• Bush returns to Manalapan to see the football program on a roll

    By TIM MORRIS MANALAPAN I t all started with a phone call. Ed Gurrieri, who had coached high school and college football on Staten Island, just moved to Manalapan. Steve Bush, then the head coach of the Braves, heard about the move from a coach he trusted, picked up the phone and called Gurrieri. “I…

  • Hlavata has Colonials tennis competing for championships

    By TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Freehold High School’s Michaela Hlavata helped the Colonials win their first Monmouth County Tournament championship by winning the first singles title. Jon Block knew in five minutes that he was watching a unique talent on the tennis court. Michaela Hlavata, the one who impressed Block at the Freehold High School…

  • SPORT SHORTS

    The Rutgers Basketball Court Club has a new promotion. In addition to the usual benefits from joining the Court Club, whose who join receive two free tickets for the Nov. 16 University of Cincinnati at Rutgers football game and two free tickets for the Nov. 23 William and Mary College at Rutgers basketball game. Membership…

  • Braves, Cougars score dominating victories on the football field

    By TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Manalapan High School football players make their entrance onto the field for their home opener on Sept. 27. The Braves jumped all over visiting Middletown High School North, 49-14, to improve to 2-0. Manalapan High School and Colts Neck High School continued to roll on the gridiron last weekend with…

  • ‘Bill Ross: Aesthetic Curiosities’

    “Disparate Objects” 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…

  • 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…

  • Respect for the flag

    Freehold Borough Councilwoman Sharon Shutzer retires an American flag during a flag retirement ceremony held at Freehold Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4374, Waterworks Road, on Sept. 18. The event was sponsored by the Teen Library Committee of the Freehold Public Library and VFW Post 4374. MATT DENTON

  • Rings stolen at auction

    MANALAPAN — Unknown individuals stole rings valued at $12,800 from a business at the Englishtown Auction Sales, Wilson Avenue, on Sept. 15, according to Manalapan police. At 3:54 p.m., Patrolman Joseph DeFilippis responded to the auction for a report of a theft at Diakraft LLC jewelry store. An employee of the business reported that unknown…

  • Nancy Lau

    Mrs. Lau, 51,of Old Bridge, formerly of Brooklyn, N.Y., died Sept. 17, 2013, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was employed as an administrative clerk for the Old Bridge Municipal Court. Surviving are her husband, Cheung Wing Lau; two children, Alex Lau and Jennifer Lau, of Old Bridge; two brothers and sisters-in-law,…

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