• No criminal check for student observers

    BY JACK MURTHA Staff Writer MARLBORO — By a vote of 5-2, members of the Marlboro K-8 School District Board of Education have decided not to require criminal background checks for student observers who are in a classroom for 20 hours or less. The board took the action on Jan. 10. There are three types…

  • 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…

  • Pupils with special needs may register in Freehold Twp.

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — The Freehold Township K-8 School District is conducting an ongoing community-wide effort to find and help children in need of special education programs due to a physical, emotional or learning difficulty. In order to qualify for the preschool disabled program in the district, a child must be 3 to 5 years old…

  • Ayckbourn comedy comes to Freehold

    Three couples, two dinner parties and one adulterous affair will be the focus of Center Players’ latest community theater production, “How the Other Half Loves,” a comedy by Alan Ayckbourn that juggles time and space to create a whirlwind of chaos, confusion and laughter. Veteran director Janet Lynn Spahr will bring this comedy to life…

  • Aquatics director knows ‘Y’ she likes New Jersey

    With ties to Woodbridge and Freehold, Erin Coyne brings her experience in Colorado to Woodbridge YMCA BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Erin Coyne oversees 56 swim instructors and lifeguards in a program that handles more than 2,600 swimmers at the Woodbridge YMCA. Erin Coyne said that even as a youth, the YMCA’s motto of strengthening…

  • ‘Ground zero’ tourism, then and now

    DINNIGAN’S DIVERSIONS 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. At 8:46 a.m., while…

  • No more Twinkies? Now that’s a real nightmare

    CODA 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 us feel like Job, that Old Testament…

  • Clinical Trial Awareness Month for pancreatic cancer is in January

    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…

  • Deferred compensation has us in tough spot

    I read in Greg Bean’s recent column of his and others’ displeasure with public workers’ sick and vacation day buy-backs and other benefits they receive when retiring. You are right that some of these stories are appalling, but perhaps you vent your spleen in the wrong direction. These benefits and others like pensions, health, dental…

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