• Holiday lights on for Keyport contest

    KEYPORT — Keyport residents are being advised to turn their lights on next week when judging will take place for the Keyport Recreation Commission’s holiday house-decorating contest. According to the borough website, judging will take place 6:30-9 p.m. Dec. 17. Homes that do not have the holiday lights on will not be eligible to be…

  • Man faces life sentence for wife’s murder

    By GREG KENNELTY Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — A Middletown man found guilty of murdering his wife in 2011 will be sentenced Jan. 29. On Dec. 4, after two days of deliberation, a jury found Patrick Allen, 47, guilty of the murder of his wife, Kimberly Allen, 44, according to a press release from the Monmouth…

  • World AIDS Day increases awareness

    World AIDS Day was Dec. 1. According to amfAR, women account for one in five new HIV diagnoses and deaths caused by AIDS. Onethird of the approximately 1.1 million Americans who are living with HIV/AIDS are between the ages of 13 and 29. World AIDS Day is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in…

  • Police officers are ‘best-educated, best-trained’

    YOUR TURN PATRICK COLLIGAN GUEST COLUMN Our nation is reeling from two unfortunate tragedies: the death of Michael Brown and the death of Eric Garner. The reaction to these incidents shows that it will take a long time for our communities to heal, and our profession will be impacted forever by these two events. The…

  • Affordable housing picture is cloudy after COAH vote

    The failure of New Jersey’s Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) to reach an agreement on new third-round regulations for the state Supreme Court-mandated construction of housing for low-income residents has created confusion for municipalities now facing dramatic increases in litigation that would force towns to accept affordable housing projects. On Oct. 20, the COAH board…

  • Governor’s veto of bill criticized

    Compassionate people across the country are dumbfounded that Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a bill that would ban gestation crates for pigs. The bill had strong bipartisan support, and it’s easy to see why. Most mother pigs spend their entire adult lives confined to these cramped crates, imprisoned by cold metal bars and forced to lie…

  • Professor: Group is losing credibility

    Clean Ocean Action (COA) is trying to stop offshore oil exploration by stopping the use of seismic airguns. In addition to research for oil, the same technology (airguns) is a key tool for studying the earth. A current project is for a consortium of academics — led by Rutgers University — to use airguns to…

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    STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR Christmas trees are on display at Matawan World of Gardening in Old Bridge on Dec. 4.

  • Temple to host LGBTQ program Dec. 15

    Temple Shalom will host a free program on issues pertaining to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) community from 7-9 p.m. Dec. 15 at 5 Ayrmont Lane, Aberdeen. The program is open to the public. Andrea “Andy” Bowen, executive director of Garden State Equality, will be the keynote speaker. Bowen is a transgender…

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