Author: Greater Media

  • Easter babkas available for purchase

    Saints Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox Catholic Church, Whitehead Avenue, South River, is taking orders for Easter babkas. Cheese, chocolate, cinnamon crumb, prune, poppy, raspberry, apricot and raisin babkas cost $10.25 each. Raspberry/cheese, apricot/cheese and chocolate/cheese varieties are available at a cost of $10.75 each. To order, call Carol at 732-254-4979. Pickup is set for…

  • Holy Name Society schedules casino trip

    St. Thomas the Apostle Holy Name Society, Old Bridge, will sponsor a March 9 fundraising bus trip to Mount Airy Casino, Mount Pocono, Pa. Cost is $40 per person and includes $25 cash back and a $10 food voucher. For more information or to reserve, call George Szymanski at 732-238-5743 or John Connolly at 732-251-3527.

  • Ocean Township museum sets annual Spring Tea

    The Township of Ocean Historical Museum will hold its 11th annual Spring Tea 2-4 p.m. April 25, at the West Park Recreation Center, 615 W. Park Ave., Oakhurst. Seating will begin at 1:30 p.m. Tickets will be available beginning March 1. The event will feature tea sandwiches; breads; desserts and scones with whipped cream, butter…

  • Libraries, book clubs cater to niche interests

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer Libraries throughout central New Jersey host book clubs and discussion groups to suit a broad range of patrons’ interests. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR If New Jersey were hit with a zombie apocalypse, the odds for survival would not be great, according to Tyler Rousseau, emergent technologies coordinator at the Monroe…

  • Noise concerns sink motocross application

    By GREG KENNELTY Staff Writer The Tinton Falls Zoning Board of Adjustment denied a hotly debated motocross facility that was proposed off Shafto Road. After nearly 18 months of hearings, the board unanimously voted down the proposal by Jersey Shore Motocross to locate the facility on 21 acres next to Mazza & Sons Demolition and…

  • Red Bank Regional students embrace Black History Month

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer “Amazing Grace” was one of the songs and hymns from African-American culture that students in Red Bank Regional High School’s strings program performed at the Black History Month celebration on Feb. 18. FRANK GALIPO Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. are major figures in African-American history, but perhaps Americans…

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    STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR Children of all ages take advantage of a recent snowstorm by bringing their sleds to the hill at Glenwood Cemetery, West Long Branch, on Feb. 17.

  • Changes needed in Common Core standards

    I believe the Common Core curriculum is a disaster. It telescopes learning far too quickly; forces teachers to move rapidly; teach to the test; and, worst of all, frustrates students to the extent that school is no longer a place children want to go. Math and science topics that were taught in grades 10-11 are…

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    PHOTO COURTESY OF LYNNE RICHMOND Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, from left, New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Douglas Fisher, Julianna Ezzo of Kendall Park and State Board of Agriculture President Richard Norz recognize Julianna as a lead ambassador of the Middlesex County 4-H at the New Jersey State Agricultural Convention Delegates’ Feb. 4 dinner in Atlantic…