• Talented Sayreville track teams expect strong season

    SAYREVILLE WAR MEMORIAL By WARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent Sayreville War Memorial High School’s track and field teams boast a slew of talented athletes, and coach Jerry Carney is expecting a strong winter campaign. Boys track and field The boys team is particularly balanced. Carney’s contingent of sprinters includes junior Colin Winslow, who won the overall NJSIAA…

  • Lady Knights hope experience leads to strong second half

    OLD BRIDGE By WARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent The Old Bridge High School girls basketball team has struggled at times to score points this winter, scoring 40 or more just three times thus far. But the young Lady Knights are gaining valuable experience that should pay off in the second half of the season. Coach Dan DaMino’s…

  • All tied up

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Old Bridge High School’s Tanner Corbett (right) and John F. Kennedy Memorial’s Anthony Favor are tied up during their 106-pound match at the quad meet held at JFK in Iselin on Jan. 11. Corbett won the match by a decision, 12-6, and the Knights rolled to a 61-14 victory.

  • Flocking together

    PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN At left, Jake Wilkinson portrays Conrad Birdie as students from Sayreville Middle School perform a scene from the musical “Bye Bye Birdie” on Jan. 11. At right, Jake Wilkinson as Conrad Birdie and Nicole Laudati as Kim MacAfee perform a dance number.

  • Crowning moment

    PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MAIN STREET THEATRE CO. The Main Street Theatre’s Kidworks will present the fairytale mystery adventure “Princess Who?” at noon and 3 p.m. Jan. 18. The show includes many popular fairytale characters, including Rumpelstiltskin, Snow White and Rapunzel. Pictured from left to right are Alex Mennella of Monroe, AJ Silvestri of Old…

  • Comedic play to explore college admissions process

    New Jersey Repertory Co. will present the world premiere of “Admit One,” a new comedy by Wendy Yondorf, through Feb. 16. The play explores the hysteria that parents may experience when it comes to college admissions. Howard Everett is no exception, but he has a leg up as one of the wealthiest donors to the…

  • Raymond Joseph Vergona

    Mr. Vergona, 89, of Old Bridge, died Dec. 23, 2013, in Briarwood Care and Rehabilitation Center, South Amboy. Surviving are his wife, Gloria Vergona; two daughters and sons-in-law, Eileen and George Metelski and Patricia and Al Fatemi; two stepsons and a stepdaughter-in-law, Thomas Longmore and William and Elizabeth Reiser; two granddaughters; and many nieces and…

  • Madeline A. Frino Balde

    Mrs. Balde, 79, of the Parlin section of Sayreville, died Dec. 21, 2013, in Southern Ocean Medical Center, Manahawkin. Prior to her retirement 20 years ago, she was employed in the accounts receivable department at Navieras Corp., Edison, where she worked for 20 years. She was predeceased by her companion, William Lyon; and her siblings,…

  • Emily Theodora Crandall Travers

    Mrs. Travers, 79, of East Brunswick, died Jan. 2, 2014, at the Reformed Church Home, Old Bridge. Prior to her retirement she was a licensed practical nurse at The Elms of Cranbury Nursing Home for more than 15 years. She was predeceased by her husband, Eugene Travers Jr.; and two brothers, Timothy Crandall and Dennett…

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