• Concert revisits oldies but goodies at library

    Music from the doo-wop era will be featured at the Monmouth County Library Headquarters, 125 Symmes Dr., Manalapan, at 2 p.m. April 26 in a concert featuring RB Express. RB Express is a five-man vocal band whose rhythm and harmony talents range from soft ballads to toe-tapping dance music. They sing a wide repertoire of…

  • Public is invited to attend Rutgers Day on April 25

    In recognition of Rutgers University’s unique relationship with the people of New Jersey, we are opening our doors to the public for the first-ever Rutgers Day on April 25. In difficult economic times, it is more important than ever to connect the university’s resources to those we serve. On Rutgers Day, all New Jerseyans are…

  • Students should have looked at other side of AIDS issue

    The April 8 edition of the News Transcript carried an article about the four Manalapan High School students who won awards for their idea of curing AIDS via gene transplants from resistant people (“Teens Honored for Idea to Cure AIDS”). While their objective of an AIDS cure seems noble and well intended, it is too…

  • Marlboro resident supports effort to promote shared services

    I would like to thank the Marlboro Mayor Jon Hornik for his efforts to stabilize taxes and maintain services to the town without reaching deeper into the pockets of the residents. On April 7 there was a press conference in Marlboro to discuss an important bipartisan initiative to save the taxpayers’ money through sharing services…

  • A clean sweep by one party could have ramifications for Marlboro

    It appears the Marlboro Township Council candidates have been designated for next November’s election with three council seats up for grabs. Some of the rhetoric I once offered resulted in my election to the Marlboro council in 1997, but Marlboro’s political environment has changed since those years and voting now calls for a closer attention…

  • School supt. appreciates foundation’s efforts

    Nine years ago, a group of Marlboro residents interested in developing an alternative source of funding for the K-8 public schools created the Marlboro Educational Foundation. The organization’s mission was to support educational opportunities through innovative programs not covered in the regular school budget. To date, the foundation has been able to achieve its vision…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Business Briefs

    Eric I. Abraham of Manalapan, a partner of the law firm Hill Wallack LLP, Princeton, has been selected to be among New Jersey Monthly Magazine’s 2009 New Jersey Superlawyers Rising Stars list. Abraham, a member of the firm’s Complex Litigation Practice Group, concentrates his practice in business counseling and commercial litigation at the trial and…

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