• Legislature must enact ‘tool kit’ reforms

    GUEST COLUMN DECLAN O’SCANLON In July, in an all too rare show of bipartisan cooperation in Trenton, the Legislature voted with a significant majority to pass S-29, imposing a limit of 2 percent on annual tax levy increases for municipalities and school districts in a move to protect New Jersey taxpayers from a tax burden…

  • business briefs •••

    LeTip of Marlboro has moved its weekly networking meeting to IHOP, Route 9 and Texas Road, Marlboro, due to a fire at the Manalapan Diner. Until further notice, the LeTip of Marlboro business networking meetings will be held every Wednesday at 7 a.m. at IHOP. Business owners in the area are welcome to attend. LeTip…

  • datebook •••

    • A gospel concert sponsored by the I Beseech Thee Community Development Corporation will be held at 5 p.m. Nov. 7 at the New Beginnings Agape Christian Center, 133 Throckmorton St., Freehold. The concert will benefit the Paul M. McGuire Family Health Center, Freehold, and other programs of IBTCDC. Tickets are $15 for adults ($17…

  • Cookbooks provide recipe for fundraising

    The Allaire Village Auxiliary, an organization that supports the Historic Village at Allaire State Park, Wall Township, has collected the best recipes from group members and compiled them into a keepsake cookbook to help raise funds to support programs and special events at the Historic Village. Cookbooks will be available at the annual Stocking Stuffer…

  • Program will address cyberbullying/sexting

    “Teen Challenges,” a free program on cyberbullying and sexting, will be held Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. at the Monmouth County Library Headquarters, 125 Symmes Drive, Manalapan. The free program will discuss disturbing issues concerning parents and teens. Some teens are driven to suicide by cyberbullying. Teens — and even some younger children — are…

  • Manalapan cell tower hearing cancelled

    By Mark Rosman MANALAPAN — A scheduled hearing on T-Mobile Northeast LLC’s application to construct a wireless communications tower at the Yorktowne shopping center in Manalapan has been cancelled. The T-Mobile application was listed on the agenda for the Nov. 4 Manalapan Zoning Board of Adjustment meeting, but the meeting was cancelled. No information was…

  • Metuchen girls tennis has a bright future

    BY SHAWN LAYTON Correspondent The team may have finished the season a match under .500 at 7-8, but the 2010 season was hardly a losing one for the Metuchen High School girls tennis team.With six of its top seven players consisting of freshmen and sophomores for the majority of the season, the Bulldogs have plenty…

  • GMC champs

    St. Joseph High School goalie Ryan Callinan (center) and his teammates celebrate their Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament championship on Oct. 30 at Woodbridge High School. St. Joe’s defeated East Brunswick, 3-2, in the final. ERIC SUCAR staff

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