• Sports Shorts

    The Sayreville Bomber golf outing, sponsored by the Football Touchdown Club and the Baseball Booster Club, will be held April 18 at the Bunker Hill Golf Course in Princeton. Beginning at 1 p.m. with a shotgun start, the day will include hot dogs, hamburgers and beverages on the course, and dinner immediately following at Bunker…

  • Panel will examine horse racing industry

    Gov. Jon Corzine has signed an executive order creating the Governor’s Commission on the Horse Racing Industry. The commission is to identify, assess and recommend possible funding solutions for horse racing meets after 2010 and propose long-term funding solutions that will promote the future sustained viability of the horse racing industry in New Jersey. “The…

  • Racing to return to Wall Township

    After sitting idle through 2008, with the exception of the Turkey Derby race in late November, Wall Township Speedway will come alive again in 2009. The busy schedule will feature professional auto racing and several types of special events, according to a press release. Promoter Jim Morton, who led the resurrection of the one-third mile…

  • A wrestleback takedown

    JEFF GRANIT staff South Brunswick’s Brendan Vercammen (top) grapples with Montville’s Greg Barnish during their 171-pound first-round wrestblack bout in the NJSIAA wrestling tournament at Boardwalk Hall in Atlanctic City on March 7. Vercammen won the match by a score of 5-4.

  • 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…

  • Something to sleep on …

    Area business aims to help the sleep-deprived BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Once Priti Pandya-Patel, founder of the Iselinbased International Sleep Network LLC (ISN), became immersed in the many facets of sleep, she realized it was an eye-opener. ERIC SUCAR staff The CEO and founder of The international Sleep Network, Priti Pandya-Patel, works in the…

  • NOTES

    CHRIS KELLY staff A group of local youths ride down Cemetery Hill, West Long Branch, thanks to the late winter snowstorm. Long Branch Elks Lodge No. 742 will hold its annual St. Patrick’s Day dinner 8 p.m. March 14 at the lodge at 150 Garfield Ave. Price is $15 per person for the meal consisting…

  • ‘A book … can take a child to new places’

    Bridge of Books Foundation distributes books to at-risk youths From March 2 to 6, volunteers from Red Bank, Asbury Park, Camden and around the state are helping to distribute thousands of donated books to at-risk children as part of Read Across America Week. CHRIS KELLY staff Elizabeth Dicker, Long Branch, sorts books for the Bridge…

  • Women’s group honors human rights advocates

    Church Women United recognizes prison chaplains, community activist BY SUSANNE MORELLI Staff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Rebecca Fuller Wilburn, Neptune, joins in song during a human rights celebration sponsored by Church Women United of the Greater Red Bank Area, which honored her late father, the Rev. Dr. William Fuller. FAIR HAVEN — In song, words…

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