• Sports Shorts

    The Old Bridge Mat Rats eighth-grade-and-under wrestling team placed fifth in the 16-team annual Jersey Shore Junior Wrestling League Tournament, which featured teams from Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean counties. James O’Connell took first place in the super heavyweight division. Second-place finishes went to Jake Wiatroski, Vin Gargano, Erik Dejonge and Chris Middleton. Placing third was…

  • Sayreville H.S. boys look to bowl repeat

    Girls and boys teams gear up for Bishop Ahr Holiday Classic BY WARREN RAPPLEYEA Staff Writer The Sayreville High School boys bowling team is looking to pick up where it left off a year ago when the Bombers brought home the NJSIAA Tournament of Champions (TOC) title. Sayreville opened the season on Monday with a…

  • Ready. Aim. Shoot.

    JEFF GRANIT staff Cardinal McCarrick’s Julio Rosario is fouled by St. Joseph’s Robert Ashamole during their Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament semifinal at South Brunswick High School on Feb. 25. St. Joe’s defeated Cardinal McCarrick 57-47.

  • Sky Blue FC ready to play some soccer

    BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer After two days of tryouts, 26 players sat silently in a semicircle, waiting to hear if they had made the cut. On Feb. 25, 51 players had entered the practice field at GoodSports USA at Allaire in Wall Township, hoping to play for the Sky Blue FC Soccer team, a…

  • To be effective, SERA must be ‘depoliticized’

    Over the past few weeks this column has been used by former and current Sayreville Borough Council members, as well as a resident, to express their views regarding a conflict that exists between a state statute and borough ordinance that dictates the composition of the Sayreville Economic Redevelopment Agency (SERA). As the mayor of Sayreville,…

  • Don’t let economic woes impact education

    I’m writing to express my support, in these troubling economic times, for the outstanding educational system in the state of New Jersey. Our schools are among the best, if not the very best, in the nation. When the economy suffers, it is very tempting to begin cutting public support in as many places as possible…

  • Health-care professionals put others first

    In response to Annette Codispoti’s recent letter to the editor titled “Staffers Should Look Neater at Hospitals” (Suburban, Feb. 19), I am a strong proponent of promoting a professional image. As they say, you only have one chance to make a first impression. For the better part of my 26- year nursing career, scrubs have…

  • Auto industry column struck positive chord with readers

    Coda • GREG BEAN Iget a lot of reader response to this column. Sometimes, I opine about something that rubs some people the wrong way, and I hear about it. Once in a while, though, I write something that strikes a positive chord with readers, and I hear about that, too. That was the case…

  • When life hands you lemons …

    Scrapbooking fundraiser benefits children’s cancer programs BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer Karen Salerno is quite the scrapper. The Holmdel resident, along with friend Lyn Finn of Eatontown, will host a scrapbooking event, Lemonade Crop ’09, March 28 to benefit a foundation that is close to her heart. ERIC SUCAR staff Karen Salerno (center), along…

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