Tag: Colts Neck
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Defense helps carry Cougars to 10-8 record in 2021-22 campaign
Nick Russo, who took the coaching reins of the Colts Neck High School girls basketball team prior to the start of the 2021-22 season, said this week that the best part about the campaign has been having the opportunity to coach the players who comprise the squad. “They are great people,” he said. “They work…
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Cougars top Allentown, 57-45, for first victory of 2021-22 hoop campaign
Home cooking was exactly what the doctor ordered for the Colts Neck High School boys basketball team on Dec. 22 against visiting Allentown High School. Coming off a season opening loss to Manasquan in the first round of the WOBM Christmas Classic, the Cougars bounced back in their home opener against the Redbirds to claim…
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Colts Neck man arrested in connection with three bank robberies
A Colts Neck man has been arrested and charged with committing a series of three bank robberies in local municipalities over the course of a little more than a month, Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Lori Linskey announced on Dec. 20. Conor Kavanagh, 29, is charged with three counts of first degree armed robbery, according to…
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Cougars setting sights on success under new coach Russo
COLTS NECK – There is a new voice at the helm of the Colts Neck High School girls basketball team this winter: former Saint John Vianney High School girls basketball coach Nick Russo. Russo led the Lancers during the Holmdel school’s era of dominance in the 1990s, winning nine state titles, nine Shore Conference Tournament…
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Planning Board gives go-ahead to Colts Neck Manor apartment complex
COLTS NECK – Following a public hearing process that stretched across several meetings, the members of the Colts Neck Planning Board have approved the Colts Neck Manor apartment complex. The location of the project is on Route 537. The property is about 40 acres and is opposite Five Points Road, across from Five Points Park…
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Drinking water at risk with proposed development in Colts Neck
The League of Women Voters has long supported low and moderate income housing policies as well as protections for clean drinking water. The Fair Housing Act and the State Planning Act, passed together and legally linked, established how to build affordable housing without endangering public health and critical environmental resources. In particular, the league is…
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Cougars make history by winning first girls volleyball state sectional title
Colts Neck High School girls volleyball coach Gregory Hope knew he had a special group of student-athletes suiting up in 2021 and his players knew they were a championship-caliber team. During the regular season, the players proved they were capable of achieving great things. The Cougars defeated Saint John Vianney High School of Holmdel to…
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Voters elect board members in six school districts; Bruno wins FRHSD seat
In addition to voting for governor, representatives of the state Legislature, and municipal and county officials in the 2021 general election, residents also elected members of local school boards. The 2021 general election was contested with vote by mail ballots; with early in-person voting on nine days in late October; and with in-person voting on…
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Sierra Club: Proposed Colts Neck Manor raises environmental concerns
By Taylor McFarland The Colts Neck Planning Board held a special meeting on Nov. 3 to vote on the Colts Neck Manor development. The proposal is for a 360-unit, high density housing complex including 72 units of affordable housing with (a total of) approximately 1,000 residents. The proposed development site on Route 537 near School…