• Hot airbags

    Q&A with Sharon Peters Q: I read in one of your recent columns about how so many carmakers are using eight or 10 airbags. I’m wondering if this is just a game of one-upsmanship or if they really save lives? A: Determining whether a non-fatality in a wreck was definitely attributable to seatbelt-wearing (or a…

  • Freehold Dodge Ram Subaru will celebrate 50th anniversary June 14

    I n a world where we read about businesses that are started and folded in record numbers and others that cannot weather through tough financial periods, every now and then it’s nice to read about a family business that has prospered and flourished against what is arguably the toughest business sector to succeed in ……

  • Values, long underwater, finally surfacing

    How rising real estate prices are affecting homeowners who have been stuck underwater on their mortgages Good news on the foreclosure front: The number of American homeowners who are seriously underwater on their mortgages —the home’s debt being at least 25 percent higher than that property’s estimated market value — is at its lowest level…

  • Toll Brothers’ executive receives special honor from the New Jersey Builders Association

    A New Jersey homebuilding executive from Toll Brothers was recently honored at the 27th Annual Sales and Marketing (SAM) Awards Banquet presented by the New Jersey Builders Association (NJBA). This year a very special SAM award was voted on by the NJBA members and associates at the 65th annual Atlantic Builders Convention. The NJBA’s first…

  • REAL ESTATE BRIEFS

    Hal Maxwell, president of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in New Jersey and Rockland County, N.Y., announces the company’s list of 2013 Coldwell Banker award winners in Monmouth County. The affiliated sales associates who earned these international awards for their sales success in 2013 include: International President’s Premier (Top 1 percent of approximately 85,000 Coldwell Banker…

  • Dineen Realty changes location

    Patrick Dineen, longtime broker for Dineen Realty, has announced that the company has moved its residential, commercial and relocation departments to 81 Ernston Road in the Parlin section of Sayreville. “After 26 great years at 3 Parlin Drive in Sayreville, I felt it was a good time to move. The increased exposure afforded by locating…

  • Lancers’ seniors go out winners by capturing conference title

    By MATTHEW ROCCO Correspondent The St. John Vianney High School softball team finished the season on a high note. Coming off a loss to underdog Immaculata High School in the NJSIAA Non-Public South Jersey A finals, the Lancers bounced back in the Shore Conference Tournament championship a day later. St. John Vianney came out swinging…

  • Photo

    MATT DENTON The New Jersey Raiders stop a two-on-one break by East Coast Hockey as Raiders goalie John Guerriero watches the action in front of him. The Raiders hosted the Mike Nichols Tournament at Middletown Ice World on June 7-8 to raise funds for Nichols, the Monroe Township High School hockey player who suffered a…

  • Area track and field standouts medal at MOC

    By WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent Above: Middletown High School North’s Sinead Slade gets ready to unleash a throw during the finals of the girls javelin competition at the NJSIAA Meet of Champions on June 4 at Frank Jost Field in South Plainfield. The Lions’ standout won a medal by finishing fifth with a throw of 130-4.…

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