By Justin Farrell First Energy Park in Lakewood, NJ– Liberty 10 Memorial 15 Complete with a much larger than expected crowd, Liberty and Memorial squared off in their annual rivalry baseball game at Blueclwas Stadium. The Lions started off strong, taking a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. The Lions soon found [...]
1998 Toms River Little League World Series champion Todd Frazier took his final workout last week at All-Star Sports Academy in Toms River before heading to Goodyear, Arizona for the Cincinnati Reds’ spring training camp. Frazier, who hit 6 home runs in just 112 at bats and saw playing time in the outfield and [...]
By Rich Demczyszyn When you think of getting lucky in Atlantic City, what comes to mind? Most locals would say it’s taking your chances and hitting it big with a buck and a dream at one of the many lavish casinos the pretentious town of Atlantic City has to offer. Some of us would even [...]
Six Flags Great Adventure, America’s largest regional theme park, today announced the addition of King Cobra, an intense and visually-stunning, racing tube slide, opening at Six Flags Hurricane Harbor in Summer 2012. King Cobra promises one of the most extreme riding experiences in the industry while also delivering great spectator appeal. Complete with bold orange, [...]
On December 8th, a bipartisan group of 234 mayors, including Jackson Township mayor Mike Reina, joined Governor Christie’s call for the legislature to end its delays and pass real sick and vacation pay reform to save taxpayer dollars and deliver critical budget relief to municipalities. Eleven mayors joined the Governor at a press conference in [...]
Saturday was a day full of holiday-themed events around Jackson Township. The day started with the Toyland event at the Jackson Township Senior Center. The center was transformed into a holiday workshop. There was a walk-through holiday display with train sets, volunteers dressed in costumes like toy soliders and reindeer and elves, a christmas tree [...]
by Suzanne Rogalsky The Jackson Jaguar Marching Band is celebrating their second place finish in the USSBA National Championships in Allentown, Pa., this past weekend. The band ended the season with an overall score of 96.10, the highest score for the band in 8 years! They also received a near perfect Individual Music score of [...]
Local band Tasting Grace has been busy in the community performing for free at local charity events and fundraisers this fall. In October, the band travelled to Jackson to perform a free benefit show at the Jackson Elks Lodge to benefit the “Run for Maren”. This month, the band performed at an event called “Rebuilding [...]
By Phil Stilton Toms River, NJ – Toms River native and UFC Lightweight Champion, Frankie Edgar spent some time with TR Magazine Thursday night to talk about his recent UFC title fight against Gray Maynard. After three fights against Maynard, Edgar, a former Toms River High School East wrestler finally silenced the skeptics [...]
Jessica Kwiecinski, a professional surfer who attends Jackson Liberty High School won this year’s Foster’s Belmar Pro, women’s Pro title. (video not from Belmar Pro Event) Hannah Womens Pro 1 – 11.70 Jessica Kwiecinski 2 – 10.10 Nikki Viesins 3 – 9.97 Darsha Pigford 4 – 7.43 Jamie Baittinger
Scotty Cranmer, a professional BMX rider and graduate of Jackson Memorial High School last week, won the Dew Tour BMX Park championship, his first.
Video from aftermath of Hurricane Irene in Jackson Township.
GOVERNOR CHRISTIE: I completed a briefing with our executive team to begin the next step of preparations. We’ve been preparing for this since Monday. The latest tracking tells us that this is going to become more serious than less. We’ve moved to an extreme rating from the National Weather Service in terms of the impact [...]
By Phil Stilton Photos by Angel Kames It was a chance meeting between two long time Asbury Park area musicians and according to J.T. Bowen, of Toms River, a little bit of fate that brought together Bruce Springsteen, The Sensational Soul Cruisers and The Nick Clemons band at the Wonder Bar in Asbury Park this [...]
The Baboon which escaped this week from Six Flags Great Adventure was captured today in Howell Township after escapeds through Jackson and Freehold in the past three days. It was captured on a farm on Fairfield Road, approximately five miles from it’s last known sighting in Jackson at the offramp of Interstate 195 and Cedar [...]
Nearly 1,000 residents showed to pay their respects on Saturday night, May 14th, to James Volpe with a candlelight vigil. Today has been delcared by Volpe’s friends and teammates as #9 day across Jackson. Friend and former teammate Billy Carlock has created video in memory of James.
The Sensational Soul Cruisers, headed by Jackson resident and saxophone player “Screamin” Steve Barlotta took the stage at Asbury Park’s Stone Pony on Sunday, April 3rd. While the group has been known as the Soul Cruisers for the past 18 years, the rhythm section was known for many years prior to that, being the band [...]
Starting April 8th, check out DJ Encore at the Hall @ Jackson Crossing and ride the mechanical bull. Each weekend there will be a new theme for Teen Night at the Hall, starting with bull riding on the 8th, a beach party on th 15th, white party the 22nd and a pajama party on the [...]
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