• It’s high time a medical marijuana bill is passed

    Coda • GREG BEAN Most families in this country have lost a loved one to cancer, and while each experience is different, most share some characteristics, especially if the loved one undergoes chemotherapy. In my family, my mother and father both died of lung cancer. My mother smoked for almost 50 years, but gave it…

  • Dec. 13 all-ages show at Stone Pony to benefit Samaritan Center

    Greater Media wants to fuel the holiday spirit by providing good music and a way to help the hungry at Greater Media’s Good Samaritan Holiday Bash to be held Dec. 13 at the Stone Pony, 913 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park. Proceeds and nonperishable food donations will benefit the Samaritan Center, a food pantry headquartered in…

  • NOTESAround Town

    Volunteers with Middletown High School South’s Eagles Helping the Community service club collected 45 turkeys during their Thanksgiving Day food drive The schoolwide drive, which benefits Middletown Helps Its Own, yielded more than 1,000 items of food in addition to the turkeys. Each year club members conduct Thanksgiving and Christmas food drives and sponsor a…

  • ‘Winter Delights’

    An exhibit of more than 300 paintings by the Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast is at the Middletown Arts Center. Spring Lake Fog” by Lisa Grob “Winter Delights — Plein Air and Beyond,” a special exhibition of paintings exploring our communities, includes studio works as well as plein air pieces and will be…

  • Borough cell tower proposed for Main St.

    Tower expected to provide more than $100K in revenue BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer MATAWAN — A resolution appointing a consultant for a proposed cellular tower was approved at the Dec. 1 Borough Council meeting. Red Bank-based FSD Enterprises is the consulting firm that will advise the borough about cell tower installation. In November the…

  • Hazlet committee grudgingly makes way for housing units

    Township passes bond for ambulance, trucks BY TOM SHORTELL Staff Writer HAZLET — The Township Committee unanimously, but unwillingly, introduced an amendment to the zoning map, a change forced by a lawsuit over the township’s affordable housing plan. The ordinance will make a 4-acre plot of land on Poole Avenue a Builders Remedy Zone. A…

  • School administrator turns sci-fi author

    ‘A World Without Divide’ becomes reality after 20 years BY TOM SHORTELL Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — It’s been a year since William Doering had his first novel published, but there are aspects of being an author he hasn’t gotten used to. “It’s still strange to hold my own book,” he said as he leafed through…

  • IM chat leads to arrest

    Law enforcement officials arrested a Marlboro man after he allegedly tried to arrange a sexual tryst with a person he thought was a 14-year-old. The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office and the Keyport Police Department arrested Brian G. Schneider, 22, of Marlboro, Nov. 24 as part of a joint investigation. Police said Schneider, thinking he was…

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