• Library plans special event

    HOWELL — The Howell library will host a free program on American Indian culture on Nov. 6 at 2 p.m. Claire T. Garland, director of the Sand Hill Indian Historical Association, will present the history of the Sand Hill American Indian family that inhabited the northern shores of Monmouth County. Garland will share vintage photos…

  • Adopt-a-Family effort seeks community’s assistance

    BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent JACKSON — The Adopt-a-Family program at the Jackson Women of Today (JWOT) food pantry is seeking individuals, businesses, civic and religious groups to help make the Christmas and Hanukkah holidays joyous for needy families and individuals who are currently registered at the food pantry. “We have more than 100 families and…

  • Spooktacular

    Sisters Desi (l) and Karmella Allen, of New Egypt, are all dressed up and waiting for the costume contest to begin at the Halloween Spooktacular in downtown New Egypt on Oct. 31. The annual community event featured a variety of activities to celebrate the day. SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • Legal wrangling over athletic center ends

    Developer expects to move forward with sports facility in Howell BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Astate Superior Court judge has cleared the way for the eventual construction of the Monmouth Athletic Center, five years after the principals purchased the site on Fairfield Road in Howell. “We’ve been through the gauntlet with this case to…

  • Meals lift seniors’ spirits

    Volunteers are sought to prepare home-cooked dinners for people in need BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent Senior citizens who are alone, homebound, or without family or family members nearby often do not look forward to the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday as they once did. For more than 12 years, the combined efforts of the Howell Chamber of…

  • Bee Dunking

    Brian Rossi, 3, of Hamilton, stretches to dunk a basketball while his grandmother Susan Stoop looks on at one of the activities that was set up for youngsters to enjoy at the Halloween Spooktacular in downtown New Egypt on Oct. 31. SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • Teens have a place to turn to for help

    GUEST COLUMN ANNA DIAZ-WHITE Like everything else in the new century, bullying has been affected by the Internet. No longer content with shaking down classmates for lunch money or stuffing freshmen into lockers, bullies now lurk behind computer screens and cell phones. Cyber bullying — the willful and repeated harm inflicted through the use of…

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    • Local author and former journalist Bruce DeSilva will host a reading and book signing for his debut crime novel, “Rogue Island,” at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4 at Barnes & Noble, Route 9, Freehold Township.

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