• New K-9 officer joins force

    K-9 Officer Gunner Monmouth County Sheriff Shaun Golden has welcomed the newest member to the Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office Law Enforcement Division. K-9 Gunner, a Labrador retriever who has been trained in narcotics detection, has officially joined the ranks of the K-9 Unit. “We are grateful to have Gunner as part of our K-9 Unit,”…

  • Organ adds atmosphere to ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’

    By CLARE MARIE CELANO Correspondent Brittany Montoro Brittany Montoro is a fan of horror films and the creepier those films are the more she enjoys them. For the past three years, Montoro, who is the organist and choir director at the First United Methodist Church, 91 W. Main St., Freehold, has taken her fascination with…

  • Six candidates seek seats on Millstone school board

    Election 2015 By MAUREEN DAYE Correspondent Residents of Millstone Township will have a full slate of candidates from which to elect three members to the Millstone Township K-8 School District Board of Education in the Nov. 3 election. The terms of school board members Amy Jacobson, Ramon Recalde and Neil Schloss are ending in December.…

  • County plans to expand park holdings

    By MAUREEN DAYE Correspondent Monmouth County officials are eyeing an expansion of Perrineville Lake Park in bucolic Millstone Township. Karen Livingstone, a spokeswoman for the Monmouth County Park System, said officials are planning to purchase two parcels to expand the park in the Perrineville section of Millstone Township. She did not offer a timeframe for…

  • Women mind the gap: gender pay disparity persists

    By JESSICA D’AMICO Staff Writer Despite societal images of female presidential candidates and feminine corporate CEOs, the practice persists of women workers being paid less than their male counterparts for the same work. “When women graduate from college, there immediately is a pay gap between men and women,” said Carol Cohen, president of the American…

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    STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR Allentown High School soccer players go through their pre-game warm-up drill before their Oct. 13 match at home against Robbinsvile. The Red Birds improved to 11-3 on the season with a 4-3 victory.

  • It turns out Siri likes some people better

    ARE WE THERE YET Lori Clinch Although I adore the advancements technology has brought to communication, I truly miss being able to physically lay my hands on a phone number. Back in my day (am I too young to say that?) a person could simply dial 411, tell the operator a name and town and…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Sarah Pallay makes SCT history with 4th gymnastics title 

    HILLSBOROUGH: Sarah Pallay makes SCT history with 4th gymnastics title 

    By Justin Feil, Packet Media Group Hillsborough High School gymnast Sarah Pallay ended her final Somerset County Tournament the same way she had finished her first one. And her second. And her third. The Raiders senior was at the top of the podium with her fourth straight individual title, this one all the more special…

  • PRINCETON: Former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke tells university crowd that AIG bailout was the right decision

    PRINCETON: Former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke tells university crowd that AIG bailout was the right decision

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said at Princeton University Tuesday that the Fed made the right decision to bail out insurance giant AIG during the height of the financial crisis given the global consequences its collapse would have caused. Mr. Bernanke, Fed chairman from 2006 to 2014,…

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