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SPORT SHORTS
The best collegiate hockey teams in the country will skate into Newark’s Prudential Center, as the inaugural Liberty Hockey Invitational launches on Oct. 25-26. The two-day, four-game tournament features an all-Ivy roster, where Princeton University, Yale University, Brown University and Dartmouth College will compete for the Liberty Trophy. Over the next three years, the tournament…
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Young Monroe girls soccer team competing in tough Red Division
MONROE TOWNSHIP By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent The motto for the Monroe Township High School girls soccer team is to never say die, no matter what the circumstances are, according to head coach Kathy Dillon. That has certainly been true during this up-and-down season. The record stands at 5-4-1, and the Falcons have experienced a roller…
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To the finish line
East Brunswick High School’s Melody Fakhrzadeh dashes to the finish line during the Varsity A race at the Shore Coaches Invitational held at Holmdel Park on Oct. 5. The Bears finished 12th. SCOTT FRIEDMAN
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‘Kansas City Swing’ celebrates baseball, jazz
Rob Karma Robinson as Satchel Paige I t’s the fall of 1947 in Kansas City. The Satchel Paige All- Stars of the Negro Leagues are gearing up to play the all-white Bob Feller All-Stars during the teams’ cross-country barnstorming tour. Jackie Robinson has recently broken baseball’s “color line.” Change is in the air — for…
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Elizabeth “Betty” Waltz Smith
Mrs. Smith, 88, of East Brunswick, formerly of Edison, died Oct. 2, 2013, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was predeceased by a sister, Anne McCartney. Surviving are her husband, Robert C. Smith; two sons, Robert Jr., and his wife, Barbara, of Hillsborough and Donald, and his wife, Marcia, of Maui, Hawaii;…
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Paul D. Zelanko
Mr. Zelanko, 64, of South River, died Sept. 22, 2013, at home. Prior to his retirement in 2009, he was employed as an environmental engineer for Hercules Inc., Parlin section of Sayreville, where he worked for 25 years. A member and president of the South River Board of Health, on which he served for the…
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Mary Jane Olsen Eberle Jones
Mrs. Jones, 69, of Sayreville, died Sept. 19, 2013, at home. Prior to her retirement in 2007, she was employed for 25 years as a bus driver for Middlesex County. She was predeceased by her husband, John D. Jones; her parents, Harry and Margaret Olsen; and two brothers and their wives, Douglas “Ace” and Patricia…
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Michael Burak
Mr. Burak, 90, of South River, died Oct. 3, 2013, in CareOne at East Brunswick. Prior to his retirement, he was employed as a foreman at Ford Motor Co., Edison, where he worked for many years. He also was proprietor of the Windsor Toy and Hobby Shop, Princeton Junction section of South Brunswick, 1974-95. He…
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Linda Joeen Zelasko
Mrs. Zelasko, 68, of Roanoke, Va., formerly of Spotswood and South Brunswick, died Sept. 28, 2013, in Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital. She was predeceased by her husband, Steven Zelasko Jr. Surviving are two sons, Steven W. Zelasko of Monroe and Scott Zelasko, and his wife, Leslie, of Roanoke; her two best friends, Ruth Witkup of…
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