• St. Bart’s PeeWees fall short of Region title in final seconds

    The St. Bart’s Buffalos PeeWee football team fell seconds short of fulfilling its dreams and becoming the first team in the organization’s history to win an Eastern Region Championship. In a tremendously well-played game Saturday in Jackson, Ocean County, the Buffalos lost 19-14 to the Tidewater Titans of Maryland. Early on, things did not look…

  • East Brunswick rises to Bombers’ challenge

    Bears get ready for ‘Battle of Route 18’ tomorrow BY JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent There is nothing East Brunswick High School football fans want more than for this year’s Bears to duplicate what the 2004 team did: Win a state championship. With one important exception — don’t lose to Old Bridge on Thanksgiving Day. East Brunswick’s…

  • Monroe earns first trip to section finals

    Falcons settle score with Ocean; travel to Bishop Ahr tonight BY JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent Unfinished business? How about uncharted waters for the Monroe Township High School football team? Above: Monroe’s Marc Tyson and Jake O’Brien and teammates sack Ocean’s Christian Bailoni and force a fumble during the Falcons’ 31-20 victory in the NJSIAA Central Jersey…

  • Losing candidate should give up call for recount in Monroe

    How low will they go? I’m speaking, of course, about the Monroe Township Democrats. Democratic candidate Stephen M. Dalina lost the Ward 3 Township Council race to Republican Michael Leibowitz. Now Dalina wants a recount of ballots that have already been counted twice. Last summer the Monroe Democrats moved about 100 voters from Ward 2,…

  • Grateful to all who made event successful

    On Saturday, Nov. 14, the Rotary Club of South River- East Brunswick, in conjunction with Pedals for Progress, held a bicycle and sewingmachine collection at East Brunswick High School. We are happy to say that we collected 49 bicycles, five sewing machines and funds that will help ship them to Nicaragua. The purpose of this…

  • That’s a big hole to fill, so he’d better get shoveling

    Coda • GREG BEAN It sure didn’t take our governorelect long to start looking like someone had whacked him upside the head with a two-by-four, did it? There he was on the news last week after a meeting with the state treasury people, saying that things are even worse than he imagined. What everyone was…

  • ‘Beauty and the Beach’

    CHRIS KELLY staff Dawn Wilcox (552), Little Silver, participates in the Beauty and the Beach Run, which benefits Aslan Youth Ministries in Red Bank, along the Long Branch oceanfront on Nov. 7. CHRIS KELLY staff

  • NOTESAround Town

    Little Silver orthodontist Dr. Gregory Coakley, of Two River Orthodontics, turned bags of Halloween candy into piles of money. Coakley offered patients $1 per pound for their candy, with modest expectations, and was overwhelmed at the response of more than 200 pounds of candy. The bounty is being distributed to troops serving overseas and a…

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