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  • Keyport native earns Civilian of the Year recognition

    Keyport native earns Civilian of the Year recognition

    MILLINGTON, Tenn. — William Bonnell of Keyport, serving with the Region Legal Service Office Mid-Atlantic Branch Office Earle, has been named Civilian of the Year for 2015. The Civilian of the Year program recognizes superior performance of personnel, emphasizing outstanding achievements, exemplary personal conduct and military bearing, and demonstrated initiative in the performance of duty.…

  • Cut-a-Thon fundraiser slated at Matawan salon

    Cut-a-Thon fundraiser slated at Matawan salon

    Join Team Camo for a Cure from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. April 24 for a “Cut Your Hair and Show You Care” Cut-a-Thon at Nikki Snips Hair Salon, 343 Route 34, Matawan. All proceeds will go to Team Camo’s fundraising efforts for the Relay for Life of Matawan event in May that will benefit the American…

  • Hot chili, cool jazz returns to Matawan April 24

    Hot chili, cool jazz returns to Matawan April 24

    MATAWAN — The toe-tapping, finger-snapping rhythms of The Rhythm Kings Dixieland Band, along with a hot Southern meal, will return to the First Presbyterian Church of Matawan, 883 Highway 34, at 5 p.m. April 24. Audience members can enjoy chili (both meat and vegetarian), cornbread and dessert while they listen to the band’s sparkling counterpoint…

  • Columbia Bank Helps Feed Keyport’s Needy

    Columbia Bank Helps Feed Keyport’s Needy

    As part of a special Columbia Bank community service project, Team Columbia volunteers recently prepared and served 70 hot meals to needy residents through the Bayshore Lunch Program in Keyport. “We are extremely pleased to assist the Reformed Church of Keyport with their mission to help feed members of our communities,” said Thomas Kemly, Columbia…

  • Talk on acidity levels in ocean slated at college

    Talk on acidity levels in ocean slated at college

    LINCROFT — Brookdale Community College will host Dr. Matthew Poach at 6:30 p.m. April 25 at Twin Lights Rooms 1 and 2, Warner Student Life Center, 765 Newman Springs Road. The meeting is open to the public. Poach is a research chemist and supervisor of the Ocean Acidification Laboratory at NOAA in Sandy Hook. He…

  • Examiner Datebook, April 21

    Examiner Datebook, April 21

    Michael Strengari, staff horticulturist at Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton Township, will be the featured speaker at the May 12 meeting of the Allentown Garden Club. Strengari is an avid naturalist and his talk will focus on the living art and garden interest that is not fully described by the word “Grounds” in Grounds for Sculpture.…

  • Call for artists at festival, market

    Call for artists at festival, market

    The township of East Brunswick Department of Recreation and Parks and the East Brunswick Arts Commission will sponsor the 14th annual East Brunswick Fine Arts Festival, an outdoor juried show and sale of fine arts and handmade crafts, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. June 4 around the pond at the East Brunswick municipal complex, Jean Walling Civic…

  • East Brunswick police partner on opiate outreach initiative

    East Brunswick police partner on opiate outreach initiative

    EAST BRUNSWICK – The East Brunswick Police Department (EBPD) has partnered with the Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative (P.A.A.R.I.) to launch the department’s Opiate Outreach Initiative. Through the department’s program, which was launched on Jan. 1, East Brunswick police will work with P.A.A.R.I. to place participants into treatment, according to a statement prepared by the…

  • Old Bridge chiropractor teaches sports seminar in Mexico City

    Old Bridge chiropractor teaches sports seminar in Mexico City

    OLD BRIDGE — A local chiropractor recently taught a four-day sports injury certification seminar in Mexico City. During those four days, Dr. Ira A. Shapiro, director of the Plaza Chiropractic Center in Old Bridge, lectured on a wide array of sports injury protocols used to treat and alleviate the symptoms associated with a variety of on- and…