• Determining the right amount of homework

    Many educators feel homework is necessary, but differ on how much to assign. Students spend roughly six hours in the classroom each day while their parents could put in eight hours at the office.When a family returns home in the evening, homework is probably the last thing they want to worry about. Still, homework is…

  • Is your child ready for kindergarten?

    A ge 5 is a big year in a child’s life. In many school districts, children enroll in kindergarten shortly after their 5th birthdays. But age alone does not dictate if a child is ready to transition from a preschool environment to kindergarten, and parents may need to work with educators to determine if their…

  • Local schools, businesses ready for back to school

    Around the Corner Art Center The Around the Corner Art Center is a full-service art center that accommodates a year-round art school, a custom frame shop, a paint-your-own pottery studio, and offers a full line of fine artist supplies to professionals and amateurs.The art center also runs a variety of children’s art camps and birthday…

  • Pine Belt Enterprises Auto Group hosts Customer Appreciation Day

    Pine Belt Enterprises Auto Group wanted to say “thank you” to all of the faithful customers they have had over the last 75 years. On July 19 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m., Pine Belt hosted a Customer Appreciation Day at their Pine Belt Chevy location in Lakewood. “We have such loyal customers and we…

  • PRACTICALLY AFFORDABLE

    Here’s a dozen 2014 cars and crossovers that are safe, reliable, get good fuel economy, feature expansive cargo carrying abilities and are all priced under $25,000 By Jim Gorzelany CTW Features Except for those whose budgets and/or lifestyles enable them to drive plush luxury cars or racy sport coupes, most of us, by choice or…

  • RE/MAX agents, brokerages excel in industry report

    RE/MAX brokerages outnumbered competitors and RE/MAX agents outproduced them in the RISMedia 26th Annual Power Broker Report. Of the 1,000 brokerages who qualified for the extended version of the survey, nearly 30 percent, or 292 brokerages, were RE/MAX affiliates. That is more than any other brand in the report, which ranked participating brokerages by total…

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    Lifeguards wait for the start of the 30th annual National Park System All-Women Lifeguard Tournament held at Sandy Hook in northern Monmouth County on July 30.

  • Resident takes issue with call to pave road

    Joni Mitchell sang the words “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot” in 1970, referring to the demise of nature and the environment due to human intervention. In 2014, the words are as pertinent as ever. I was dismayed to recently read that there is a petition to pave Harmony Hill Road in…

  • Doctor will discuss care, treatment of concussions

    By ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer FREEHOLD — It can happen without warning. One instant, an athlete is playing his hardest, and the next moment, an injury leaves him laying on the field and disoriented. His vision becomes blurry, a sensation of nausea washes over him, and a pounding headache attacks his senses — just some…

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