• Red Bank Regional students embrace Black History Month

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer “Amazing Grace” was one of the songs and hymns from African-American culture that students in Red Bank Regional High School’s strings program performed at the Black History Month celebration on Feb. 18. FRANK GALIPO Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. are major figures in African-American history, but perhaps Americans…

  • Noise concerns sink motocross application

    By GREG KENNELTY Staff Writer The Tinton Falls Zoning Board of Adjustment denied a hotly debated motocross facility that was proposed off Shafto Road. After nearly 18 months of hearings, the board unanimously voted down the proposal by Jersey Shore Motocross to locate the facility on 21 acres next to Mazza & Sons Demolition and…

  • Libraries, book clubs cater to niche interests

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer Libraries throughout central New Jersey host book clubs and discussion groups to suit a broad range of patrons’ interests. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR If New Jersey were hit with a zombie apocalypse, the odds for survival would not be great, according to Tyler Rousseau, emergent technologies coordinator at the Monroe…

  • Most car shoppers suffer buyer’s remorse

    Though few consumers ever buy a car or truck on impulse, even the bestprepared shoppers will end up driving off a dealer’s lot packing a trunk-load of reservations and regrets. According to surveys hosted on the car shopping/research website AutoTrader.com, 69 percent of consumers have experienced buyer’s remorse after purchasing a car. The most common…

  • Identity thefts and stolen cars

    Car thieves are increasingly able to get their hands on purloined rides, not by hot-wiring the ignition or copying keyless entry codes, but by simply using stolen IDs to fraudulently lease or obtain loans to purchase them at dealerships. According to the National Insurance crime Bureau in Des Plaines, Ill., the crooks simply drive off…

  • Riding in cars with dogs

    By Jim Gorzelany CTW Features Pet safety is paramount when traveling. Here are a few tips to help make the trip less ‘ruff’ for everyone. Whether undertaking a short jaunt or a major excursion, family road trips can be hard enough on mom and dad, but adding one or more dogs to the passenger list…

  • Weichert Real Estate Affiliates added 43 new offices in 2014

    Weichert Real Estate Affiliates Inc., the franchise division of Weichert, Realtors, continued its rapid nationwide growth in 2014, including the opening of its first office in Nevada. In total, Weichert added 43 new offices last year and grew at twice the rate it did in 2013. “We are happy to welcome these talented sales teams…

  • REAL ESTATE BRIEFS

    Art Napolitano and Mary Lou Resner have been nominated and elected by their peers to serve on the Board of Directors for the Middlesex County Association of Realtors for 2015. Napolitano is a 37-year veteran of the real estate industry and is one of the owners of NextAgeM3 Realty Group in Kendall Park. “It is…

  • Vikings, Raiders to clash in sectionals opener

    VARSITY REPORT By WARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent The South Brunswick High School and North Brunswick Township High School boys basketball teams will meet on March 2 in the opening round of the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group IV tournament. South Brunswick’s boys (14-7) are coming off a tough 56-55 loss to Perth Amboy High School on Feb.…

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