Category: News Transcript Calendar

  • Buletin Board

    • Panic Disorders Support Group will meet from 7-9 p.m. Aug. 30, Sept. 6, 13, 20 and 27 at the Monmouth County Library Headquarters, Manalapan. • Dance social for singles and couples age 50 and over will be held from 7:30-11 p.m. Aug. 30, Sept. 6, 13, 20 and 27 at the Knights of Columbus,…

  • Community Bulletin Board

    • Blood drives will be conducted by Central Jersey Blood Center at two Freehold Township locations: from 6:30-9 p.m. Aug. 24 at the Freehold Township Independent Fire Company No. 1, Route 527 and Route 537; and from 3-5 p.m. Aug. 31 at the Freehold Township municipal plaza (sponsored by Freehold Township PBA), Schanck and Stillwells…

  • Marlboro Jewish Center to offer lecture series

    Marlboro Jewish Center will offer a three-part course to help participants have a more meaningful High Holiday experience. The series will be taught by Rabbi George Schlesinger. The first session, "Themes of the Rosh Hashanah Prayers," will be held on Sept. 13; "The Meaning and Message of the Torah Reading" will be the topic on…

  • Community Bulletin Board

    • Panic Disorders Support Group will meet from 7-9 p.m. July 12, 19 and 26 at the Monmouth County Library Head-quarters, Manalapan. Details: (732) 972-8571. • St. Gabriel’s Carnival will take place July 13-15 from 6-11 p.m. and July 16 from 1-9 p.m. on the parish grounds, Route 79, Marlboro. The event will feature rides,…

  • Poricy Park offers array of family programs Poricy Park Nature Center, Oak Hill Road, Middletown, will offer the following family programs this month:

    Poricy Park offers array of family programs Poricy Park Nature Center, Oak Hill Road, Middletown, will offer the following family programs this month: July 16 — "Dragonflies," 1:30-3 p.m.; walk to the pond to learn about these insects. Binoculars are recommended. July 19 — "Native American Fire Circle" on the Murray Farmhouse lawn will feature…

  • Area man tapped to give military talk

    MANALAPAN — Julian "Bud" Batlan, the state public information officer for the Jewish War Veterans Department of New Jersey, has been invited by Fairleigh Dickinson University to lecture on July 31 to a special class of Orthodox Jewish women on the subject of the 508-year history of Jews in the American military, as officers and…

  • Jewish center plans trip to Faberge exhibit

    The Jewish Community Center of Western Monmouth is sponsoring a trip to Delaware on Sept. 19 to see the Faberge Exhibition, a collection of more than 1,000 masterpieces of jeweler and goldsmith Peter Carl Faberge. The bus will depart from Marlboro at 9 a.m. The fee is $32 for JCCWM members, $40 for non-members, and…

  • Starbucks proposed for Route 9 location

    By Kathy Baratta MANALAPAN — A coffee war may be brewing in Manalapan. The applicant in a Planning Board matter, RBJF L.L.C./Starbucks, wants to open a Starbucks Coffee franchise at the former Shell gas station on Route 9, just north of Taylors Mills Road. Starbucks is a Seattle-based national chain of coffeehouses. A Dunkin’ Donuts…

  • Police probe break-in at Manalapan camp

    Police probe break-in at Manalapan camp MANALAPAN — The person or persons who broke into a local day camp left leads for police to follow. Manalapan Police Capt. Michael Rumola told the News Transcript on Monday that police believe the break-in that occurred over the weekend at the Country Roads Day Camp, Pine Brook Road,…