• MANVILLE: Selected students are ‘Earth watchers’

    MANVILLE: Selected students are ‘Earth watchers’

    Photo by Mary Ellen ZangaraNatalia Jimenez and Shefkije Barisha show the model of Earth Club adviser Diana Lee they made from recycled and discarded items.

  • LAWRENCE: Sunshine experience exciting for Jemison

    By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor    Case Jemison is pretty excited about starting his college football career at Tufts University in Boston.    But before he heads off to college, he has one last high school football game to play. Tonight, Jemison and four of his former Lawrence High teammates will play in the annual Sunshine Classic…

  • PRINCETON: Farrington’s Music heading uptown

    PRINCETON: Farrington’s Music heading uptown

    Guitars on display at Farrington’s Music, which is moving from downtown Princeton to 145 Witherspoon Street. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • Concert, fireworks show had much help

    Mike Chipowsky, chairman Hopewell Township Recreation Advisory Committee    I would like to take just a moment to thank everyone who helped with the first annual band concert and fireworks show that was held the night of June 28 at the Hopewell Township Veterans Park.    Without question, this event was a great success and one I…

  • MONROE: Making a difference in the Peace Corps

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    MONROE — Today, 24-year-old Owen Fitzgerald might find himself lounging on the couch, enjoying a hot shower or just shooting the breeze with family and friends. That’s a far cry from where he will find himself in less than a week: Bamako, the capital of the West African nation of…

  • Disappointed in Hopewell coverage

    Stephanie Newton, of Hopewell    I eagerly went to my mail box today to read the “local” paper and with much anticipation scanned the front page for a photo and article of the biggest community event that Hopewell Borough has seen in the nine years that I have lived here.    Alas, I had to wait to…

  • Club offers trip to ‘Wedding Singer’

    Our Lady of Victories (OLV) Women’s Club will sponsor an Aug. 23 trip to see “The Wedding Singer” at the Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre, Lancaster, Pa. The bus will depart at 9 a.m. from the OLV lower parking lot, Main Street Sayreville. Return will be at approximately 7 p.m. Cost is $75 and includes bus…

  • Sewers, quilters invited to meeting

    The Molly Pitcher Stitchers Quilt Guild will meet 7:30-9:30 p.m. (approximately) July 13 at Grace Lutheran Church, 200 Park Ave., Freehold. Participants will learn how to sew a cathedral-windows design into a Christmas ornament. A vendor will offer fabric and notions for purchase. The club is made up of women who love to sew and…

  • Monroe writers’ play set for July 10-26

    Berdanhand Productions will present “Fade Out at Clo-Achers,” an original play by Monroe residents Myra Danon and Meryl Berness, July 10-26 at the Empire Diner Restaurant Dessert Theater, 4135 Route 9 North, Freehold. The play, directed by Jessica Pfeiffer, steps beyond the security gates of an active adult community known as Clo-Achers to observe the…

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