• Bowling to aid young woman’s cancer fight

    Country Lanes, Route 33, Manalapan, will present Bowl for Christy, a fundraising event to benefit the Christy Szabocsik Jarosz Foundation, from 3-7 p.m. Aug. 16. Christy, a 1999 Manalapan High School graduate and a former resident of South River, was recently married and diagnosed with brain cancer and HLH, a rare autoimmune disease. Cost is…

  • Testing could have unintended consequences

    Board of Education members and the administration of the Freehold Regional High School District have much to consider before moving forward regarding randomly drug and alcohol testing “privileged students”— those who choose to participate in extracurricular activities and/or have parking permits. For the safety and well-being of students, it is crucial to develop programs that…

  • Resident offers suggestion to U.S. health care situation

    Guest Column • Joseph Mercurio Cruel and unusual punishment is how someone once described employerbased health care. Citing the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution to protest our health care system might seem dramatic to some, but not to the millions who have lost their ability, and therefore their right, to be protected from a different…

  • Post office closings? Not with better marketing

    Coda • GREG BEAN Although the U.S. Postal Service doesn’t have an official motto, the one most people believe is the motto is inscribed on the façade of the James A. Farley Post Office in New York City: “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion…

  • For the Record

    Elizabeth Mancino painted a picture of the historic Solomon house on a window at the Freehold Township Senior Center as part of a project to paint pictures of the township’s historic sites at the senior center. An Aug. 5 News Transcript article about the project did not state that it was Mancino who painted the…

  • Business Briefs

    Eric M. Silverberg, D.C. has opened a new office for family chiropractic care at 219 Taylors Mills Road, Manalapan. Morning and afternoon/evening appointments are available six days a week. The office accepts most major insurance plans. Details and appointments: 732-567-7786. Monmouth Business Exchange is a local networking group looking for new members. The group meets…

  • Just toss the calendar

    In the News • MARK ROSMAN Now it is just getting depressing. My latest issue of the AARP magazine arrived in the mail the other day with a nice cover shot of Bruce Springsteen and large type proclaiming “The Boss Turns 60.” Hey, everyone gets older and the fact that Springsteen will turn 60 on…

  • Library to host ‘The Author Visit’

    At 7:30 p.m. Aug. 13, mystery writer Chris Grabenstein will speak about his journey from improvisational comedian to his career in advertising and then author. The program will be held at the Metuchen Public Library, 480 Middlesex Ave. Grabenstein is best known among adults for his mystery series of five titles that take place at…

  • Met. library to offer poetry-writing event

    The Young Adult Department of the Metuchen Public Library, 480 Middlesex Ave., Metuchen, will offer an additional poetry-writing workshop, “Salt Water Poems,” 6:30-8:30 p.m. Aug. 19. Teens in grades six through 12 are invited to explore what makes a sea poem both sensuous and strong. Images of sand, salt and seashells will abound in this…

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