• Paczkowski succeeds Ciccotelli as Keyport football coach

    By WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent He’s perhaps the most-traveled coach in the state, and now he is the successor to one of the longest-serving coaches in New Jersey. John Paczkowski has never been a head coach, but he was named three weeks ago to take over the Keyport High School football program from Mike Ciccotelli, who…

  • SPORT SHORTS

    Renegades Fastpitch Girls Softball will hold tryouts for the 2014-15 season for 10U, 12U, 14U, 16U, 18U and 23U teams. The dates for the tryouts will be on Aug. 2 and Aug. 9, with rain dates of Aug. 3 and Aug. 10. The registration period will begin at 8:30 a.m., with the tryout beginning at…

  • Purchase of 1941 Play Ball set shows card collecting still thrives

    By NEIL BORENSTEIN Staff Writer Manalapan native Leighton Sheldon, who is the president of sports card and memorabilia office Just Collect in Somerset, played an instrumental role in acquiring a 1941 Play Ball baseball card collection from a family that thought the cards had been lost. Purchases like that show vintage card collecting is still…

  • Outside art is ‘in’

    IN THE ARTS “Wilderness” by Dan Casado A n exhibit of works by an international group of “outsider artists” will open at the Monmouth Museum on Sunday. “The Neo Outsider: The New Outsider Artist” will showcase a range of work by artists who reside throughout the United States and globally. The artists rest outside the…

  • Nashville’s Maggie Rose headlines Rockin’ Country Festival

    Maggie Rose Fans of country music can don their cowboy hats and shuffle down to Marine Park, Red Bank, for the Rockin’ Country Festival this weekend. Held June 28-29, the festival will feature country pop, country rock, folk, Americana, bluegrass and honky-tonk on two stages. The lineup includes the following acts: Maggie Rose, Madeline Smith,…

  • K-9 works while fighting cancer

    Sheriff’s Officer Kurt Kroeper and K-9 Evan Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office narcotics detection officer K-9 Evan has been working as a police dog in the fight against drugs for five years. Now, the 7-year-old Labrador retriever is fighting for his life, having been recently diagnosed with lymphoma. Despite Evan’s illness, oncology specialists from the Red…

  • Mental health group to host benefit dinner

    CPC Behavioral Healthcare’s annual summer benefit dinner, “Passport Around the World,” will be held 7 p.m. July 18 at the Navesink Country Club, 50 Luffburrow Lane, Middletown. This year, the benefit will celebrate the contributions of Geoff Sadwith of Ocean, Pat Geiss of Little Silver and Travelsavers of Oyster Bay, N.Y. Sadwith will be the…

  • Area students selected for Tenn. internships

    Anecia Jordon of Aberdeen and Gabrielle Fitzsimmons of Rumson were selected for internships at Youth Villages, a private nonprofit dedicated to helping children and families live successfully. Youth Villages provides a wide variety of programs to help children who may have suffered abuse or neglect, or have emotional and behavioral issues. Jordon and Fitzsimmons are…

  • Holiday Express Golf Classic set for July 21

    The 2014 Holiday Express Golf Classic, presented by the Schneider + Nelson Auto Group, will take place July 21 at the Manasquan River Golf Club, 843 Riverview Drive, Brielle. Shotgun starts will be at 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. All proceeds will be used to support Holiday Express’ scholarships and special programs. Since 2000, the…

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