• ARE WE THERE YET

    As if January wasn’t bad enough … LORI CLINCH January. I’m not a fan. It’s as far away from the lazy days of summer as it can be, the weather is stinking cold, and the mere mention of the month makes visions of tax forms and pencil stubs dance in my head. It seems I…

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    • A Comedy Knight hosted by the Howell Jackson Knights of Columbus Council 6201 will be held on Jan. 28 at the council home, 401 Bartley Road, Jackson. Tickets are available for $30 per person, which includes a home-cooked dinner and performances by three comedians. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show will start…

  • Hamburger event to honor child’s memory, help others

    BYAMY ROSEN Staff Writer Mark Levine TheAshley Lauren Foundation and the owners of 709, a restaurant at 709 Arnold Ave., Point Pleasant Beach, have joined forces to honor a child from Marlboro who had a passion for hamburgers and who lost his battle with cancer in 2010. The foundation and the restaurant will raise funds…

  • DINNIGAN’S DIVERSIONS

    ‘Ground zero’ tourism, then and now LIZZ DINNIGAN The morning the Towers fell, I was commuting from Brooklyn to my east midtown office building. At the time I was working as a staff travel writer – covering beats ranging from the cruise industry to New York – for a weekly trade magazine targeting travel agents.…

  • CODA

    No more Twinkies? Now that’s a real nightmare GREG BEAN Here are three stories you might have missed due to the 24/7 coverage of the South Carolina Republican primary and Newt Gingrich’s marital peccadilloes last week. We start with Zingers and Ding Dongs: Over the last few years, the crummy economy has made most of…

  • More research, funding needed to fight pancreatic cancer

    Pancreatic cancer is the fourth-leading cause of cancer death in the United States; it is the most lethal cancer, with a five-year survival rate of just 6 percent. Despite that, pancreatic cancer receives the least amount of federal funding among the leading cancer killers. January is Clinical Trial Awareness Month. The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network…

  • Husband, wife plead guilty

    Michael and Melissa Rudow, a married couple from Jackson who own and operate a construction company, both pleaded guilty on Jan. 4 to federal tax violations, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and John A. DiCicco, principal deputy assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, announced. Michael Rudow pleaded guilty to an indictment charging…

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    • See Broadway’s “Godspell” on March 23 with the Jackson Recreation Department. Buses will depart from the Jackson Senior Center, 45 Don Connor Blvd., Jackson, at 3 p.m. The price of $110 per person includes orchestra seats and charter bus transportation. Tickets are on a first-come, first-served basis, with a 50 percent nonrefundable deposit due…

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