Somerset County Park Commission has announced that Quail Brook Golf Course on New Brunswick Road in Somerset, NJ will close for the season at the conclusion of play on Sunday, November 29, 2015. Quail Brook joins Warrenbrook Golf Course on Warrenville Road in Warren Township that closed for the season earlier this month. Remaining open are Spooky Brook at Colonial …

The Somerset County Park Commission’s Colonial Park Gardens Horticulture staff is offering a “Holiday Kissing Ball Workshop” on Saturday, December 5, 2015 from 10:00 A.M. to noon at the Park Commission Headquarters located at North Branch Park, 355 Milltown Road in Bridgewater. Staff will show participants methods to create a beautiful holiday kissing ball using fresh floral and evergreen materials …

Hundreds of parishioners at St. Matthias Roman Catholic Church showed up Nov. 22 to congratulate their priest on his 25 years at their pulpit. The Rev. Douglas J. Haefner said he was “humbled” by the response to his anniversary. “I’m just humbled by the outpouring of the people,” Haefner said after the 10:30 a.m. Mass. “Today was a celebration of …

You could say that Nicholette Coy has been preparing for this moment since she was 13 years old. That’s when Coy, the owner of Shear Luxury salon on Route 27, first started doing hair. “It always came back to me,” she said. Coy attended a vocational high school where she studied hair styling, she said. At 16, she had her …

Hundreds of students “went for the gavel” Nov. 21 at the fifth annual Franklin High School Model U.N. conference. The students came from high school from throughout the region to participate in the one-day conference seen as a practice run for the large, multi-day conferences held at colleges across the country. The students were assigned to delegations from specific countries, …

The body of a former Elizabeth Avenue School assistant principal was found Nov. 22 more than 300 feet below the cliffs of the State Line Lookout area in the Palisades, police said. Police recovered the body of John Norton, 35, of Palisades, early in the morning, after resuming a search from the prior day that had to be called off because of …

The 2015 Christmas season has begun, at least over in Zarephath. WAWZ STAR 99.1-Central Jersey recently flipped the Christmas music switch. The station will play all-Christmas music through Christmas Day, according to a press release from the station. STAR 99.1 is New Jersey and New York City’s only Christmas Music radio station that places an emphasis on songs that uplift …

The Fall drama presentation at Franklin High School is the children’s fantasy, “The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.” One of the seven “Chroniclas of Narnia” stories written by C.S. Lewis, the story is about four siblings – two brothers and two sisters – in World War II England who find passageway to a magical world – Narnia – through …

Hillcrest Elementary School is losing its principal, but Sampson G. Smith Intermediate School is getting one. And they are the same person. Evelyn Rutledge, currently the Hillcrest principal, was named the new SGS principal Nov. 19 by the Board of Education. Rutledge will assume her new position on Jan 1, 2016. She will be paid a pro-rated yearly salary of …

By Dr. Sayed M. Rizvi, Clifton. The recent terrorism in Paris is sadly yet another heinous, deplorable and inhumane attack on humanity. These acts of hate and evil need to be confronted and halted one way or the other. Everyone, be it regular citizens, the government or members of a particular faith, must come in unison to stop these atrocious …