• Achieving equality for all women still a challenge

    Achieving equality for all women still a challenge

    Each year we celebrate March as Women’s History Month, and we salute women who throughout history have sacrificed to bring to the world’s attention those issues that mean so much to us as humans. Remember the women who fought for the right for women to vote? These brave and intelligent women were incarcerated, beaten and…

  • Park System slates annual arts and music festival

    LINCROFT — The Monmouth County Park System will host its annual Creative Arts and Music Festival from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. April 30 and May 1 at Thompson Park, 805 Newman Springs Road. The juried arts festival will feature specially selected artists’ works of pottery, photography, jewelry, paintings and other mediums. Besides the artwork, visitors will…

  • Edison songstress advances on ‘The Voice’

    Edison songstress advances on ‘The Voice’

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer EDISON — Five years ago, Moushumi Chitre’s name rose to prominence as a senior at J.P. Stevens High School when she won the school’s annual JPS Got Talent. Chitre was one of eight students highlighted for their talent in the school’s newspaper “The Hawkeye” in April 2011. Five years later,…

  • Birthday bash to feature readings of Shakespeare’s works

    LINCROFT — Brookdale Community College will celebrate the 452nd birthday of William Shakespeare with the sixth annual Shakespeare Read-a-Thon from 6-8 p.m. April 21 at its Performing Arts Center, 765 Newman Springs Road. Residents of all ages are invited to dress as their favorite Shakespearean character and join friends, family and fellow community members in…

  • Gambling addictions may fill a void in seniors’ lives

    Gambling addictions may fill a void in seniors’ lives

      By MATTHEW SOCKOL Staff Writer Gambling is often more than a game. The Wellspring Center for Prevention and the Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey (CCGNJ) sponsored a conference on gambling addiction on March 15. Entitled “Out of the Dark — Addressing the Hidden Addiction of Gambling Among Older Adults,” the conference provided insight…

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  • Places to be

    Places to be

    Here are scholastic sport venues that you want to be at over the next few days March Madness reaches its crescendo for New Jersey high school basketball with the Tournament of Champions semi-finals and finals. On March 17 at the Pine Belt Arena in Toms River, the boys are up with No. 1 seed and…

  • Board appoints Tan to fill open seat

    Board appoints Tan to fill open seat

    COLTS NECK – Michelle Tan has rejoined the Colts Neck K-8 School District Board of Education. Tan previously served on the board from 2010-13. She did not seek re-election in 2013. In January, a seat on the board opened when Kimberly Eydelman resigned from the panel. District administrators invited interested residents to apply to fill…

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