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Blue Devils raising level of play by scheduling tough opponents
By MATTHEW ROCCO Correspondent For the Shore Regional High School field hockey team, the best defense is an explosive offense. The Blue Devils, who are aiming for a 15th consecutive Shore Conference Tournament title this season, have posted several high-scoring games so far, giving opponents little chance to mount a comeback. Against Henry Hudson Regional…
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Caseys’ girls win Ocean State; Bulldogs takes Shoot Out
By TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Red Bank Catholic (RBC) High School’s girls cross-country team made its case out of state this weekend. The Caseys traveled to Warwick, R.I., for the Ocean State XC Invitational, where RBC bested a very strong field of teams from across the Northeast to confirm they are indeed one of the…
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Spartans’ defense, pass play are the difference in Ocean win
By WARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent Ocean Township High School’s Tyler Thompson (top) tries to run through the tackle of Matawan Regional High School’s Khalil Haskins during the Sept. 26 Shore Conference B North Division game played in Aberdeen. The visiting Spartans scored a late touchdown to edge the Huskies, 7-3. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR OCEAN TOWNSHIP…
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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 20thanniversary 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…
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‘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…
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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…
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Paul David Newman
Mr. Newman, 56, of Red Bank, died Sept. 21, 2013. He is survived by his wife of 28 years, Jill Jaime Kulch Newman; six brothers, Stephen Robertshaw of Derry, N.H., Robert Stritch of Wayne, Christopher Sorge of Westfield, Keven Kulch of Perth Amboy, Michael Newman of Matawan, and Vic Newman of Millstone; four sisters, Kristan…
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Dorothy Anne Laveratt
Ms. Laveratt, 81, of Madison and formerly of Red Bank, died Sept. 19, 2013, at Sunrise Assisted Living, Madison. She retired from Riverview Medical Center and had previously managed food services for the students of St. James Grammar School and Red Bank Catholic High School. She was predeceased by a son, Robert H. Laveratt; and…
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Gail Spencer Elgrim
Mrs. Elgrim, 78, of Fair Haven, died Sept. 19, 2013, at the Arnold Walter Nursing Home, Hazlet. She was predeceased by her husband, Ernest, in 2005. She is survived by a daughter, Donna and her husband, Jerry Hague, of Belford; two sons, Gary and his wife, Jenny Elgrim of Red Bank, and Ernie and his…
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