Georgian Court University (GCU) will celebrate Women's History Month on March 10 with headline speaker Naomi Tutu, human rights activist and daughter of Archbishop Desmond and Nomalizo Leah Tutu. The lecture will take place at 6:30 p.m. More...

This is in response to a letter to the editor from Denise Richardson that was published in the Tri-Town News on Feb. 5, 2009, and supported John Morvay, Matthew Genovese and Tracey Murnane for the Jackson Board of Education. Please don't be deceived by the smoke screen our opponents are throwing at us. More...

Behind the fusillade of faulty arguments proffered by the Amethyst Initiative in support of lowering the minimum legal drinking age to 18 lurks an inconvenient truth: doing so would only exacerbate the current epidemic of underage drinking, further jeopardizing young lives at a critical juncture in their physical, social, and emotional development. More...

Iget a lot of reader response to this column. Sometimes, I opine about something that rubs some people the wrong way, and I hear about it. Once in a while, though, I write something that strikes a positive chord with readers, and I hear about that, too. More...

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JACKSON — The third annual fashion show and luncheon sponsored by the Jackson Educational Foundation raised more than $3,000 that will benefit the students of the Jackson School District. The event was held at La Bove Grande at Circle Landmark, Lakehurst, on Feb. 21. More...

After two days of tryouts, 26 players sat silently in a semicircle, waiting to hear if they had made the cut. On Feb. 25, 51 players had entered the practice field at GoodSports USA at Allaire in Wall Township, hoping to play for the Sky Blue FC Soccer team, a part of the inaugural season of Women's Professional Soccer. More...