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Historic win for RBC baseball team in MCT
Playoffs loom for area teams BY DOUG McKENZIE Correspondent As the local high school baseball teams prepare for the postseason, there are a handful of squads with legitimate reason to be optimistic about their chances. Sitting atop the list of local teams with realistic title aspirations are the Red Bank Catholic Caseys, who boast as…
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BCC men’s lacrosse team captures Region XIX title
Program only in second season BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Brookdale Community College’s athletic program has another Region XIX-winning program. The men’s lacrosse team joined the expanding group of teams that are garnering championships. It took only two years for coach Steve Heller to bring a lacrosse title to the campus. Brookdale defeated the County…
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RBC girls win county track championship
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Red Bank Catholic High School put its full range of talent on display at the two-day Monmouth County Track and Field Championships. Shore Regional High School’s Cameo Kirk (c) sprints toward the finish line of the 400-meter intermediate hurdles at the Monmouth County Championships on May 5 at Neptune High…
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Barry J. Goldberg
Mr. Goldberg, 74, of Toms River, died May 6, 2010, at Riverview Hospital, Red Bank. He was a mechanical engineer for the first half of his career and worked in the health care industry for the second half. Mr. Goldberg was a lifelong volunteer with the Contact phone crisis hotline and worked for 10 years…
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Catherine L. Christoph Colmorgen
Mrs. Colmorgen, 92, of Red Bank, died May 7, 2010. She was a nurse at Riverview Medical Center, the John L. Montgomery Medical Home and Monmouth Medical Center. She was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church in Red Bank. Mrs. Colmorgen was predeceased by her husband of 61 years, Carl, in 2001; and a sister,…
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Marathons should not be allowed to disrupt entire cities
It is time to apply some common sense to marathons. If a marathon raises awareness or money to help find a solution for a situation, I’m all for it. But why is it necessary to disrupt the business and normal operation of entire cities? The goal of a marathon is to provide a course that…
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Don’t increase co-pay on low-income seniors
There is no good news in the New Jersey state budget for those on low or fixed incomes. The current budget proposal includes increasing the brand-name drug copays from $7 to $15 for the state’s PAAD [Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged and Disabled] beneficiaries. Let’s remember, individuals participate in PAAD because they meet certain income…
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Resident willing to work with rec director
In response to Carl Jennings’ letter to the editor on May 5 (Recreation Director Responds to Resident’s Comment), I stand true to the fact that Mr. Jennings did in fact say those words to me, as I remember exactly where I was standing, what the day was like, what direction I was facing in, and…
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In my day, sonny, we got numbers in a book
CODA GREG BEAN If the phone company stops printing and delivering residential white pages, as Verizon has asked regulators permission to do in New York and New Jersey, what am I going to use as a doorstop, or to raise my computer monitor an extra 3 or 4 inches? On the one hand, Verizon’s request…
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