• Grocery application progresses

    Birgitta Wolfe    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — The Bottom Dollar Food grocery store proposed for the abandoned Acme building at Route 130 and Farnsworth Avenue hopes to have its final go-ahead from the Planning Board this month and be open for business by the end of the year.    Its application has been working through the Planning Board…

  • MANVILLE: Another shot at fireworks Friday night

    Hillsborough will hold postponed display     If you didn’t have your fill watching fireworks last weekend, you have another chance.     Hillsborough’s display of color, flash and boom was postponed Sunday and will be presented tomorrow night, Friday, after 9 p.m. at Auten Road Intermediate School.     If you want to get close, a free…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Triangle Center promises home-grown arts fest

    Arts, music benefit coming July 17     “A Peoples Arts Festival” will be hosted by the merchants at Hillsborough’s Triangle Center on Route 206 on Sunday, July 17, from 2 to 8 p.m.     Donnetta Bishop-Johnson, founder of the Allegra School of Music & Arts and festival founder, said, “The merchants at Triangle Center are…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Fireworks get second shot Friday night

       If you didn’t have your fill watching fireworks last weekend, you have another chance.    Hillsborough’s display of color, flash and boom was postponed Sunday and will be presented tomorrow night, Friday, after 9 p.m. at Auten Road Intermediate School.    If you want to get close, a free shuttle bus provided by Valchek Bus Service from…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Don’t forget the ongoing anniversary of Civil War

       Day by day, as we step through our everyday lives, we are missing remembering the 150th anniversary of the greatest trauma this nation has gone through.    The Civil War.    We are only days away from July 21, the 150th anniversary of the First Bull Run battle, which brought the bloody reality of the impending long…

  • Two men plead guilty to investment fraud

    A n attorney with a practice in Ocean Township and a real estate developer have admitted to their roles in an investment fraud conspiracy that embezzled nearly $1 million raised in connection with a series of purported commercial real estate developments in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. According to information provided by…

  • business briefs 

    The annual OceanFirst Bank calendar contest is under way and photographers are invited to submit original local photographs to be displayed in the bank’s 2012 community calendar. More than 12,000 calendars will be distributed to OceanFirst customers and the general public throughout Ocean, Monmouth and Middlesex counties. Recognition will be awarded to each photographer featured…

  • ‘Clyde’ to greet fans at Sam’s

    Walt Frazier Sam’s Club and General Mills have announced that they will host a member appreciation event at the Freehold Township Sam’s Club on July 15 from 6-8 p.m. NewYork Knicks legend Walt “Clyde” Frazier will meet with fans and sign autographs. The Freehold Sam’s Club is at 320W. Main St. (Route 537), Freehold Township.…

  • Andrews gained important experience at USATF nationals

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Robby Andrews left the USA Track and Field Championships humbled, but also wiser and more excited about his racing career than ever before. Andrews, a two-time NCAA champion at 800 meters, made his debut at the USA Track and Field Senior Championships at Hayward Field on the campus of the…

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