• Sayreville seeks to restore storm-damaged neighborhoods

    Sayreville seeks to restore storm-damaged neighborhoods

    SAYREVILLE – Rutgers University and the Sayreville Environmental Commission are creating an implementation strategy to restore and stabilize two borough neighborhoods damaged by tropical storms. Jeremiah Bergstrom, a landscape architect with the Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE), presented the plan for restoring Weber and MacArthur avenues to the Borough Council at a June 26 meeting. The two…

  • Howell zoners approve farm, riding arena, paddocks

    Howell zoners approve farm, riding arena, paddocks

    HOWELL – The Howell Zoning Board of Adjustment has unanimously approved an application from Wildbrook Ranch LLC to operate its 183-acre property between Belmar Boulevard and Megill Road as a farm and to construct a horse barn, an indoor riding arena with paddocks, and a private farm office. Attorney Jennifer Krimko, of the firm Ansell…

  • T. Thomas Fortune committee to hold networking event July 27

    T. Thomas Fortune committee to hold networking event July 27

    The T. Thomas Fortune Project Committee will hold a “Midsummer Night Affair” to celebrate the coming of the T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center from 5:30-8 p.m. on July 27 at the Danish Cafe and Bakery, in the Galleria shopping center, 2 Bridge Ave., Red Bank. The committee’s networking event will offer food, wine and beer.…

  • Art in the Park Workshop July 22

    Art in the Park Workshop July 22

    An Art in the Park Workshop will be held from 10-11:30 a.m., July 22, at The Lodge at Thompson Park, 1701 Perrineville Road, Monroe. Educator Lindsay Erben will lead the nature hands-on workshop where participants will hunt for interesting natural and recyclable items to create their own original artwork by pressing textures into terracotta clay.…

  • Storytime for children at Old Bridge Library
  • East Brunswick children experience Summer Food Fun
  • Kanopy offered at Old Bridge Library

    Kanopy offered at Old Bridge Library

    The Old Bridge Library has introduced Kanopy, a comprehensive collection of more than 30,000 films ranging from documentaries to indie and foreign films, to must-see classics and blockbuster movies. The on-demand streaming video service provides library patrons, students and faculty access to the collection. The videos can be viewed on a range of devices and…

  • In the Service

    In the Service

    Army Lt. Col. Terry Russell has retired from the U.S. Army after serving honorably for 30 years. Russell was last serving as a product manager for individual weapons at the Picatinny Arsenal. He is the son of Charles Earl and stepson of Ann Russell of Big Spring, Texas; husband of Susan Russell of Oceanport; and…

  • Freehold Borough schools to receive additional state aid

    Freehold Borough schools to receive additional state aid

    FREEHOLD – The Freehold Borough K-8 School District will receive $955,793 more in state aid for the 2017-18 school year than what administrators were initially told the district would receive. The extra aid was added to the 2018 New Jersey budget that was passed in the state Senate and Assembly and signed by Gov. Chris…

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