• East Brunswick Cultural Arts Center holds charity concert

    East Brunswick Cultural Arts Center holds charity concert

    Accordion Pops Orchestra will present “Music for a Sunday Afternoon” at 3 p.m. on May 21 at the East Brunswick Cultural Arts Center, 721 Cranbury Road. The suggested donation is $10 at the door. Proceeds will benefit the ALS Foundation and Young Accordionists. For more information, visit accordionpops.com.

  • Playground in Sayreville honors life of little ‘angel’

    Playground in Sayreville honors life of little ‘angel’

    By PETER ELACQUA Staff Writer SAYREVILLE – A local family is turning grief into positivity by opening a playground that will honor a young son lost last year. The Lyrics for Lucas Foundation, along with the Where Angels Play Foundation, opened the Lucas Albert DiGuilio Memorial Playground on April 30, which was constructed at the…

  • ‘Phragmites Phighters’ invited to competition in Wisconsin

    ‘Phragmites Phighters’ invited to competition in Wisconsin

    By Matthew Sockol Staff Writer MILLSTONE – While they help to combat the growth of an invasive plant species in their community, a group of elementary school pupils in Millstone Township has been invited to attend an international competition. The 19 pupils in grades three through five at the Millstone Township Elementary School who call…

  • Officials adopt 2017 municipal budget in Freehold Township

    Officials adopt 2017 municipal budget in Freehold Township

    By Matthew Sockol Staff Writer FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – The Township Committee has adopted a $39.5 million budget that will fund the operation of Freehold Township this year. The township has 200 full-time employees, which includes 67 police officers, and 64 part-time employees. Personnel costs will account for $24.5 million of this year’s budget, according to…

  • Writer questions the power of prayer

    Writer questions the power of prayer

    In May, the President called for another National Day of Prayer. Why? Has prayer brought peace to the world, or to the bloodshed capital of all history, the Holy Land? Has prayer emptied children’s hospitals; has death taken a holiday? Were the prayers of six million answered? Did prayer break the chains of the slaves?…

  • Farmingdale board expects to propose school referendum

    Farmingdale board expects to propose school referendum

    By Mark Rosman Staff Writer FARMINGDALE – The Farmingdale Board of Education is expected to ask residents to approve $4.6 million worth of renovations at the Farmingdale Public School in a special election later this year. Business Administrator Karen Minutolo said that the cost of the facilities project will be financed through the issuance of…

  • Freehold Township school budget hikes taxes

    Freehold Township school budget hikes taxes

    By Matthew Sockol Staff Writer FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – The Freehold Township K-8 School District Board of Education has adopted a 2017-18 budget that will carry an $89 tax increase for the owner of a home assessed at the township average. On April 25, following discussion among district administrators and board members, a $78.7 million budget…

  • Vendors sought for monthly yard sale to benefit emergency squad

    Vendors sought for monthly yard sale to benefit emergency squad

    The Sayreville Emergency Squad will hold a monthly community yard sale on the third Saturday of each month through October at the squad building, 776 Washington Road, Parlin section of Sayreville. The yard sales will help raise money for the equipment used by the all-volunteer squad. Members of the public are invited to attend. The…

  • Cell tower will be out of place in watershed

    Cell tower will be out of place in watershed

    In Freehold Township, there is a proposal to build another cell tower. The cell company has an application for a zoning variance. But this application is different because the 128-foot-tall monopole will sit squarely in the Lake Topanemus watershed, a residential area and an environmentally protected zone. The plan calls for a non-indigenous 128-foot-tall metal…

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