• N.J. coalition steps up effort against domestic violence

    By CHRISTINE BARCIA Staff Writer October marks domestic violence awareness month. In New Jersey, the call to action to combat domestic violence was marked in part by the renaming of the New Jersey Coalition for Battered Women to the New Jersey Coalition to End Domestic Violence. On Oct. 1 at the steps of the New…

  • Volunteer sees harsh life on S. Dakota reservation

    By P.J. CANDIDO Staff Writer Nicole Wroblewski A young woman’s commitment to community service has shed light on hardships that are faced by members of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe. Struggles on the tribe’s reservation can only truly be understood through firsthand experience, according to Nicole Wroblewski. Wroblewski, 19, of Manalapan, observed the poverty that…

  • Audubon bird walk slated for Oct. 18

    The Monmouth County Audubon Society will host an autumn bird walk at 10 a.m. Oct. 18. Participants should meet in the parking lot at the closed Sandy Hook visitor center between lots D and E on Hartshorne Drive. The peninsula of Sandy Hook in northern Monmouth County attracts migrating raptors, shorebirds and songbirds due to…

  • Resident objects to cost of school referendum

    The Marlboro K-8 School District is going forward with a referendum for additional construction to create a full-day kindergarten for the district, while also attaching other school building maintenance to it, in the hopes that will create the support necessary for passage. At the same time, I read about Toms River beginning their full-day kindergarten…

  • Perspective offered on today’s solar energy

    I need to correct a recent letter to the editor about home solar panels which contained inaccuracies and generally cast them in an unfavorable light. Here is the way the most popular plan works: Unlike the old days when you had to fund all the costs yourself and get the power for free, now you…

  • League opposes proposal for pipeline

    The League of Women Voters of Western Monmouth, with the full support of the New Jersey League of Women Voters State Natural Resource Committee, opposes a 22-mile-long pipeline in one of New Jersey’s largest and most unique areas: the Pine Barrens. This area comprises 1.1 million acres and is located in the Cohansey Aquifer which…

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    KAREN KESTEN/STAFF Early signs of fall can be seen in central New Jersey.

  • DJs rock dream house

    By KAYLA J. MARSH Staff Writer Volunteers and DJs from Greater Media’s 95.9 WRAT build a section of a future house during “The House That Rock Built” project held by the WRAT and Monmouth County Habitat for Humanity in the Monmouth Mall parking lot in Eatontown on Oct. 8. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR EATONTOWN –…

  • Local artists present work in Colts Neck

    By PETER ELACQUA Staff Writer COLTS NECK – Residents and visitors will have a chance to view the work of local artists at the 16th annual Friends of the Colts Neck Library Art Show and Sale. The show and sale will be held on Oct. 17, 18, 24 and 25 from 10 a.m. to 4…

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