• Market recovery report

    Experts say the recovery is stronger than expected, but low inventory is the main factor for rising home prices By Chrystal Caruthers CTW Features A fter years of declining home values and doomsday real estate forecasts, the housing market is roaring back with rapidly rising home prices and more buyers than sellers. Low inventory is…

  • Living in a video world

    Video tours and conferencing increasingly substitute in-person interactions for buyers, sellers and their agents. For home hunters seeking the perfect property today, the next best thing to being there is simply clicking play. The latest social video tools allow buyers, sellers and their agents to tour a home remotely, teleconference on a desired property and…

  • SJV boys soccer team aims to battle for division title

    By NEIL BORENSTEIN Staff Writer The St. John Vianney High School boys soccer team started its preseason schedule on Aug. 26 with a tri-scrimmage against Monroe Township High School and Colonia High School in Monroe, followed by a scheduled game against Allentown High School at home on Aug. 28. For 11-year head coach Brian Grimm,…

  • Middletown South soccer team confident despite losing starters

    By WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent Center midfielder Bridget Skinner is embarking on a college career at Ohio State University, and defender Ashley Pankey is also NCAA Division Ibound to the University of Kansas after both sparked Middletown High School South’s girls soccer team to finish as co-champion of Shore Conference A North. That may mean tough…

  • SPORT SHORTS

    Bill Britton, PGA director of instruction at Trump National Golf Club in Colts Neck, captured the 2013 Charity Clambake — his second Clambake crown — by shooting a 2- under-par 142. The clambake was held at the Rockaway River Country Club in Denville. Britton carded rounds of 67-75 to win by one stroke. Rumson Country…

  • Holmdel soccer scrimmage

    Holmdel High School’s Santo Arena tries to gain control of the ball for the Hornets during the Aug. 22 preseason scrimmage against J.P. Stevens High School. Holmdel hosted the match. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR

  • Mack recognized Campbell for his humanitarian efforts

    By TIM MORRIS Staff Writer I n the twilight of his life, Olympic decathlon champion Milt Campbell finally received his long-overdue recognition. Campbell passed away last November from prostrate cancer, but not before the most underappreciated of America’s Olympic decathlon champions enjoyed a victory tour. That was in no small part due to Monmouth University…

  • New Jersey Film Festival begins Sept. 6

    The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, in association with the Cinema Studies program at Rutgers University, will present the 32nd annual New Jersey Film Festival from Sept. 6 to Nov. 15. More than 29 films will have their New Jersey or Middlesex County premiere screenings, including “Mad Ship,” “Rap ’n’ Reno,” “Killer B3,”…

  • Deborah L. Gadek

    Ms. Gadek, 62, of Middletown, died Aug. 16, 2013, at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center, New Brunswick. She is survived by a friend, Joseph Racina, of Middletown. Arrangements were entrusted to the Shore Point Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Hazlet. Cremation will be private.

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