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ERIC SUCAR staff Eight-year old Desi Zaffuto of Manalapan patiently waits for a tug on his line during the annual Kids' Fishing Derby held at Stevenson Park in Shadow Lake in Lincroft on Saturday April 26. The annual event sponsored by Middletown Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs Department was... More...
Planning Board approves update of 30-year-old plan

If you want to meet the future, you need a plan, and they're coming up with a new one in Hazlet. A historic preservation plan, revitalization of the Route 36 corridor and development options for the train station area are recommendations in a re-examination of the Hazlet Township master plan. More...


Salary increases will average 4.5 percent per year

The Board of Education and the Middletown Township Education Association have a collective bargaining agreement good through June 30, 2011. According to board member Joan Minnuies, this is the earliest the two groups have come to an agreement. They started the process of finalizing a contract in ... More...


Above: Angel, a Moluccan cockatoo, puts on a show with Freehold Township's Terri Jones during the 10th annual Bayonet Farm Earth Day Celebration. Angel became a resident of the Arcadia Bird Sanctuary after its owner died in the 9/11 attacks. Far right: Holmdel's Matthew Ameduri, 11, uses a spray bot... More...


Monmouth County's first "Weekend in Old Monmouth" historic tour will open the doors of 32 local historic sites all at the same time - from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on May 3 and from noon to 5 p.m. on May 4. "Independent and local historic sites are generally operated independently of one another," said... More...


MATAWAN - Borough taxpayers are still questioning the motives that prevented Borough Attorney Pat Menna's reappointment earlier this month. After serving as the borough attorney for the past two years, Pasquale Menna, of Menna, Supko and Casagrande, in Shrewsbury, was rejected as attorney for th... More...


Project Paul is now taking registration for its third annual golf outing June 19 at Bamm Hollow Country Club, Lincroft section of Middletown. All proceeds benefit the nonprofit, which operates a food pantry in Monmouth County and a thrift shop in Keansburg. More...
Al Solana's April 23 letter criticizing Hazlet's local tax rate renamed our community "Taxlet" and a "New Jersey Soprano Township." With respect, I could not disagree more. Across New Jersey, elected officials and citizen leaders are working to solve our state's addiction to high taxes and reckle... More...
Guest Column
Whenever New Jersey has a governmental crisis - and they are commonplace these days - someone finds a way to take it out on environmental protection or open spaces. Our legislators in Trenton are suffering budgetary angst over whether to cut state expenditures to what taxpayers can afford or to... More...
Mrs. Hope, 93, of Keansburg, died April 21, 2008, at Bayside Manor, Keansburg. She was a retired medical assistant. She was predeceased by her husband, John F. Grant. She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Dr. John F. and Cheryl A. Grant of Matawan; five grandchildren; and four great-grandc... More...
Ben Horel of Christian Brothers Academy runs the 800-meter leg for the Colts in the High School Boys Distance Medley Championship of America at the Penn Relays on April 25. The team ran 10:22.73 to finish in ninth place. More...