• Keyport church holds Vacation Bible School

    Bayshore Christian Fellowship, 125 Division St., Keyport, is hosting “Kingdom Chronicles” Vacation Bible School, 2-5 p.m., from Aug. 19-23. The program is for children ages 5-13. For more information, call the church office at 732-888-4949 or visit bayshorechristianfellowship.com.

  • Hazlet and Holmdel libraries offer variety of July programs

    The Hazlet and Holmdel libraries have scheduled numerous programs for July. The Hazlet library programs include:  Tales from Beyond — 7 p.m. July 15. Participants can hear true stories about the Lizzie Borden axe murders, the sinking of the Titanic and Jack the Ripper, observe real artifacts from the Titanic, a voodoo doll from…

  • Middletown Summer Concert Series: R&B, Beatles, funk and rock ‘n’ roll

    The Middletown Summer Concert Series kicks off July 11 at the Middletown Arts Center (MAC), located at 36 Church St. The free concert series takes place every other Thursday from July 11 through Aug. 22, 7-9 p.m. Presented by the Middletown Township Cultural and Arts Council and the Middletown Recreation Department, the musical acts will…

  • St. Mark’s wraps its arms around those in need

    By NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer Rev. Ed Chinery (l) helps volunteers stock and organize supplies in the food pantry at St. Mark’s Church in Keansburg on July 1. NICOLE ANTONUCCI/STAFF When members of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Keansburg returned two days after superstorm Sandy, they found people who had been displaced from their homes…

  • Matawan to impose fees for vacant properties

    By NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer MATAWAN — Property owners who plan to vacate or abandon their homes or businesses would have to register their properties with the borough or be subject to fines and penalties under a proposed property maintenance ordinance. To address the problem of blighted areas in town and the cost of maintaining…

  • Keyport officials consider ‘celling’ Borough Hall

    By KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer KEYPORT — The Borough Council has sent out mixed signals over a proposal to install cell phone antennas on the roof of Borough Hall. Three members backed the plan during the council’s July 2 meeting, saying the four 10-foot antennas and an attendant agreement with a cell phone provider could…

  • Keyport summer concerts showcase local talent

    KEYPORT — The popular Summer Concert Series continues this year as part of the Keyport Thursdays program, sponsored by the Keyport Bayfront Business Cooperative. Concerts are held in the Mini Park on West Front Street from 7-9 p.m. Keyport Thursdays is a celebration featuring a farmers market from 1-7 p.m. at Fireman’s Park on West…

  • Seine nets offer glimpse of bay life

    Frank Huza (top) and Charlie Orens (bottom), naturalists with the Monmouth County Park System, show a group of youngsters specimens of aquatic life, including a spider crab and pufferfish, netted during a seining session in the Raritan Bay at Bayshore Waterfront Park in Middletown on July 3. PHOTOS BY STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR

  • Cost of new technologies would burden utility customers

    The AARP agrees that we need to move to greener, more environmentally friendly forms of energy generation. However, we need to avoid creating a problem while we are working toward this goal: We need to avoid burdening the people who pay utility bills with the costs of moving to new technologies — those should be…

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