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    A newly forming 13U travel baseball team from the Old Bridge area is holding tryouts. Players must be no older than 13 years of age as of April 30, 2011. The team roster will be limited to 12 committed players. Plans are to play fall ball this season, participate in winter training, play in a…

  • Old Bridge looking to get back on track

    BY WARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent The Old Bridge High School boys soccer team, currently 3-4-1 after eight games, is looking to rebound in the second half of the season. Coach Chris McGrath’s team opened the campaign with two shutout wins in as many games, downing North Brunswick and Piscataway. Since then, the Knights have struggled a…

  • Monroe South Brunswick Action

    Monroe High School’s Luigi Buffolino (center) and South Brunswick’s Dan Michael (10) tussle over a loose ball during the Oct. 1 match in Monroe. The host Falcons won the match, 4-1. JEFF GRANIT staff

  • Big wins on the gridiron for Sayreville, Old Bridge

    BY WARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent Both the Sayreville and Old Bridge high school football teams picked up victories on Friday against Greater Middlesex Conference Red Division opponents. On a chilly and damp Homecoming Night, Sayreville hosted winless Edison, but surprisingly the Eagles held their own in the first quarter — primarily by keeping the Bombers offense…

  • Clickin’ on the links

    From top: PGA Tour pro J.B. Holmes takes a swing from the first tee while on his knees during the Celebrity Skills Exhibition on Sept. 28 at Forsgate Country Club in Monroe. Holmes hits off the tee as LPGA legend Annika Sorenstam watches. A member of the victorious 2008 USA Ryder Cup team, Holmes ranks…

  • Old Bridge Speedway Reunion will relive track’s storied past

    This weekend at Thomas Warne Museum BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer When the first Old Bridge Stadium Speedway Reunion was held two years ago, a women from Whispering Pines Estates said she was there because she had heard a rumor that there used to be an auto racing track located where her development is. She…

  • Dance the Knights away

    From above: Jamie Carucci participates in a Zumba class during a Sept. 29 fundraiser at Old Bridge High School to benefit the Traveling Knights. Monireh Vannoy moves in tandem with the other Zumba dancers. Kristen McCormack takes pictures of her fellow Knights band supporters. PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff

  • Helen Becher McKnight

    Mrs. McKnight, 89, of East Brunswick, died Sept. 18, 2010, in Care One, East Brunswick. Prior to her retirement in 1991, she was employed as a refurbisher with Revlon, Edison, where she worked for 29 years. She was predeceased by her husband, John; a son, John; a sister, Mary Lehman; and a brother, James Becher.…

  • Ruth J. Poulsen Hudak

    Mrs. Hudak, 88, of Sayreville, died Sept. 10, 2010, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was predeceased by her husband, Michael C. Hudak; a son-in-law, John J. Gorman; and by 10 siblings, Ralph, Edna, Howard, Irene, Mildred, Evelyn, William, Lloyd, Gilbert and Edward. Surviving are three daughters, Janet Spina, and her husband, John,…

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