Author: Greater Media

  • Shrewsbury Chorale welcomes conductor

    Do you like to sing? The Shrewsbury Chorale invites all interested local singers to participate in open rehearsals on January 5 and 12 from 7:45-10 p.m. The group practices weekly on Tuesday evenings at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Monmouth County, 1475 W. Front S., Lincroft. Scores will be provided and there is no charge.…

  • Looking back at Christmas

    By Lucie M. Winborne, ReMIND Magazine Child star Shirley Temple and John Agar were happy newlyweds at Christmastime in 1945. The Puritans banned it. Our Founding Fathers weren’t too crazy about it. And Congress didn’t get around to making it an official celebration until 1870. But you’d hardly guess it as Christmas approached. We Americans…

  • Did you know …

    Jane Lynch PHOTO COURTESY OF NBCUniversal NBC’s popular party-time series, “Hollywood Game Night,” is set to return for its fourth season on Tuesday, Jan. 5, at 8 p.m. Jane Lynch, who has won the Emmy Award two years in a row as outstanding host of a reality or reality-competition program, will once again lead the…

  • Mosque, community members share respect

    I was mayor of East Brunswick and a member of the Planning Board when our diverse community was honored to be chosen as the town in which to build the incredibly beautiful mosque along Dunhams Corner Road. All of East Brunswick should be proud that the new neighbors have added so much to our image…

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    PHOTOS BY KATHY McBAIN/STAFF Greater Media Newspapers held a holiday food drive in the Manalapan office from Dec. 9-21. Donations were brought to the Food Bank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties in Neptune.

  • Youth Adult Peer Advocate recipient has success inside, outside of classroom

    By JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — Neal Gaeta received the Young Adult Peer Advocate Award. A senior at North Brunswick Township High School with a 4.09 GPA, Neal is taking Advanced Placement Government and Politics, Literature and Composition, Calculus AB and psychology in his senior year. He has studied Advanced Placement and honors…

  • STORK CLUB

    Melissa and Rick Geiger of Milltown announce the birth of their daughter, Molly Kate, July 1, 2015, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. The baby weighed 8 pounds, 15 ounces and joins her sisters, Julia, 7, and Rachel, 5, and her brother, Ricky Jr., 2. Grandparents are Lynn and Rick Geiger of Spotswood, Joyce…

  • Auditions set for ‘The Music Man’

    The North Brunswick Department of Parks, Recreation & Community Services has announced the Broadway classic “The Music Man” as this year’s 46th annual community theatre musical. Director Michael Hritz is seeking principals as well as a diverse adult ensemble. No experience is necessary. Vocal and dialogue auditions for children’s roles only including Winthrop, Amaryllis, Zaneeta,…

  • Type ‘O’ blood in high demand

    New Jersey Blood Services will hold a blood drive 1-7 p.m. Jan. 11 at the North Brunswick Municipal Building, Type “O” blood, the universal donor, is in demand. To donate blood or to organize a blood drive, call 1-800-933-2566 or visit www.nybloodcenter.org.