• Shrink with age

    At a certain age, losing weight doesn’t provide a great deal of benefits, which is why those over the age of 50 need to achieve and maintain a healthy weight before it’s too late. Here’s how to get started. By Bev Bennett CTW Features Starting a stringent diet to lose weight or manage a health…

  • Area transplant recipient to compete in world games

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Muran Veniszee Muran Veniszee will remember March 25, 2010, for the rest of his life. That is the day he received a new heart and liver, saving his life. “It was around 11:30 p.m. and I just took my night medicine,” he said. “It was almost instantaneous when the nurse…

  • Anne Frank’s story comes to Center Players stage

    Fear, hope and grief are artfully explored with Center Players’ new adaptation of “The Diary of Anne Frank.” A young girl, alive to everything around her and awakening within her, with hopes and dreams of the life she may one day lead with friends and family, confides to her diary the secrets of her heart.…

  • Dyslexic children will find support in new Kids Klub

    By CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer A new club for children who have dyslexia will allow its young members to have the opportunity to be leaders, rather than followers, according to Kim Mitchell of Howell. Kids Klub is a Monmouth County 4-H Club and is the result of a joint effort on the part of…

  • Father, son share special times at Special Olympics

    By CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Jake Smith, 8, and his dad, Freehold Township police Detective Todd Smith, carry the torch around Arm & Hammer Park, Trenton, during opening ceremonies for the New Jersey Special Olympics. DAVE SCHOFIELD/TRENTON THUNDER FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — The date is June 8. Jake Smith, 8, of Freehold Township, is up…

  • Raceway will host concert & fireworks

    FREEHOLD — Downtown Freehold invites families to celebrate the nation’s 237th birthday with the annual Independence Day Concert and Fireworks, to be held on July 4 at Freehold Raceway, in association with iPlay America and Coors Light. This family-friendly event, which begins at 5:30 p.m., offers live music, beginning with The Rock & Roll Chorus…

  • Private school bus service unresolved

    By MAUREEN DAYE Correspondent Wanted: Transportation to and from school for 25 private school students for the 2013-14 school year. Bernard Biesiada, the business administrator for the Millstone Township K-8 School District, reported at a Board of Education meeting on June 24 about an issue with which he is grappling. Biesiada said he has been…

  • Summer jobs are salvation for some

    By JACK MURTHA Sean Wilson mans the grill at Tony’s Sausage, Dogs & Cheese Steaks on the boardwalk in Asbury Park on June 28. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR Summer in New Jersey typically means beach days, barbecues and time away from the office. But for many young people, the warm weather sparks a rush to…

  • Woman unites survivors of terrorism

    Sarri Singer survived bus bombing in Israel By Clare Marie Celano Sarri Singer was the victim of a bus bombing in Israel in 2003, but nothing about this woman says “victim mentality.”   In fact, it is just the opposite— Singer is a survivor.   The suicide bombing killed 16 people and could have led…

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