• RE/MAX sees opportunity in recovering market

    More than 1,000 RE/MAX brokers and their industry vendors recently gathered in San Francisco for the company’s annual Broker Owner Conference. They’re celebrating recent successes and preparing for new opportunities in a recovering real estate market. Since the second quarter of 2013, more than 4,200 new agents and 208 new offices have joined the RE/MAX…

  • Home equity: to borrow or not to borrow?

    By Marilyn Kennedy Melia CTW Features Many homeowners who were once underwater now find that not only are they high and dry, but that their home sits above a well of cash. Home equity — defined as the difference between a home’s current value and the amount of principal owed on any mortgage — took…

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    Middlesex County Parks and Recreation employee Christopher Timm feeds a banana to a deer at the zoo in Johnson Park, Piscataway. The fruit was provided by Middlesex County Food Organization and Outreach Distribution Services due to a surplus of bananas.

  • James Edward Cunningham

    James Cunningham, 75, of the Clarksburg section of Millstone Township and Jensen Beach, Fla., passed away on Aug. 19, 2014, at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla. Jim was born in New York City in 1938. He and his brother Charlie spent the majority of their childhood at Mount Loretto, a Catholic orphanage for…

  • Action needed now to restore democracy

    I magine that the United States is still a democracy, that the big money in politics from corporations and the wealthy had not given these special interests control of our government and drowned out the voices of most Americans. If democracy still reigned, would our “representatives” be debating such issues as the relative rights of…

  • Cooking event features White House chefs

    The National Multiple Sclerosis Society will host “Forks and Corks: A White House Dinner” on Sept. 27 at Forsgate Country Club, Monroe Township. The event will offer culinary enthusiasts the opportunity to dine on some of the White House’s signature dishes prepared by former White House chefs Guy Mitchell and Woody Raber. In addition, the…

  • Girl Scout planning Halloboo Math fun

    By MAUREEN DAYE Parents and youngsters are going to have a chance to do Halloboo Math this fall in Millstone Township and Allentown. Jenna Beth Wincek, who will be a senior at Allentown High School, is planning a Gold Award project for Girl Scout Troop 853 of Millstone Township and Allentown. The project involves holding…

  • Lopez, Whistler will perform in Freehold

    By CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — Drummer Vini “Mad Dog” Lopez and soul singer and songwriter Paul Whistler will perform as part of the Sunday Night Jazz and Blues Concert Series sponsored by the Freehold Borough Arts Council (FBAC) from 7-9 p.m. Sept. 7 at the gazebo on Main Street. Lopez, of Jackson,…

  • Freeholders urging support for border states

    By CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer The Monmouth County Board of Freeholders is calling on President Barack Obama and other government leaders to take necessary steps to support the nation’s border states in securing the U.S. border. The freeholders passed a resolution on Aug. 7 in response to reports of thousands of immigrants who have…

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