• Volunteers needed for crisis hotline

    Volunteers are needed for CONTACT of Ocean and Monmouth Counties, a nonprofit charity that offers a 24-hour crisis intervention hotline that also provides information and referrals to community resources. All calls are free, confidential and anonymous. The training will be held 6:30-9:30 p.m. beginning Feb. 2 and will run for 15 weeks. For additional information…

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    The Plumsted Business Merchants Association and the Plumsted Township School District will host their annul food basket project in December. PBMA merchant members will provide food baskets to needy families in the community. The baskets will be assembled at the Welcome Center and delivered to the school district for distribution. Donations can be dropped off…

  • Revised Ocean master plan slated for adoption Dec. 21

    Following months of review and discussions, the Ocean County Planning Board is moving into the final stretch of approving a revised Ocean County master plan. “This has been a lengthy process, including an extensive review of the current plan,” said Freeholder Gerry P. Little, who serves as liaison to the Ocean County Planning Department. “Our…

  • Use of surplus funds impacts credit rating

    BY ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer JACKSON — A credit rating agency has downgraded Jackson’s general obligation rating ($11.4 million in outstanding rated debt) from Aa2 to Aa3. According to Moody’s Investor Service, an agency that analyzes international corporations and government entities, the downgrade in Jackson’s credit rating was issued primarily because of the township’s dependency…

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     The Georgian Court University Chorale will present its annual Christmas concert featuring holiday classics at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 17 in the Casino Auditorium, Lakewood. Tickets are $10 per person, $5 per senior citizen or non-GCU student, and free to GCU community members with ID. Reservations are not required. Details: 732-987-2624.  A Home for…

  • Organ transplant transforms strangers into good friends

    BY PATRICIAYOCZIS Correspondent Toby Kash Tom Carr and Toby Kash were strangers until a life-altering transplant operation forged their new friendship. In October 2010 at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York, Carr, 61, donated one of his kidneys to Kash, who had been on dialysis and was on the National Kidney Registry waiting for…

  • CODA

    Woe at U.S. Postal Service is being felt in Milltown GREG BEAN A s you’re listening to all the gloom and doom stories about what will happen next year when the U.S. Postal Service reduces its services even further to save money, here are two pre-cutback vignettes fromthe post office this holiday season, courtesy of…

  • Ornaments hold visions of happy homes

    Domestic abuse survivors craft ornaments for state tree in nation’s capital BYMIKE DAVIS Staff Writer Amanda’s Easel Coordinator Cindi Westendorf (l) and New Jersey first lady Mary Pat Christie look at ornaments that were created for the National Christmas Tree display in Washington, D.C. Amanda’s Easel is the creative arts therapy program of 180 Turning…

  • Marinari appointed to governing body

    BY ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer PLUMSTED PLUMSTED — Herb Marinari has been named to a seat on the five-member Plumsted Township Committee and will serve on the governing body through 2012. A seat on the committee became available recently after committee members voted to replace Committeeman Steve Reed, who had a series of unexcused absences…

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