• Hornets’ boys haven’t missed a beat on the soccer field

    By MATTHEW ROCCO Correspondent The Holmdel boys soccer team has kicked off the 2013 season with a strong start, overcoming concerns surrounding a small senior class. The team had plenty of holes to fill this year. Last season’s squad had a strong group of seniors, including Zach Bond, Eric Bulvid and goalie Mitch Walier. This…

  • O’Neill, Lions roar at Passaic meet

    By TIM MORRIS Staff Writer No one was more eager to run at the Passaic County Coaches Invitational on Sept. 28 than Middletown High School North’s Tom O’Neill. He likes the Garret Mountain course in Woodland Park. The delayed start to his 2013 season had the Lions’ harrier roaring to go. He won the Varsity…

  • Eagles prepare for division battle against Manalapan

    By WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent Middletown High School South’s football team, coming off an impressive 24-7 victory over Howell High School, faces its biggest challenge in its 2-0 start when it takes on Manalapan High School on the road at 7 p.m. Oct. 4. “It’s probably the best team we’ll see, after Red Bank Catholic,” coach…

  • Fighting for yards

    Matawan Regional High School’s Kahlil Haskins tries to push an Ocean Township High School defender away during the Sept. 27 B North Division game played in Aberdeen. The visiting Spartans eked out a 7-3 win with a late touchdown. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR

  • Theater expands programs with ‘A Little Shakespeare’

    RED BANK — The Two River Theater Co. (TRT) will launch a new initiative for students as part of its expanded education programs for 2013-2014, the theater’s 20th-anniversary season. “A Little Shakespeare” will be a 75- minute version of Shakespeare’s “As You Like It,” performed by high school actors for middle-school audiences. Opportunities for students…

  • ‘Bill Ross: Aesthetic Curiosities’

    “Sisterhood” The Monmouth Museum’s New Jersey Emerging Artists Series continues this fall with an exhibition of illustrations by artist Bill Ross of Point Pleasant. “Bill Ross: Aesthetic Curiosities” will run through Oct. 20 in the museum’s Nilson Gallery. In an artist’s statement, Ross explained that he gravitated to charcoal and graphite pencils as a preferred…

  • Jazz great shares music history

    By THOMAS CASTLES Staff Writer Herbie Hancock Fifty years of performances, recordings and jam sessions later, Herbie Hancock remains the maverick of the music business he set out to be at the age of 14. It was then that Hancock, already a child prodigy on the piano, witnessed his first jazz performance during a student…

  • Angelo J. Faragasso

    Mr. Faragasso, 88, of Hazlet, died Sept. 23, 2013, at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. He was predeceased by his wife, Irene; and a daughter, Georgeann Hogarth. He is survived by two sons, Anthony Faragasso and his wife, Joan, of Coopersburg, Pa., and Charles Faragasso and his wife, Denise, of Old Bridge; and seven grandchildren. Arrangements…

  • Shirley J. Crawford

    Mrs. Crawford, 90, of Matawan, died Sept. 26, 2013, at the Regency Park Nursing Home, Hazlet. She was a crossing guard and lunch aide at the Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District for many years. She was predeceased by her husband, Alexander Crawford, in 1984. She is survived by three daughters, Sherri and her husband, Albert Brisebois,…

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