• Honoring a local hero

    Middletown native and Christian Brothers Academy graduate U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Nicholas Abbate receives a standing ovation from those attending the Township Committee’s July 6 meeting. Mayor Gerard Scharfenberger and the committee recognized Abbate’s service to his country with a proclamation, which Scharfenberger said causes all other proclamations to pale in comparison “for the simple…

  • Practitioners trained in needs of returning vets

    BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer Henry Acosta (l-r), from the Governor’s Council on Mental Health, stands with Robin Mama, dean of the School of Social Work at Monmouth University, and Robert Lowry, Carolyn Bradley, and Ellen Foley, members of the school’s Coming Home Project, after they were presented with the N.J. Governor’s Council Ambassador Award…

  • 7th annual Ryan’s Run held in Middletown

    Runners take their positions at the start of the seventh annual Ryan’s Run on June 26. MIDDLETOWN — Ryan’s Run was held on Saturday, June 26, on the grounds of Mountain Hill School, where 520 runners finished the seventh annual 5K event and 150 runners ran in the 1-mile run. Organized by the Ryan Andrew…

  • Hunting for fossils

    Top to bottom: Jerry Nasta and his son John, 5, from Middletown, hunt for fossils in Middletown’s Poricy Park on July 11. Kristi Baar from Garnet Valley, Pa., and her 19-monthold daughter Sloane hunt for fossils in a streambed. A Poricy Park guide helps Mark Hines, 10, of Colts Neck, identify an Exogyra fossil fragment…

  • Community Garden feeds the hungry

    Tours of Lunch Break and garden set for Saturday MIDDLETOWN — Westminster Presbyterian Church’s PAR Garden (Plant-A-Row for the Hungry) is fulfilling its mission by producing a bountiful harvest that is feeding the hungry. The goal of the community garden, which is divided into individual plots and planted with vegetables, is to produce a minimum…

  • Mid’twn weighs changes in brush, leaf collection

    Cutback would allow DPW to perform roadwork BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — In the wake of several damaging storms resulting in an unusually large volume of brush, Township Engineer Ted Maloney asked the Township Committee at the July 6 meeting to consider forgoing a fall brush collection to free up public works employees…

  • Holmdel Planning Board to re-evaluate Lucent site

    BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer An aerial view of the Lucent property. HOLMDEL — The Township Committee has authorized the Holmdel Planning Board to examine whether the 472-acre Alcatel Lucent property on Crawfords Corner Road should receive a redevelopment designation. The committee authorized the Planning Board to conduct a preliminary investigation that will determine if…

  • Playthings of the past at N.J. Vietnam Era Museum

    Toys from 1960s-70s on display through Aug. 21 at Holmdel educational center BY PATRICIA YOCZIS & ADELE YOUNG If you remember the thrill of eating your first Easy-Bake cake or the pungent odor of a freshly fired Clockwise from top right: Colorful Troll dolls are part of a toy exhibit looking back to the ’60s…

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