-

Photo
A Marlboro High School ball carrier gets smacked by a Colts Neck High School defender during a scrimmage Sept. 2 in Marlboro. Both teams will open the 2010 football season this week. For more, see Sports and Photo Galleries at www.gmnews.com. JEFF GRANIT staff
-

Friendship Circle seeking volunteers to help youths
The Friendship Circle is inviting any teenager from eighth grade and up to its sensitivity training for new volunteers and a refresher course for previous volunteers. The training will be held on Sept. 14 from 7-8:45 p.m. The teens will learn about sensitivity to the needs of children who have special needs. The training will…
-

Family displaced by fire at Freehold’s Rug Mill Towers
By Clare Marie Celano FREEHOLD — One family was displaced from its second floor apartment following a fire at the Rug Mill Towers on Jackson Street, Freehold Borough, this morning, Sept. 14. Officials said the family’s apartment was uninhabitable following the fire. No further information as to where the family would be relocated was immediately…
-

How is Edison funding assistant business administrator’s salary?
Iwould like to respond to Mayor Antonia Ricigliano’s comments regarding the hiring of an assistant business administrator from the city of Trenton. Yes, mayor, there’s a lot to do in the township of Edison; however, when you came into office, you hired Bill Stephens as the “management specialist” and Anthony Russomanno as the “special assistant”…
-

Unemployment is biggest concern, not housing
Gov. Chris Christie and the New Jersey state Legislature have made the responsible decision to cut spending and stop listening to special interest groups that previous administrations bowed to. Unemployment is the state’s most pressing concern, not affordable housing. In an ideal world we would all be living in our dream homes, working in dream…
-

Call her anything but don’t call her ma’am
Odds and ends as I pack for the Labor Day weekend. Should we go with flipflops and board shorts, or the rubber Wellies, raincoat and water wings? It’s unfortunate that all the rain expected as I write this will come too late to save my grass and all my expensive decorative plants, which burned up…
-

New faces set to carry Bishop Ahr football
BY SHAWN LAYTON Correspondent The Bishop Ahr High School football team has owned the Greater Middlesex Conference Blue Division the past two seasons. The two-time defending champions have not lost a division game in two seasons, amassing a winning streak that currently stands at eight games. After opening the season Sept. 10 at Neptune (6…
-

Edison police warn residents of possible scam
EDISON — Police want residents to be on alert after a possible scam last week at the residence of an elderly woman. The 99-year-old resident told police that she received a knock at the door of her Bernard Avenue residence at 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 26, police said. She answered the door, and an unknown…
-

Dilapidated house at Edison park demolished as part of cleanup
EDISON — A collaborative effort by a nonprofit group and government agencies has resulted in the demolition of a vacant house near the Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park. The Edison Memorial Tower Corp. (EMTC) worked with the township of Edison and the state Department of Environmental Protection to have the house at 70 Monmouth…
View our current articles
Stay connected to your community
