• Coldwell Banker dominates Real Trends best agents in New Jersey list for closed sales volume

    Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage affiliated sales associates obtained more spots than any other New Jersey real estate company in the Real Trends Best Real Estate Agents in America report of the state’s top 50 sales professionals based on closed sales volume. Several Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage sales associates also ranked within the state’s top 50…

  • SPORT SHORTS

    Power Wheel claimed the lead at the head of the backstretch and never was pressed, winning the $25,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes – Green Acres Final for 3-year-old trotting colts on Oct. 25 at Freehold Raceway. The son of Muscles Yankee trotted the mile in 2:00.1, finishing two lengths ahead of Fandango Tornado (by Revenue)…

  • Falcons control their own destiny in boys soccer tournaments

    By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent On paper, it doesn’t appear that the Monroe Township High School boys soccer team is close to being as good as last year’s 20-6 Falcons, who marched to the championship game of the NJSIAA Group IV tournament and suffered a heartbreaking, 3-2 overtime loss to Millburn High School. This year’s Falcons…

  • After time off, Sesely wins Spooky Spectacular in Wall

    A fter taking the majority of the 2013 auto racing season off to pursue other interests, two-time track driving champion Anthony Sesely posted an impressive comeback by winning the 75-lap Modified stock car Spooky Spectacular race at Wall Stadium on Oct. 19. It was the Matawan resident’s first stock car win of the year. Sesely…

  • Monroe suffers second loss; still in hunt for playoff spot

    By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent I n a departure from past seasons, when a simple power point system was used to determine the state football rankings after eight contests, teams will be able to drop the game that results in the fewest number of points this year. With the exception of Manalapan High School (6-0), teams…

  • Making strides

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN East Brunswick High School harriers run as a group during the early stages of the Greater Middlesex Conference Cross-Country Championships at Thompson Park in Jamesburg. The East Brunswick girls finished fifth with 140 points.

  • ‘Luna Mexicana’ celebrates with dance, music and costumes

    Lustig Dance Theatre will open its season with a special presentation of its “Luna Mexicana” at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick. “Luna Mexicana” pays tribute to the Mexican holiday Day of the Dead, and this presentation will conveniently land at 7 p.m. Nov. 2, the second day of the annual festival. Colorful music…

  • Irwin K. Wechsler

    Mr. Wechsler, 88, of East Brunswick, died Oct. 20, 2013, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement in 2000, he was the owner of and manufacturing representative for Canterbury Sales, East Brunswick, where he worked for 48 years. Surviving are his wife, Helen Winter Wechsler; a daughter, Eileen Luft and…

  • John Stanik

    Mr. Stanik, 99, of South River, died Oct. 20, 2013, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to his retirement, he was employed for more than 50 years as a carpenter through the International Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners Local No. 1006, Milltown. He was predeceased by his wife, Rita Hague Stanik; a…

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