• Manalapan will host Camp Invention

    Camp Invention, a weeklong summer enrichment program that fosters creativity, teamwork, inventive thinking skills and science literacy, is scheduled to return to Manalapan June 29-July 2 at the Wemrock Brook School. Custom designed for children entering first through sixth grade, the Camp Invention program presents a science-based curriculum that has been a proven success nationwide.…

  • Scholarships open to health-care students

    The Joseph E. Enright Foundation is offering scholarships for students who are pursing a field in health care, including but not limited to nursing, radiology, medical and pharmacology. Students who reside in central to northern New Jersey are encouraged to apply. Each scholarship award is $1,000. A short essay stating what the applicant is studying…

  • Concert to feature music from 1920s-’60s

    The Manalapan Library, 125 Symmes Drive, Manalapan, will present The Great American Song Book, a free concert representing the period of the 1920s through the 1960s at 2 p.m. May 31. The show will feature the work of American composers such as Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Rodgers…

  • Church will host trip to BlueClaws game

    Bethel AME Church, Waterworks Road, Freehold, will host a trip to see the Lakewood BlueClaws play at FirstEnergy Park in Lakewood June 15. The game will start at 7:05 p.m. Tickets are $20 per person and include round-trip transportation and admission. The bus will leave from the church at 6 p.m. sharp. At the park,…

  • Hidden Gardens Tour will be held June 6

    Home gardens, located in the historic borough of Allentown and surrounding areas, will be open to the public on June 6 as part of the Allentown Garden Club’s sixth Hidden Gardens Tour. The tour will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., rain or shine. Maps with the locations of all the gardens will…

  • Nuclear power is the answer to U.S. energy dilemma

    Much has been spoken about the need to expand wind and solar power generation. If those two areas are expanded in a large scale, the total energy contribution for us in the United States will be far less than 5 percent of our total energy needs. Electric cars are also heralded as the savior, but…

  • Soldier awaits fate for refusing to kill people in battle

    In a recent newspaper article it was reported that Pfc. Daniel Marble of Seaside Heights went Absent Without Leave (AWOL) after finishing basic training with the Army. His reasoning: “I am simply not capable of taking a life, I don’t want to kill someone and live with that for the rest of my life.” He…

  • Immigrants came to the United States for right reasons

    I am writing to you because I object to a letter from Paul Schlaflin ("Constituent Says Holt’s Views Are Off-Base," News Transcript, Letters to the Editor, May 13). In my opinion his letter is hateful, biased and bigoted. What this gentleman fails to realize is that this country is inhabited by people who came here…

  • Immigrants have a history of making a contribution

    In reply to the letter to the editor from Paul Schlaflin in May 13 News Transcript (“Constituent Says Holt’s Views Are Off-Base”), I would like to strongly disagree. If Mr. Schlaflin knew the history of our country, he would know that with the exception of the native Americans, all of us are either immigrants or…

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