• Eagles hockey off to soaring start

    BY WARREN RAPPLEYEA Staff Writer On the heels of its outstanding finish last season that led to the Handchen Cup championship, the Middletown High School South ice hockey team is off to a 4-0-1 start this winter. FILE PHOTOS Above: Returning goalie Chris Marsillo for the Middletown South Eagles saves a goal during last year’s…

  • Coastal conservation trailblazer: Dery Bennett

    Most of us view the Jersey Shore as a place for a summer vacation or a day at the beach. But to Derickson W. Bennett, the coast was much more: a complex ecosystem, a habitat for wildlife and a way of life. Our coast lost what may have been its greatest advocate when Dery passed…

  • Raritan High School

    Raritan High School class of 1976 will hold a reunion at Park East in Hazlet on March 13, 2010, at 7 p.m. The cost is $25. Anyone interested in attending should contact Elena (Silverstein) Smith at elenastar1@ bellsouth.net. All details will be sent to via email and snail mail to classmates.

  • Fundraising for language lab to begin in 2010

    BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer HOLMDEL — Members of the Holmdel Foundation for Educational Excellence (HFEE) will be holding a fundraiser to bring an all-digital language lab into the district for the 2010 academic year. The organization announced at the Dec. 16 Board of Education meeting that the commemorative plaque fundraising initiative will help raise…

  • Holmdel school board approves QSAC report

    BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer HOLMDEL — The township public school district summarized its New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJ QSAC) methods for state and county evaluation at the Dec. 16 Board of Education meeting. Holmdel’s NJ QSAC report was approved for submission to the state Department of Education (DOE) and the executive county…

  • Teacher saluted by middle school before Navy send-off

    Students, staff, faculty plan surprise for Seabee BY TOM SHORTELL Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — Justin Mayer, a teacher at Bayshore Middle School, joined the Navy Reserve because he enjoys the sense of teamwork that comes from the military. Before he reports to active duty next month, the school community teamed up to give the Navy…

  • Citizen emergency response training will begin on Jan. 5

    PLUMSTED — The township’s Office of Emergency Management is offering free Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training in eight weekly two-hour sessions 1-3 p.m. beginning Jan. 5 at the Plumsted municipal building, 121 Evergreen Road. The CERT program is affiliated with the National Citizen Corps and is nationally recognized by all levels of government. Emergency…

  • Former property manager pleads guilty in U.S. court

    Charles Amon, a former property manager in Lakewood, pleaded guilty earlier this month to conspiring to commit extortion, admitting he agreed to arrange meetings between Jeffrey Williamson, then a Lakewood housing inspector, and a cooperating witness, where at such meetings Williamson accepted a total of $1,500 in corrupt cash payments from the cooperating witness in…

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