• Volleyball team responds to challenge from coach

    Jim Huebner had seen enough. His defending Shore Conference A North Division champion Howell High School boys volleyball team was winning, but not playing with the consistency that marks a championship team. It was difficult for Huebner to call his players on the carpet for the bad habits, but when Colts Neck marched into the…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Howell High School junior Maggie Gilbertson competes in the high jump at the Monmouth County Track and Field Championships on May 9 at Neptune High School. With a jump of 5-4, Gilbertson won the county championship.

  • Relicensing Oyster Creek nuclear plant was a mistake

    It has been a crisis month for Exelon since federal regulators jumped the gun and relicensed the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Lacey until 2029. Failure of a main transformer led to the shutdown of the reactor. That followed the recent discovery of high levels of radioactive tritium contamination at the site. Nuclear Regulatory…

  • Resident says Jackson board is wrong to charge for student parking

    The worst kind of school bullying is Board of Education bullying. The Jackson board is shaking down our students for their lunch money. The board is planning on charging only the students to park at the town’s two high schools. This is blatantly unfair. This is not a question on whether or not the students…

  • RCAs did not effectively address housing need

    There is a critical shortage of housing throughout New Jersey, making it impossible for hundreds of thousands of working families to live within reasonable distances of their jobs. This predicament leads directly to increased congestion, pollution and time spent on the roads for all of us, and a decrease in everyone’s quality of life. The…

  • Vincent Passarelli

    Mr. Passarelli, 82, of Freehold Township and formerly of Old Bridge, died April 18, 2009, at Bartley Health Care, Jackson, He was the owner and operator of Deli Delite in Old Bridge from 1964 to 1990. Mr. Passarelli was predeceased by three sisters, Rose, Anne and Florence. Surviving are his wife of 59 years, Dolores…

  • Wilhelmina Fernandini Weckley

    Mrs. Weckley, 83, of New Brunswick, died April 14, 2009, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was a foreign correspondent at McGraw-Hill Company, Hightstown, for more than 20 years, retiring in 1990. She is survived by her husband, Charles D. Weckley; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Roberto and Wendy Fernandini of Jackson, and…

  • Catherine E. McCabe

    Ms. McCabe, 52, of Cream Ridge, formerly of Freehold and Jackson, died April 5, 2009, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. She was a veterinary technician for 25 years. Ms. Mc- Cabe is survived by her companion, Cirillo Domingues of Cream Ridge; a son, Philip Lowenburg, and his girlfriend, Tara Silke, of Jackson; two daughters,…

  • Teachers will be recognized

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer PLUMSTED — Two New Egypt Primary School teachers will receive recognition from the New Jersey School Boards Association for creating an innovative special-education program. Jennifer Miller and Jennifer Gilbert have designed a program called Learning Tools, which focuses on helping to explain all of the adaptive equipment that specialeducation children…

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