Matawan softball ready to compete with top teams in Shore Conference
Matawan softball ready to compete with top teams in Shore Conference
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Matawan Regional High School softball player Alissa Eimont gets a high five from teammate #6 Michaela DeGeorge after hitting a home run in a game against Red Bank Regional on April 30 in Little Silver. Matawan is 6-0 to start the season.STEVEN BASSIN/STAFF
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Matawan Regional High School softball player Madison Haack smacks a base hit to right field during a game against Red Bank Regional on April 30 in Little Silver. Matawan won the contest 31-0.STEVEN BASSIN/STAFF
Washington D.C., Apr 29, 2021 / 18:00 pm (CNA).
A masked man bashed a mural of Our Lady of Guadalupe with a sledgehammer last week, at a parish in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
“The Image of our Lady on Cedros Ave. has been severely vandalized. This is one of our saddest moments in addition to our pandemic times ever since,” stated the parish website for St. Elisabeth Catholic Church in Van Nuys, California.
Security camera footage reported showed a man hitting the parish’s 35-year-old mural 13 times at 1:40 am on April 21, the parish said.
The parish called the desecration an act of sacrilege against the Blessed Mother. They asked for donations to restore the tiles in the mural, and announced that plexiglass casing would be installed around it for security. Donations for restoration or for the plexiglass may be submitted through the parish website.
Apr. 27, 2021 Catholic News Agency Two parishes in the Diocese of Sacramento suffered similar acts of vandalism in the past two weeks. On the weekend of April 17-18, three statues were vandalized outside Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Woodland, California. In photos sent by parishioner Duke Sancho to CNA, what appear to be statues of Mary, St. John, and St. Mary Magdalene at the crucifixion scene are each disfigured with black spray paint covering the eyes. Sancho told CNA that a parish men’s fraternity and the pastor Fr. Jonathan Molina organized a project to clean the statues. Elsewhere in the diocese, a statue of Mary was defaced with black spray paint at Saint John Vianney parish in Rancho Cordova. In an April 25 tweet, a parishioner posted a photo of a Marian statue with black paint covering the face, hands, and feet. A black cross was traced down the main body of the statue.
Former special ed teacher/wrestling coach indicted on multiple charges related to criminal.
Former special ed teacher/wrestling coach indicted on multiple charges related to criminal sexual contact with a minor, filming adult victims
A former special education teacher at Sayreville Middle School and former wrestling coach at Union County College has been indicted on multiple charges involving his criminal sexual contact with a minor who was known to him and the surreptitious filming of several adult victims.
On April 22, John M. Denuto, 44, of Spotswood, was indicted on four counts of endangering the welfare of a child in the first-, second-, and third-degree stemming from his filming and possession of child sexual exploitation material, as well as eight counts of invasion of privacy in the third-degree, six counts of aggravated criminal sexual contact in the third-degree, six counts of criminal sexual contact in the fourth-degree, two counts of witness tampering in the third-deg
Rumson-Fair Haven tops Bucs twice for 2-0 start to basketball season ×
Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School girls basketball player Julia Corsentino dribbles the ball up the floor during a game played last season. Rumson-Fair Haven is 2-0 to start the 2021 campaign. STEVEN BASSIN/STAFF
It was a surreal feeling for Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School girls basketball coach Dave Callahan when his players came out to warm up in the high school gymnasium before their season opener against Red Bank Regional High School on Jan. 27 with no fans in the stands.
The surreal feeling for Callahan signified how different the 2021 season has been with a shortened preseason and coaches trying to figure out ways to get their players ready to go in just two weeks by following protocols necessitated by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.