• Church will hold Christmas cantata

    “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” a Christmas cantata, will be held 3 p.m. Dec. 20 at the Allentown United Methodist Church, 23 Church St. Admission is free and all are welcome. For more information, call 609-259-7392.

  • Musikgarten will begin winter session

    The winter session of Musikgarten, children’s group music and movement classes, will begin Dec. 15 at Cornerstone Music Studios in Millstone. New to the12-week session is “Daddy & Me: Music for Toddlers,” to be held Saturday at 9:30 a.m. Also offered are: “Family Music for Babies” offered 9:15 a.m. Tuesdays or Thursdays, for newborns through…

  • Letters to Santa program suspended

    The letters to Santa program, sponsored by the Women’s Association of Allentown, has been cancelled due to new limitations imposed by the Postal Service

  • Food drive slated for Popcorn Park Zoo

    The Mary Klink Memorial Pet Food/Supply Drive to benefit the Popcorn Park Zoo, Lacy, is currently under way. Donation buckets are available at the New Egypt Agway, Rick’s Saddle Shop in the Cream Ridge section of Upper Freehold, Dill’s in Freehold, Pet Life in Allentown, Pets and Hobbies in Cream Ridge and Precious Pets in…

  • Wrestling championships set for action at Boardwalk Hall

    In what has become an eagerly anticipated annual tradition, 336 of the top high school wrestlers from around the state will converge on Atlantic City to spend a weekend competing in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association State Wrestling Championships at Boardwalk Hall on March 5-7, 2010. Tickets for all four sessions will go…

  • Take it to the hoop

    Above: Allentown High School’s Matt Mueller battles for possession of the ball during a scrimmage against Jackson Liberty High School at Allentown on Dec. 5. Right: Allentown’s Desmond Bush (l-r) battles for the ball with Jackson Liberty’s Justin McGee and Justin Petkevicius. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff

  • Redbirds win Garden State Games Championship

    The Allentown Redbirds Junior Midgets bested an Asbury Park Pop Warner team to win the Garden State Games Championship. The Allentown Redbirds Junior Midgets team beat Asbury Park to win the Garden State Games Championship held at Rutgers Stadium in Piscataway. A season that started over four months ago with a first-time head coach and…

  • Raymond Conover Gravatt Sr.

    Mr. Gravatt, 71, of the Cream Ridge section of Upper Freehold, died Nov. 29, 2009, at the Vitas Hospice program at Kennedy Hospital in Stratford. Mr. Gravatt served in the U.S. Air Force. He was a safety supervisor with Monmouth County for 33 years prior to retiring. He was a past president of the Howell…

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