• Find your happy ending

    Avoid common real estate regrets to purchase your home with peace of mind A recent consumer survey by Trulia, real estate listing website, reveals top regrets individuals have about their homes or the home-buying process. The findings show that 75 percent of Americans feel this season is better for buying a home than next year,…

  • All’s not fair in housing

    Report calls for strengthened Fair Housing Act to protect families and individuals A recent report shows an increase in housing discrimination complaints in 2012, in addition to a “marked spike” in harassment complaints. In light of these findings, the National Fair Housing Alliance is calling upon the federal government to amend the Fair Housing Act…

  • Color Me Rad

    Melanie Levenson and Michelle Chraplyvy seem to enjoy being plastered with paint at the Color Me Rad Jersey Shore 5K held at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel on May 19. Runners in this event are hit with “color bombs” every five minutes during their sojourn. Thousands participated in the race, which raised money…

  • Love breaks 400 hurdles record, advances to outdoor track MOC

    BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent Matawan Regional High School’s Justin Love will have a very busy day in his final high school track and field competition on June 5 before embarking on a college career at Cornell University to study engineering. Love won the 400-meter intermediate hurdles in 53.97, smashing a record that stood for 33…

  • CBA falls in SCT semifinals

    Christian Brothers Academy left fielder Will Morgan keeps his eye on the ball as he dives to snare this line drive against Jackson Liberty High School on May 29 in the Shore Conference Tournament semifinals played at the Count Basie Field in Red Bank. The Liberty Lions knocked the Colts out of the tournament with…

  • O’Neill looks for MOC sweep after claiming Group III 3,200 title

    BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent Middletown High School South’s Carissa Gray competes in the Group III high jump during the June I NJSIAA Group Track and Field Championships held at Frank Jost Field in South Plainfield. SCOTT FRIEDMAN Middletown High School North distance runner Tom O’Neill kept checking back on the field that stayed pretty far…

  • ‘Micah Williams: Portrait Artist’

    Aaron Smock, circa January 1819 (Gift of Sarena V. Roome, 1957) The Monmouth County Historical Association will host the first exhibition dedicated to the portraiture of 19th-century New Jersey artist Micah Williams. “Micah Williams: Portrait Artist” will run through Sept. 29 at the Monmouth County Historical Association Museum at 70 Court St. in Freehold Borough.…

  • 27th annual New Jersey Seafood Festival

    For the past 26 years, visitors from all over New Jersey and the region have marked the beginning of summer with one of the Shore’s favorite traditions — the New Jersey Seafood Festival. This year, the festival celebrates its 27th consecutive year in Belmar on June 7, 8 and 9. More than 175,000 people are…

  • Irene “Mary” Haussermann Heims

    Mrs. Heims, 75, of Monroe, formerly of Sayreville, died May 23, 2013, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to her retirement in 1995, she was employed for 10 years as a ward clerk at Roosevelt Hospital, Edison. She served as a member of the Sayreville Democratic Organization. She was predeceased by a…

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