Author: Greater Media

  • 4-H Teen Council selling seedlings

    The Monmouth County 4-H Teen Council is selling evergreen seedlings. Colorado Blue Spruce, Norway Spruce, Douglas Fir and White Pine are the varieties of evergreen seedlings available in bundles of 25 seedlings for $22. Deciduous seedlings available in bundles of 10 are Kousa Dogwood (tree), Silky Dogwood (shrub) and Common Lilac (shrub). Deciduous seedling bundles…

  • Loving those children, at 3 or 33

    GIRL TALK Clare Marie Celano When our kids are babies, it’s easy to snuggle and coddle them. In other words, it’s easy and acceptable for us to show our love for them. When my kids were infants, I loved looking at the back of their little necks, that sweet little spot that’s so soft and…

  • Supervisor saluted upon retirement

    FREEHOLD — Borough Council members recently honored Harry Burt on his retirement as supervisor of the Freehold Borough Water and Sewer Department. According to information provided by the council, Burt began his career as a borough employee on June 30, 1975, as a laborer in the Streets and Roads Department. On Nov. 20, 1978, he…

  • Vote may come this week on wood recycling facility

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer MARLBORO — Municipal officials are anticipating that action will be taken at an upcoming county meeting on a company’s plan to build a wood recycling facility in Marlboro. The Monmouth County Solid Waste Advisory Council (SWAC) will hold its next meeting on March 19, and Mayor Jonathan Hornik said he…

  • Taste of the Towns comes to Freehold

    The Noontime Optimist Club of Freehold is partnering with IEP Youth Services, a nonprofit organization that serves the community by providing residential, social and psychological services for youth, for its sixth annual Taste of the Towns event to be held from 6-9 p.m. March 30 at the Radisson Hotel, Route 537 and Gibson Place, Freehold…

  • Behavioral health of students focus of talk

    Monmouth University’s School of Social Work and the Counseling and Psychological Services Program, in partnership with Shore House, will sponsor the free panel discussion, “Safe Crossings: Proactive Planning in College Students’ Behavioral Health,” from 6-7 p.m. March 23 at the university’s Wilson Hall Auditorium, 400 Cedar Ave. Professionals in the related fields of education, psychiatry…

  • Resident hopes to improve roadway safety

    I recently talked to several local attorneys who said the townships of North Brunswick and South Brunswick will not implement measures to slow traffic across Finnegans Lane unless they are sued. Frankly, someone has to die, and the story of the death has to reverberate far enough for the townships to listen up, they said.…

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    FRANK WOJCIECHOWSKI Instructor Patricia Dahl, left, helps Cathy Bredin of North Brunswick during the “upcycling” wine bottle craft class at the North Brunswick Library on March 11. For more photos, see page 9.

  • Sabella Park Preschool programs return in April

    By JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Preschool programs will get underway in North Brunswick next month. Concerns about whether the Sabella Park Preschool programs would be discontinued were addressed during the Township Council’s March 9 workshop meeting. Lou Ann Benson, director of the North Brunswick Department of Parks, Recreation & Community Services — which runs the…