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    The Pilgrim Baptist Church dancers perform during the Commemorative Service Honoring the Memory and Ministry of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the church in Red Bank on Jan. 15. LAUREN CASSELBERRY

  • Curley calls for overhaul of county salaries, spending

    First-term freeholder elected director of Bd. of Chosen Freeholders BYMIKE DAVIS Staff Writer FREEHOLD — Entering the final year of his three-year term as a freeholder, John Curley was unanimously elected as freeholder director by the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders at the Jan. 5 reorganization meeting. In a fiery speech to the few…

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    Jim Shaw of the Ancient Order of Hibernians leads the 2012 polar plunge in Sea Bright. Mike Hannigan and John Ward accompany the group on the bagpipes. More than 500 people took part in the event, which raised funds to benefit area Catholic schools. CLAIRE SHEPROW

  • NJ Transit to privatize parking by summer

    Agency will seek proposals for single operator of train, bus lots statewide BY KENNYWALTER Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — NJ Transit officials are forecasting a June resolution to a plan to privatize parking at train and bus stations across the state. NJ Transit spokesman Paul Wyckoff said in a recent interview that the plan is…

  • Menna calls on nonprofits to share tax burden

    Mayor: Tax-exempt status of nonprofits hiking taxes for most vulnerable residents BY KRISTEN DALTON Staff Writer Not-for-profit organizations looking to expand their presence within Red Bank are being called upon to pay their fair share to the borough, which has a disproportionate number of such organizations serving the region, according to Mayor Pasquale Menna. “There…

  • Matawan raises concerns over turbine transport

    Five towns have not yet approved route for components BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI & MIKE DAVIS Staff Writers Municipalities along the transport route for a wind turbine bound for Union Beach are not yet on board with the transport of 200 tons of components through their borders. “The concern the council has, and that includes myself,…

  • Photographers pick best of 2011

    Luca Montana balances on a rock along the shoreline at Bayshore Waterfront Park in Middletown. JEFF GRANIT staff The Middletown South High School baseball squad runs through their pregame routine. ERIC SUCAR staff Children of all ages participate in the various activities held at the 85th anniversary celebration of Seashore Day Camp in Long Branch.…

  • Dery Bennett Beach Walk

    Participants in the American Littoral Society’s 36th annual New Year’s Day Beach Walk, held each Jan. 1 on Sandy Hook, try to signal their counterparts in the New York chapter using aluminum pans to reflect sunlight. LAUREN CASSELBERRY

  • Bishops address poverty in New Jersey

    Catholic bishops call for community, govt., interfaith response to increasing poverty BY PATRICIAYOCZIS Correspondent Eighteen Catholic bishops, who represent seven dioceses in New Jersey, a state often ranked as second or third richest in the nation, have pledged to tackle the issue of the growing number of people living in poverty in the state, which…