• Middletown South claims Handchen Cup

    BY WARREN RAPPLEYEA Staff Writer In a stunning turnaround that also portends a bright future, the Middletown High School South ice hockey team won the Handchen Cup as champions of the Shore Conference A Division. The Eagles struggled through a difficult campaign in the Class A North division, posting just a 1-10-2 mark in conference…

  • Lomardi winners are announced

    Unbeknown to many, Vince Lombardi was more than a legendary football coach. The man who guided the Green Bay Packers to five NFL championships in the 1960s during his Hall of Fame career was also a great college football player himself. He was guard on the famous Fordham University offensive line of 1936 that was…

  • Hawk women repeat as NEC indoor champs

    It’s becoming a habit for the Monmouth University women’s indoor track and field team. For the fourth time in the last six years and for the second straight year, the women claimed the Northeast Conference (NEC) Championships in Landover, Md., at the Prince George Sport and Learning Center. Strong on both days (Feb. 21-22), the…

  • He shoots. He scores!

    JEFF GRANIT staff Red Bank Catholic’s Luke McCarthy (11) goes up for a basket against St. Joseph’s Metuchen’s Andrew Morgan during the NJSIAA Non-Public South A quarterfinal in Metuchen on March 5. The Caseys were defeated 79-66 ending their 2008-09 season.

  • With SCT title in tow, Colts looking for more

    BY DOUG McKENZIE Staff Writer Oftentimes, when you have two teams with different styles of play, it will come down to which team can make the right adjustments. In the Shore Conference Tournament championship game on Feb. 28, Christian Brothers Academy basketball head coach Geoff Billet recognized very quickly that he needed to make an…

  • Two perspectives on the Holocaust

    On March 15, the opening of “The Exhibit: A Journey to Life” at the Monmouth Museum will bring to life the world that was lost during the Holocaust. Suitcases, scrapbooks, family photographs and other memorabilia are part of the multimedia exhibits, “A Journey to Life,” which documents the life experiences of Holocaust survivors, and “Voices…

  • Drinking-age debate important to the future of young lives

    Your Turn Guest Column • Stephen Wallace Behind the fusillade of faulty arguments proffered by the Amethyst Initiative in support of lowering the minimum legal drinking age to 18 lurks an inconvenient truth: doing so would only exacerbate the current epidemic of underage drinking, further jeopardizing young lives at a critical juncture in their physical,…

  • Borden case is over, but it should never have begun

    Coda • GREG BEAN Well, the Marcus Borden school prayer saga is finally over (at least in the courts), bringing to an end one of the saddest chapters in New Jersey education. I’ve had mixed feelings about this business from the start. I understood the stance taken by the East Brunswick school district, which had…

  • For the Record

    The registration fee for the Lemonade Crop ’09 benefit is $50, not $100 as reported in an article in the Feb. 26 issue. Also, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation is based in Wynwood, Pa., not at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Mike Stanton is a candidate for Borough Council in Tinton Falls. An article in the…

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