• ‘Rude Awakening’

    Paramedics attend to senior Angellica Taylor, playing the role of a car accident victim during the Rude Awakening demonstration held at Matawan Regional High School in Aberdeen on May 24. More photos, page 14. ERIC SUCAR staff Left: Sophomore Derek Leckner and a fellow passenger are “bloodied” during an accident simulation, illustrating what can happen…

  • Just for Toddlers now open for registration

    Registration is under way in Middletown for the Just for Toddlers preschool playgroup for children ages 18 months to pre-K. Arts and crafts, stories, music, numbers, letters, colors and many other activities will be featured. The affordable program is managed by the Middletown Recreation Department and held at the Tonya Keller Community Center, located at…

  • Child Find under way in Middletown

    Middletown parents and guardians are encouraged to contact the Middletown Township Board of Education if they have concerns about their child’s development in the following areas: communication, motor/physical, cognitive, emotional, visual or hearing and social. For preschool children, including homeless or migrant, between the ages of 3 and 5 and not eligible for kindergarten in…

  • Small business owners learn how to grow in NJ

    Community forum outlines programs available to support local businesses BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer Richard M. Pettorossi MIDDLETOWN — Lone and Claudi Kofod of Middletown are looking to open a small Danish café in Red Bank but have only two years to prove that the business can be successful before their visa runs out and…

  • School funding based on property tax can’t work

    Today, 60 percent of our property tax goes to funding schools. A system that relies on the property owner’s income to keep pace with a school tax that increases as one’s property value increases is a flawed system. Property owner’s income does not increase over time; it decreases and will not keep up as a…

  • Photo

    Red-winged blackbirds aggressively defend their territory from other animals. They will even attack humans who get too close to their nests during breeding season. There. You have been warned. This photo was taken at Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, Oceanville. IMAGE BY BILL PATRICK/www.maiseyimages.com

  • CODA

    We know too little about our wars and our warriors GREG BEAN A s I write this a few days before MemorialDay 2012, it strikes me that we have to start doing a better job of keeping up with our men and women in uniform, and knowing what dangers they’re facing every day in our…

  • ‘Make It Real’ with soap star Brian Gaskill

    Soap star Brian Gaskill will be appearing at “Make It Real,” a fundraiser for the Garden State Players (GSP), Monday, June 4, at Trinity Restaurant, 84 Broad St., Keyport. He will read poetry from his new original spoken-word poetry album, “Make It Real.” Gaskill is known best for his roles on “Guiding Light,” “As the…

  • Teachers: Lloyd Rd. never implemented anti-bullying program

    BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer ABERDEEN — Members of the Matawan Aberdeen Regional School District Board of Education are investigating claims teachers made last week that an antibullying program was never implemented at the Lloyd Road Elementary School. Teachers filled the seats at the May 21 meeting to tell members of the board that the…

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