• Ruth Eileen (Foulks) Ferrante

    Mrs. Ferrante, 91, a lifelong resident of Keyport, died Sept. 9, 2010, at home. She was a homemaker and a member of the Community Church of Keyport (formerly the Reformed Church of Keyport). Mrs. Ferrante was predeceased by her brothers and sisters, William, John, Lucille, Dorothy, Francis, Florence and Constance. She is survived by her…

  • Juan Manuel Sola

    Mr. Sola, 84, of Hazlet, died Sept. 6, 2010, at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. He was born in Matanza, Cuba. Mr. Sola is survived by his wife, Aurora Malave Sola; his children, Claudia Haberstroh and her husband, Richard, of Holmdel, Joan Boudle and her husband, Garvin, of South Windsor, Conn., and Manuel Sola Jr. and…

  • Resident says Middletown Republicans are doing excellent job

    The Middletown Republican majority has done an excellent job curbing spending while maintaining one of the lowest tax rates in the region. Middletown is listed as one of the 100 best places to live in the United States. First, Mayor Gerard Scharfenberger and the majority Republican Township Committee have cut the government workforce by 40…

  • Homeowner grateful for teens’ work on a hot day

    On a June day in 95-degree heat and high humidity, a crew of three adults and four teens from the First Presbyterian Church of Matawan’s Mission Matawan visited my home to help me with minor repairs and yard work. Mission Matawan lends a helping hand to the elderly, disabled and people who lack the resources…

  • Middletown Twp. Committee is dysfunctional

    As Labor Day approaches, I watch with some irony as the Middletown Township Committee continues to routinely demonstrate, both in words and in deed, great insensitivity to the present economic circumstances impacting our local citizens and community as a whole. We all know friends and neighbors who are now unemployed or under-employed. Many of our…

  • ‘Racing at the Shore’

    For more than 25 seasons, Bill Denver, of Equi-Photo, has documented the scene at Monmouth Park racetrack in Oceanport as official photographer, capturing moments from the morning sun rising over the paddocks and sleek thoroughbred racers at ease, to the anticipation at the bugle’s blow, the exhilaration of the race, and the faces in the…

  • POW/MIA, Gold Star Mothers Recognition Day

    HOLMDEL — The New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Foundation will hold its annual POW/MIA Recognition and Gold Star Mothers Recognition Day ceremony on Friday at 11 a.m. at the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial in Holmdel. The third Friday of September is National POW/MIA Recognition Day. Ceremonies are held throughout the country in honor of…

  • Teens to register bone-marrow donors

    In preparation for their upcoming bar mitzvahs and to join in the fight against leukemia and other blood cancers, Old Bridge teens Sam Allen and Brandon Sims will team up with the DKMS bone-marrow donor center to conduct a bone-marrow-donor registration drive 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Sept. 19 at Temple Shalom, 5 Ayrmont Lane, Aberdeen. For…

  • in the service

    Air National Guard Airman Jerome Billups Jr., son of Vera Cummings of the Cliffwood section of Aberdeen, graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio. The airman completed an intensive, eightweek program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and…

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