• Braves, Patriots set to vie for more soccer championships

    By TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Two very successful boys soccer programs — Manalapan High School and Freehold Township High School — added to their acclaimed history in 2014. John Natoli’s Braves went 16-4-3 while winning the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group IV title and the Shore Conference A North Division co-championship. The Braves defeated Monroe Township…

  • Golf Outing honoring Richardson is Sept. 21 at Gambler Ridge course

    It’s been a year since Anthony Richardson passed away, but his memory lives on. A three-sport standout at Freehold High School who went on to play football at Temple University, Richardson lost his battle with pancreatic cancer last October at the age of 45. To his teammates and friends at Freehold, he will always be…

  • Braves, Colonials, Rebels open football seasons with victories

    By TIM MORRIS Staff Writer After the first game of the high school football season, every coach can see room for improvement for his team. The good news for half the coaches playing the first weekend of the season is that they are coming off victories. Manalapan High School, Freehold High School and Howell High…

  • Servidio, Astarita leaders of promising gymnastics season

    By TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Marlboro High School sophomore Melissa Astarita competes on the uneven bars during the Mustangs’ season-opening win over Toms River High School North Sept. 10 in Marlboro. Astarita was the NJSIAA Central/South Jersey Group I all-around champion last season. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR It would be hard to duplicate what Freehold…

  • Make your voices heard on Freehold schools

    In reading a News Transcript article about the Freehold Borough K-8 School District’s new school year, I was dismayed to learn that the meeting for residents to express their concerns about school overcrowding have no evening hours. This deprives many people of a chance to speak. I believe the hard-working parents of students are those…

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    REBECCA NOWALSKI Brianna Blake, 9 months, is delighted to pick out her first pumpkin at the annual Millstone Day on Sept. 13.

  • Council renews liquor licenses

    HOWELL — The Howell Township Council has renewed the liquor licenses of four businesses in the community. At a meeting in August, the council approved the license renewals for the fiscal year 2015-16. In its resolution approving the license renewals, the council said that all of the applications were in order and that the license…

  • Arthur “Artie” MacCollum

    Arthur “Artie” MacCollum, 77, peacefully left this world on Thursday morning, Aug. 27, 2015, at his home in Burnside, Pennsylvania. Born on June 6, 1938, in New Brunswick to the late Arthur A. and Dorothy MacCollum Sr., he lived most of his life in Edison. After making a pit stop in Manalapan for 12 years…

  • Vito Anthony Naturale

    Vito Anthony Naturale, 85, passed away Sept. 6. He was a devoted father and grandfather. Vito, who was a lifelong resident of Belleville, retired from Hoffmann La Roche in Nutley as a supervisor. An Army veteran of the Korean Conflict, he was a member of the Italian Fiorente Club and the Belleville High School Hall…

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