• Ah, mid-summer

    GREEN SCENE GOTTI KELLEY “When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.” Unknown Possibly your weeds have called a temporary truce, the woodchucks have found greener pastures,…

  • Professional journalists not ready to pack it in

    IN THE NEWS MARK ROSMAN I am not a person who adapts to change easily, but over the past few years I have gotten used to reading daily newspapers online. While I prefer holding a newspaper in my hand, I must say that being able to read several newspapers a day online is very convenient.…

  • NOTES AROUND TOWN

    Join Monmouth Medical Center pharmacistMonicaHariparsad, PharmD., 1 p.m. July 28 at SCAN Learning Center in the Monmouth Mall, Eatontown, for a program focusing on dosing, side effects, possible drug interactions and how to medicate with overthe counter drugs safely. Acetaminophen (Tylenol) and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as Advil, Aleve and Aspirin, will be addressed. Program…

  • ‘Eye+Ear: Recent Concert Poster Design’

    FrameWorks Gallery in Red Bank is hosting an exhibit that showcases the work of artists and design studios that have created a unique and highly individual style based on the idea of the music concert poster as art. “Gator” “Eye+Ear: Recent Concert Poster Design” will run through Aug. 14 at FrameWorks, located at 160 Monmouth…

  • Stanley Dancer Memorial winners are contenders

    For $1.5 million Hambletonian It was only fitting that all three divisions of the Stanley Dancer Memorial went to sons of New Jersey stallions. Allentown’s Cara DiGiuseppe, with assistance from harness driver John Duer, wins her Harness Racing Youth League (HRYL) race with Royal Attire at Gaitway Farm in Manalapan on July 16. The Harness…

  • All students expected to benefit from new gifted and talented program

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer ALLENTOWN — The retirement of one teacher has freed up funding to expand the gifted and talented program in the Upper Freehold Regional School District. To devise the new program, a committee of administrators, teachers and other school community members reviewed various definitions of giftedness. The state of New Jersey…

  • Millstone finds interim superintendent of schools

    Former assistant principal promoted to middle school principal position BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent MILLSTONE — The Board of Education has appointed both a new middle school principal and an interim superintendent, although the latter position was voted on after a late executive session when the public had gone home. During the July 12 Board of…

  • John William Grau Sr., D.V.M.

    Dr. Grau, 81, of Old Bridge, died June 7, 2010, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement in 1997, he practiced small-animal medicine for many years at Aspen Veterinary Clinic, Manalapan. Surviving are his wife, Gloria Erceg Grau; a son, John William Grau Jr., and his wife, Susie, of Millstone;…

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