• Show your love for the shore Aug. 20

    American Littoral Society launches ‘Share the Shore’ at 26 locations BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer The American Littoral Society (ALS) is asking coastal enthusiasts to help celebrate its 50th anniversary during the inaugural “Share the Shore,” an event that celebrates the coastline. “Share the Shore” will take place on Aug. 20 simultaneously at 26 locations…

  • Planners continue hearing Four Ponds application

    Board members, residents express concerns about traffic impact BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer A color rendering of the 3,000-square-foot clubhouse at the proposed Four Ponds Development on Middletown- Lincroft Road illustrates the development’s traditional styling. MIDDLETOWN — Expert testimony on the controversial 342-unit Four Ponds development continued at the Aug. 3 Middletown Planning Board meeting,…

  • Interest in garden blooms at community center

    Weeding not a popular chore among youngsters pitching in at Keller Center BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer Clockwise from top: Middletown Deputy Mayor Pamela Brightbill tours the Tonya Keller Community Center garden with its young caretakers. A youngster picks vegetables. Center Supervisor Janet Adams helps bag produce. Three times a week, Middletown children become purveyors…

  • Manna House, Spring House programs to combine

    Cliffwood Beach facility will continue to offer transitional housing BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer Transitional housing programs for homeless women and their children provided by Spring House in Eatontown and Manna House in the Cliffwood Beach section ofAberdeen will combine in September. “This is not a merger,” said Peggy Comfort, executive director of both facilities.…

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    Max Keating, of Hauser Hill Farms in Old Bridge, stacks a pile of fresh corn for sale at the Keyport Farmers Market held at the Waterfront Mini Park on Aug. 4. More photos, page 22 and gmnews.com. ERIC SUCAR staff

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    The Jackson Recreation Department has announced that registration for girls fall softball will take place 7-9 p.m. Aug. 17 at the Knights of Columbus hall on Bartley Road, Jackson. Visit www.jacksontwpnj.net/recreation and click on Programs and Activities for registration forms. Registration is also being taken at the Recreation Department from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.…

  • Smith, Warriors pointing toward grid opener

    BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent The New Egypt High School football team has lost several key players from a squad that went 8-3 in 2010 and won a championship in the inaugural season of the West Jersey Football League Freedom Division. The 2010 Warriors qualified for the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group I playoffs, losing to Dunellen…

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    Jennifer Bookbinder of Howell crawls through part of the course as she participates in the Rock Solid Mud Run that was held at Raceway Park, Old Bridge, on Aug. 6. The Rock Solid Mud Run is an all-terrain adventure over a 5-mile or 10-mile course. Participants ran, swam, crawled, climbed and jumped while covering four…

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