• 21st annual marathon and half marathon April 30

    21st annual marathon and half marathon April 30

    Pacers Running is will be the host to this year’s Novo Nordisk New Jersey marathon and half marathon presented by LifeTime Fitness on April 30. The event begins at 7:30 a.m. Both races will start in Monmouth Park and finish on the Long Branch Ocean Promenade. This year’s race is supported by Novo Nordisk and LifeTime…

  • Healthy Kids Day April 24-29

    Healthy Kids Day April 24-29

    METUCHEN — As spring turns to summer, the annual Healthy Kids Day is a powerful reminder not to let children idle away their summer days. The YMCA of Metuchen, Edison, Woodbridge and South Amboy (MEWSA) will hold free community events this week as part of YMCA’s Healthy Kids Day, the Y’s national initiative to improve…

  • Planned co-op would offer South Amboy students work experience

    Planned co-op would offer South Amboy students work experience

    By Jacqueline Durett Correspondent SOUTH AMBOY—The city may have a few new “employees” later this year, but they will not be employees in the traditional sense. And when these new hires go home, they may have homework to do. These “employees” will actually be interns from South Amboy Middle/High School, if a new co-op program…

  • Food and wine event May 4 in Red Bank

    Food and wine event May 4 in Red Bank

      Matching at-risk children with positive role models for the last four decades, the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Monmouth & Middlesex Counties will hold its 18th annual Food and Wine event. The event will take place at Buona Sera Italian Ristorante, located at 50 Maple Ave., Red Bank, on May 4 from 6:30-9 p.m. Reservations…

  • Children’s yoga program begins May 2

    Children’s yoga program begins May 2

    The North Brunswick Department of Parks, Recreation & Community Services (DPRCS) is offering a Kids Yoga program on Tuesday evenings from May 2-23 at the North Brunswick Senior Center, 15 Linwood Place. Classes for ages 4-8 is from 5-5:30 p.m., and from 5:30-6:15 p.m. for ages 9-12. Each class is age-appropriate and is quite different…

  • Sayreville needs better options for affordable housing

    Sayreville needs better options for affordable housing

    Like many communities, Sayreville needs to respond to the Supreme Court decision concerning affordable housing. Unlike some other communities, the Planning Board’s answer is to build 2,000 more homes/apartments on top of the 2,000 planned for The Pointe in order to achieve the required 795 affordable units. Affordable housing is a laudable goal, and providing…

  • Reader ‘reeling’ about freeholders’ meeting

    Reader ‘reeling’ about freeholders’ meeting

    To all health conscious, life-loving humans, this past Thursday evening, April 20, I attended the public meeting of the Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders. I’m still reeling with anger and head-spinning dizziness about the performance of our paid elected officials who were comfortably mounted in their seats, appearing to look down on the voters.…

  • Jamesburg Elks to hold Mother’s Day brunch

    Jamesburg Elks to hold Mother’s Day brunch

    Jamesburg Elks Lodge No. 2180 will hold a Mother’s Day breakfast from 9 a.m. to noon on May 14 at the lodge, 74 W. Railroad Ave., Jamesburg. Brunch will include eggs, pancakes, French toast, hash browns, sausage, bacon, toast, bagels, muffins, coffee and juice. Cost is $10 for adults, $5 for mothers and $5 for…

  • Freehold Borough will replace trees damaged in storms

    Freehold Borough will replace trees damaged in storms

    FREEHOLD – Following two hurricanes, a Halloween snowstorm and a supercell that devastated Freehold Borough’s urban canopy, municipal officials will begin planting more than 200 replacement trees. The trees will be planted with the aid of a Community Stewardship Incentive Program Grant from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Forestry Division, according to a…

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