• Home show set for Sept. 20-21

    The region’s top home improvement professionals will gather at the Multipurpose Activity Center on the campus of Monmouth University, West Long Branch, on Sept. 20-21 for the Fall Home Improvement Show. The showcase event for those planning home and landscape projects, renovations, remodeling or new construction, is produced by MAC Events of Toms River. “The…

  • Gov. Christie: Consolidate to lower tax bills

    By KENNY WALTER Staff Writer Municipal and school district officials should consider consolidating as a way to slow escalating property taxes and costs, Gov. Chris Christie told a crowd gathered at an amphitheater on the Long Branch beachfront Aug. 19. “The only way we are going to push [property taxes] back is if we deal…

  • Millstone Day will bring residents together Sept. 21

    By MAUREEN DAYE Correspondent MILLSTONE — Residents will gather to celebrate their community when the Millstone Recreation Department hosts the annual Millstone Day event at Frogbridge Day Camp, 12 Yellow Meeting House Road, on Sept. 21 from noon to 5 p.m. Billy Hanson, vice chairman of the Millstone Township Recreation Commission, said more than 2,000…

  • Pearson–Largen

    Willliam Largen & Brittany Pearson Janet (Burns-Beck, formerly of Millstone Township) and Jim Beck of Princeton and Hilton Head, S.C., announce the engagement of their son, William Largen, to Brittany Pearson, daughter of Lee and Helen Pearson of Wilmington, N.C. A gala was held at Diamonds Restaurant in Princeton to honor the couple. Among the…

  • Alimony reform signed into law

    Legislation sponsored by state Sen. Robert Singer reforming New Jersey’s alimony laws to eliminate lifetime awards and establish guidelines for the amount and duration of awards has been signed into law by Gov. Chris Christie. “These needed reforms will make sure a spouse who has faithfully met their financial obligation is not unfairly forced to…

  • Students, teachers limited in electronic interaction

    By MAUREEN DAYE Correspondent MILLSTONE — Millstone Township students may not be friends with their teachers or any support staff employees on Facebook, according to Superintendent of Schools Scott Feder. Additionally, there are now two new policies in place regarding the broader topic of electronic communications between students and teachers and support staff. The Millstone…

  • GUEST COLUMN

    Six years later, unknowns remain in N.J. health insurance market ffi CAROLYN ANDRESS When the New Jersey Association of Health Underwriters convened its first symposium on health care in 2009, there was tremendous optimism for a solution to the health care crisis that has hit this country. There was a new president in the White…

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    Colorful mums bring a feeling of fall to Battleview Orchards, Freehold Township.

  • 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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