Tag: Middletown

MIDDLETOWN – Madison McDougall set quite a high bar for her high school softball career: two state championships, over 700 strikeouts with an ERA under 1.00, along with a .474 career batting average.

MIDDLETOWN – Middletown parents took their school-closure objections from the meeting room to the streets of Leonardo March 15.

MIDDLETOWN – A group of seven parents is asking the New Jersey Commissioner of Education to stop the district’s school closure plan, challenging the board of education’s (BOE) Feb. 26 decision to shutter three schools.

MIDDLETOWN – The district’s board of education voted 5-4 last week to close three schools under mounting financial pressures.

MIDDLETOWN – The Dunbar Repertory Company will present Lorraine Hansberry’s classic work, “A Raisin in the Sun,” Feb. 14 to 22 at the Middletown Arts Center. The play is directed by Darrell Lawrence Willis Sr., a retired theater professor at Brookdale Community College, who co-founded Dunbar 38 years ago.

MIDDLETOWN – Former Mater Dei Prep head football coach Shannon Hoadley died Jan. 25 at the age of 54. His family shared the heartbreaking news on Facebook. 

RED BANK – For patients facing a cancer diagnosis, not only is access to timely coordinated care critical, but support while undergoing the most challenging phases of treatment can make all the difference in recovery.

MIDDLETOWN – Middletown residents, township committee members and even the mayor agree they don’t want a development of 136 townhouses on West Nutswamp Road, an issue passionately addressed at the township committee meeting Jan. 20.

MIDDLETOWN – As the nation approaches its 250th anniversary, Middletown is joining communities across the country in commemorating the milestone through a range of local initiatives, including a volunteer-driven effort to preserve Revolutionary War history and a yearlong slate of public programs.

MIDDLETOWN – Katarina Lengyel, 24, a Middletown resident, has been dancing competitively most of her life.