• Sliding for the ball

    STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR New Egypt High School’s Nick Sample (3) and Shore Regional High School’s Josh DeFino try to chase down a loose ball during the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group I championship game played in West Long Branch on Nov. 13. The Warriors were defeated, 1-0, in their bid to win the state sectional…

  • Audubon Society bird walk set for Dec. 6 on Sandy Hook

    The Monmouth County Audubon Society will host a bird walk on Sandy Hook at 10 a.m. Dec. 6. Participants will meet in the old visitor center parking lot. A variety of birds may be seen during this event, including snow buntings, northern harriers, yellow-rumped warblers and long-tailed ducks. “Many species of ducks, which breed in…

  • Brothers open new Harvest restaurant

    By TAYLOR M. LIER Staff Writer FARMINGDALE — Providing fresh, simple and wholesome food to the community is what owners Daniel and Anthony Vrgoc are doing at Harvest restaurant. Harvest, 83 Main St., Farmingdale, opened on Nov. 1. The Vrgoc brothers grew up in Manalapan. Daniel now lives in Point Pleasant, and Anthony resides in…

  • Pedestrian struck, injured on East Veterans Highway

    JACKSON — A Point Pleasant man who sustained nonlife-threatening injuries when he was struck by a moving vehicle will face a jaywalking charge, according to police. On the evening of Nov. 8, Jackson officers Robert Reiff and Craig Lindenberg were traveling west on East Veterans Highway near May Boulevard when they saw a small brush…

  • Howell man charged with committing lewd acts

    Gregory S. Rittman A Howell man who was arrested three weeks ago and charged with masturbating in front of a juvenile in the public bathroom at a fast-food restaurant on Route 35 in Wall Township is facing a dozen new charges after additional victims were identified, Monmouth County Acting Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced on…

  • Don’t look now, but winter has returned

    ARE WE THERE YET Lori Clinch I have long been dreading a visit from an unwanted guest. I put it out of my mind for as long as I possibly could, pretended the day would never come and did my best to think about other things. I avoided the subject at the dinner table and…

  • BUSINESS BRIEFS

    Greater Media radio station WRATFM, Lake Como, is holding its annual Thanksgiving season drive, “Broadcast for the People of New Jersey,” to help local residents. Employees are hoping to fill a 40- foot-long tractor-trailer with items to be donated to three charities. A live broadcast will take place at ShopRite, Route 66, Neptune, Nov. 24…

  • Suzanne Kenyon

    Suzanne Kenyon, 61, of the Mercerville section of Hamilton Township, Mercer County, passed surrounded by loving family members on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. Born in New Brunswick, Suzanne grew up in Metuchen and lived in Edison, North Brunswick and Trenton before settling in Mercerville several years…

  • Baby’s body found in Farmingdale

    By TAYLOR M. LIER Staff Writer Authorities are hoping this item of clothing will help lead them to the individual who left an infant at a commercial facility in Farmingdale. The remains of a newborn child were found on Nov. 11. FARMINGDALE — The New Jersey State Police are investigating the whereabouts of a mother…

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