• for the record

    “Living Voices: A Tribute to Monmouth County’s Jewish World War II Veterans” is on exhibit at the Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County, Freehold Township, now through this fall. Admission for the exhibit is $3 for museum members, $5 for nonmembers and free to all service veterans. An item in last week’s Just Go page…

  • Theater is doing a true service showing sensory friendly films

    Sensory-friendly films is a monthly program run by AMC Theatres and the Autism Society of America. Each month a movie will be shown with the lights turned up and the sound turned down for families affected by autism. After returning from the Freehold AMC Metroplex’s first sensory friendly film with my 9-year-old autistic son, I…

  • Teachers have become state’s scapegoats

    Iwear many hats in Monroe Township, Middlesex County: mother, grandmother, wife, teacher and union member, to name a few. To my consternation, scapegoat must be added to this list. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a scapegoat as “one that bears the blame for others” or “one that is the object of irrational hostility.” I wear the…

  • This is a people problem, and not a dog problem

    CODA GREG BEAN The City Council in Garfield has backed off its misguided attempt to impose punitive restrictions on anyone who owns a pit bull. But that does not solve the problems for this misunderstood, and sometimes feared, breed of dogs in our state. The controversy started earlier this spring, when the council introduced an…

  • Committee advances health compensation act

    U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ), whose congressional district includes part of Monmouth County, lauded the passage of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act through the House Energy and Commerce Committee during a markup on May 25. The final vote on passage through the committee of 33-12 will send the bill to the…

  • Rail trail celebration scheduled for June 5

    REGIONAL INTEREST With just more than 3 miles completed, Ocean County’s Barnegat Branch Trail is already providing residents and visitors with a unique view of the natural side of Ocean County, according to a press release. The trail, which winds through wooded areas and natural lands starting in Barnegat Township and traveling through Waretown so…

  • Grant provides books to St. Aloysius library

    JACKSON — The library at St. Aloysius School, Bennetts Mills Road, has been selected to receive a grant of books and materials. Selected as one of 4,000 libraries across the country to receive the grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Library Association (ALA), the library at St. Aloysius will…

  • Fundraiser a success for SEAC

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON — When it comes to hosting a charity fundraiser to benefit special education students, the “Jackson Soccer Club Scores” knows how to do it. Soccer players who wanted to show off their skills and fans who wanted to watch their coaches “Battle for the Ball” supported area special education…

  • Group installs new officers

    JACKSON — The Jackson Women of Today have reorganized for the new year. “We have celebrated a successful year and now we are installing new officers,” President Suzanne Rogalsky said at the organization’s installation banquet held on April 27 at the Lighthouse restaurant, Hope Chapel Road. Installed as new 2010-11 board officers were Internal Vice…

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