• Moving on up

    Today’s rising equity has some owners thinking of cashing out and upgrading their home. By Madhusmita Bora CTW Features The recession that plagued the housing market is fast receding and home prices and values are not just resurfacing. They are shooting up. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20- city home price index jumped 12.4 percent in…

  • N.B. baseball on pace to be better than ’08

    BY RICHARD JEROME Staff Writer After winning their first four games, Ryan Lillis’ North Brunswick Township High School baseball team then dropped two, including an 11- 6 defeat by Colonia on April 13 — a tough one in which the Raiders led 6-5 with two outs in the seventh, then saw the Patriots rally. Still,…

  • All about the passive house

    The eco-minded passive home is far from a new concept. Here’s how it got started and how you can learn more. While the number of passive-home projects in the U.S. is on the rise, the passive home is not a new concept. Heck, it doesn’t even use any breakthrough technology. Experimentation with the first superinsulated…

  • Raiders topple Falcons

    Left: North Brunswick High School’s Brian Born is fouled by Monroe Township’s Robert Scardilli during their lacrosse match on April 16 at Monroe Township High School. Above: North Brunswick’s Brad Pastrick advances the ball upfield during the match. The Raiders defeated Monroe, 19-3. PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff

  • 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…

  • Corzine: Dire times call for tough choices

    Governor defends budget as maintaining priorities BY JENNIFER AMATO and BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer In the weeks since delivering his $29.8 billion budget proposal, Gov. Jon Corzine has faced criticism for what one New Jersey radio station has described as “the death of the middle class.” Gov. Jon Corzine Much of the backlash stems from…

  • NOTES

    Irina Pavlov (l) and Tamara Chernyakhovska demonstrate a folk dance during an Evening of Ukrainian Folk Dancing hosted by the Monmouth Folk Dancers at Red Bank United Methodist Church on March 24. ***** FRANK GALIPO The visual and performing arts majors at the Red Bank Regional High School, Ridge Road, Little Silver, will perform in…

  • Concordance explains food resources available

    Aid ranges from food stamps to farmers markets BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — Food resources in Monmouth County were the topic of the monthly meeting of the Long Branch Concordance. The discussion took place at the Long Branch Higher Education Learning Center of Brookdale Community College on April 15 and was led…

  • Motorcycle raffle will benefit Ronald McDonald Camp

    LONG BRANCH — Harley-Davidson/ Buell of Long Branch and the Jersey Shore HOG (Harley Owners Group) Chapter will raffle off a motorcycle this summer, with proceeds going to Ronald McDonald Camp for children being treated for cancer. The motorcycle can be seen at the dealership, located at 671 Broadway in Long Branch, during a “Rockin’…

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