• LAWRENCE: Police blotter from the Feb. 4 edition

    A shoplifter took 51 T-shirts, valued at a combined $1,759.50, from the Ann Taylor Loft store at the Quaker Bridge Mall between 11:30 a.m. and 8 p.m. Jan. 28, police said. The unknown shoplifter removed the T-shirts from a display rack at the rear of the store.     A thief broke into a vending machine…

  • BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP: Planner position awaits approval

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — The Township Committee has taken the first step toward formally recognizing its township planner position.    At its Monday meeting, the committee introduced an ordinance that would establish the office of the planner and amend the township code to recognize the work now being done by Community Development…

  • Olde York Country Club Raises $22,500 for Ryan’s Quest

    Olde York Country Club Raises $22,500 for Ryan’s Quest

    By Suzy Abrams Jones News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 1, 2010 CONTACT: Suzy A. Jones, SBA Public Relations (203) 618-1864 office / (407) 256-6200 mobile / [email protected]   Olde York Ladies Raise $22,500 For Ryan’s Quest   CHESTERFIELD, N.J.— Olde York Country Club in Chesterfield, N.J., announces that its Ladies Golf Association raised a whopping $22,500…

  • Datebook

    • Kids Day, hosted for the fourth year by the Knights of Columbus, Freehold Council, will be held at the council hall, 70 E. Main St., Freehold, from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Feb. 13. Home Depot instructors will be conducting hands-on projects and activities will children who attend. In addition, a magic show will…

  • Actors needed for ‘O. Henry’s New York’

    The Bimah Players, a new community theater sponsored by the Monroe Township Jewish Center, seeks actors and production people for an original play, “O. Henry’s New York.” Auditions will be held from 7:30-9 p.m. March 3-4 and from 3-5 p.m. March 7 at the Monroe Township Jewish Center, 11 Cornell Ave., Monroe. The cast requires…

  • Business Briefs

    Tastefully Simple consultant Michele Fee of Howell attended the company’s leadership conference in Orlando, Fla., in January. The leadership conference is an event exclusively for those who have recruited and mentored new consultants. It features awards, events and training seminars as well as entertainment. Tastefully Simple is a taste-testing party company featuring “easy to prepare”…

  • Voters were in no mood to OK school projects

    In the News • MARK ROSMAN The phrase “the voters have spoken” certainly rang loud in New Jersey on Jan. 26. On that date school districts around the state, including two school districts served by Greater Media Newspapers, put questions before the public and saw them soundly rejected. I am quite certain that the nation’s…

  • For the Record

    A sentence in the article “Senator’s Bill Proposes Putting End to COAH” that was published in the News Transcript on Jan. 27 should have stated that the bill (S-1) proposed by Sen. Raymond Lesniak would also do away with affordable housing obligations that have gone unmet for decades in some towns. The sentence as published…

  • Preserving farm for open space would be a winner

    Coda • GREG BEAN When we bought our old house in East Brunswick in the fall of 1997, one of the biggest selling points was the fact that we could look out our living room window to the Foerter Farm across the road. The farm — a 30-acre parcel between Riva Avenue and Farrington Lake…

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