• Off-season selling

    Don’t shy away from cold weather; listing your home during the fall or winter can bring unexpected advantages By Erik J. Martin CTW Features Many home sellers choose to sit on the sidelines during the colder autumn and winter months and get in the game come springtime, when they expect greater interest from buyers. But…

  • Get green tax credits

    Make energy efficient updates to your home and apply for tax credits by Dec. 31 Tax Day next April is a long way off, but the deadline to take advantage of a valuable tax credit — worth up to $500 — is Dec. 31, 2013. Taxpayers can save more green by going green and making…

  • Power to the panels

    As the benefits outweigh the costs of residential solar panels, more homeowners and builders install solar arrays By Marilyn Kennedy Melia CTW Features This could be the tipping point. That’s what advocates of residential solar power are hoping as they weigh factors like the lower cost of solar panels and the availability of tax breaks…

  • SPORT SHORTS

    Monmouth Park will host a Breeders’ Cup Party on Nov. 2, coinciding with the second day of the 30th Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Santa Anita, Calif. The event will take place in Monmouth Park’s luxurious Turf Club. For $40, it will include valet parking, a Breeders’ Cup program, lunch buffet and an exclusive Breeders’…

  • Liberty Lions boys soccer team extends win streak to five games

    JACKSON LIBERTY By WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent When Jackson Liberty High School’s boys soccer team took a 2-1 halftime lead on Oct. 17 over Shore Conference B South Division leader Point Pleasant Borough High school, it was a crossroads situation for the game and the season. Earlier in the season, Jackson Liberty likewise had a 2-1…

  • Jaguars narrowly miss out on A South boys soccer title

    JACKSON MEMORIAL By WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent I t was an amazing and valiant run — four overtime games in a row through last week and eight over the course of the season for Jackson Memorial High School’s boys soccer team. Although the Jaguars showed the stamina, going 3-0-1 in the four games before Oct. 21’s…

  • Women’s soccer brings Brookdale its 100th GSAC championship

    When the Brookdale Community College women’s soccer team clinched the 2013 Garden State Athletic Conference (GSAC) championship, it was a very special one for the college. It marked Brookdale’s 100th GSAC championship in school history. Brookdale’s first GSAC title goes back to 1971, which was won by Hall of Fame coach Paul MacLaughlin’s baseball team.…

  • Tarpey’s personal best highlights strong county meet by area harriers

    By TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Howell High School’s Amanda Ferraro (r) and Middletown High School South’s Christina Rutkowski race to the finish line at the Monmouth County Cross-Country Championships held on Oct. 15 at Holmdel Park. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR A ny disappointment Dylan Tarpey may have had about finishing second at the Monmouth County…

  • Holiday harbinger: the Sugarloaf Crafts Festival

    Sculpture by Martin Silverman of Jackson The Sugarloaf Crafts Festival will host more than 275 nationally known artists and craftsmen Oct. 25-27 at the Garden State Exhibit Center in Somerset. The festival showcases one-of-a-kind, handcrafted work by jury-selected artists from around the country who will be showing their seasonally inspired works in pottery, sculpture, glass,…

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