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Freehold’s 2014 HOF inductees led by national champion Vento
National champion Debra Vento heads up Freehold High School’s 2014 Athletic Hall of Fame inductees. The class of 2014 will be honored at a celebration on May 1 at the Park 33 Restaurant in Freehold starting at 5:30 p.m. Vento, who graduated in 2003, won multiple indoor and outdoor Meet of Champions titles in the…
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Patriots’ 4×800 team captures indoor national title
By TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Caitlin Poss could hardly believe what she was seeing. “This is happening,” she said while watching her Freehold Township High School teammates build on their lead in the 4×800- meter relay at the New Balance Indoor Nationals on March 15 at The Armory Track and Field Center in New York,…
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Junior Titans 14U girls earn trip to Nationals with district sweep
By NEIL BORENSTEIN Staff Writer The New Jersey Junior Titans Girls 14U ice hockey team is headed to the USA Hockey Tier II National Championships, securing a spot by sweeping the Atlantic District Championships. The Junior Titans (18-1-1), the first girls team in the program to make the nationals, hope to continue their success when…
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Howell’s Schultz, Lindemann, Cocozza top district mat team
The 2013-14 wrestling season was one of the most memorable in Freehold Regional High School District (FRHSD) history. It will long be remembered at Howell High School as the year the Rebels silenced their critics, who had insisted that they “can’t win the big one.” They did it by not only capturing their first Shore…
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Looney’s 3-pointer helps lift Cougars to sectional crown
By TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Colts Neck High School’s Jenna Looney (33) slices through Hunterdon Central Regional High School defenders, led by Catie Perkins, right, during the March 10 NJSIAA Central Jersey Group IV championship game played in Colts Neck. The Cougars pulled away late to win the state sectional crown, 41-28, sparked by a…
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Art and science converge in gallery exhibit
“Neon” by Ellen Rubenstein Monmouth University’s Center for the Arts and the School of Science are collaborating on an exhibit on view in the Pollak Gallery. “Art in Science” will run through April 30. The exhibit is intended to highlight the beauty of science through images, drawings and photos based on the research and coursework…
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Exhibit open to those ‘Drawn to Dinosaurs’
The Hadrosaurus foulkii is on exhibit beginning March 22 at the New Jersey State Museum’s Natural History Hall. COURTESY OF NEW JERSEY MUSEUM The Hadrosaurus foulkii returns to New Jersey in the new exhibit, “Drawn To Dinosaurs: Hadrosaurus foulkii,” on March 22 in the New Jersey State Museum’s Natural History Hall. The exhibit, on loan…
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Pupils may enter poster contest
FREEHOLD — Fifth-graders in Freehold Borough will have the opportunity to express their creativity through art while honoring Arbor Day by entering the Arbor Day poster contest. The contest is sponsored by the Freehold Borough Shade Tree Commission to recognize Arbor Day, April 25. The contest is open to fifth-graders who attend the Freehold Learning…
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Preservation grants awarded
The Monmouth County Historical Commission awarded preservation grants recently for 13 restoration projects that totaled $64,411. The 2014 preservation grant recipients include: Battleground Historical Society (Englishtown), Village Inn porch roof restoration, $4,000; Friends of Monmouth Battlefield (Freehold), Craig House window replacement, $2,915; Old Tennent Church (Manalapan), restoration of exterior doors, $4,357; …
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