• Ask the Expert – Volume 9

    Ask the Expert – Volume 9

    Stephanie W. from Freehold asks: “My nephew was recently in a car accident and is still in the hospital. He was originally in I.C.U. but is now in a regular room. The doctor said that he has a spinal cord injury, but it is still too early to determine how bad the injury is. I…

  • Author meets with students at Howell school

    Author meets with students at Howell school

    HOWELL – Children’s author Chris Grabenstein recently engaged with sixth grade students at Howell Middle School South through a virtual author chat using the Internet-based conversation application, Skype. Sixth-graders at the school are familiar with reading and taking part in the adventures presented in many of Grabenstein’s books, according to a press release. Favorites among…

  • 75-year-old patient defies odds after neurosurgeon removes brain clot

    75-year-old patient defies odds after neurosurgeon removes brain clot

    Submitted by: ANS According to the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association, a stroke claims a life every four minutes in the US. Someone suffers a stroke once every 40 seconds and a stroke accounts for one of every 20 deaths. Despite these sobering statistics, there are success stories, like that of Janis…

  • Celebrate Middlesex County at Roosevelt Park June 10

    Celebrate Middlesex County at Roosevelt Park June 10

    A celebration of Middlesex County will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on June 10 around the lake at Roosevelt Park, Parsonage Road, Edison. The Celebration will include children’s performer Mr. Ray, bounce houses, face painting, fishing, roller skating, touch a truck and much more. For more information visit www.middlesexcountynj.gov.

  • Freehold Township clerk thanked for years of service

    Freehold Township clerk thanked for years of service

    By Matthew Sockol Staff Writer FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – A longtime employee of Freehold Township is retiring after more than two decades of service with the municipality. Township Clerk Terry Warner, who worked for the township for 24 years, is retiring. The announcement of Warner’s retirement was made at a Township Committee meeting on May 23.…

  • Superstorm Sandy discussed in Middletown

    Superstorm Sandy discussed in Middletown

      MIDDLETOWN – On June 4 and June 17 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. the Monmouth County Historical Association invites the community to come to the Taylor-Butler House at  127 Kings Highway to share stories, artifacts, and photographs for a forthcoming exhibit titled Turning Tides: Stories from Superstorm Sandy. This exhibition will open in…

  • Able Hands offers rehabilitation in three locations

    Certified Hand Therapist Shirish Godbole OTR/CHT Able Hands Rehabilitation P.C. Recognizing specialization in Hand Rehabilitation National Hand Therapy awareness week, June 5 through June 9, 2017 The hand is probably the third most important part of human body after the heart that drives us and the brain that guides us. Certified Hand Therapy involves caring…

  • The Orchards at Bartley granted Advanced Standing by state

    The Orchards at Bartley granted Advanced Standing by state

    The Orchards at Bartley, 100 North County Line Road, has once again been awarded the distinction of Advanced Standing (AS) by the New Jersey Department of Health and Health Care Association of New Jersey (HCANJ), a voluntary program opened to all licensed assisted living residences and comprehensive personal care homes in New Jersey that have…

  • Some outcomes have to be taken on faith

    Some outcomes have to be taken on faith

    Borden Applegate, this area’s favorite regularly corresponding atheist, favors us in a recent edition of the Tri-Town News with another of his interesting screeds directed against God-based religions in general. This particular one starts off with a denigration of the value of prayer, trotting out the usual stuff about the existence of wars and volcanoes…

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