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Monthly Archives: November 2007

Buried with his boots on

Walt Keever, one of New Jersey’s last cowboys, was buried today. His family and friends made sure he had a proper cowboy send-off. Walt, who was very well known throughout the New Jersey horse community, was a professional steer-wrestler and owned a rendering plant in Sussex County, which provided the horse head for the famous…

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Nature among the oil tanks

View Larger Map The area between New Jersey and Staten Island is known more for oil tanks and container ships than for herons. During the past decades the small islands of the Arthur Kill have become one of the largest heron rookeries in the Northeast. But recently most of the herons have left the islands…

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Essence of Essence

Essence Carson is the captain of the third ranked Rutgers women’s basketball team. She is also an accomplished musician.Last year she was MVP in the Big East Tournament and became the team’s voice when Don Imus made derogatory comments about the team.Today the paper published a profile of Carson as the Lady Knights kick off…

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700 victories

700 victories.Do the math, that’s a lot of victories over a lot of years.Nancy Williams has been coaching field hockey at Shore Regional high school since 1970.Nationwide 3 million girls are now playing sports compared to 300,000 when Williams began her career.That explosive growth did not come easy, in 1995 Williams filed a complaint with…

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