• Board member: Facebook could help during next budget cycle

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer HOWELL — Board of Education member Timothy O’Brien is pushing for the Howell K-8 School District to get its own Facebook page up and running before next year’s budget vote. “We need to address the fact that we failed at 13 out of 15 budgets,” O’Brien said at a…

  • McMorrow, Santiago seek committee seat

    Two residents are running for a three-year term on the Township Committee in the Nov. 2 election. The candidates are Republican Barbara McMorrow and Democrat Raymond Santiago. McMorrow has served on the Township Committee since July 27. She was appointed to succeed Dorothy Avallone, who retired from the governing body. The two candidates were asked…

  • Monmouth horse contracts eastern equine encephalitis

    New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Douglas H. Fisher announced on Oct. 20 that a 2-year-old horse from Monmouth County was euthanized on Oct. 6 after contracting eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), a rare, but serious, mosquito borne illness in horses. “The equine industry plays an important role in this state’s economy and it is important to…

  • Muslim Consumer Conference to highlight contributions to economy

    Second annual marketing event set for Oct. 30 in New Brunswick BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer M uslim professionals, entrepreneurs, and media and marketing executives will meet to share their experiences during the second annual Muslim Consumer Conference on Oct. 30. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick, the…

  • Church sends joy and toys to youths around the world

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer COLTS NECK — The joy of bestowing a gift to a child in need is being spread through Operation Christmas Child and the efforts of the Colts Neck Community Church. Operation Christmas Child is a program run by Samaritan’s Purse, a worldwide outreach to people in need during a crisis,…

  • Four residents in race for 3 seats in Howell

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer HOWELL — One outcome of the race for the three available seats on the Howell Township Council is clear: two of the winners will be Republicans. Cochise Doucette is the lone Democrat on the Nov. 2 ballot. The two men who ran with Doucette in the June primary and…

  • Officials investigate house fire

    BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer MANALAPAN — A late evening fire on Oct. 18 that appeared to have destroyed the top floor of a residence on Sweetmans Lane, near Woodward Road, left the family that resides there without a habitable home and only the clothes on their backs. The cause of the fire in the…

  • Pair puts new twist on Hanukkah story

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer The Kvetch is coming to Oyville and is spreading his disdain over the happy holiday of Hanukkah. But the Oyvillites know a way to dispel the gloom. Susan Isakoff Berlin and her husband, Bill Berlin, are the authors of a new children’s book “The Kvetch Who Stole Hanukkah.” DAVE BENJAMIN…

  • Photo

    This photograph shows the aftermath of a fire that destroyed the second floor of a home on Sweetmans Lane, Manalapan, on the evening of Oct. 18. No injuries were reported as a result of the fire. Officials are investigating the cause of the fire. See story, page 43. AMY ROSEN

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