• Gallene, O’Neill win historic swim titles

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer The fastest high school swimmer in New Jersey attends Freehold High School in Freehold Borough. That is not a misprint. Joe Gallene and Emily O’Neill recently won the first state swimming championships by student-athletes at Freehold High School, Freehold Borough. Gallene won the 50-yard freestyle and O’Neill won the 100-yard…

  • Cougars win CJ title, fall in Group semis

    Loss marks end of an era for group of senior girls who led Colts Neck BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer The sobering bus ride home from Manahawkin in Ocean County on March 10 was in stark contrast to one the Colts Neck High School girls basketball team had taken just two nights before. Then, the…

  • Police report possible rabid fox loose in Manalapan

    Two attacks and close call reported; residents alerted via reverse 911 Amy Rosen MANALAPAN — Police are searching for what is believed to be a rabid fox that terrorized a family and bit a woman and a dog in the vicinity of Symmes Drive in Manalapan. According to a press release from Manalapan police, at…

  • Pirates aplenty at children’s book fair

    Walk the plank, dig for buried treasure and borrow a book at Monmouth County Library System’s 2010 Children’s Book Fair slated to be held 1-4 p.m. March 20 at the Monmouth County Library Headquarters, 125 Symmes Drive, Manalapan. For this year’s theme, “Pirates! Hooked on Books,” a pair of swashbuckling buccaneers from Period Productions will…

  • Manalapan-Englishtown to lay off elementary school Spanish teachers

    Classroom teachers will use computer program for Spanish instruction By Mark Rosman ENGLISHTOWN — Pupils in the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District’s elementary schools will learn Spanish from a computer next year instead of being instructed by a foreign language professional. At a meeting on March 16 in Englishtown, the Board of Education voted to lay…

  • Exhibit at MCC celebrates Indian art

    Middlesex County College, in collaboration with the Indo American Arts Council, is presenting the art exhibit “Site of Departure, Source of Arrival.” The exhibit will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays through March 25 in the Studio Theater Gallery at the college, Woodbridge Avenue, Edison. The artists of the Diaspora are originally from…

  • Middlesex County College open house March 21

    Middlesex County College, Woodbridge Avenue, Edison, will hold an open house for prospective students and their families 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 21 in the College Center. High school students who are considering continuing their education at Middlesex, as well as anyone who is thinking about taking a course at the college, are invited…

  • Free re-employment series March 22-May 10

    The Metuchen Area Chamber of Commerce is offering a free re-employment series on Mondays from 7 to 9 p.m., starting March 22 and ending May 10, at First Presbyterian Church, 270 Woodbridge Ave., Metuchen, in the Education Building in Room 109. The series will provide job seekers with step-by-step professional job search advice — from…

  • ‘Tintypes’ at Edison Valley Playhouse

    The Edison Valley Playhouse, 2196 Oak Tree Road, Edison, is presenting “Tintypes” on Friday and Saturday nights through March 27 at 8 p.m. A Sunday matinee will be held at 3 p.m. March 21. This is a musical that uses popular songs of pre-World War I America to bring the humor, inspiration and passion of…

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