• PAL, food pantry plan to lease space in Howell

    By GREG KENNELTY Staff Writer HOWELL — The Township Council has introduced two measures that would allow the township to lease space in a municipally owned building to the Howell Police Athletic League (PAL) and the Howell Emergency Food Pantry. The ordinances that were introduced at the Sept. 24 council meeting would allow the operators…

  • Orchid auction open to all

    The largest orchid auction in the Mid- Atlantic region is scheduled for Oct. 5 at the Presbyterian Church House, 352 Sycamore Ave., Shrewsbury. The auction will begin at 10 a.m. Doors open at 9 a.m. for preview. The auction, sponsored by the Deep Cut Orchid Society (DCOS), will feature more than 400 exotic orchids from…

  • Family mourns loss of young life to addiction

    VIEWS Jack Murtha We buried my 21-year-old cousin Courtney on the afternoon of Sept. 5, near her lifelong home in Bergen County. She died two days earlier, after a difficult period scarred by a cruel and far-too-common disease. Courtney spent the final years of her life as an intravenous heroin addict who shuffled in and…

  • Calling on Rep. Smith to support gun sense

    While Congress chooses to do nothing about gun violence, Americans continue to die every day. As 100 percent of Congressman Chris Smith’s (central New Jersey) constituency, when polled, support universal background checks, it is hard to understand why the congressman has not emerged as a leader and advocate for gun sense. I urge Congressman Smith…

  • FDA’s approval of drug is a step forward

    I was excited to learn that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the chemotherapy drug Abraxane to treat metastatic pancreatic cancer in combination with gemcitabine, another chemotherapy drug. This is the first new treatment to be approved for pancreatic adenocarcinoma, the most common type of pancreatic cancer, in nearly eight years. With a five-year…

  • Newspapers are alive and well

    YOUR TURN ROBERT M. WILLIAMS JR. GUEST COLUMN I know of newspapers that kept their communities informed about clean water and shelter during terrible storms and disasters. I know of newspapers that exposed crooks, lost a lot of advertising from the crooks’ buddies and still put out a paper every week. I know of a…

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  • Local student earns award in Vienna

    JACKSON — Mariella Diaz, a sixthgrade pupil at St. Aloysius School, was a winner at the Golden Key Music Festival Piano Composition Competition in Vienna, Austria, in July. According to information provided by St. Aloysius School, Mariella auditioned for the competition in January. She then received an invitation to perform in the Gala Concert of…

  • Home invasion suspects still being sought

    JACKSON — Police are still searching for the individuals alleged to have been involved in a Sept. 8 home invasion on Monmouth Road (Route 537) that left one resident seeking medical attention from a machete wound. Detectives have been unable to identify any new leads in the case, Jackson police Lt. Steven Laskiewicz said this…

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