• Need a mentor? Go to camp!

    January is National Mentor Month, a time to celebrate and encourage the positive relationships that are critical to the development of children and youth — the positive relationships that are developed and encouraged each year at camp. The idea of a mentor is an ancient one. In Greek mythology, when Odysseus, King of Ithaca, went…

  • Camp defines and develops character

    Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary defines character as one of the attributes or features that make up and distinguish an individual. Character development is tricky. It isn’t something that can be learned from a textbook or in a lecture — it is learned through teachable moments and experiences. So where can families turn to help provide the…

  • Area schools and camps have so much to offer

    Around the Corner Art Center Around the Corner Art Center is anxious for summer to arrive and art camp to begin.The Little Picassos (ages 5- 8) and Master Monets (8-13) bring lots of excitement, energy and creativity to the art center. Classes in clay and ceramics, mixed media, drawing and painting, cartooning, fashion design, sewing,…

  • ‘Another Night on Broadway’ will light up Millstone stage

    By MAUREEN DAYE Correspondent MILLSTONE — “Another Night on Broadway” will bring more than neon lights to the Millstone Performing Arts Center, 5 Dawson Court, Millstone Township, on Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.m. Gina Whalen, the director of “Another Night on Broadway,” said she is delighted and excited to be working with a talented cast…

  • Selection of voting representative has board members at odds

    By MAUREEN DAYE Correspondent MILLSTONE — The president and a member of the Millstone Township K-8 School District Board of Education recently debated a change in the board’s voting representative to another school district. Millstone sends its high school students to Allentown High School in the neighboring Upper Freehold Regional School District (UFRSD) on a…

  • Casino Night set for Feb. 1

    MILLSTONE — The Millstone Township Foundation for Educational Excellence (MTFEE) will be hosting its second annual Casino Night fundraiser at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 1 at the Battleground Country Club, Manalapan. The cost of the event is $72 per person and includes $25 in “fun money” for gambling entertainment, along with a buffet dinner, dessert and…

  • GUEST COLUMN

    350 years and still green? . MICHELE S. BYERS New Jersey is a beautiful, green and fertile state — a great place to live, just as it has been since its founding 350 years ago. In fact, it’s still known as the Garden State. What will the next few 100 years bring? It’s clear that…

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    The sun sets in Roosevelt Park in Edison. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR

  • Zeau Conover DuBois Brown

    Mrs. Brown, 80, of East Rupert Vt., formerly of Freehold, died Jan. 13, 2013, at home. She was a graduate of Lasell College, Newton, Mass., and worked as a reporter for the Freehold Transcript, the Long Branch Daily Record, and as a feature writer for the Red Bank Register. She was a former trustee for…

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