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    Holmdel’s Sara Schubel shows off one of the snakes on display at Huber Woods Environmental Center, Middletown, which has been redesigned and is offering free programs.

  • Volunteers can train online for youth helpline

    HAZLET – Making a difference in a child’s life just got easier. 2nd Floor, a toll-free, anonymous and confidential helpline for children and adolescents in New Jersey, has made training for volunteers more accessible via online courses. The helpline is a program of 180, Turning Lives Around and receives thousands of calls each month from…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Bagpipers and militiamen were among the marchers in the borough of Keyport’s old-fashioned Memorial Day parade May 28.

  • Mission Matawan is about service

    The First Presbyterian Church of Matawan will hold its sixth annual Mission Matawan program Monday, June 23, through Saturday, June 28. Mission Matawan provides a helping hand to the elderly, handicapped and others who lack the resources to repair and maintain their homes. Volunteers from the First Presbyterian Church do projects, ranging from small jobs…

  • They’re ‘mad as hell’

    Middletown parents, athletes frustrated by stalled turf field BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer Parent Jim Guerrieri took the microphone from the podium in the Middletown High School North auditorium and proceeded to repeat a line made famous in the movie “Network.” “We’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take this anymore,” Guerrieri shouted…

  • Mite problem at Satz School is for the birds

    BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer HOLMDEL – Sit tight and don’t let the bird mites bite is what students attending the William R. Satz Intermediate School are doing while in class. According to an update presented at the May 28 Board of Education meeting, the bird mite situation has been handled and classes are…

  • Library hosts South Asian Film Festival

    The Middletown Main Library will screen a series of acclaimed short films produced by the Asian American Filmand Theater Project on two consecutiveMonday evenings in June. Screenings on June 2, 6-8:45 p.m.: “Little Terrorist” (narrative short), India, 15 minutes (Hindi). This award-winning short film tells the story of a 10-year-old Pakistani boy who crosses the…

  • Oceanic Bridge project put on hold by county

    Engineer: $58M replacement project to begin within 5 yrs. BY MELISSA KARSH Staff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff The Oceanic Bridge connects Middletown to Rumson over the Navesink River. RUMSON – Repairing the deteriorating Oceanic Bridge is not in the long-term plans of the Monmouth County Department of Engineering. The 2,712-foot drawbridge that connects Rumson to…

  • Student’s design tops condiment contest

    Design for ketchup packet garners $1,500 award BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Oleksandra “Sasha” Barysheva’s design for Heinz Ketchup packets garnered a $1,500 award for the 11th-grader and her art teacher. ABERDEEN – The ageold question of ketchup or mustard was recently answered in Aberdeen. Ketchup won. Matawan-Aberdeen Regional High School…