• Mark Twain, 19th-century techie, sought phonograph to dictate tale

    YOUR TURN DANIEL WEEKS GUEST COLUMN Mark Twain’s novel, “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” has just turned 125 years old. Twain wrote the novel over a three-year period in the late 1880s, just at the time Thomas A. Edison was preparing his new wax-cylinder phonograph for commercial production. Twain thought he might use…

  • Bills would promote endless hunting

    Do you believe wild animals deserve a day of rest — a day when they cannot be hunted? Currently, New Jersey prohibits hunting on public lands on Sunday, but if state Sen. Joseph Kyrillos Jr. (R-Monmouth) has his way, that would change. Kyrillos has introduced Bill S-699, which would allow Sunday hunting in New Jersey.…

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    MATT DENTON Marie Sill, 6, creates a popcorn craft during the National Popcorn Day event held at the Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore program activity center in Howell on Jan. 18.

  • Jackson resident indicted in series of sexual assaults

    Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey announced on Jan. 22 that a Jackson resident who served as Dunellen’s recreation director and as a Middlesex County College basketball coach has been indicted on charges of sexually assaulting two boys and engaging in sexually explicit conversations with two others in separate incidents dating back to 1994. Christopher…

  • Regional high school board welcomes two new members

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer The Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education welcomed two new members to serve three-year terms, including one new member with a background of 40 years in education and one new member who recently left high school. At the board’s Jan. 5 reorganization meeting held at the district’s offices…

  • Freehold Regional superintendent ‘confident’ about PARCC testing

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer Freehold Regional High School District Superintendent of Schools Charles Sampson said district administrators have taken a number of precautions to be prepared for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) testing that will occur from March through June. At a recent Board of Education meeting, Sampson…

  • JCP&L spent $250M on upgrades last year

    Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L) completed more than 160 infrastructure projects and other initiatives in 2014 to help enhance service reliability to its 1.1 million customers in northern and central New Jersey, according to a press release. Some of the key projects included the following:  Completing a $15 million expansion of a substation…

  • Rock for the Nurses anniversary party to feature performance by Kinderhook

    The Barbara Forfar Nursing Scholarship Fund welcomes the return of legendary New Jersey country rockers Kinderhook to Point Pleasant for the first time in more than 30 years when it teams up with the Idle Hour Restaurant & Bar to celebrate its fiveyear anniversary on May 30 starting at 1 p.m. The six-hour fundraiser will…

  • New officers join Howell Police Department

    By TAYLOR M. LIER Staff Writer HOWELL — As current members of the Howell Police Department looked on, Mayor Bill Gotto swore in four new officers to the department during the Jan. 1 reorganization meeting of the Township Council. Police Chief Ron Carter said the new hires will be a great asset to the police…

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