• Navy must kill plan for civilian housing

    In the News • MARK ROSMAN Ithink I am known as a person who tries to see all sides of a story. After almost three decades as a professional journalist, I can state with certainty that there are at least two sides to every story, and usually more than that. But I do not think…

  • Gingerbread man

    Steve Powers-Hill, of Brookdale Community College’s Culinary Education Center, demonstrates how to create a gingerbread holiday ornament at the Middletown Public Library Nov. 13.

  • Preventing another Operation Bid Rig

    Guest Column • Arthur Z. Kamin Now that the election is over, it is time for the five-member Board of Freeholders to come together and adopt a strong ethics structure to give the county the watchdog agency it needs to help ensure honest government. The two Republican freeholders have been battling efforts by the three…

  • Visions of sugarplums

    Youngsters watch as Georgette Thomas, of Brookdale Community College’s Culinary Education Center, demonstrates how to make a gingerbread ornament at the Middletown Public Library on Nov. 13.

  • New Pt. Monmouth School playground a five-year dream

    Community effort to raise funds involved PTA, Elks, Scouts BY TOM SHORTELL Staff Writer Members of the Port Monmouth community ushered in a new playground with a ribboncutting ceremony at Port Monmouth Elementary School on Nov. 16. Students play on the new playground at Port Monmouth Elementary School Nov. 16. Local groups like the Girl…

  • To cook a turkey — first find the darned giblets

    Coda • GREG BEAN In our family, there are lots of stories we like to tell around the Thanksgiving table. Most of them are funny — to us — and most of them involve disasters, some going back generations. There’s the story about my grandmother’s sister, Gladys, who had her eye on a skinny young…

  • New Egypt resident crowned Jr. Miss N.J.

    PLUMSTED — New Egypt Middle School seventh-grader Ciara Nicole Phares, 13, was crowned Jr. Miss New Jersey USA 2009-10 at the East Coast USA New Jersey Open State Pageant held Oct. 18 at the Hilton in East Brunswick. The pageant is open to girls and women of all ages. Contestants walked the stage in evening…

  • U.S. Census Bureau opens office in Freehold Township

    BY ALAN DRUCKER Correspondent FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — With Census Day, April 1, 2010, less than five months away, preparation is under way to ensure that every person residing in the United States is counted. On Nov. 13, census officials and community leaders celebrated the opening of a new office in the Monmouth Executive Center at…

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