• Ocean Grove to host postcard show & sale

    The Historical Society of Ocean Grove will host its eighth annual Ocean Grove and Greater New Jersey Antique Postcards, Books, Advertising and Paper Collectibles Show and Sale 9 a.m. to 4 p.m April 10. The show will be held at the Young Peoples (Youth) Temple, Pilgrim Pathway and McClintock Street in Ocean Grove. Admission is…

  • Easter drama to be presented in Marlboro

    Monmouth Worship Center will present its Easter Drama presentation “It Is Finished – He Died So We Can Live” March 27 and 28 at 7:30 p.m. The performance will feature music and special effects plus two narrators, Cara Rounds of Freehold and Ivar Robinson of Manalapan. The show is directed by Troy Davis of Jackson.…

  • Business Briefs

    Brad Goldoor, regional sales director for CareerBuilder, will present “How to Use Social Networking Sites to Recruit,” from 8-10:30 a.m. April 8 at the monthly meeting of the Jersey Shore Association for Human Resources. Goldoor will focus on such topics as social media landscape and users; analyses of Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Twitter; recruiting uses…

  • Restaurant reopens after fire

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — The Panda House restaurant is back in business after a three-week hiatus that was caused by a kitchen fire, according to owner Frank Qiu. The ethnic eatery in the South Freehold Shopping Center (ShopRite), Route 9 north, features Asian Fusion cuisine. Qiu said that after the…

  • Pay scale for corrections officers is unsustainable

    Guest Column • John D’Amico Monmouth County taxpayers are suffering from unemployment, under-employment, foreclosures, deferred retirement and diminished lifestyles, and they need help. We must change the old ways of doing things and provide smarter, more cost-effective government. One of the county departments that is hemorrhaging tax dollars is the county jail (MCCI). The sheriff…

  • It’s gonna be expensive, no matter how you define it

    Coda • GREG BEAN As former President William Jefferson Clinton famously explained during his 1998 grand jury testimony in the Monica Lewinski affair, “it depends on what the meaning of is is.” In other words, in politics, it all depends on your definition. We’ve got a little of that going on in New Jersey these…

  • Resident pleased official has been named to horse panel

    Iwas pleased to recently learn that Freehold Borough’s newest councilman, John F. Newman, was appointed to Monmouth County’s Save the Horse Committee. This committee is devoted to protecting the two Monmouth County racetracks (Freehold Raceway and Monmouth Park). Freehold Borough Mayor Michael Wilson also recently expressed how important Freehold Raceway is to Freehold Borough as…

  • Constituent is critical of Congressman Pallone’s mailing

    The franking privilege permits members of Congress to transmit mass mailings to each of their constituents … at taxpayer expense. Its purpose is to allow our representatives to provide their constituents with important congressional updates. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) unconscionably abused the intent of this privilege recently with his direct mailer, which was simply his…

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