• Constant vigilance, unconditional love

    Walsh family fights to give autistic son as normal a life as possible BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Fifteen-year-old Sean Walsh paces in a robotic loop around the lower level of his family’s Camelot Drive, Howell, home. He circles the table in the family’s great room, pauses by his sister Shannon, then punches her…

  • Daughter of baseball great visits local school

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Before the civil rights movement, before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., before Rosa Parks, there was Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Sharon Robinson (above), the daughter of Hall of Fame baseball player Jackie Robinson, introduces Myles Hutcherson to his schoolmates at the West Freehold School in Freehold Township.…

  • Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Festival at Monmouth Park June 5-6

    OCEANPORT — More than three dozen jazz and blues artists and their bands will perform Saturday and Sunday, June 5 and 6, at the Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Festival at Monmouth Park racetrack in Oceanport. Music legends John Pizzarelli and Smokin’ Joe Kubek featuring Bnois King will headline the two-day event as 19 different…

  • Food drive to be held as part of fair

    While it’s usually fun and games at the Monmouth County Fair, this year residents are invited to join the Monmouth County Park System and the Monmouth County 4-H Association in helping local families in need by contributing to a Food and Fund Drive to benefit the FoodBank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties. B oxed and…

  • Performers step up to help facility for cancer patients

    BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer Mothers are women who have busy lives with little or no down time. They are not supposed to get sick, there is no time for that. When a lifethreatening disease like cancer strikes a mother, she is forced to take a step back and focus on getting better, but the…

  • Social skills are predictors of success for children with autism

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON — Learning social skills is the master key to success for children with autism spectrum disorder, according to the clinical director of Autism New Jersey. “Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is truly a public health concern and a complex issue,” said Dr. Suzanne Buchanan, speaking at the Jackson Branch of…

  • ‘Call Before You Dig’ to prevent underground damage

    Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) wishes to remind residents to dial 811 to “Call Before You Dig.” Customers, contractors and excavators must call before digging to avoid hitting underground gas and electric lines. The number 811 has been designated as the national dialing code to have underground lines located and marked. Important information…

  • Central Jersey choir to sing Jewish music from around the world

    Concert will be June 10 at Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple in New Brunswick BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK — More than 50 amateur singers from Monmouth, Middlesex, Mercer and Somerset counties will come together June 10 to sing Jewish music from around the world. The Makhelat HaMercaz Jewish Choir of Central New Jersey…

  • State Fair to open June 17 at Meadowlands Fairgrounds

    150-plus rides, Piccadilly Circus, aerial stunts and sea lion show among featured attractions State Fair Meadowlands will return, bigger and better than ever, to East Rutherford this summer, with 19 days full of action-packed fun for all ages. A family enjoys one of summer’s favorite treats at last year’s State Fair. New Jersey’s largest, annual…

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