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    A men’s over-40 softball league will be held in New Egypt this fall. Play will start on Sept. 11. Games will be played on Saturday at 9 a.m. Tryouts will be held on Aug. 24, 26, 31 and Sept. 2. For more information, call Charlie at 609-758-2396 or Kevin at 848-525-0361. Jackson Memorial High School…

  • Howell South Seniors win District 11 championship

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Howell South Little League Senior League all-star manager Victor Monticollo did not have a bench to turn to when things got tough this summer. His all-star baseball team consisted of the minimum nine players. But the lack of substitutes did not prevent the Howell South Senior League allstars from bringing…

  • McDonnell changes college hoop plans

    Jackson Memorial graduate plays well in summer ball, switches to Temple Owls BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent Just days before Jimmy McDonnell would be heading to the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, the former Jackson Memorial High School basketball standout has taken a detour. Instead of moving into the dorms of UMass-Lowell, an NCAA Division III school, McDonnell…

  • Summer play helping Johnson regain form

    Correspondent BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Brandi Johnson, a former standout on the Jackson Memorial High School soccer team, played a key role as the Jersey Shore Boca Under-23 team captured the Mid-Atlantic Summer Showcase League (MSSL) Cup for the second year in a row. But it is an improbable summer for the talented center midfielder who…

  • Howell’s Monticollo prefers baseball action to softball

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Once a baseball player, always a baseball player. That is the way Juliet Monticollo, 15, of Howell sees it. “I’m good at baseball and I’m so used to playing it,” she said. “I like it. I’ve been playing it so long.” Despite getting some pressure to make the move to…

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    Daniel Kulakowski, son of Nora and Michael Kulakowski of Jackson, was selected to receive a graduate research fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Daniel is a student at the City University of New York Graduate School, where he is pursing a doctorate and majoring in ethnobotany.

  • Give New Jersey residents a chance to answer ballot question

    Currently the people of a municipality have no tool in their tool box to stop an increase or give a decrease to property taxation. But in November 1991 the people of Point Pleasant Beach in Ocean County voted to have such a tool. By a vote of 1,106 to 380 the following question passed: “Shall…

  • Howell K-8 deserves progressive leadership

    At the July 21 Howell K-8 School District Board of Education meeting, board member Tim O’Brien was proposing that the board look at making internal operating improvements, and he suggested that the board form a brainstorming committee to develop ways to improve internal infrastructure and efficiencies and eliminate waste. The board president, Mary Cerretani, responded,…

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