• Education center’s entry road and trails need immediate attention

    The Forest Resource Education Center at 370 East Veterans Highway in Jackson bills itself as a service to state residents, “teaching and practicing forest stewardship.” Yet visitors to this facility should be wary. In order to access this site, they must negotiate one of the most impassable, unmaintained and downright dangerous roads in the state.…

  • Pupils link up on project

    JACKSON — A wiki page collaboration between the St. Aloysius School in Jackson and the Bayhead School in Bayhead has joined pupils at both locations with a focus on reading, language arts and history. A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify…

  • Teens alleged to have sold counterfeit bills in school

    COLTS NECK — Two Colts Neck High School students have been charged with forgery after allegedly making counterfeit money and allegedly selling the counterfeit bills to other students at the school. The students were charged on April 13. Colts Neck police Detective Sgt. Joe Whitehead said police are still trying to determine how the two…

  • Mama tried, but he still loves country

    Are We There Yet? • LORI CLINCH Our young Huey has a great love for music. He researches it, sings it and has been known to play it at house-shaking volume, which has me sounding like my own loving mother: “Turn that dang thing down!” But Huey has always had what I thought to be…

  • Oyster Creek’s new lease on life

    The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission handed Ocean County residents something to keep them up nights for the next 20 years by relicensing the oldest nuclear plant in the United States. The Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Lacey Township now has official permission to run until April 9, 2029, courtesy of the NRC’s decision on…

  • Family vacation: the good the bad and the flat ugly

    Coda • GREG BEAN When I was a kid, family vacations were a special level of hell reserved for the worst miscreants imaginable. And it wasn’t the Hades we learned about in Bible class, the kind of place you go after a long lifetime of misdeeds. Nope, family vacations were a more immediate form of…

  • MTHS Drama Club will stage ‘Curtains’

    The Monroe Township High School (MTHS) Drama Club will present its production of the musical mystery-comedy “Curtains” at 7:30 p.m. April 23, 24 and 25 and 3 p.m. April 26 at the high school, Perrineville Road. Tickets cost $10 for adults, $7 for senior citizens, $5 for students. For more information, call 732-521- 2882.

  • Library will offer Panic-Relief seminar

    A counselor from Panic Relief Inc. will present a free seminar at 11 a.m. April 25 at the Old Bridge Public Library, Route 516 and Cottrell Road. The program will offer practical guidance and assistance in dealing with panic, anxiety and stress. Panic Relief is a nonprofit mental-health outreach group. For more information, call 732-721-…

  • Night at the Races to fight cystic fibrosis

    The fourth annual Anthony’s Answer Night at the Races Gift Auction to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is set for 7 p.m. May 8 at Sayreville Veterans of ForeignWars, Jernee Mill Road. Post time will be 7:15 p.m. The event is named in honor of 4-yearold Anthony Silvestri of Old Bridge, who suffers from cystic…

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