• Barca wants to reintroduce Plimpton in documentary

    By TIM MORRIS A fter writing a book on Notre Dame’s 1988 undefeated national championship football season, Jerry Barca has taken on a new role. He is the associate producer for “Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton As Himself,” the biographical documentary on one of the groundbreaking journalist/writers of the last century who passed away in 2003.…

  • Bracher breaks 800 record at Monmouth County meet

    By TIM MORRIS Manalapan High School’s Andrew Traina sprints to the finish line as he completes his run in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles at the Monmouth County Track and Field Championships held at Holmdel High School on May 7-9. Traina finished sixth in the race. There have been a lot of great runners who have…

  • Cole Bros. Circus celebrates 130th anniversary

    Cole Bros. Circus, which is celebrating its 130th anniversary this year, will bring its show to North Brunswick from May 16-18. North Brunswick Fire Co. No. 3 will host the performances on Route 1 north at Milltown Road, next to the DeVry University in North Brunswick. The Cole Bros. Circus of the Stars features Chris…

  • Pupils shine in stock market

    Pupils from the Park Avenue Elementary School showed a keen aptitude for finance during their recent participation in the Stock Market Game. FREEHOLD — Eight fifth-grade students from the Park Avenue Elementary School, Freehold Borough, will be honored at a statewide awards ceremony to be held at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey on June…

  • BUSINESS BRIEFS

    Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel, has received a significant donation from Dee Rudko of Colts Neck. Rudko is the CEO of AMRCON, an IT company he founded. Meridian Health has played an important role in the lives of the Rudko family. Rudko’s three children were born at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank, and he and his…

  • Landmark reform gives adoptees their ‘stories’

    By KEITH HEUMILLER Carol Barbieri of Long Branch poses with her son, Jonathan. Carol, who was adopted, became an advocate of the “Birthright Bill” after Jonathan was diagnosed with a heart condition, prompting her to spend years trying to find family medical history. Local adoption reform advocates say they are overjoyed with the state’s landmark…

  • ARE WE THERE YET

    He would do anything to avoid the dishwasher Lori Clinch I t has always been an aspiration of mine to raise boys who are domesticated. Not in the way one would housebreak a cat or dog, mind you. But I strive to be the kind of mother whose boys know their way around the house.…

  • Key Fresh & Natural to open

    MANALAPAN — A new Key Fresh & Natural supermarket will open this week in the Yorktowne shopping center, Pease and Gordons Corner roads. The Key Food Stores Cooperative Inc., which was founded in Brooklyn in 1937, includes more than 150 independently owned and operated grocery stores with $1.5 billion in annual sales, according to a…

  • Focus will be on seat belt use

    MANALAPAN — Law enforcement officers from the Manalapan Police Department will be cracking down on unbuckled motorists and passengers as part of the national “Click it or Ticket” campaign. Beginning May 19 and running through June 1, the annual initiative includes high visibility law enforcement seat belt checkpoints and saturation patrols, as well as local…

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