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Redbirds see strong starts from baseball, girls’ lacrosse teams
By Wayne Witkowski Allentown High School’s baseball and girls’ lacrosse teams have gotten off to flying starts in the budding spring sports season. Baseball After outscoring its first two opponents, 32-5, with 15 players driving in runs, Allentown’s baseball team went to 3-0 April 8 by pulling out a 2-1 victory over Hopewell Valley Central…
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Somerset Patriots announce All-Star Game partnership
The Somerset Patriots announced an all-star partnership between RWJBarnabas Health and Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey to present the 2017 Atlantic League All-Star Game to be played at TD Bank Ballpark July 12. The All-Star Game partnership was announced in a press conference at home plate of the ballpark’s playing field April…
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Healthy Vega places first in bars at Region 7 competition
By Wayne Witkowski Olivia Vega spent most of the last two frustrating years recovering from early-season injuries for Action Gymnastics in Freehold but made the most of her opportunities in a healthy campaign this spring. The 13-year-old eighth grader at Howell Middle School South finished first in the uneven bars and was third in the…
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Freehold taking care of business on baseball field
By Jeff Appelblatt As much as Freehold High School baseball coach Jon Block doesn’t like to think about weather affecting his team, there are certain things he’ll continue doing in hopes that it won’t — starting with the group outings of cleaning off the field at the high school. “Everybody’s got to rake,” the coach…
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Young Freehold Township softball team progressing quickly
By Jeff Appelblatt Over the course of the week, teams saw many games between April 3-9 get rained out. It was just one of those spans for some teams in which it was much easier to appreciate victories than be disappointed in losses. Freehold Township High School’s softball team was much prouder of its win…
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CentraState offers non-surgical treatment for skin cancer
FREEHOLD – CentraState Medical Center is offering a new, non-surgical treatment for certain types of localized skin cancer. Skin brachytherapy uses radiation to destroy cancer without the need to cut into the skin, often resulting in a superior cosmetic outcome. “A woman in her 80s recently came to see me because she had a small…
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Colonials bounce back from opening boys’ volleyball loss
By Jeff Appelblatt It took just one match for Ryan Walkiewicz, the boys’ volleyball coach at Freehold High School, to be assured expectations should be high this season. Although the Colonials lost their first match, 2-0 (25-22, 25-20), to Shore Conference A North Division rival Colts Neck High School, Walkiewicz always kept the Cougars on…
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Middletown Historical Society will host author
The Middletown Township Historical Society will be hosting a guest speaker Rick Geffken at their 7 p.m. April 17 meeting. The event will be held at the the Nature Center at Poricy Park, 345 Oak Hill Road, Middletown. Geffken will be speaking about the new book he co-authored with George Severini “Lost Amusement Parks of…
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Public Works Department will begin brush pick-ups
The Aberdeen Township Public Works Department will begin its spring brush pick-ups the week of April 24. Section I, which includes Cliffwood Beach, Cliffwood, River Gardens, Oakshades, Freneau, and Heritage Estates, will have its brush and branches picked up the week of April 24 followed by Section II neighborhoods Strathmore, High School Area, Woodbrook Drive,…
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