News Update as of 24 March 2011

An eight-year-old from a Sayreville elementary school took the wrong bus home last Friday and ended up stranded and alone in the Wehrle Bus company parking lot in Cliffwood, according to NBC New York. The kid cried then started walking home across the Garden State Parkway, where he was discovered and returned to his mother at Eisenhower Elementary.

Lori Singer in Footloose.

Lea Ostner of Matawan will reprise Lori Singer's role in St John Vianney's spring musical Footloose, per Holmdel Patch.

Matawan plans 325th anniversary celebration this summer, per The Independent.

Plainfield resident arrested in Clark on outstanding warrants from Matawan and elsewhere, per Clark-Garwood Patch. 

The owners of Little Hidden Farm in Holmdel ask that drivers, runners, and cyclists heading for Holmdel Park follow some simple rules when they have to pass a horse and rider on Longstreet Road. A rider from Matawan and his horse are the subject of an insanely short video clip in this Holmdel Patch article.

NJ Salt Water Fisherman includes a picture of a man's grandson holding the striper he caught on Sunday at Cliffwood Beach.