• Annual Youth Day Celebration July 28

    Pilgrim Baptist Church, 172 Shrewsbury Ave., Red Bank, will host the annual Youth Day Celebration on Sunday, July 28, at the 8 and 10:45 a.m. services. The celebration will feature the vacation Bible school and Summer Youth Showcase activities of Pilgrim Baptist Church’s Youth and Cherub ministries. Minister Charles Cox will be at the 8…

  • Controversy sparks tensions at FMERA board meeting

    By NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer EATONTOWN — The mayors of Fort Monmouth’s three host towns settled questions regarding sharing confidential information about the ongoing redevelopment of the fort at last week’s meeting of the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority (FMERA). At a tense meeting on July 17, officials from Oceanport, Tinton Falls and Eatontown were…

  • Residents benefit from not-so-secret garden

    Rutgers Gardens will hold open house July 27 By JOSEPH SAPIA Correspondent Traveling on Ryders Lane at 50 mph, motorists concentrating on driving may miss a small sign with white letters on a green background. Drivers may be distracted as they approach Route 1 — perhaps planning to go north on the highway before the…

  • Rumson Horizons joins ranks of New Jersey Heroes

    By KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer New Jersey first lady Mary Pat Christie presents Lore Macdonald with the 22nd New Jersey Heroes Award at the Rumson Country Day School on July 17. Macdonald, co-founder of the Rumson Horizons program, was also presented with a check for $7,500. For 18 years, the Horizons program at the Rumson…

  • Beach season salvaged after Sandy

    By JACK MURTHA Staff Writer Above: Bartender Patrick Lawlor chats with a customer on July 18 at Connolly Station in Belmar. The tavern has put up solid numbers this summer, despite concerns as to how superstorm Sandy would affect the Shore tourism industry. PHOTOS BY STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR Shore businesses are faring better than…

  • Beachgoers

    Beachgoers take a stroll along Belmar’s boardwalk on a muggy afternoon last week. Oceanfront tourism should fare well this summer if the weather holds up, local business leaders said. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR

  • Securing the future of the T. Thomas Fortune House

    BY ARIANA IGNERI Staff Writer RED BANK — Once the residence of prominent journalist, writer and civil rights activist T. Thomas Fortune, the 19th-century, Victorian-style house on Drs. James Parker Boulevard in Red Bank is currently the subject of an active preservation project. Protecting Fortune’s influential legacy in the nation’s past has become, for many,…

  • Best new-car interiors for 2013

    Automakers are slaving attention on their cars’ and trucks’ passenger compartments like never before. By Jim Gorzelany CTW Features While sleek exterior styling may catch one’s eye on the street or in a dealer’s showroom, having to spend an hour at a time sitting in an inferior interior during a grueling commute can quickly take…

  • Q&A

    Life savers? with Sharon Peters Q: We’ve had some horrible car-wreck fatalities lately, and in every case the driver survived and the passengers did not. I’m wondering if all the extra airbags and things that are on the driver’s side now are the reason more passengers than drivers die in car wrecks these days. A:…

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