Category: Independent Calendar

  • Annual tree lighting at Bayshore hospital Dec. 5

    Annual tree lighting at Bayshore hospital Dec. 5 The Bayshore Community Hospital Auxiliary, Holmdel, will host its tree-lighting ceremony in conjunction with its holiday light display "Lights of Love" Dec. 5. The lights in Lights of Love represent donations to the Bayshore Community Hospital Foundation in the name of an individual, family, group or organization.…

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    JERRY WOLKOWITZ Bill Keller of South Brunswick looks through a designer mirror that he created at the Jersey Shore Arts Festival, held at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft on Saturday.

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    CHRIS KELLY Sandy Hook park ranger Tom Hoffman chats with Colts Neck resident Jim Ritter about the days of war on the Hook during a tour of Fort Hancock on Fort Hancock Day Oct. 27.

  • Audition deadline for provocative play Nov. 15

    Audition deadline for provocative play Nov. 15 Phoenix Productions, Lincroft section of Middletown, will hold auditions for its production of Sniper, a play about a seemingly "upright" teenage boy who takes a rifle to a rooftop and randomly kills in the community. Needed are males age 17-60 and females age 45-60. Auditions are by appointment…

  • Jolly Cackle Farm event raises $20K for VNACJ

    The Visiting Nurse Association of Central (VNACJ), Red Bank, recently raised approximately $20,000 at its 11th annual Afternoon at Jolly Cackle Farm. The event held at the farm of Françoise and Harvey Rambach, Locust section of Middletown, drew more than 100 families. Proceeds will benefit the VNACJ’s children’s endowment fund. The event is a project…

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    CHRIS KELLY During a tour of Fort Hancock on Oct. 27, Sandy Hook park ranger Tom Hoffman points out what’s left of the Battery Granger portion of Fort Hancock, a structure that remains on the Hook from World War II days.

  • Oldies groups to appear at Brookdale Nov. 23

    Oldies groups to appear at Brookdale Nov. 23 Brookdale Community College, Lincroft section of Middletown, will host "A Rock and Roll Reunion" to benefit the Kathe B. Stapleton Memorial Scholarship Nov. 23 at 7:30 p.m. Oceanport resident Stapleton passed away last year. As she loved rock ’n’ roll music of the ’50s and ’60s, headline…

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    JERRY WOLKOWITZ Barbara and Jessie Guerrier, Middletown, brows through the merchandise at the St. Joseph’s Christmas Craft Show in Keyport on Saturday.

  • Brookdale Community College offers arts activities

    The History Department at Brookdale Community College, Lincroft section of Middletown, will host a free lecture by Eylon Javetz Nov. 14 from 2-3 p.m. Javetz specializes in homeland and multinational security. He has served in the Israel defense forces’ combat engineering corps and was recently involved in Israeli counterterrorism operations. The Rev. Dr. Robert Ross…