• Fireworks festivities in Hazlet July 3

    Hazlet Recreation will hold its annual fireworks celebration July 3 at the ball field at Veterans Memorial Park, Union Avenue (rain date July 5). Festivities begin 6 p.m. with a DJ, food vendors and glo-necklaces will be available for purchase at $2 each. Fireworks begin at dusk. Parking is available at Hazlet Swim Club. For…

  • Bayonet Farm Art and Music Festival set for Sept. 13

    HOLMDEL — The sixth annual Bayonet Farm Art and Music Festival will be held Sept. 13 at Bayonet Farm, 41 Middletown Road, Holmdel. The festival will feature a plein air painting competition and juried art show with works from local artists, photographers, sculptors and potters. Judges include Peter Trippi, editor of Fine Art Connoisseur, and…

  • Sports Shorts

    Sky Blue FC takes on the Boston Breakers in women’s professional soccer July Fourth at 4 p.m. The match will be held at Yurcak Field on the campus of Rutgers University in Piscataway. Free hot dogs will be given to the first 2,500 to come through the gates. For more information, call 888- SBFC-TIX. The…

  • Strong base running bolsters Rockets’ record

    BY WARREN RAPPLEYEA Staff Writer On the heels of its most successful season, the Raritan High School softball team is looking to become a force to be reckoned with in the Shore Conference. For years, the Rockets fielded a competitive program, but this spring Raritan soared to a 22-7 mark, easily besting the previous school…

  • Local athlete will compete in DAAA Games in NYC

    Hazlet athlete Noah Tripolitis will compete in soccer and basketball and play in the golf tournament at the Dwarf Athletic Association of America (DAAA) National Games to be held in Brooklyn, N.Y., July 5 through 8. Noah Tripolitis, who plays for the Hazlet United Soccer Association, will compete in several sports at the Dwarf Athletic…

  • SummerHeat Tournament returns to baseball tradition

    Switch to wood bats takes game full circle BY JOHN CANNIZZARO Correspondent The Fair Haven SummerHeat Tournament returned to the roots of baseball by switching to wood bats for this year’s tournament. Left: Fair Haven Diamonds 1’s Robbie Coene tries to earn a hit against the Millstone Mudhens in the Fair Haven SummerHeat Tournament on…

  • Parent thankful for middle school celebration organizers

    Asmall group of parents organized a semi-formal for the eighth-grade class of Hazlet Middle School to celebrate the children moving up to high school. The event was held on June 19 at the Centerville Firehouse. I would like to thank everyone involved for making it a night to remember. Everything was perfect, from the music…

  • Co-chairs thank media, public for Running/Winning support

    Recently, 62 young women — juniors in 12 local high schools — participated in the third annual Running and Winning Workshop sponsored by the League of Women Voters-Greater Red Bank Area, the Northern Monmouth County Branch of AAUW, the Junior League of Monmouth County, Red Bank Area Chapter of Hadassah, and the Monmouth County Regional…

  • Nat’l health care will ‘body slam’ free enterprise

    Open letter to House of Representatives: Iwrite to implore you not to support pending legislation for national health care. Passing this legislation will be team Obama’s next “body slam” to the free enterprise system (but you already know that). Already the White House has trumpeted their goal of saving $1.7 trillion of costs over the…

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