• Warriors’ goal: Play tough for 48 mins.

    BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent Dylan Wills takes over at quarterback for a New Egypt High School football team that is welcoming back most of its starting lineup from 2009, when the Warriors were 2-8. New Egypt will open the 2010 season on Sept. 10 at Maple Shade in a 7 p.m. contest. “Things are going…

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    Jackson Travel Basketball Mid-Monmouth will hold tryouts for the fall/winter Mid- Monmouth leagues during the week of Sept. 20. The tryouts are for Jackson residents only, ages 9-13. All tryouts are held at the Holman School gymnasium. Tryout dates and times for the various age groups are as follows: boys 9, 6-7:30 p.m. Sept. 24…

  • Warriors’ new coach is a familiar face

    Katie Nicholson is now at helm of New Egypt’s varsity field hockey team BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent Katie Nicholson, who has been the girls lacrosse coach at New Egypt High School for the past three seasons, said she will not be looking over her shoulder when she starts her first season as…

  • Middle school instructional sports program put in place

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer Atotal of 1,750 students returned to class in the Plumsted School District on Sept. 7. The enrollment figure is 90 fewer students than 2009-10. “As a result of budget cuts, we are experiencing the implementation of a great deal of change in the new school year,” Plumsted Superintendent of Schools…

  • Board takes no action on winter track plan

    Sept. 13 FRHSD meeting scheduled for discussion on pay-to-participate model BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer Aplan to offer winter track and field as a pay-to-participate sport in the Freehold Regional High School District was put on hold by the district’s Board of Education on Aug. 30. Action on the pay-to-participate proposal for winter track and…

  • Charles T. “Tim” McDermott

    Charles T. “Tim” McDermott Mr. McDermott, 53, of Howell, died July 25, 2010. Born in Neptune, he had lived in Englishtown and Jackson before moving to Howell six years ago. Mr. McDermott worked as an excavator for Pillari Brothers of Farmingdale and was a member of Local Union 825, Springfield. He was predeceased by his…

  • Mildred Farry Conrow

    Mrs. Conrow, 97, of Farmingdale, died July 20, 2010, at Tower Lodge Care Center, Wall. She was a graduate of Manasquan High School and Rider College, Trenton, in 1931. She worked as an accounting technician at Fort Monmouth for over 20 years, retiring in 1981. She served as a substitute teacher in the Howell Township…

  • Joseph Mrakovcich

    Mr. Mrakovcich, 78, of Howell, died July 31, 2010, at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune Township. He was born in Krk, Croatia. Prior to retirement, he was a courtroom attendant at the Monmouth County Courthouse in Freehold. He had also worked as a drywall taper and finisher. He was the owner of the Ocean…

  • Lorraine “Lorrie” L. Boyce

    Mrs. Boyce, 54, of Farmingdale, died July 28, 2010, at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, after a courageous battle with cancer. She was born in Neptune and was a lifelong Farmingdale resident. Mrs. Boyce was a homemaker. Surviving are her husband, George T.; two sons, Justin Boyce and his wife, Nicole, of Howell, and…

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