• Green takes issue with appointment to WMUA

    By MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer MANALAPAN — The appointment of an individual to the Western Monmouth Utilities Authority (WMUA) board of commissioners caused some friction among members of the Township Committee on Feb. 19. The WMUA provides sewage treatment services to Manalapan, Marlboro and portions of other municipalities. Prior to the public portion of the…

  • IN THE NEWS

    Time is now to ramp up fight vs. blood cancers Mark Rosman I hate cancer with a passion. During my 32-year career with Greater Media Newspapers, our staff writers have authored hundreds of articles about men, women and children who have battled the disease. Some of those articles have had happy endings and some, unfortunately,…

  • Solomon Schechter students excel at science event

    A team of seventh- and eighth-grade students at Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Monmouth County, Marlboro, won first place at the Monmouth University Stars Challenge science competition. The team, led by Bill McCurdy, was awarded $1,000, to be used to purchase materials for the science classroom. The Stars Challenge is a science enrichment program…

  • Teenager shows heart in Girl Scout project

    REGIONAL INTEREST By MAUREEN DAYE Correspondent Keely Allen of Millstone Township sewed up 2013 in a giving way. After teaching a small group of people to sew pillows, the 13-year-old made a special New Year’s Eve delivery to CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township, to bring some cheer to the hospital’s oncology patients. The young woman’s…

  • Couple’s effort supports Autism Speaks

    MANALAPAN — The New Jersey Chapter of Autism Speaks announced that Manalapan residents Marissa and Steve Eisenman, the team captains of Party Fair/ jerZjump, raised more than $43,000 in the 2013 Central New Jersey Walk Now for Autism Speaks and led the fundraising in New Jersey. Party Fair/jerZjump has walked with Autism Speaks since 2010…

  • Freehold K-8 school board eyes construction options

    By CLARE MARIE CELANO FREEHOLD — The Freehold Borough K-8 School District Board of Education may make a decision at its March 10 meeting on which construction project to place before voters in September. Board members were presented with several construction options on Feb. 10 and discussed those options on Feb. 24 as they continued…

  • Arc of Monmouth will honor special month

    March 1 marked the start of Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month. To celebrate this month, The Arc of Monmouth will be joining other chapters of The Arc, individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, their families and friends in getting out in public to raise awareness on March 29. The goal of this one-day event is to…

  • Support sought for Toomey-Manchin bill

    I recently attended a meeting hosted by the Jewish Federation of Monmouth County that addressed the alarming number of school shootings in America. There have been 44 school shootings since the December 2012 Newtown, Conn., tragedy; 13 of those shootings have already happened in 2014. The auditorium was filled with uniformed and decorated law enforcement…

  • Guest Column

    Courses at OLLI-RU open new avenues of education When I retired as a ceremonial resolution writer for the New Jersey Legislature in September 2007, a friend suggested I take a course at OLLIRU. Thus began a gratifying and fruitful experience that continues to this day. The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute- Rutgers University is a continuing…

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