Category: Tri-Town Opinion

ARE WE THERE YET Lori Clinch Twenty-seven years ago today our oldest child was born. What a darling little bundle Vernon was, so cute and precious, and I quickly learned I had no idea what I was doing. I spent the months leading up to his birth asking everyone what was in store for us.…

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We at 180 Turning Lives Around Inc. applaud the recent enactment of the Sexual Assault Survivor Protection Act of 2015, which broadens the safety options for a greater number of survivors in New Jersey. Beginning in May 2016, survivors of this most heinous crime, which includes acts or attempted acts of sexual assault, sexual contact,…

HOWELL — A renaming ceremony for the former Southard School, Kent Road, will take place at 6 p.m. Dec. 9. Members of the public are welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be served. The renaming ceremony was initially scheduled for Nov. 18. The former elementary school will be renamed the Howell Community Enrichment Center at…

Ironically, Borden Applegate bases his opposition to the menorah lighting on town hall property (“Religion Does Not Have A Place at Town Hall,” Nov. 26) on the founding fathers and on Mark Twain, but it was George Washington himself who wrote, “May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue…

The Social Justice Group at Saint Aloysius School in Jackson is all about giving back to our community. This year they decided to raffle movie-themed baskets full of popcorn, candy, DVDs and movie gift cards. It cost $1 per raffle ticket. Students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade purchased raffle tickets from Nov. 4-18. The money…

Michael Stahl-David and Eloise Mumford in “Just in Time for Christmas” Hallmark Hall of Fame’s “Just in Time for Christmas” will premiere Saturday, Dec. 5 at 8 p.m. on Hallmark Channel. Eloise Mumford (“Fifty Shades of Grey”) and Michael Stahl-David (“Cloverfield”) play two young people who’ve known their whole lives they’ll probably end up getting…

By Lori Acken, www.channelguidemag.com Vincent Kartheiser is doing his best to be patient. Sporting coarse Pilgrim garb, a full beard and shoulder length tresses (no Mad Men, this!) as Plymouth Colony leader William Bradford on NGC’s Saints & Strangers, Kartheiser finds the speech he is about to deliver — one arguably launching American free market…

The Freehold Regional High School District is one of 22 school districts that have been accepted into the League of Innovative Schools, a national coalition of forward-thinking school districts organized by Digital Promise, an independent, bipartisan nonprofit organization authorized by Congress to accelerate innovation in education, according to the press release. The FRHSD was selected…