• Thanks to all who made Her Night Out a success at Avanti Day Resort

    Avanti Day Resort’s “Her Night Out” campaign on Oct. 19 was a huge success. We were able to raise $2,350, which was donated to CancerCare, the National Breast Cancer Foundation, and to our featured guest, Tina Tinervia. Tina and her 6-year-old daughter, Ashlee, enjoyed their girls’ night out, while bringing attention to Tina’s fight against…

  • Alliance wants everyone to be counted in 2010

    There is a debate under way in some segments of the Latino community about whether to participate or boycott the 2010 Census. There are those who believe that undocumented immigrants – numbering somewhere in the vicinity of 10 to 15 million nationwide — should refuse to participate in the count because of the failure by…

  • Two different shoes? It’s high fashion

    Are We There Yet? • LORI CLINCH It is one thing for a man to dress and leave the house. For a woman, it is quite another. Men like to grab a shirt and britches, pull them on, and then pat themselves on the back for a job well done. There’s no consideration for latest…

  • Lost in cyberspace

    Around Town • AMY ROSEN Sometimes I feel as if I am hanging by the tips of my fingers trying to keep up with technology in the 21st century. would like to think I am pretty savvy, but who can keep up with all of the new developments? My 15-year-old son and his friends, that’s…

  • 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…

  • Preventing another Operation Bid Rig

    Guest Column • Arthur Z. Kamin Now that the election is over, the five-member Monmouth County Board of Freeholders — in a split vote along political lines — finally adopted a strong ethics structure to give the county the watchdog agency it needs to help ensure honest government. The long-overdue action came on the night…

  • Business Briefs

    Sapphire Tans (formerly Hollywood Tans) will be holding its annual food drive from Nov. 21 through Dec. 31. All items collected will be donated to the Freehold Open Door food pantry and the Howell Emergency Food Pantry. Find “wish lists” by visiting www.SapphireTans.com. Bring in a food item on Saturdays and Sundays during the food…

  • 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…

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