• Host families sought for exchange students

    ASSE International Student Exchange Programs (ASSE) seeks local host families for English-speaking male and female high school students ages 15-18 from a variety of countries around the world. Each ASSE student is fully insured, brings his or her own personal spending money, and expects to bear his or her share of household responsibilities, as well…

  • Baykeeper calls for volunteers

    KEYPORT — The NY/NJ Baykeeper is recruiting volunteers to expand its outreach programs. Amy Testa, office and finance manager for the Baykeeper, said the goal is to have a pool of volunteers to assist with fundraising and tabling events and community days. “We are trying to get more people out around the harbor to set…

  • Middletown Library offers ASL for tweens

    The Middletown Township Public Library will host a series on American Sign Language for tweens 10 a.m. Saturdays, Aug. 4-25. Tweens Sarah and Phoebe will teach American Sign Language in this ongoing series for children ages 8 to 12 years. Register at www.mtpl.org. The lessons will take place in the library’s Teen Zone at 55…

  • Shop, stroll, dine & unwind in Keyport

    KEYPORT — The newly formed Keyport Bayfront Business Cooperative (KBBC) is presenting Keyport Thursdays, a weekly event featuring an outdoor farmers market and live music on the bayfront, along with extended merchant hours. The Keyport Farmers Market, now in its fourth year, will feature local Jersey Fresh farm products and fresh food vendors. This year…

  • Mid’twn plans to build new affordable property

    Committee appropriates $305K to purchase, demolish ‘eyesore’ BY KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — The Township Committee has adopted an ordinance authorizing the use of $305,000 in affordable housing funds to acquire, demolish and create a development plan for a property located on 296 Port Monmouth Road. The ordinance, passed unanimously at the committee’s July…

  • Bayshore turbine hinges on appeal

    $5.9M project halted by Superior Court injunction BY KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer Nearly 200 tons of wind turbine parts are sitting in a warehouse in Newark, awaiting an appellate court decision that will ultimately decide the fate of a controversial natural energy project in the Bayshore area. On Wednesday, July 18, Judge Mary Catherine Cuff…

  • Making a diferencia in Keyport

    Spanish Club members are trying to change perceptions, community BY KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer Rafael Millan, treasurer (l-r), Albert DeGracia, president, and Angel Matos, secretary, at the Keyport Spanish American Club in Keyport. The 14th Annual Spanish American Festival will be held Aug. 11 from noon to 8 p.m. at Beach Park. The year was…

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    FRANK GALIPO Christine Karbowski, of Middletown, sings “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” at “Middletown’s Got Talent” held at the Middletown Arts Center, where singers, dancers, instrumentalists and other performance artists took the stage on July 20 and 21.

  • Mid’twn BOE addresses class size concerns

    Parents critical of district’s elementary school staffing BY KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer With the start of the 2012-13 school year less than eight weeks away, the Middletown Board of Education is addressing concerns about class sizes in some of the public school district’s 12 elementary schools. Following the board’s July 19 voting meeting, during which…

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