• Truck sales surge, hybrids fizzle

    By Jim Gorzelany CTW Features FORD F-150 Cheaper gas may be helping lure some buyers away from the most fuel-efficient vehicles, but market forces are more likely to blame for this reversal of fortune. With gas prices dropping precipitously in late 2014, sales of full-size pickup trucks continued their upward path, while those of fuel-frugal…

  • Rents on the rise

    Buying now is twice as affordable as renting, but that doesn’t mean it’s any easier for young buyers to get into the market. As it’s gotten more affordable to own a home, the exact opposite has taken hold for renters. American homebuyers making the national median income and purchasing the typical U.S. home spend just…

  • Agents who go the distance

    By Marilyn Kennedy Melia CTW Features You live — or want to live — in a specific area. Your agent works in another. Here’s what you should ask to make sure they’re in the know on your neighborhood. You’re hoping to buy in a neighborhood you’ve long loved. Or, you want to sell your home…

  • Holmdel, CBA capture county indoor track and field titles

    There was something old and familiar and something new at the Monmouth County Indoor Track and Field Championships. The old and familiar was Christian Brothers Academy’s (CBA) team championship. It was the Colts’ sixth straight and 24th overall. CBA was simply overwhelming, scoring 106 points at the meet held at the John Bennett Indoor Athletic…

  • SPORT SHORTS

    With the 2015 season quickly approaching, the Atlantic Baseball Confederation Collegiate League (ABCCL) is looking for candidates for its annual summer internship program. The 10-week program provides students the opportunity to work with a collegiate summer baseball league, handling the media relations of the league from game recaps to feature stories about players throughout the…

  • It’s 200 and counting for Lancers’ Karpell

    With her players and assistant coaches by her side, St. John Vianney High School’s Dawn Karpell (holding flowers) celebrated her 200th career win as the Lancers’ head girls basketball coach on Jan. 6 after St. John Vianney had defeated Holmdel High School, 67-39. Karpell, a 1995 graduate of St. John Vianney, is in her eighth…

  • Feisty Rockets look to make noise in A Central

    RARITAN By WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent Raritan High School’s boys basketball team, with four starters back, is looking to rattle the Shore Conference A Central Division after struggling the last two years. “It’s been an interesting season so far,” coach Denis Caruano said. “We have four wins by a margin of over 30 points, and four…

  • Swim showdown in A North

    STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR Middletown High School North’s Alex Heim competes in the 100-yard butterfly during the Jan. 8 dual meet against Freehold Township High School held at the Western Monmouth County YMCA. The host Patriots won the dual meet and clinched the Shore Conference A North Division title.

  • Beach walk

    FRANK GALIPO Jeff Dement, center, leads participants in the annual Dery Bennett New Year’s Day Beach Walk, sponsored by the American Littoral Society and held on Sandy Hook every Jan. 1. Dery Bennett was executive director of the American Littoral Society. He died in 2009.

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