• A great night for Monmouth Republicans

    Guest Column • Chris Fotache The night of Nov. 3, I attended the victory party with the Middletown Republicans at the Lincroft Inn. By the time I got there, our local races were pretty much settled. Steve Massell won by a huge margin of 24 percent. I think everybody was expecting him to beat incumbent…

  • Middletown Democrats ‘got creamed’ in election

    Middletown Democrats suffered a short-circuit and got badly burned. One letter writer — supporting the local Middletown Democrats — talked about cream rising to the top. It appears she was right. The local Democrats got creamed. When politicians listen to the people and act on their behalf, they will be supported. When they ignore the…

  • Superintendent asks parents to report student illnesses

    BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer HOLMDEL — As the flu season begins, Schools Superintendent Barbara Duncan is encouraging parents to communicate with school administrators if their child is sick. “We ask parents when they call in to tell us their children are absent, to let us at least know if the children have flu-like symptoms,”…

  • Hospital internship gives teens glimpse into medicine

    Students shadow professionals to get taste of possible careers BY TOM SHORTELL Staff Writer Six high school students sat at their desks, waiting for a day of learning to begin. They had ridden the school bus together and now chatted quietly or checked their cell phones. Some fidgeted with their uniforms. But while their classmates…

  • ZEST Heart of New Jersey chorus never misses a beat

    Sweet Adelines chapter welcomes women who enjoy singing and performing BY ADELE YOUNG Staff Writer They’re not rock stars, but they probably have more fun singing together than many of today’s musical titans. Members of the Heart of New Jersey chorus, under the direction of Jane Holden (center), practice for their annual show Nov. 15,…

  • N.J. artist offers glimpse of shore through watercolors

    LAKEWOOD — New Jersey artist Theresa Troise Heidel remembers fondly the summers she spent at Asbury Park in its heyday in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The watercolor exhibit “From Shore to Shore” opened on Nov. 2 and runs through Nov. 24, in the M. Christina Geis Art Gallery on Georgian Court University’s Lakewood…

  • Prescription medications will be collected in Howell

    BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer HOWELL — It is time to clean out the medicine cabinet and chuck those empty pill bottles — Howell residents will soon have a safe place to scrap their unwanted and unneeded prescription medication. The township will be setting up a medicine collection site on Nov. 14 at the Howell…

  • 4 Jackson roads due for repairs

    JACKSON — A grant to improve roads, which municipal officials applied for last spring, has been granted by the New Jersey Department of Transportation. “We have received a DOT municipal aid grant for $200,000,” Mayor Michael Reina said. “The grant provides for improvements to Docare Road, Challenger Way, Gomberg Avenue and Montifiore Road.” Construction plans…

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