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Red Bank’s Hutterer wins 25th Shamrock 10K race
More than 300 runners and racewalkers helped the Freehold Area Running Club celebrate the 25th anniversary of its St. Paddy’s races. The Shamrock 10K and Leprechuan 5K were held at Tighe Park off Georgia Road in Freehold Township on March 23. Red Bank’s Ben Hutterer won the Shamrock 10K race by more than thee minutes…
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Junior Titans forward Walker commits to Union College
Forward Ryan Walker of the New Jersey Junior Titans in the North American Prospects Hockey League (NAPHL) has committed to play NCAA Division I hockey for Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. Union plays in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC). Walker, 16, set new scoring records this season in the NAPHL. The Spotswood native became…
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Season opens with optimism across the diamonds
Ready or not, it’s time to play ball for the Freehold Regional High School District baseball teams starting on April 2. The harsh March weather has made it difficult for teams to practice or scrimmage on their home diamonds, and that has put them behind schedule. The good news, though, it’s been the same situation…
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SPORT SHORTS
The Harness Horse Youth Foundation (HHYF) is presenting a hands-on two-day harness horsemanship program at Gaitway Farms, Route 33, Manalapan, on July 30-31. The program is open to children ages 11 and up, but an application must be filled out and sent to the organization. Applications, with complete program details, are posted at www.hhyf.org/schedule-applications. The…
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Cougars’ O’Reilly, Patriots top district team
Freehold Township High School’s boys basketball team completed a decade of unparalleled success when it won another Shore Conference A North Division crown. Brian Golub’s Patriots (17-10) came out of a pack of contenders to win the public school crown. It was their seventh A North championship in the last 10 years, and they did…
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Marlboro’s Unger tops girls All-District basketball team
Marlboro High School’s Haley Unger attracted attention every time she had the ball in her hands this winter, but it didn’t keep her from averaging 17 points and 13 rebounds per game. Unger is one of the few basketball players to score 1,000 points and pull down 1,000 rebounds in her career. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC…
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Local artist, designer to deliver ‘Box of Rain’
A n exhibit of Abstract Expressionist paintings by local artist and designer Kurt Ackerman is on view at the Monmouth Beach Cultural Center. “Box of Rain” will run through April 26 at 128 Ocean Ave. Many of the paintings in the exhibit deal with places, music and events from the recent past, from the USS…
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Rutgers Theater Co. to show ‘Acting is Believing’
Anna Lentz and Sam Urdang LAURA STELLA SOHN When all the world’s a stage, the line between playing a role and living one’s life can get a bit hazy (and murderous). Rutgers Theater Co. travels south of the border to explore the actor’s art of illusion in Lope de Vega’s “Acting Is Believing (Lo Fingido…
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New county park takes shape with Freneau tract
A 10-year effort to preserve about 183 acres of the Freneau woodlands in Aberdeen Township as a county park is nearing fruition. The Monmouth County Board of Freeholders recently approved the purchase of an 88-acre parcel of the woodlands for $10.6 million. The county is expected to close on the parcel later this year, along…
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