• Millstone open space fund will benefit from clambake

    BY MAUREEN DAYE Correspondent MILLSTONE —Two municipal bodies are joining forces to host a community event on June 2. The Millstone Township Open Space and Farmland Preservation Commission and the Millstone Township Agricultural Advisory Council will present the seventh annual clambake fundraiser at Wagner Farm Park, 4 Baird Road, on June 2. All are welcome…

  • Homeowners will open gardens for June 8 tour

    Beautifully cared-for private gardens will be visited on a tour to be hosted by the Allentown Garden Club in Allentown, western Monmouth County, on June 8. PHOTO COURTESY OF ALLENTOWN GARDEN CLUB Where have all the flowers gone? There is a place with answers to this and any other local gardening questions. The Allentown Garden…

  • Protection extended in drug overdoses

    Gov. Chris Christie signed the bipartisan Overdose Protection Act into law at a drug rehabilitation center in Paterson on May 2. The legislation takes a two-pronged approach to help prevent drug-overdose deaths in New Jersey. First, it provides legal protection to people who are in violation of the law while they are attempting to help…

  • Young man a ray of hope in cloud of opiate addiction

    BY JESSICA D’AMICO Staff Writer Scott Kaboski talks about his history of drug addiction, along with the hope he has gained during his rehabilitation process at the Discovery Institute for Addictive Disorders. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Growing up, Scott Kaboski didn’t seem at risk for heroin addiction. The 23-year-old was brought up in an…

  • A ‘grim’ trend in central N.J.

    Law enforcement wrestles with heroin abuse BY GREG KENNELTY Staff Writer Heroin has become the most popular drug in Monmouth and Middlesex counties, reaching a much wider audience than ever before, according to law enforcement authorities. “Monmouth County has one of the highest concentrations of the purest heroin in the tri-state area. We’re really only…

  • Allentown gives nod to $2M budget

    BY ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer One month after Allentown Mayor Stuart Fierstein called the development of the 2013 municipal budget an “extremely difficult situation,” the Allentown Borough Council voted unanimously on May 7 to approve the spending plan. “The completion of the budget and having it affirmed ends a mental and physical battle over trying…

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    Immaculate private gardens will be featured on a tour that will be hosted by the Allentown Garden Club, Allentown, on June 8. For the story by correspondent Maureen Daye, see page 3. PHOTO COURTESY OF ALLENTOWN GARDEN CLUB

  • By late May, there will be red-eyed love in the air

    CODA GREG BEAN It was our first summer in Massachusetts after moving to a wooded community from one of the dry, prairie states, and we were completely unprepared for how green the place was and how so much stuff just grew there without human intervention. We didn’t know what any of it was, of course.…

  • MANVILLE: Onderko kicks off his campaign for council

    To the editor:    I am happy to be back in the race for a council seat after such a dirty, deceitful campaign run against me by Mayor Corradino and his hand-picked Democratic candidates in town last November. I hope the majority of voters will not believe their lies this time around. The issues are what…

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