Author: Claire Reed, Managing Editor

  • Going forward on reverse mortgages

    Going forward on reverse mortgages

    By Marilyn Kennedy Melia CTW Features Thanks to the TV commercials touting its virtues, the reverse mortgage is a familiar term but it’s hardly a well-understood product. Just as the foreclosure crisis prompted changes in other mortgages, the federal government, which insures nearly all reverse mortgages through its Home Equity Conversion Mortgages or “HECM” program, has…

  • Volunteers aid domestic violence victims

    Volunteers aid domestic violence victims

    180 Turning Lives Around (180), a private nonprofit organization in Monmouth County, continues to provide support and advocacy to victims of domestic violence with the assistance of its dedicated response team volunteers, according to a press release. 180 will be conducting a 40-hour mandatory training course for new Domestic Violence Response Team (DVRT) volunteers from…

  • Howell zoners approve LA Fitness center

    Howell zoners approve LA Fitness center

    By Jennifer Ortiz Staff Writer HOWELL – The Zoning Board of Adjustment has granted preliminary and final major site plan approval to a shopping center that will include an LA Fitness gym and two retail shopping buildings on Lanes Mill Road. The zoning board members voted on the application following the conclusion of testimony at…

  • Spotswood hopes to surpass seed in sectional tourney

    Spotswood hopes to surpass seed in sectional tourney

    By Jimmy Allinder Spotswood High School boys basketball coach Steve Mate doesn’t believe the NJSIAA power point system is 100 percent accurate when it comes to state tournament seeds. With the Central Jersey, Group II sectional underway, his team hopes to prove that point. Despite a 21-5 overall record, including a Greater Middlesex Conference (GMC)…

  • New Egypt supporting Rinaldi as he battles Hodgkin’s lymphoma

    New Egypt supporting Rinaldi as he battles Hodgkin’s lymphoma

    By Wayne Witkowski A unified show of support from New Egypt High School’s boys basketball team, the school and the community has bolstered one of the Warriors’ players in his fight against Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Anthony Rinaldi was fulfilling his hopes for a strong season in the starting lineup as one of the team’s top scorers,…

  • Performers of the Week

    Performers of the Week

    Champions were crowned in what was one of the biggest and busiest weekends of the 2015-16 winter scholastic season. Here are some of those champions. Colts Neck High School’s Jordan Brannan ran the state’s fastest 3,200-meters this winter when he won the NJSIAA Indoor Track and Field Meet of Champions race in 9:14.94. The MOC…

  • Four Jackson wrestlers move on to Atlantic City

    Four Jackson wrestlers move on to Atlantic City

    By Wayne Witkowski Matt McGowan at 126 pounds ended Jackson Memorial High School’s dry spell of three years without a Region 6 champion and became the 51st region champion to go on the plaque in the school gym while leading three other wrestlers from the township into the state championships. The other qualifiers were Mike…

  • JCC trip to Philadelphia slated for April 6

    JCC trip to Philadelphia slated for April 6

    Join the Jewish Community Center of Middlesex County on April 6 for a unique trip to see the Picasso exhibit at the Barnes Foundation in the morning, and a guided tour at the Eastern State Penitentiary in the afternoon. The bus will leave the JCC at 1775 Oak Tree Road in Edison at 8:30 a.m.,…

  • Woodbridge Library celebrates teen tech week

    Woodbridge Library celebrates teen tech week

    The Woodbridge Public Library is offering a free program of crafts and activities for grades 6-12 in honor of Teen Tech Week 2016. From March 7-16, teens and tweens can stop by the Main Library or the branches to create unique DIY projects, like a duct tape earbud pouch, pom pom shooter, or marshmallow-pasta tower.…