr. Birmingham was a 1956 graduate of Seton Hall University. Prior to his 1994 retirement, he was vice president of finance at Rahway Hospital, Rahway. He was predeceased by two brothers, Daniel J.…

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