Tag: Shrewsbury

Hard to imagine a child’s toy chest without a doll. The favorite toy that sparks imagination, nurturing skills and more for both girls and boys has certainly evolved over the years.

Shrewsbury Borough’s municipal government is comprised of a mayor and borough council. The mayor is directly elected by voters to a four-year term while six council members are elected to serve three-year terms on a staggered basis, with two seats coming up for election each year in a three-year cycle. This year three seats are up for grabs; two full-term seats and a one-year unexpired term seat.

On Oct. 6, residents of Shrewsbury Borough will make a special trip to the polls to vote on a school board bond referendum.

This murky couplet, plucked from the prose of Jim Morrison’s 1970 performance piece titled “Celebration of the Lizard King,” serves as a properly provocative introduction to Paul Hansen’s solo exhibition “The Doors” at Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury.

Twenty-one years after 9/11, those whose lives were altered forever that day live in the bittersweet, passing on a legacy of love and heartbreak, pride and persistence to their children and their children’s children.

year’s totals, and no tax increase, the majority of Two River-area municipalities are nearing the conclusion of their own budgetary processes, certifying spending plans with a multitude of intriguing takeaways.

Lunch Break, the Red Bank-based nonprofit, has offered a hot meal, a warm smile and maybe a fresh set of clothing to those in need for years. But what many may not realize is its Life Skills Program also offers business and life advice, guidance and emotional support.

What does a historic church, with a graveyard dating to the early 1700s, do when it runs out of burial room? For Christ Church in Shrewsbury, part of the borough’s notable Four Corners which dates to pre-Revolutionary War times, the answer lies in something even older: the columbarium.

By Allison Perrine ALLISON PERRINE Conservation groups in the Two River area are working on initiatives that will...

By Allison Perrine RED BANK – Plans for a mixed-use residential project on the West Side of town were...