The Middletown Arts Center is Back! Check out the Winter Session of IN-PERSON classes: Theater, Dance, Art, Music and more! Click here. 

Above photo are examples of the artwork created for the "Sign of the Times" project. 

MIDDLETOWN, NJ: With tears forming in her eyes, Maggie O’Brien walks the empty halls of the Middletown Arts Center (MAC). Executive director ...

2021 Winter Session Auditions for Rockit Academy held on Brookdale Community College Campus. 












Rockit Academy, New Jersey's #1 program for aspiring young musicians, is holding auditions for its 2021 winter session. We welcome all instruments and levels of experience.

🎉🎉YOUR MIDDLETOWN ARTS CENTER HAS NEVER STOPPED WORKING FOR ...

WASHINGTON − The Internal Revenue Service today reminded businesses and other payors that the revised Form 1099-MISC, Miscellaneous Income, and the new Form 1099-NEC, Nonemployee Compensation, must be furnished to most recipients by Feb. 1, 2021.

Redesigned Form 1099-MISC

The IRS revised Form 1099-MISC for the 2020 tax year to accommodate the creation of a new Form 1099-NEC. The ...

NEW JERSEY -- The newly issued guidelines on Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) lending overseen by the SBA and the U.S. Treasury Department will better target New Jersey's small businesses, especially those owned by minorities or located in low income areas.

The Economic Aid Act makes it possible for hard-hit businesses to get second loans from the PPP lending ...

KEYPORT, NJ: The Borough of Keyport is offering qualifying small businesses operating at a location within the Keyport Neighborhood Preservation Program (NPP) district boundaries the opportunity to apply for grants for commercial rent, mortgage, and utility payments. 

The grants are supported by federal COVID-19 recovery funds administered by the N.J. Department of Community Affairs ...

HOLMDEL, NJ - Holmdel schools - fully open to in-school education 5 days a week -  are sharing data with parents and the community to provide a clear picture of positive COVID-19 cases in the schools. Nearly half of the positive cases are already virtual. Of the approximate student body of 3000, about 1% became positive for COVID-19 as of January 12th, 2021.

According to ...

HAZLET, NJ: January 13, marked the first day Hazlet Police Department began teaching the LEAD program; (Law Enforcement Against Drugs). The 5th grade classes (at Beers Street and Cove Road), and the 8th grade classes at Hazlet Middle School were visited by Hazlet's finest. 

The LEAD program teaches more than just drug resistance. LEAD helps students learn how to ...

NEW JERSEY — A new executive order will mean sweeping changes for the way teachers and students are evaluated for the 2020-2021 school year.

Gov. Phil Murphy, who has long said this isn’t a normal school year due to COVID-19, announced the changes during a Monday press conference on pandemic updates.

As part of the order, high school seniors won’t have to pass an exit ...

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NEW JERSEY - If New Jersey residents were not justifiably distracted with a deadly assault on the Capitol of the United States of America, they may have noticed the implosion of a top candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of the State of New Jersey, Doug Steinhardt.

A month after he jumped into the race as the only candidate ...

TRENTON, NJ - Sometimes the questions go off COVID-19 and onto politics for the Middletown, NJ based Governor Murphy. With a near daily schedule of COVID-19 briefings however, he tries to allow a robust question and answer period.

During the COVID-19 briefing question and answer period on Monday, December 28th, Murphy was asked about big changes due to the 10-year census and ...

SOUTH RIVER, NJ -- Congresswoman U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin, who represents Michigan’s 8th Congressional District, has contacted senior military leaders to request that U.S. Capitol Officer Brian Sicknick be buried in Arlington National Cemetery. The 42-year-old South River, NJ, native was killed during the siege on the Capitol Building on Wednesday, Jan. 6, when a pro-Trump mob ...

KEYPORT, NJ: Called upon to vote for the first time in two years, Mayor Collette J. Kennedy cast the definitive tally in a 4-3 decision to adopt all appointments and assignments to the borough’s various boards and commissions as presented during the New Year’s Day reorganization meeting.

Council member Dennis Fotopoulos argued that an additional third permanent council nomination ...

