• Volunteers needed for Holmdel festivals

    In the rural section of Holmdel Township, there are two Bayonet Farm Festivals each year. In spring, the Earth Day Festival celebrates Mother Earth’s holiday with live animals and music, a petting zoo, educational family shows and extensive displays, children’s crafts, pet adoptions and guided tours of the historic Harding Farmhouse. Autumn brings the Arts…

  • Cuts? Bruises? Get on the bus!

    Keyport 1st Aid Squad gets medical ambulance bus for on-site treatment BYMIKE DAVIS Staff Writer The Keyport First Aid Squad will use Medical Ambulance Bus No. 6 for on-site medical treatment, support for emergency personnel and mass evacuation. PHOTO COURTESY OF DAN NEFF, KEYPORT FIRST AID SQUAD KEYPORT— The next time the Keyport FirstAid Squad…

  • CODA

    How about a nice watch when these folks retire? GREG BEAN A ll right, wage slaves — at least those of you who have toiled in the mines of the dreaded private sector — I’ve got a question. I remember my last day on nearly every job I ever had, and I remember my final…

  • State’s policy on housing developmentally disabled shortsighted

    GUEST COLUMN DR. SALVATORE PIZZURO The plight of New Jerseyans with developmental disabilities has received considerable media attention in recent weeks. Perhaps the most immediate burning issue regarding this population is the housing problem. In many cases, the parents of adults with developmental disabilities are elderly and unable to continue to care for their offspring…

  • What happened to Santa Claus?

    When I was young my parents took our family every year around this time to enjoy Rockefeller Center, light a candle and say a prayer at St. Patrick’s and walk to Macy’s while looking into the store windows that had been decorated. During our stay, especially in the Rockefeller Center plaza area, we always noticed…

  • Dery Bennett Beach Walk

    Participants in the American Littoral Society’s 36th annual New Year’s Day Beach Walk held each Jan. 1 on Sandy Hook try to signal their counterparts in the New York chapter using aluminum pans to reflect sunlight. LAUREN CASSELBERRY

  • BLOOPERS

    ‘Bare with us …’ Uh, no thank you. ADELE YOUNG Every new year, we like to disclose some of the amusing constructions that came across our desks during the previous 12 months. Thank goodness, most of the gaffes in this column were caught in time and did not make it into one of our weekly…

  • Aberdeen wants new study of train station area

    Council asks planner to re-examine plans for transit village BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer ABERDEEN — Given the amount of time that has passed, the township plans to re-examine the 59.5 acres of land surrounding the Aberdeen train station to determine if the area should remain designated as an area in need of redevelopment. Members…

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