• Temple creates Rodeph Torah Center for a Jewish Future

    MARLBORO — Building on the success of its Rock Shabbat music service, Temple Rodeph Torah (TRT) has set its sights and “out-of-the-box” thinking on developing a spiritually based learning center where congregants and members of the Jewish community will be able to create a vision of their own Jewish future. Whether a person’s interest focuses…

  • A mood even new sneakers can’t fix

    ARE WE THERE YET LORI CLINCH Well, it happened. The powers that be pulled the plug on our summer and sent it right down the drain. In fact, the more I tried to stop the passing of time, the faster it went. I have to be honest with you; it really just grinds my gears.…

  • Horseracing should be state’s winning ticket

    Why do Gov. Chris Christie and state Senate President Steve Sweeney continue to block all efforts to put slot machines and table games in at the Meadowlands (racetrack) when Jeff Gural, the operator of the Meadowlands, has said he would pay a 55 percent gaming tax that would generate hundred of millions of dollars? Atlantic…

  • Do not project your values onto other people

    This letter is in response to Timothy L. Eshelman’s recent letter to the editor about Greater Media Newspapers columnist Greg Bean having his facts and logic wrong about Gov. Chris Christie being on the wrong side of marijuana legalization and the same sex marriage issue. Sorry to say, but Timothy, you have your facts wrong…

  • Former Manalapan resident uses Brooklyn as setting for novel

    Marco Manfre JACKSON — “The Outcast Prophet of Bensonhurst,” written by Jackson resident Marco Manfre, is not only a deep, dark, thoughtful story, but also a lively comingof age novel about a boy growing up in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, N.Y., in the 1950s. The protagonist, Anacleto, has a shy, reclusive personality. That, along…

  • in the service 

    Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Paul R. Wainwright, a 2005 graduate of Howell High School, along with fellow sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65), formed a Coalition of Sailors Against Destructive Decisions (CSADD) committee. CSADD is a peer-to-peer mentoring program geared toward assisting sailors in making positive decisions in all areas of…

  • Manalapan native co-creates new smartphone application

    Moviefriend uses Facebook to provide instant movie recommendations BY STELLA MORRISON Staff Writer Always in pursuit of new movies to watch, friends Bryan Wong and Michael Tesalona created a smartphone application that could suggest the movie for them. Wong, an Old Bridge native, and Tesalona, from Manalapan, are the creators of Moviefriend, an application, or…

  • Colts Neck public works dept. budgeted to hire 2 employees

    BY JACK MURTHA Staff Writer COLTS NECK — The Department of Public Works will soon regain a portion of the manpower it lost early last year to budget cuts. Funds dedicated in Colts Neck’s 2012 municipal budget will allow the township to hire two laborers for the second half of the year, Township Administrator Robert…

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