• Local students win award for going green

    Four eighth-graders from Howell Middle School North received a Benefit to the Community criteria award in this year’s national eCYBERMISSION competition. The “Going Green Team” team, comprised of students Jazmine Lacson, Angela Arguson, Kelli Mosca and Erika Lau and led by Team Advisor Susan Wylie, will each receive a $2,000 U.S. EE Savings Bond and…

  • Local music students win ABRSM awards

    Charles Tang, 9, and Kaylee Wong, both students at Monmouth Academy of Musical Arts, were each presented with two awards from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) for their outstanding marks on the associations exams. Charles and Kaylee each received plaques for attaining the “Highest Mark Awarded to Any Student in…

  • Handwriting specialist will speak at society’s meeting

    Michael Krakowski, a forensic document examiner and handwriting identification specialist, will be the featured speaker at the Battleground Historical Society’s meeting to be held at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 22 at the historic Village Inn, 2 Water St., Englishtown. Krakowski will show how comparisons of Bruno Richard Hauptmann’s unique penmanship helped to convict him of the…

  • ‘Keeping a Garden Journal’ talk Jan. 23

    The Monmouth County Park System will offer “Keeping a Garden Journal” 10-11:30 a.m. Jan. 23 at Deep Cut Gardens, Red Hill Road, Middletown. Garden columnist Valerie Sudol will look at journaling, a good way to keep track of bloom times, landscape designs and the occasional misstep. The cost is $12 per person, and registration is…

  • Business Briefs

    The Greater Monmouth Chamber of Commerce Young Professionals Group will host Caring With Karaoke, a charity event to benefit the Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore, at 7 p.m. Feb. 10 at Cue & Brew Billiards and Sports Bar, 1212 Route 34, Matawan. Admission is $10 and includes food, karaoke, billiards, contests (including a Girl…

  • January’s lament: Weight loss and taxes

    Are We There Yet? • LORI CLINCH This may be enough to make you shake your head with a proverbial tsk tsk. But not only have I NOT adorned the abode with Valentine’s hearts, but I’ll be danged if all of the Christmas décor isn’t hanging around in every nook and cranny. I have garland…

  • Old love vs. new: Is one really better than the other?

    Girl Talk • CLARE MARIE CELANO I’m a people watcher. I think many writers are. We observe gestures, facial expressions, body language, and many times create stories around what we see. I created one such story around an older couple I see from my apartment window. He has gray hair. So does she. He’s tall…

  • Tuition caps hide more than they help

    Guest Column • Paul Shelly As it will still be a while until the next state budget is put before the Legislature, it is a good time to single out an artful Trenton creation that serves primarily a political aim: the tuition cap. Over the past decade or so, ironically coinciding with a period of…

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