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     The Italian American Cultural Society of New Jersey will hold a dinner meeting at 7 p.m. May 14 at Christie’s Italian Seafood Grill, 2420 Route 9 South, Howell. The meeting will include food and wine. Guest speaker Tony De Nonno will give a lecture and demonstration about Sicilian marionette traditions. The cost is $35…

  • Plumsted resident wins award for radio spot about ‘cutting’

    By CHRISTINE BARCIA Staff Writer Elisa Tang of Plumsted has received the national Gracie Award for outstanding news programming from the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation. PLUMSTED — Elisa Tang, a Plumsted resident who is a senior at Hofstra University, New York, said she was shocked when she learned she had won the national…

  • Tiny homes seen as way to address homelessness

    By ADAM C. UZIALKO Staff Writer Sherry Rubel has a vision to help empower homeless citizens in a tight-knit community of tiny homes. After photographing people living in Lakewood’s since-abandoned Tent City — a community of individuals who lived in tents and shacks in a wooded area of the Ocean County municipality — Rubel has…

  • Demographic swing changes housing plans

    By CHRISTINE BARCIA Staff Writer Mixed-use commercial and residential projects will pop up around the region in the next five to 10 years if recent proposals become a reality. The plans for these new developments are reflective of a trend toward an all-inclusive community. “Market forces are driving it,” said Charles Latini, president of the…

  • Parade participants sought

    JACKSON — Organizers of Jackson’s Memorial Day parade are reaching out to the community and asking any individual or group that wishes to take part in the May 25 event to contact them by May 22. Anyone who is interested in participating in the parade or who wants to purchase flowers to be placed at…

  • Gov. Chris Christie must make full payment to pension fund

    YOUR TURN CASEY BARILKA GUEST COLUMN The people of New Jersey need to come to grips with a reality that will soon have a tremendous impact on the state’s economy. That reality is that if the current funding of the Teachers’ Pension and Annuity Fund (TPAF) remains the same, the fund will be insolvent in…

  • Dr. Oz is a competent, caring physician

    Recently, certain doctors have accused Dr. (Mehmet) Oz of “quackery.” Dr. Oz responded on his television show to the criticism. I did not need Dr. Oz’s television response to put the lie to the baseless attack on one of the world’s great heart surgeons. Dr. Oz repaired my mitral valve in a complex operation. A…

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    GERARD TRABALKA Roosevelt Park in Edison provides a picturesque setting for an afternoon stroll.

  • Teens learn lessons in State House visit

    PLUMSTED — Eighth-graders in Brenden McCarthy’s Advanced Social Studies class at the New Egypt Middle School recently traveled to the State House in Trenton for the Mini-Model Congress. “The students had worked hard to create bills and to research the other bills that were selected,” McCarthy said. The classes were split into two groups: the…

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