• Grants available to promote specialty crops

    The New Jersey Department of Agriculture is now accepting applications for 2013 U.S. Department of Agriculture Specialty Crop Block Grants. A total of $375,000 is available to organizations representing New Jersey’s specialty crop industry for use during 2013. Individual producers are not eligible to apply. Specialty crops include fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, horticulture, nursery crops…

  • Applications for NRCS Organic Initiative due

    Donald Pettit, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) state conservationist, reminds potential applicants to contact their local NRCS office soon to find out if they are eligible for the agency’s Organic Initiative. Applications for the second ranking period of 2012 are due at NRCS offices by the close of business on March 30. The NRCS…

  • Rutgers to host event for home gardeners

    Rutgers’ 36th annual Home Gardeners School (HGS) will be held March 24. This event, which is open to all gardening enthusiasts, offers 35 interactive workshops taught by home horticulture experts, including several local residents from Middlesex and Monmouth counties. Among the 25 of the state’s top home horticulture experts presenting 35 interactive lectures are Ben…

  • No Stigma support group will meet

    The No Stigma support group for young adults ages 18 to 29 and adults over the age of 30 with attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, bipolar disorder, depression, or other mental illness or brain disorder, is scheduled to meet 10 a.m. to noon March 17 at CentraState Medical Center’s Star and Barry Tobias…

  • Special Kays dancers earn top awards

    The Special Kays, a nationally recognized competitive dance team of the New Jersey Center of Dance and Performing Arts, received numerous highlevel awards at the Groove National Talent Competition held in Tinton Falls March 2-4. The Groove National talent Competition is a dance-focused talent competition dedicated to providing a healthy and competitive environment for dancers…

  • Grant gets former church one step closer to preservation

    Millstone historic site garners support from county, community BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer MILLSTONE— A167-year-old former church in the Clarksburg section of the township will get a little closer to its original splendor, thanks to a grant from the Monmouth County Historical Commission. Once known as the Clarksburg Methodist Episcopal Church, located at 512 Route…

  • Plumsted opens possibility for medical marijuana site

    Township Committee proposes permitted uses in light industrial zone BY ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer PLUMSTED – A medical marijuana cultivation and/or dispensing site could find a home in Plumsted if the Township Committee adopts an ordinance that would permit either or both uses in the municipality’s light industrial zones. In December, the committee adopted an…

  • Plumsted neighbors respond to town’s plan to permit pot

    Nearby towns nixed medical marijuana facilities; Plumsted may allow for one BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent Plumsted Township, which passed an ordinance late last year prohibiting municipal review of applications for activities violating federal law to target potential medical marijuana growers or dispensaries, introduced an ordinance at its March 7 meeting that would allow for medical…

  • Millstone budget to be introduced in May

    BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent MILLSTONE — Although neighboring Upper Freehold Township introduced its 2012 municipal budget on March 1 and plans to hold a public hearing on April 5, Millstone will not introduce its budget until May. At the March 7 meeting, Township Administrator Thomas Antus said that he has only received about 60 percent…

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