• Catherine Kazimir

    Ms. Kazimir, 85, a resident of Matawan for 72 years, died July 27, 2011, at the Madison Center, Matawan. Prior to retiring, she was an office manager for the Glenwood Apartment Complex in Old Bridge. A son, Mark, predeceased her in 2010. Surviving are three sons, James Sr. and his wife, Audrey, of Lake Hopatcong,…

  • Livoti’s Italian market celebrates first anniversary

    On-site bakery in plans for market’s second year BY PATRICIAYOCZIS Correspondent John Livoti, owner of Livoti’s Old World Market, poses for a picture inside his store on July 28. LAUREN CASSELBERRY ABERDEEN — “Fantastic” is the way Amanda Livoti describes the first year of operation of Livoti’s Old World Market, a family-owned Italian specialty market…

  • ‘All the world’s a stage…’

    The Brookdale Community College Performing Arts Center recently presented “Twelfth Night,” based on a play by William Shakespeare, at the Great Lawn of the school’s campus in Middletown. FRANK GALIPO

  • NOTES

    Middletown Main Library, 55 New Monmouth Road, hosts three book and film discussion groups each month. The mystery group will discuss Stuart Kaminsky’s “People Who Walk in Darkness” 10 a.m. Aug. 10; the science fiction group will discuss “Panic in the Year Zero (1962) based on “Lot and Lot’s Daughter” by Ward Moore and “End…

  • Soccer club presents Chris Dhume Memorial Scholarships

    BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer AMSC Chris Dhume Memorial Scholarship recipients Alexandra Rodriguez (l) and Matthew D’Auria pose with Val Dhume (center), mother of Chris Dhume, at the scholarship presentation on July 21. ABERDEEN — The Aberdeen Matawan Soccer Club (AMSC) honored two recent Matawan Regional High School graduates with the first annual AMSC Chris…

  • business briefs 

    The New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC), Sandy Hook, and its graphic designer, Rory Joyce, have been recognized with anAPEXAward for its first exclusively electronic annual report publishing effort. The award was given for the report’s excellence in graphic design, editorial content and success in achieving overall communications excellence. The New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium…

  • Mat-Ab BOE to fill vacancy

    BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer ABERDEEN — The Board of Education will begin interviewing candidates for a vacant seat . “We have 65 days from the receipt of resignation to fill in the position,” said Charles Kenny, president of the Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District board. “The elected candidate will serve until the election inApril 2012.”…

  • Actress, 16, set to make debut in New York City

    Following run at Middletown Arts Center, Brianna Vitale will appear off-Broadway BY REBECCAMORTON Staff Writer Brianna Eve Vitale Dreams do come true and Brianna Eve Vitale’s dreams are quickly becoming a reality as the young actress prepares to appear not only on stage in Middletown, but also in an off-Broadway theater in New York City.…

  • Dear advice man: Can this marriage be saved?

    CODA GREG BEAN Dear Expert Financial Advice Person: I’m writing you today in the hope of saving my marriage. I love my wife, but she does some economic things that drive me crazy. We both put our paychecks into the same joint account, but I manage our finances, and make sure the bills get paid…

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