• Increase funding for housing vouchers

    For thousands of New Jerseyans with mental illness and other disabilities, housing choice vouchers are a lifeline that helps them live in safe, independent homes and avoid homelessness. Housing vouchers provide rental assistance for affordable permanent housing, a steppingstone that makes it possible for people to rebuild their lives and work toward recovery. Many of…

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    MATT DENTON Soccer balls are lined up and ready to go on the practice pitch.

  • Tinton Falls teachers, board at odds over contract impasse

    By KENNY WALTER Staff Writer TINTON FALLS —The contentious relationship between the Tinton Falls Board of Education and the teachers’ union may have reached a boiling point over stalled contract negotiations at the board’s meeting. More than 50 members of the Tinton Falls Education Association [TFEA] crowded the cafeteria at the Mahala F. Atchison Elementary…

  • BioBlitz: A snapshot of Sandy Hook’s ecological diversity

    By ADAM C. UZIALKO Staff Writer Summer may be over, but the Sandy Hook peninsula’s early days of the offseason have been anything but uneventful. On Sept. 18, the National Park Service (NPS) and the American Littoral Society (ALS) welcomed scientists, naturalists and volunteers of all ages to document species living across Sandy Hook, while…

  • Jury duty system evolves

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Jurors must report to the Monmouth Count Courthouse in Freehold to serve jury duty. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR The jury duty process, deeply rooted in English history and well established in New Jersey, continues to evolve. The right to trial by jury in the United States dates to Colonial times.…

  • State steps in to save historic Fortune House

    By MICHAEL NUNES Staff Writer The NJ Historic Preservation Office has made a bid to acquire the T. Thomas Fortune House in Red Bank for an undisclosed amount. In 1976, the home of journalist and activist T. Thomas Fortune was named a national landmark. The state has stepped in to save the T. Thomas Fortune…

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    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Runners from Rumson-Fair Haven High School competed in the Central Jersey Shootout held at Thompson Park in Jamesburg on Sept. 26. Rumson’s girls were the overall winners of the Shootout hosted by Old Bridge High School.

  • Weichert, Realtors donates $140,000 to American Cancer Society for breast cancer research

    Weichert, Realtors successfully raised $140,000 in donations for the American Cancer Society (ACS) to fund breast cancer research during its 15th Annual Charity Golf Outing. Proceeds from the event bring the grand total that Weichert has raised for the ACS to more than $870,000 since the annual fundraiser began in 2001. “This year’s golf outing…

  • REAL ESTATE BRIEFS

    RE/MAX First Realty, East Brunswick, announces that Katelynn Liteplo has joined the office as an agent. She specializes in assisting buyers in their home search throughout Middlesex and Monmouth County. Liteplo is excited to work for an agency that people trust and respect. She is a resident of North Brunswick and enjoys giving back to…

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