Tag: Freehold Township

  • Patriots winners at Kuhnert Classic, rolling through A North

    Patriots winners at Kuhnert Classic, rolling through A North

    By Jeff Appelblatt This year’s Kuhnert Classic boys’ basketball game between Freehold Township High School and Freehold High School brought in a large crowd Jan. 19, with nobody more appreciative than the wife of the late Jack Kuhnert, Loretta Kuhnert. The game is played to honor Jack Kuhnert, a former coach at Freehold and the…

  • Cougars halt skid with girls’ hoops win over Patriots

    Cougars halt skid with girls’ hoops win over Patriots

    By Jeff Appelblatt Colts Neck High School’s girls’ basketball team had lost a few games in a row, dropping the team down to the .500 mark. However, when the team went to Freehold Township High School Jan. 11, the Cougars immediately demonstrated the skid needed to come to a stop. It was their gym, but…

  • Kuhnert Classic scheduled for Jan. 19 in Freehold

    Kuhnert Classic scheduled for Jan. 19 in Freehold

    By Jeff Appelblatt Jack Kuhnert, one time basketball coach and math teacher at Freehold High School, left such an impact throughout Freehold that some of the people he made an impression on in his life want everyone to remember the man who meant so much to so many. When he died in 1997, one of…

  • Marlboro keeps it close in loss to unbeaten Freehold Township

    Marlboro keeps it close in loss to unbeaten Freehold Township

    By Jeff Appelblatt Freehold Township High School’s boys’ basketball team had won each of its first 10 games. It won a few games by single digits, but the majority were decided by double figures. Regardless, coach Brian Golub refused to guarantee a victory, especially if his club was going up against another team from the…

  • Residents, professionals will serve Freehold Township

    Residents, professionals will serve Freehold Township

    By Matthew Sockol Staff Writer FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – Residents and professionals who will serve Freehold Township in numerous capacities this year have been hired and appointed by the members of the Township Committee. During the committee’s reorganization meeting on Jan. 6, a resolution authorizing contracts with the following professionals for 2017 was passed: Holman Frenia…

  • Preston to serve as Freehold Township mayor in 2017

    Preston to serve as Freehold Township mayor in 2017

    By Matthew Sockol Staff Writer FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – The newest member of the Township Committee will serve as Freehold Township’s mayor during 2017. The committee held its annual reorganization meeting on Jan. 6. Republican Committeewoman Barbara McMorrow, the winning candidate in the Nov. 8 election, was sworn in by state Sen. Jennifer Beck (R-Monmouth) to…

  • Freehold Township boys’ hoops team unstoppable on court

    Freehold Township boys’ hoops team unstoppable on court

    By Jeff Appelblatt The teamwork and camaraderie of Freehold Township High School’s boys’ basketball team has shined magnificently early in the season. It showed in the squad’s game Jan. 7 in Freehold Township, where the Patriots hosted the team from Holmdel High School. The day and time made no difference for Freehold Township, which was playing…

  • Marion, Levy selected to lead school board

    Marion, Levy selected to lead school board

    By Matthew Sockol Staff Writer FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – Members of the Freehold Township K-8 School District Board of Education have voted to keep the men who served as president and vice president of the board during 2016 in place for 2017. The board held its annual reorganization meeting on Jan. 3. The three winning candidates…

  • Wins piling up for Patriots’ boys’ basketball team

    Wins piling up for Patriots’ boys’ basketball team

    By Jeff Appelblatt While Freehold Township High School’s boys’ basketball team has all intentions of getting back to the finals of the NJSIAA Central Jersey, Group IV playoffs, the team’s coach, Brian Golub, insists his team isn’t playing this year with last season on its mind. That season ended after a loss in the Group…