• Moslowski to serve as mayor

    UPPER FREEHOLD – There was a feeling of familiarity at the Township Committee’s reorganization meeting on Jan. 3, as the same group of people will sit at the dais for the fifth year in a row in Upper Freehold Township. During the meeting, committee members Stanley Moslowski Jr., Stephen Alexander, Robert Faber, Dr. Robert Frascella…

  • New York residents indicted in connection with ‘Baby Bones’ case

    Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced on Jan. 7 that a Monmouth County grand jury handed up an indictment charging Likisha Jones, 39, Godfrey Gibson, 48, both of Manhattan, N.Y., and James Jones, 35, of Brooklyn, N.Y., with several charges in connection with the unlawful disposal of the body of Jon-Neice Jones, a…

  • Beyond Sandy: The new normal

    Speakers tell forum that rebuilding efforts must go beyond replacing what was lost BY KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer WEST LONG BRANCH — In the immediate aftermath of Post-Tropical Storm Sandy, the future seemed a long way off. But as short-term concerns of safety and shelter have given way to longer-term worries about tax revenues and…

  • New Jersey Film Festival heads to New Brunswick

    Movie premieres will be held from Jan. 25 to March 2 Retrocognition The New Jersey Film Festival will celebrate its 31st anniversary this spring with a showcase of new international films, American independent features, experimental and short subjects, classic revivals and cutting-edge documentaries. The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, in association with the…

  • Grbelja tapped as mayor for ninth time

    BY MAUREEN SHAMES Correspondent The theme of the Township Committee’s annual reorganization meeting held on Jan. 2 at town hall in Millstone Township could have been “All Together Now.” After all, Nancy A. Grbelja was unanimously elected mayor by her fellow committee members for an eighth consecutive one-year term and for the ninth time in…

  • Navigating the complex course of municipal court

    Those with traffic, other violations have options for minimizing charges BY JESSICA D’AMICO, THOMAS CASTLES & JACK MURTHA Staff Writers Area municipal courts see a multitude of traffic-related offenses at their sessions. For drivers facing such charges, it is helpful to go in armed with one’s options and some knowledge of the rules of law.…

  • Time to ban all guns

    GUEST COLUMN DENNIS LEVINSON I am a retired elementary school principal. The massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., has left me extremely upset about the murders of innocent children and adults, and disgusted with this country’s acceptance of gun violence. Our politicians are unwilling to stand up to the terrorist organization…

  • I called me, but got someone else

    ARE WE THERE YET LORI CLINCH Lately it has become evident that my mind is slipping. Not a great deal, as some might contend. Rather, it is a slow and deliberate slippage that one wouldn’t really notice unless one hung around me for an hour or more. Thankfully, for me, I have my cell phone…

  • I need another woman in my life, and her name is Siri

    CODA GREG BEAN There we were, sitting around on the night before Christmas Eve, shooting the breeze and trying to figure out what to do about dinner. Someone suggested pizza, and that sounded pretty good. Where was the closest pizza place? Did they deliver? My youngest son, who lives in the town where we were…

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