• Five simple tips to enhance your home’s personality

    Your home can say a lot about you. A state-of-the-art kitchen outfitted with a double oven likely means you enjoy cooking and entertaining friends and family. Likewise, a backyard complete with play sets, a treehouse or a basketball hoop is a sure sign your house is also a hangout for the neigh borhood kids. “My…

  • Look locally when shopping for your fall home improvement needs

    G.P. Pool Service, Inc. The fall season is the perfect backdrop for deep cleaning, home spruce-ups and home improvement projects you’ve been putting off, inside and outside of your home. Now is the time to shop around for those household items you need and desire. It is also the time to find just the right…

  • Colts Neck may pursue stricter hotel residency laws

    COLTS NECK — Stricter laws that would require guests to disclose more information before they are permitted to rent a hotel room could be in the township’s future. At the Sept. 10 Colts Neck Township Committee meeting, Mayor Russell Macnow said he wants to build on the current hotel ordinance due to problems arising at…

  • Hometown History Walk will visit Freehold sites

    FREEHOLD — The Mayor’s Health and Wellness Initiative will hold its second Hometown History Walk in Freehold Borough, offering residents an opportunity to learn about the rich history of the town and to derive some health benefits by walking in the process. The Sept. 21 event will be guided by Mayor Nolan Higgins and borough…

  • Blues, BBQ and bikers returning to Marlboro

    MARLBORO — The fourth annual Marlboro Blues & BBQ Festival will make its fiery return to the township from noon to 10 p.m. Sept. 20, featuring food, music and a chance to win a guitar signed by Bon Jovi. The festival, which takes place at the Marlboro Recreation Community Center, Wyncrest Road, was created by…

  • Plans for new firehouse presented to residents

    By CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Officials from Freehold Township Fire District No. 2 spoke to a packed room at the East Freehold Fire Company headquarters on Sept. 9 and described a proposal for a new firehouse that they say will meet the current needs of the volunteer fire company, its members…

  • ARE WE THERE YET

    This old dog has had it with new tricks Lori Clinch Paperwork. Oh, how I loathe doing it. My beloved spouse and I have done the best we could to make it tolerable. We have a lovely space, adequate temperature control and, although our desk chairs have a stain or two, one can sit in…

  • Shapiro-Lane

    Brian Shapiro and Katie Lane Dorine and Michael Shapiro of Manalapan announce the engagement of their son, Brian Shapiro, to Katie Lane, daughter of Diane and Dean Goddard of Louisville, Ky., and Michael Lane of Edison. The future bride is a graduate of Freehold Township High School and Monmouth University, West Long Branch, where she…

  • Remembering 9/11

    Top right: Family members, guests, township officials and representatives of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion take part in a silent tribute at the Middletown WTC Memorial Gardens in honor of the 37 Middletown residents lost on Sept. 11, 2001. Above: Members of the Old Bridge Township Council place a wreath at…

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