Author: Greater Media

  • Flipping the calendar pages

    GIRL TALK Clare Marie Celano No matter how you slice it folks, eventually, we do turn into our parents — like it or not. This welcome or dreaded transformation, however we see this phenomenon, does happen — at least, according to my oldest daughter who recently looked at me and said, “Oh my God. It’s…

  • Veteran’s words recount restoration of Huey

    By P.J. CANDIDO Staff Writer Carl Burns Vietnam War veteran Carl Burns’ essay “Hangar Crew” tells the story of restoring a long-forgotten helicopter that has since found a home at the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial and Museum in Holmdel. Burns, of Manalapan, and a group of veterans restored a Bell UH-1D helicopter, which is…

  • Childhood poverty on the rise, according to national report

    By ADAM C. UZIALKO Staff Writer A report detailing levels of childhood poverty nationally and statewide found more children are growing up impoverished than were following the 2008 financial crisis. The Annie E. Casey Foundation, the private charitable organization that released the annual Kids Count Data Book on July 21, concludes that while childhood poverty…

  • SPORT SHORTS

    The Hurricane Junior Golf Tour (HJGT) will host the Central New Jersey Junior Challenge Sept. 12-13 at the Westlake Golf and Country Club in Jackson. Players can register as a member or non-member for the event. Members can play the event for $199, while non-members play at $244. To get more information about the HJGT…

  • Caseys 16U team takes 2nd in summer league division

    By WARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent Red Bank Catholic (RBC) High School’s 16U team turned in a solid season in the Greater Middlesex Coaches Summer Baseball League’s (GMCSBL) Surf, also known as the Monmouth County, Division. After a slow start, the Caseys, led by Newt Hausmann, the father of RBC varsity coach Buddy Hausmann, went 9-3 overall…

  • Heritage House SIR ranks as one of nation’s tops in RISMedia’s 2015 Power Broker Report

    Mary Burke, president, owner and broker of record, Heritage House Sotheby’s International Realty (SIR), headquartered in Shrewsbury, recently announced its ranking as the number 354 real estate firm in the United States in sales volume, according to RISMedia’s 27th Annual Power Broker Report. This year’s Power Broker Report is based on responses to RISMedia’s 2015…

  • REAL ESTATE BRIEFS

    Hal Maxwell, president of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in New Jersey and Rockland County, N.Y., announces that Eatontown resident Allen Brodsky is now affiliated with the Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage office in Middletown. As a sales associate, Brodsky will provide residential real estate services in Middletown as well as the surrounding communities of Eatontown, Tinton…

  • The most preventable car thefts

    Despite automakers’ most novel schemes to make today’s cars more theft-proof, common sense is unfortunately still not among a model’s standard features. Witness the fact that a growing number of auto thefts are being caused by owners who leave the keys inside while parked. The National Insurance Crime Bureau in Des Plaines, Ill., reports that…

  • Dog-loving author to speak at library gala

    The South Brunswick Library will hold a gala book and author dinner with David Rosenfelt at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 18 at the library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction. The bestselling author has saved nearly 4,000 dogs through the Tara Foundation. A former marketing executive with Tri-Star Pictures, he left the corporate world for a…