• Family tradition: Using local woods for holiday decorating

    BY JOSEPH SAPIA Correspondent The boughs of a pitch pine (l-r), along with some winterberry and pine cone, are among the items included in Joseph Sapia’s annual Christmas wreath. The materials are gathered from the Pine Barrens around Helmetta. Over generations, the local Pine Barrens have provided for its people: hunters, anglers, mushroom-pickers… I grew…

  • Hazlet Recreation preschool open

    The Hazlet Recreation Preschool for girls and boys ages 3 and 4 is open for enrollment. The 10-week session will begin Jan. 2 and end March 15. The session for children age 3 will be from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The fee for this session is $265 for Hazlet residents…

  • Mat-Ab approves $2.7M in capital improvements

    District will use surplus funds to pay for projects BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer ABERDEEN — The Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District will use approximately $2.75 million in surplus funds to cover expenses for several capital improvement projects planned for the 2013- 2014 school year. The capital improvements, which include the demolition of the old Cliffwood…

  • Displaced residents move into temporary housing

    BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer The first mobile home provided by FEMA as temporary housing for residents displaced by Sandy arrives at Woodlawn Village in Eatontown on Dec. 15. STEVE ZUMWALT/FEMA Residents displaced by superstorm Sandy were slated to begin moving into temporary housing units at Fort Monmouth and a manufactured home in Eatontown in…

  • CODA

    If you’re not part of solution, you’re part of the problem GREG BEAN You’ll have to excuse me for a moment until this case of the black whirlies passes and my equilibrium returns to something resembling normal. I always wondered what it would feel like to fall down the rabbit hole like Alice did, and…

  • Superstorm costs could be catastrophic

    What will Sandy and the nor’easter cost us? Just when we thought that most of us survived the worst ecological catastrophe America has ever known, get ready for the next catastrophe; the financial catastrophe! At a time when the national deficit is at an alltime high, the last thing we needed was a hurricane followed…

  • Keyport administrator pleads not guilty

    Wright to return to work after injury sustained during arrest BY KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer KEYPORT — Keyport Business Administrator Lorene Wright has pleaded not guilty to four criminal charges and requested an internal affairs investigation of the incident leading to her arrest outside Borough Hall on Dec. 10, according to her private attorney, Thomas…

  • R.B. library hosts youth programs during Jan.

    RED BANK — Children are invited to enjoy the programs in the Avice Noblett Children’s Room of the Red Bank Public Library in January. Children age 5 and older are invited to a Wii Sports Party 4-5 p.m. Jan. 14. Kids will enjoy board games, crafts and snacks. Artsy Smartsy will take place 2-3 p.m.…

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