Author: Greater Media

  • County vendors to showcase goods

    Monmouth County will host the 2015 Made in Monmouth event 10 a.m.-4 p.m. April 11 in the Multipurpose Activity Center at Monmouth University, West Long Branch. Admission is free. “Today, Monmouth County produces sophisticated custom furniture, artwork, coffee, specialty teas and much more,” Freeholder Thomas A. Arnone said. “I am proud that our residents can…

  • On the trail of fun

    MATT DENTON Madison Stewart, 4, hunts for eggs during an Easter egg hunt at Wagner Farm Park, Millstone Township, on March 28.

  • New safe house will shelter victims of domestic abuse

    By KAYLA J. MARSH Staff Writer During the past five years, 180 Turning Lives Around has provided safe shelter for more than 400 adult victims of domestic and sexual abuse and 500 children, but the nonprofit has had to turn away just as many individuals. To meet the growing need for safe shelter, the nonprofit…

  • Gabriel

    TOP PICK Young Prince Gabriel is dashing and debonair, well-trained in sword fighting and horseback riding — and set to inherit his grandfather’s vast fortune. There’s just one problem: On his 16th birthday, Gabriel finds out that he is a she. How will Gabriel proceed to live and love in the rigidity of the 19th…

  • Best new-car engines for 2015

    By Jim Gorzelany CTW Features The engine is a vehicle’s heart and soul, with the best of the breed able to deliver brisk acceleration while minimizing fuel consumption It’s not an easy task, but automakers have been hard at work developing automotive engines that maximize both a vehicle’s performance and fuel economy, via an array…

  • Conservation group awards scholarships

    The Freehold Soil Conservation District will award three $2,000 scholarships in the summer of 2015 to students majoring in a conservation-related field. The Neal Munch, Mac Clark and Bill Schauer scholarships are awarded annually to honor their years of dedicated and distinguished service to conservation and to the Freehold Soil Conservation District, according to a…

  • Redbirds set to challenge for third straight division title

    ALLENTOWN By WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent Allentown High School’s baseball team began its quest for a third straight Colonial Valley Conference Patriot Division championship season with a large group of returning players, including six starters from last year’s 15-9 team, when it opened its season April 1 at Steinert High School. The Redbirds play their home-opener…

  • Softball, baseball underway at Middlesex

    The weather in March has limited the Middlesex County College softball team to just two games as the schedule turns to April. Fortunately for Middlesex, both of those games were wins. Middlesex handled Westchester Community College, 16-8 and 11-7, in a March 24 doubleheader played on the Blue Colts’ home diamond in Edison. Coach Carey…

  • SPORT SHORTS

    Monroe Sports Center is holding Spring Break Basketball Camps for boys and girls in grades 3-9. One camp is April 3 (cost $65) and the other is April 6-10 ($275 after April 4 and $245 for early registration by April 4). All camps run from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. New this year is a Small Fry…