Author: Claire Reed, Managing Editor

  • First Presbyterian Church of Metuchen hosting dinner April 24

    First Presbyterian Church of Metuchen hosting dinner April 24

    The First Presbyterian Church of Metuchen is having a fellowship meal on April 24 at 5 p.m. in the church’s social center/dining room, 270 Woodbridge Ave., Metuchen. A church service will be held at 6 p.m. in the all-purpose room after dinner. Reservations are not necessary. The dinner is open to anyone who needs a…

  • Learn how to make a functional keyboard out of everyday objects April 26

    Learn how to make a functional keyboard out of everyday objects April 26

    Join the Edison Public Library, 340 Plainfield Ave., as they turn everyday things into a functional keyboard on April 26 at 6:30 p.m. Use your wildest imagination and discover different ways to use everyday objects such as fruit, Play-Doh, or even cups of water, as touch pads for fun activities like playing piano or different…

  • Sheila Rich Interiors of Monmouth Beach Awarded Best of Houzz 2016

    Sheila Rich Interiors of Monmouth Beach Awarded Best of Houzz 2016

    Sheila Rich Interiors of Monmouth Beach has won “Best Of Design and Customer Service” on Houzz®, the leading platform for home remodeling and design. The 30-year-old interior design firm was chosen from among more than one million active home building, remodeling and design industry professionals by the more than 35 million monthly unique users that…

  • Paul Stach named Chair of Family & Children’s Service’s (FCS) Board of Directors

    Paul Stach named Chair of Family & Children’s Service’s (FCS) Board of Directors

    Retired finance executive Paul Stach of Little Silver has been named to a two-year term as Chair of Family Children’s Service’s (FCS) Board of Directors. He succeeds Dena Reger, an attorney with the Little Silver law firm of Jahos, Broege & Shaheen LLP, whose term expired in December. Established in 1909, FCS is Monmouth County’s…

  • Colonial Terrace Golf Course offers beginners’ program

    Colonial Terrace Golf Course offers beginners’ program

    By KENNY WALTER Staff Writer OCEAN TOWNSHIP — Beginner and inexperienced golfers can learn how to chip, putt and drive this spring at the Colonial Terrace Golf Course. The Ocean Township Recreation Department recently rolled out “Get Golf Ready,” a five-week course for beginners to learn the basic fundamentals of golf. “So, the program is…

  • Gloria Nilson & Co. wins Best App from New Jersey Builders Association

    Gloria Nilson & Co. wins Best App from New Jersey Builders Association

    The New Jersey Builders Association (NJBA) awarded Gloria Nilson & Co. Real Estate with its Best Marketing App or Tool award for the brokerage’s iOS and Android compatible real estate app during the 29th annual Sales and Marketing (SAM) Awards event at the Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City on March 31. “Gloria Nilson &…

  • Pre-K programs are crucial to the future success of New Jersey

    Pre-K programs are crucial to the future success of New Jersey

    By KATHY CHANG SOUTH AMBOY —  State officials believe that focusing on educating students at an early age will result in a brighter future for New Jersey. “We kind of fell off the tracks,” Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-Gloucester) said during a visit with Sen. Joe Vitale (D-Middlesex) to the Children’s Center for Learning on Broadway…

  • Long Branch decides not to vacate easement

    By KENNY WALTER Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — After public outcry, the city council opted not to vacate an easement on 907 Ocean Avenue. The council rejected the ordinance when three of the five council members voted against the measure during the April 12 meeting. The ordinance would have vacated an easement, which was initially…

  • HELOCs on the rise

    HELOCs on the rise

    Home equity lines of credit are a popular way to tap the rising equity in your home. Be sure to do your homework. By Erik J. Martin Content That Works With the resurgence in home prices and tightening inventories, home values aren’t the only things on the rise. Thanks to increasing equity — the difference…