• Allentown Redbirds make history

    BY JANE MEGGTITT Staff Writer Upper Freehold honored members of the Allentown Redbirds Junior Midgets team Dec. 17 for winning the Garden State Championship and becoming the town’s first-ever Pop Warner Division 3 team to do so. UPPER FREEHOLD — The young men who made history received accolades from the township last week. The Allentown…

  • Ever want to slap a landlord? Apparently we do.

    Bloopers • ADELE YOUNG At this time every year, we like to look back at the typographical and grammatical errors that almost made it, and some that actually did make it, into a few of Greater Media Newspapers’ publications during the year. Damning with faint praise One of our Word on the Street respondentswrote about…

  • YEAR IN REVIEW: Late 2009 a busy time for police, poll workers

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    Editor’s note: This is the third and final part of a series examining the major local news stories of the past year. September    Two bodies were found in Mansfield over the course of the month, solving several missing persons cases.    Early in the month, a motorist found the body of…

  • CHESTERFIELD CHATTER: From the Dec. 31 edition

    Nancy Mrzljak Tel: 298-0567     Fax: 298-3936     [email protected]    The Union Fire Company 1 Pancake Breakfast will be held 7 – 11 a.m., Sunday, Jan. 3, at the Crosswicks Firehouse. Everyone is invited, bring your friends and family and enjoy a few flapjacks and some breakfast sausage. All you can eat pancakes and sausage, orange…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Boys State applicants sought

    By Davy James, Staff Writer    With an eye on developing leaders of the future, American Legion Post 401 is accepting applications for this summer’s Jersey Boys State.    The program, which has been in existence since the late 1930s, is organized for citizenship training purposes and to teach about the importance of government and civic duty.…

  • HEALTH FOCUS: Economic stresses affect teens, too

    By Elizabeth M. Casparian, Ph.D. Special to The Packet    An economic crisis such as our current recession can wreak havoc on overall health and family stability. Research shows that large scale economic distress including job and health insurance loss, threatened home foreclosure and changes in lifestyle can manifest itself in increased substance use and…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Year in Review

    Merger meetings, arrivals & departures were 2009 highlights By Vic Monaco, Managing Editor and Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer    Consolidation took center stage in 2009 for East Windsor and Hightstown. But private meetings rather than public decisions were the result with timelines stretched far beyond their expectations.    Efforts to recall a mayor and revalue taxes in…

  • LAWRENCE: Group lauds doctor for volunteer work

    LAWRENCE: Group lauds doctor for volunteer work

    Phil McAuliffe Dr. Jerry Weisberg was honored for his efforts by the Volunteers in Medicine of Cape May County when he was named Outstanding Volunteer Physician for 2009. Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe.

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