By Max Druckman Happy New Year! With the new year and new decade comes the age-old adage “New year, new me!” While there are many ways to improve as an individual in the new year, there are also ways that you can improve your impact on our planet, Mother Earth. It too wants to have … Continued

By Margaret Dufreney, MD Women have a variety of birth control options, including oral medications, intrauterine devices, hormonal implants, and injections. These products can help a woman prevent pregnancy, but how long does she need to be off birth control before trying to get pregnant? My patients ask me this question often. The good news … Continued

By Pam Teel Six-year-old Rhys Bhatia attends the Millstone Primary School. He is in the first grade. What he loves most about school is Recess and Stem Lab. His favorite subjects are Art, Gym, and Music. He gets excellent grades. He is in the gifted and talented program in school. His favorite book to read … Continued

By Pam Teel The Allentown-Robbinsville Girl Scouts Robotics team, the Robo Girls, learned how to code and program a robot, demonstrated FIRST Lego League Core Values, and in- vented an innovative accessible playground safety feature. At their first competitive FLL tournament, they faced off against 23 other teams and were one of only two all-girl … Continued

Phrases are passed from one generation to the next, but do we really know what they mean? Take the phrase- This is just the tip of the iceberg. How many times have you heard it? The phrase usually refers to a situation in which you or someone else is seeing only a small part of … Continued

Did you know that there were female pilots during World War II, only they weren’t in the U.S.? They were in the Soviet Union. In the spring of 1943, at the height of the war, two pilots, members of the Soviet Air Force were flying their polikarpov PO-2 biplanes, which were flimsily built of plywood … Continued

Distracted driving is any activity that diverts attention from driving, including talking or texting on your phone, eating and drinking, talking to people in your vehicle, fiddling with the stereo, entertainment or navigation system—anything that takes your attention away from the task of safe driving. Texting is the most alarming distraction. Sending or reading a … Continued

By Pam Teel It’s that time of the year again when the gifts of chocolate from Christmas and New Year’s are piling up, and the thought of hiding those chocolate delights from the restless puppies are the furthest thing from your mind. Dogs have a wonderful sense of smell, and they are by nature mischievous. … Continued

On January 6, 2020, the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee advanced legislation (A1045) sponsored by Assemblyman Ron Dancer that would exempt horse boarding, maintenance and related services from the state sales tax. “There has been ongoing confusion in the industry about tax responsibilities, and as a result, stables have closed up shop and abandoned the … Continued

By Pam Teel At age five, Millstone Township’s Isabella Mays (Izzi) was watching the Disney channel and told her father that one day she wanted to be on it. Her dad said okay and both her parents took her to an open casting call. They didn’t know much about the business but were trying to … Continued