WASHINGTON – Starting this week, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service are sending approximately 8 million second Economic Impact Payments (EIPs) by prepaid debit card.

These EIP Cards follow the millions of payments already made by direct deposit and the ongoing mailing of paper checks that are delivering the second round of Economic Impact Payments as rapidly as ...

The Y is here to strengthen lives. A non-profit charity, the YMCA of Greater Monmouth County has served community for over 146 years with programs that support healthy living and well-being for people of all ages, interests, and backgrounds. All are welcome and no one is turned away for the inability to pay.   

A New Year is always filled with the promise of positive change and ...

NEW JERSEY -- New Jersey has begun its program for administering the COVID-19 vaccine. The state currently has in place a two-phase plan to administer the vaccine to the general population. Stage 1A that provides vaccine access to Health Care workers and Long-Term Care residents is currently in effect as of December 15. The overall goal is to have the vaccine reach a majority of the population by ...

TRENTON, NJ — New Jersey has established two helplines offering COVID-19 crisis counseling to front-line medical workers and first-responders.

Gov. Phil Murphy announced the creation of HEAL for health care workers and RISE for police, firefighters, emergency responders among others during his December 23 press briefing. "For countless front-line workers, the ...

RED BANK, NJ: First Standard Financial Company, LLC, of Red Bank, a now-defunct broker-dealer whose agents defrauded customers as part of an excessive trading scheme, was charged with additional actions by New Jersey Bureau of Securities in announcement today by Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal.

The Securities Bureau previously revoked First Standard’s broker-dealer registration after ...

HAZLET, NJ: January 13, marked the first day Hazlet Police Department began teaching the LEAD program; (Law Enforcement Against Drugs). The 5th grade classes (at Beers Street and Cove Road), and the 8th grade classes at Hazlet Middle School were visited by Hazlet's finest. 

The LEAD program teaches more than just drug resistance. LEAD helps students learn how to ...

NEW JERSEY -- Gov. Phil Murphy has ordered that all U.S. and New Jersey flags be flown at half-staff on Monday, Jan 11, 2021, in honor of U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick of South River, who died following injuries sustained while defending the U.S. Capitol when it was under siege on Jan. 6.

In a statement, Murphy said: 

“United States Capitol Police Officer ...

Holmdel Police Department issued the following public post on social media Monday afternoon:

Officers save man's life on Christmas Day.

On December 25, 2020 at 11:45am, Holmdel Police Officers Herlihy, Broglia, and Disko responded to a township residence for a mental health/crisis call.  After entering the home, Officers found droplets of blood leading to and continuing up a ...

TRENTON, NJ — After a forced time-out of nearly one month, indoor sports in New Jersey returned this weekend, clearing the way for the start of the high school sports winter season.

Since Gov. Phil Murphy did not extend his December 5 ban placed on organized indoor sports — practices and competitions for youths and adults — these activities resumed on January 2 but with ...

TRENTON, NJ -- In a highly anticipated announcement , Gov. Phil Murphy said Wednesday at his COVID-19 press briefing that Indoor sports may resume on Saturday, January 2, 2021, with safety protocols in place. However, the regional suspension of interstate youth hockey competitions will continue through at least January 31.

NJSIAA, the governing body for high school sports in the state, ...

On the Lincroft campus of Christian Brothers Academy, basketball season is traditional and ritualistic for a group of super fans known as the Colt Crazies.

The pre-game tribal chanting is a precursor to their coordinated pop-corn bouncing in the gym’s rollout bleachers, and synchronized incantations of cheers and wit-filled jeers passed down from graduating class to ...

Join Chabad House for a special evening with 

 World-renowned author, counselor, lecturer & philosopher  RABBI MANIS FRIEDMAN 

 Topic: ONE PEOPLE ONE SOUL ONE LAND

Saturday evening, January 23rd at 7:00 PM

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Sensing a Vast Unity 

As I stand in my own small space of the planet

reveling in the power and beauty of the heavens, 

I feel a great unity with all beings.

I know that somewhere there is a herdsman

in the Sahara Desert who is also gazing

at the stars of our common universe.

I know there is a lamb in New Zealand

romping in sunlight that also bathes my skin.

I ...